梁雷，著名旅美华裔青年作曲家。曾在美国波士顿新英格兰音乐学院获得学士、硕士学位，在哈佛大学获得博士学位。现任美国加州大学圣地亚哥分校教授，博士生导师，作曲学科主任，并曾任音乐系主任。梁雷近年获得多项世界重要奖项，包括美国罗马学院颁发的“罗马奖”、古根海姆奖、科普兰奖、谢尔盖·库萨维茨基音乐基金奖、美国国家艺术基金奖以及纽约创造基金奖等。他的萨克斯与交响乐队作品《潇湘》获2015年普利策作曲奖最终提名。纽约爱乐、波士顿现代交响乐团、柏林爱乐室内乐团、台北市立国乐团、钢琴家陈必先、琵琶演奏家吴蛮等著名音乐团体与演奏家曾委约他创作。他的作品包括交响乐、民族管弦乐、协奏曲、室内乐、民族器乐、电子音乐、室内歌剧、电影配乐等七十余部。拿索斯等唱片公司发行梁雷的六张作品专辑。他编著了四本著作，发表中英文文章二十余篇。他曾被聘任为哈佛大学院士协会青年院士，并被世界经济论坛命名为“全球青年领袖”，他的全部作品由纽约朔特音乐公司出版。
Chinese-born American composer Lei Liang is the winner of the Rome Prize, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Creative Capital Award. His concerto for saxophone and orchestra “Xiaoxiang” was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2015.Lei Liang was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert for the inaugural concert of the CONTACT! new music series. Other commissions and performances come from the Fromm Music Foundation, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, among others. Lei Liang’s six portrait discs are released on Naxos, New World, Mode, and Bridge Records. He edited and co-edited four books and editions, and published more than twenty articles. Lei Liang studied composition with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Robert Cogan, Chaya Czernowin and Mario Davidovsky, and received degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (B.M. and M.M.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). Lei Liang serves as professor of music and chair of the composition area at the University of California, San Diego. His catalogue of more than seventy compositions is published exclusively by Schott Music Corporation (New York).
激荡中的凝思
The Contemplation in Times of Conflicts
青年中国作曲家们走在几个世界、多种文化之间的一条路径上，在不同观念、美学与实践的对立激荡中凝思。培养青年作曲家的职责，在于支持他们真正的艺术与思想的独立。热爱中国文化，但不依赖它；敬仰西方文化，但不跟随它。为取得独立的精神与实力，需要从“又中又西”的知识框架中出发，逐步朝“不中不西”的方向努力。“又中又西”是指与知识达到一种诗意的关系，要创造性地了解自己从何而来，抵达精神文化世界的入口，进入一个感官的、精神的领域。同时也要深入了解西方，尤其是其宗教、哲学的根本，以及现、当代的哲学思潮演变。“不中不西”是超越东西方二元对立，以取得艺术家自身的独立性。非功利性（包括学术功利）、更非政治、商业的奴性地创作。为青年作曲家们创造一个共同深入探索的生态环境，与演奏家、理论家一起创造新的声音、新的记谱法、新的演奏法、新的思想、新的观念等 。同时打开合作的领域，鼓励他们与诗人、美术家、建筑家、舞蹈家、以及科学家等合作，寻找音乐新的空间。
With many dazzling choices and different cultures, Chinese young composers contemplate on how to deal with those contending ideas, aesthetics and practices. The responsibility of cultivating young composers is to give them artistic and thinking independence. The key is to appreciate Chinese culture without relying on it and to revere Western culture without following it. In order to obtain the independent spirit and strength, we need to start from the knowledge framework of "both Chinese and Western” to the one of “neither Chinese nor Western” gradually. "Both Chinese and Western” refers to a poetic relationship with the knowledge to creatively understand where we come from. Then we open the door of a spiritual and cultural world to enter into a sensory and spiritual field. Meanwhile an in-depth understanding of the West, especially its religion, the fundamental philosophy, as well as the evolution of contemporary philosophical trends is needed. “Neither Chinese nor Western” is beyond the binary opposition between the East and West in order to obtain the independence of the artists, which provides a space for non-utilitarian creation (including non-utilitarian academic products), not to mention the non-political and non-commercial creation. We should cultivate an ecological environment of a common exploration for the young composers and create new voices, new notation, new playing methods, new ideas, new conceptions with the performers, theorists. At the same time, a new area on cooperation is to be explored to encourage them to work with poets, artists, architects, dancers, and scientists to find new space for music.
