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
Marimba Concerto Nº 1: Road Business : for solo marimba and percussion quintet / Austin Yip
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Percussion
Instruments:
mar 5perc
Sonata for violin and piano : (1950) / Rudolf Escher
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Instruments:
vl pf
Sonate nr. 2 : voor viool en piano, 1990 / Jan van Amerongen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Instruments:
vl pf
Sonata (III) : per violino e pianoforte, op. 143 / Herman Mulder
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Instruments:
vl pf
composition
Violin Concerto Nº 1: Generation : Version for violin and piano / Austin Yip
Description:
Violin Concerto No.1: Generation is written for violin and symphonic band (or piano). 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 (Omega) is played before the “Epilogue”.