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
Iiris Piri violoncello
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
