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'''Lin Wang''' ({{zh|s=王琳|p=Wáng Lín}} (original name), also called {{zh|s=王滢乔|p=Wáng Yíng Qíao}}), is a Chinese composer.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4%E4%BD%9C%E6%9B%B2%E5%AE%B6%E7%8E%8B%E6%BB%A2%E4%B9%94%E6%88%91%E4%B8%80%E7%9B%B4%E5%9C%A8%E8%B7%AF%E4%B8%8A/a-16568076|title=青年作曲家王滢乔：我一直在路上|last=|first=|date=|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|trans-title=Young Composers Wang Ying Joe: I've been on the road|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2013-01/10/c_114324668.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402180233/http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2013-01/10/c_114324668.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 2, 2015|title=寻找梦想家园——记作曲家、歌剧导演王滢乔|last=|first=|date=|publisher=[[Xinhua News Agency]]|trans-title=Looking for a dream home – recorded composer, opera director Wang Ying Qiao|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/%E6%85%95%E5%B0%BC%E9%BB%91%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%B3%89-%E4%BD%9C%E6%9B%B2%E5%AE%B6%E7%9A%84%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD%E7%BC%98/a-5739526|title=慕尼黑的中国《泉》作曲家的德国缘|last=|first=|date=|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|trans-title=Chinese "Spring" composer in Munich, Germany|access-date=}}</ref> Lin Wang was born in [[Dalian]], China, in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deutscheoperberlin.de/en_EN/repertoire/845813|title=Repertoire – Deutsche Oper Berlin|website=www.deutscheoperberlin.de|access-date=2016-09-16}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Lin Wang studied music composition at [[Central Conservatory of Music]] in Beijing (1996–2001). Later she studied composition and music theory at [[Hochschule für Musik Saar]] with [[Theo Brandmüller]], and electronic music at [[IRCAM]] at the [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] in France. She also studied theatrical philosophy in music theater at [[University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna]], under [[Chaya Czernowin]].<ref name=":0" />

In 2008, her impromptu chamber ensemble ''JI LI GU LU'' was premiered at the 10th [[Munich Biennale]].<ref>[http://www.muenchener-biennale.de/klangspuren-detail/events/event/detail/klangspuren-plus-2008-2/ Preliminary information for the 2008 edition] from the [http://www.muenchener-biennale.de/ Munich Biennale website].</ref> It was selected for performance again in the same year at the [[Biennale di Venezia]] and the [[Bregenz Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kulturserver.de/-/kulturschaffende/detail/78293|title=Kulturportal - Lin Wang {{!}} Musik, Theater {{!}} Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]|website=www.kulturserver.de|access-date=2016-09-16}}</ref> In 2010, her opera "Die Quelle" (The Source) was premiered at the 11th Munich Biennale.<ref>[http://www.muenchener-biennale.de/archiv/2010/programm/events/event/detail/die-quelle/ Preliminary information for the 2010 edition] from the [http://www.muenchener-biennale.de/ Munich Biennale website]</ref> Lin Wang and [[Can Xue]] co-wrote the libretto. In this opera, drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity. Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used in its music. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Her third opera "''Oh, wie schön ist Panama!''" (Oh, the Beautiful Panama!) was based on an illustrated children book ''{{ill|Oh, wie schön ist Panama|de||lt=The Trip to Panama}}'' by [[Janosch]]. It was premiered at [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/cn/de/lp/kul/mag/kol/ber/10670266.html|title=Kinderoper: ''Oh, wie schön ist Panama'' (Children's Opera: ''Oh, how beautiful Panama'')|last=|first=|date=|publisher=[[Goethe-Institut]]|access-date=}}</ref>

==Awards==

Lin Wang has won several international music composition competitions:
*First Prize, Musica Femina München Komponistinnen entdecken und foerdern, Germany (2009).
*First Prize, the first Edition of “Franco Donatoni ” International Meeting for Young Composers Composition Competition, [[International Society for Contemporary Music]] (ISCM), Italy (2008).
*Grand Prize, the Isang Yun International Composition Prize, South Korea (2007).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yunmusicprize.org/2007/english/main05.html|title=Isang Yun International Composition Prize 2007|last=|first=|date=|publisher=|access-date=|work=Isang Yun International Composition Prize}}</ref>
*First Prize, the First session of International Hamburg Klangwerktage New Musik Festival and Composition Competition, Germany (2006).
*First Prize, European Young Composers Competition in Hochschule fuer Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Germany (2005).
*Special Prize and the Second Prize, the [[Luxembourg Sinfonietta]] on the Third Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Luxembourg (2004).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.luxembourg-sinfonietta.lu/html/prize_winner/|title=Luxembourg Sinfonietta|publisher=}}</ref>

== Selected works ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Premiere
! Title
! class=unsortable|Description
! class=unsortable|Source, libretto and note
|-
| {{Hs|2003-02-01}} 1 February 2003, "China-USA" Landschaftsfotografien von Wolfgang Volz
| ''Ru Yi Si Zhu''
| Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and Fagot, 11'40"
|
|-
| {{Hs|2003-05-30}} 30 May 2003, [[musikFabrik]] Ensemble fuer Neue Musik + Spezialisten fuer historische Musikinstrumenten, by Konzert zum Abschluss des Kompositionswettbewerb der Landesmusikakademie NRW Monchengladbach
| ''Dong Xiang Xie Yi (A Sketch of the Dong Nation's Country)''
| Chamber Orchestra for 15 Instruments, 11'40"
| 
|-
| {{Hs|2004-05-08}} 8 May 2004 Luxembourg Sinfonietta
| ''Lin Lang (A Fine Jade)''
| Chamber Ensemble, 13'42"
|
|- 
| {{Hs|2004}} 2004
| ''Zwei Kraniche unter einer Kiefer (Two Cranes under a Pine Tree)''
| Piano solo, 11'04"
|
|-
| {{Hs|2005-09-06}} 6 September 2005, [[Nieuw Ensemble]] at [[Gaudeamus Muziekweek]] festival, [[Gaudeamus Foundation]]
| ''Ba Yin (Eight Sounds)''
| Chamber Ensemble for Eight Instruments, Voice and Conductor
|
|-
| {{Hs|2005}} 2005 [[Ensemble Modern]] and {{Interlanguage link|Gesellschaft für Neue Musik|de}}
| ''Jawohl "Herr Praesident!" I am here!!! ''
| Music Theater, 13'
|after a poem by [[E. E. Cummings]]
|-
| {{Hs|2006-11-15}} 15 November 2006, International Hamburg Klangwerktage New Musik Festival and Composition Competition, Germany
| ''Who Desires the Secret''
| Quartet
| 
|-
| {{Hs|2007-02-17}} 17 February 2007, IMPULS, International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music. Competition. Festival. Events.
| ''Das Raetsel der Begierde (The Enigma of Desire) ''
| Quartet, 9'30"
|inspired by [[Salvador Dalí]]'s painting ''My Mother, My Mother, My Mother''
|-
|{{Hs|2007-09-15}} 15 September 2007, [[Korean Contemporary Orchestra]] on the first session of International Isang Yun Music Prize Composition Competition
| ''La...de la me'moire for Chamber Orchestra''
| Chamber Orchestra
|inspired by Salvidor Dali's painting ''My Mother, My Mother, My Mother''
|-
| {{Hs|2008-01-20}} 2008 [[Munich Biennale]]
| ''JI LI GU LU''
| Chamber Ensemble, 9'09"
|impromptu piece
|-
| {{Hs|2008-05-01}} 1 May 2008, [[Divertimento Ensemble]] by the first Edition of “Franco Donatoni ” International Meeting for Young Composers Composition Competition
| ''A Secret That is Wanted''
| Chamber Ensemble
|
|-
| {{Hs|2008-01-20}} 16 June 2008, ensemble [[counter)induction]], New York
| ''DI LI BA LA''
| Chamber Ensemble
|
|-
| {{Hs|2010-05-09}}9 May 2010, Munich Biennale
| ''Die Quelle'' (''The Source'')
| Chamber Opera, 85'
| libretto by the composer and [[Can Xue]], after a short story ''The Double Life'' by Can Xue
|-
| {{Hs|2011-02-10}}10 February 2011, Musica Femina Munich e.V. and [[Munich Chamber Orchestra]] e.V. 
| ''Jade''
| Chamber Ensemble
| 
|-
| {{Hs|2012-03-05}}5 March 2012, [[Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern]]
| ''...To Be Sung in the Wood...''
| Double Concerto for Symphony Orchestra, Sheng and Zheng, 23'
| after [[Epithalamion]] (Wedding Song) written by the English poet [[Edmund Spenser]]
|-
|-
| {{Hs|2013-01-26}} 26 January 2013, Deutsche Oper Berlin
| ''Oh, wie schön ist Panama'' (''Oh! How beautiful is Panama'')
| Opera/Music Theater, 55'
| libretto by Dorothea Hartmann, after an illustrated children's story ''{{ill|Oh, wie schön ist Panama|de}}'' written by Janosch
|-
|-
| {{Hs|2017-03-31}} 31 March 2017, [[Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.drp-orchester.de/drp/konzerte/saarbruecken/20170331_musikfestspiele_2017_100.html|title=Eröffnungskonzert Musikfestspiele Saar|publisher=Saarländischer Rundfunk|date=2017-03-04|website=DRP-Orchester.de|access-date=2017-05-03|language=de-DE}}</ref>
| ''Gene and Astrology Series No. 6 - Aquarius-Hulan River'' (2015)
| for female voice and large Orchestra, 21'
| conducted by Josep Pon
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.composerlinwang.com}}

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