Xu Han CV
| EDUCATION | |
| Cornell University Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition and Sound Studies | Ithaca, New York 09/2019 – 05/2023 |
| Royal Northern College of Music | Manchester, the UK 09/2015 – 07/2017 |
| Master of Music in Composition | |
| Royal Northern College of Music Master of Music in Performance | Manchester, the UK 09/2014 – 07/2015 |
EXPERIENCE:
Lecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong（Shenzhen）Questioning AI’s impact on Music. (21, October 2025)
NIME 2025（The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression）- Bending Nature(Paper and Installation)
ICMC 2025 （International Computer Music Conference） – Bathing the Buddha (Fixed Media), Blind Opera 2.1 (Programmed Eyeless Mask)
Lecture at the University of California at San Diego (Music Department) on the topic of Practice Based on Acoustic Facts. （2025）
Lectureat Central Conservatory of Music (Composition Department) on the topic of Rootless Sonic Practice? Acoustic Practice: From Composition to Sound Art. （2025）
Lectureat the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) on the topic of Rootless Sonic Practices？ The Shift from Modernist Music to Sound Art Shaped by Technological Paths（2025）
Presentation at Central Conservatory of Music (Composition Department) on the topic of Expression of Intuitive Desire (A digital score with real-time feedback from the audience). (2025）
Performance and Workshop at Shanghai Concert Hall for Blind Opera 2.1. （2025）
A Few Practices of Chinese Acoustic Justice for Large Ensemble was performed by the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra. （2025）
Installation Thoughts That Wander with the Wind isExhibited in the Beijing Sound Art Museum (2025）
Trio piece A Midday Dream, Entangled in the Folds of a Closed Chinese Fan, at the Composers Conference 8 for 80th Anniversary Concert (2024)
Reviewer for Organised Sound – Cambridge Core Journal (2024)
Interviewed by Numéro Art China (2023.11)
Darmstadt Summer Course with Full Scholarship (2023.8)
In 2023, Han Xu was commissioned (new work) by the Fromm Foundation 2024 Composers Conference for its 80-year anniversary concert. (As one of eight commissioned composers, Gleb Kanasevich, Shulamit Ran, Bahar Royaee, Augusta Read Thomas, David Sanford, Melinda Wagner, Han Xu, & Chen Yi)
In 2023, Han was named a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University. Han will continue his/their creative practice in sound art and composition, and Han will advance his/their research into the intellectual history of Chinese auditory culture and how this history might contribute to a broader understanding of sound in contemporary life.
In 2023, Han is selected by the Composers Conference as a Fromm Foundation Composition Fellow (Harvard University). Han is commissioned by the conference ensemble (conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni) and the KOE duo. During the conference, Han collaborated with Kurt Rohde, Michelle Lou, Zeena Parkins,conference composers, and many its project performers.
In 2022, I am not u are not me for Percussion Duo, Sonic Machine Learning Installation, and Interactive Visual installation (2022) was performed by NOMON
In 2022, Han’s Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? I: Diagnosing & Symptom II: A Song of Snare Drum III: Trio-some for Installed Snare Drum and Installed Bass Drum was premiered by Greg Stuart.
In 2022, Han’s Reassembling Sense for Algorithmic Instruments was premiered by Red Desert Ensemble.
In 2021, Han’s Étude No.1 was premiered by the Israeli Chamber Project in the United States.
Collaborate with Yarn/Wire in 2021 for the first premiere of Étude No. 8 M&W in New York.
In 2021, Han’s sound installation piece Illusions for installation and Wet Ink Ensemble was exhibited online.
In 2021, his piece Blind Opera for practitioners with programmed eyeless masks, Étude No. 7 for practitioners, video feedback, anddisassembled trombone, and Étude No.5 Cyber Buddha for electronic, chanting, and virtual interactive installation were performed at Shanghai PowerLong Art Gallery 上海宝龙美术馆.
In 2021, his piece Blind Opera for practitioners with programmed eyeless masks was performed at Aranya Artist Residency Program 阿那亚- 候鸟三百艺术家计划
Étude No.3 Peking Opera in the Fog for 8-channel (ambisonic) electroacoustic music was premiered at Cornell University Moog Festival in 2020
In 2020, Han’s piece Étude No.5 Cyber Buddha for electronic, chanting, and virtual interactive installation was commissioned by the Buddha’s Light International Association of Master Hsing Yun and Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center, which was recorded by the Cornell Chronicle.
Selected by 2017-2018 London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composer Scheme(one of six composers).https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/artist-development/panufnik-composers-scheme.html
Orchestral piece Buddha Holds the Flower through the ashes of the fragrance, the blissful grandeur rises was performed by London Symphony Orchestra for the LSO Panufnik Composer Scheme on 18 March 2018 in London.
Selected by BBC Singers workshop in London 2015. The rehearsal of his piece Stillness was recorded by BBC radio and live broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Nov 26th, 2015. The score is collected by BBC Music Library.
Both of Han’s sound art pieces Blind Opera for practitioners, bending eyeless electric masks, and Étude No. 7 for practitioners, video feedback, and disassembled trombone were premiered at Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium in 2020.
Orchestral piece Paramita for Buddhist Choir and RNCM Symphony Orchestra recorded and broadcasted by the Buddha’s Light International Association TV station by Master Hsing Yun
In 2015, Han’s err was premiered by Manchester Camerata
Selected by GongGeng College – CHEN Qigang music workshop in January 2019. CHEN Qigang, Composition Director and Head of Adjudication Committee NCPA (National Centre for the Performing Arts, China)Young Composer Programme
Installation Art for Buddhist Sutra Chanting of Electrical Signal was commissioned by Peking University Resource Group Art Gallery 北大资源艺术馆 for exhibition
Fieldwork research on Tibetan Buddhism in Lasa in the summer of 2016
Fieldwork research in Dunhuang for the Buddhist culture in the summer of 2017
As one of three selected LSO Panufnik Composers, Han gave a lecture in Beijing, China at the International Platform China Conservatory of Music(IPCCM)
Collaboration with Professor Patrick Gaydecki who is the Professor of Digital Signal Processing from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Manchester
Composition for the following items
1. Activity in the real-time digital emulation of violins.
2. Investigating brain states when listening to various types of violin music by using EEG recordings of the prefrontal cortex.
Interviewed by BBC Radio Manchester Eastern Horizon on 7th May 2017
EDUCATION:
Han Holds a doctoral degree （Doctor of Musical Arts） of Cornell University
Han was served as a teaching assistant for the Computer Music lecture and Music Theory lecture at Cornell University.
In 2019, Han started his Doctoral of Musical Art in Composition with a full scholarship in the music department at Cornell University
In 2017, Han finished the Master of Music in Composition degree with distinction at Royal Northern College of Music.
Han started studying Master of Music in Composition with a scholarship in the School of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Professor Adam Gorb and Professor Emily Howard from 2015 to 2017.
Han is one of six composers of the London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Scheme and studied with composer Colin Matthews from 2017-2018
In 2017, Han studied Conducting with conductor Mark Heron at the RNCM
In 2016, Han studied and worked for Electric Experimental Ensemble with composer Dr. Mauricio Pauly
In 2014, Han started studying Euphonium performance with a scholarship at the RNCM with Professor Steven Mead and David Thornton.
In 2015, Han finished the degree of Master of Music in Performance at the Royal Northern College of Music.
In 2012, Han finished the degree of Bachelor of Music (Musicology& Computer Music) at the Communication University of China.
AWARDS:
Peking University post-doc Boya Fellowship
2023 Full scholarship from Darmstadt Summer Course
2019-2023 Sage Fellowship full doctoral scholarship from Graduate School at Cornell University
2020-2021 Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award at Cornell University
Royal Northern College of Music scholarship 2014 -2015 for performance
Royal Northern College of Music scholarship 2015-2016 for composition
Arnold Cooke Award for composition research 2016- 2017.
London Symphony Orchestra Bursary 2017-2018
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