composer
Born in Hong Kong, Austin Yip’s works have been performed worldwide. Places like the United States, Argentina, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, China and Australia ...
related works
Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : for violin and symphonic band / Austin Yip
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
vn-solo picc 2fl ob 4cl cl-b 2sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b 2euph 2tb timp 4perc db
Scenes from the painted bird : for orchestra, 1982 / David Rowland
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3333 4331 timp 3perc cel hp str
17 projections : pour orchestre de chambre, 1962 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2110 2sax 1020 str(vl vc cb)
Passacaglia : voor orkest, (1943) / Wouter Paap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2222 4331 timp perc hp str
composition
Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : for violin and symphonic band / Austin Yip
Description:
Violin Concerto No. 1: Generation is written for violin and symphonic band. The three movements work, bounded by a short Prologue and an Epilogue, depicts people of the Generation Z, Y and X in Hong Kong respectively. The first movement (Generation Z) is gloomy in nature, it depicts the difficult situations young people have at the moment. It is followed by a very busy second movement (Generation Y), who are now at their thirties, working day and night for survival. The third movement (Generation X) has a mixture of moods, it begins and ends with quotations from the famous Cantonese opera Dainuifa, reminding the composer’s childhood memory of his parent’s musical interest. All the movements are played without pause. Sometimes, an optional cadenza is played before the Epilogue.