Huang Ruo & Ensemble FIRE Performing Huang Ruo's "Flow ..." @ Signature Theatre on Feb. 11, 2013. "Flow ..." is commissioned by the Signature Theatre for the Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Ensemble FIRE: Huang Ruo, voice Zhou Yi, pipa Judy Kang, violin Arash Amini, cello Shelley Huang, bassoon Jude Traxler, percussion About Huang Ruo: www.huangruo.com Awarded First Prize by the Luxembourg International Composition Prize, Huang Ruo has been cited by the New Yorker as "one of the most intriguing of the new crop of Asian-American composers" and "one of the world's leading young composers." His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese folk, Western avant-garde, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls "dimensionalism." Huang Ruo's writing spans from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and modern dance, to sound installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film. Ensembles who have premiered and performed his music include the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Opera Hong Kong, New York City Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Asko Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Integrals, Quatuor Diotima, and Ethel Quartet, and under conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Ed Spanjaard, Xian Zhang, and Ilan Volkov. Huang Ruo's new opera Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, will be given its American premiere by the Santa Fe Opera in 2014. For more information about Huang Ruo and his music, please visit: www.huangruo.com About Ensemble FIRE: Visit:www.myspace.com/futureinreverse Cited by the New York Times as "graceful and vigorous," Ensemble FIRE is dedicated to the future of music. Specializing in multi-media and cross-genre projects, FIRE is widely praised for its innovative programming and performances. Comprised of both Eastern and Western instruments and some of today's most gifted and promising young musicians, FIRE advocates music in a wide variety of styles, ranging from avant-garde modernism to world music, visual arts, and experimental music. Founded in 2005 by composer and conductor Huang Ruo, FIRE has performed at Lincoln Center, (le) Poisson Rouge, Time Warner Center, Rubin Museum of Arts, Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Issue Project Room, Aspen Summer Music Festival, and the Greenwich Music Festival. FIRE's diverse collaborations include visual music with kinetic painter Norman Perryman and ballets with choreographers James Sewell and Charlotte Griffin. In 2008, FIRE recorded sound tracks for two films (Emperor's New Garden and Stand Up), which will be released in 2010. FIRE's debut CD of NAXOS Records was released October 27, 2009. Visit:www.myspace.com/futureinreverse