Stephen Yip has an extraordinary way of creating a post-Darmstadtian modernism that incorporates his Chinese roots with a subtlety that gives us a vivid experience of the inner colors of an advanced spatial sense. It leaves us with a feeling of focused tranquility. He is a genuine voice in new music today. - Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Yip was born in Hong Kong and now lives in the U.S.A. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) at Rice University and Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, studied with Law Wing-fai, Clarence Mak, and Arthur Gottschalk. He has attended major music festivals including: Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Asian Composers League, ISCM World Music Days, Chinese Composers Festival, IMPULS Ensemble Akademie, Luxembourg and the International Summer Course for New Music, Darmstadt, Germany. Residencies include the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Yaddo Colony and MacDowell Colony. Yip's works have been performed in Asia, Europe and America. He has received several composition prizes, including the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award, Taiwan Music Center International Composition Prize, Robert Avalon International Prize, Singapore International Composition Competition for Chinese Orchestra, the ALEA III Composition Competition and the 2010 Alvarez Chamber Orchestra Freestyle Composition Competition, London, England. His works have been released by the record labels ERM-Media, PARMA, Capstone, North South Recording, Ablaze Records, ATMA Classique and Beauport Classical. Yip is a member of SCI, NACUSA and ASCAP. Currently, he is on the music faculty at Houston Community College and works as a freelance composer.
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