YAN PANG
Yan Pang is a composer, choreographer, and scholar. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at St Olaf College. She received her Ph.D. in Music with a minor in Theater Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on inter-cultural music composition and performance. As part of this interest, she has been commissioned to compose and invited to perform in music festivals throughout the world. She considers both her music composition and dance choreography as a means to build multicultural understanding and tolerance. A selection of her varied publications includes the album Glory Times (as songwriter and music director) by the China Scientific & Cultural Audio Video Publishing Company, the score “Solis Ortus” (winner of the SunRiver International Composition Competition) by China People’s Cultural Publishing Company, the paper “Scene of Sichuan Opera” (co-author with Mingzhu Song), and the books Cool Math for Hot Music, All About Music, and Basic Music Technology, and The Future of Music - Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything (co-authored Guerino Mazzola et. al.) by Springer.
WORKS
FOR ARCHIE recorded by The Desert Winds and John Seaton
