Composers

A composer born in 1963 in Nankin (China).

Xu Yi studied the erhu (the Chinese violin) and composition at the Shanghai Conservatory. At the age of 22 she was appointed teacher in this same conservatory. She arrived in France in 1988 and followed the composition and computer music course of Ircam (1990-91). She completed her training at the Paris Conservatory with Ivo Malec and Gérard Grisey, whose spectral influence can be heard notably in Da Gui (1999), a work dedicated to his memory. In 1994 she won a First Prize for composition.