Since moving to Portland, Oregon in 2016 summer, my desire to engage in the music scene finally comes true just lately. When I was in Ghent, New York during the OMI artist residency in 2017 summer, I was introduced to Stephen Cohen. Two of us are from Portland and other ten some fellows are of […]
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2017: Life is about Writing the Next Page, Anew.
The year of 2016 was a big one packing many kinds of activities. This was also the year that Yuan’s residence in the U.S. has accumulated into two digits. It feels great to move on and to start a new one — a creative state that a composer always has to be whenever a new […]
Yuan will be teaching at Reed College!
It couldn’t be more than a norm that someone would start applying for the academic position once a Ph.D. degree is granted. But when I was offered the one-year visiting professor position from Reed College in Portland Oregon, I knew, it is very meaningful and special at many levels. I will be teaching music theory and analysis, […]
Season 2015-2016: Collaborate and Incorporate
My new season 2015-2016 started with drafting a script of a play for a musical theater. When creativity engages with research on the psychic dynamic of the characters, historical context, style of the literature, and thoughts on many other modalities of a production, it feels quite like a more vibrant experience. A human character comes […]
Arriving at the Milestone – Ph.D. from U of Chicago!
THANK YOU FRIENDS! It is a great time of the year as well as in my life – I am so happy that we are arriving at a special page of this blog: a milestone of my career and academic life have been met, Yuan is receiving the Ph.D. from U of Chicago this June. […]
Yuan-Chen Li ‧ 李元貞 