Yixuan Hu

This portrait concert featuring composer Yixuan Hu in the Elbphilharmonie’s Recital Hall marks an important milestone in her ten-year compositional career. The programme brings together key themes in her work: the relationship between sound and body, individual narrative forms and collective voices, and the dialogue between East Asian musical experiences and contemporary Western compositional contexts.

Yixuan Hu completed her studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and continued her artistic training at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (HfMT), where she graduated with a concert exam in composition. Her works have been commissioned and performed by various festivals and institutions in Europe and China. Her oeuvre includes solo, chamber, vocal and percussion works and is characterised by a clear formal language and a distinctive tonal and physical presence.

The concert combines piano, percussion, choir, and Western and East Asian instruments. In a deliberately designed dramaturgy, a condensed musical trace of her compositional path unfolds in the intimate space of the Recital Hall. The project is supported by the National Arts Fund of China (2026).

PERFORMERS

Yusheng Frauenchor choir

Chunyu Jiang director

Min Jiang pipa

Jiayi Shao pipa

Yanhao Yang piano

Mengwen Ma piano

Xavier Ricarte piano

Joanna Sielicka piano

Cheng-Ju Chang marimba

Yixu Wang percussion

Oscar Tudge percussion

Anna Senda-Pimentel soprano

PROGRAM

Yixuan Hu
The Poetry from Wind and Rain

Yixuan Hu
Icarus II

Yixuan Hu
Guangdong Suite

Yixuan Hu
Taraxacum mongolicum

- Interval -

Yixuan Hu
Elizabeth’s Decision

Yixuan Hu
Glowing

Yixuan Hu
Spirit