Julian Yu

Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) is a Chinese-Australian composer.

Biography

Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa. In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble. With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood in 1988 and received the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize. He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.: 175 

Prizes

Compositions

Recordings of Yu's work

References

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