Chou Wen-Chung
Composer
Chinese/American
Chou Wen-chung (周文中)(b. June 29, 1923) is a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Yantai, Shandong, China, he emigrated in 1946 to the United States.
He is a protege of the composer and visionary, Edgard Varese. Chou has sought in his music not simply to propagate Varesian concepts, but to move beyond his teacher’s shadow. From Varese’s purely Western tradition, Chou’s music evolves from cross-cultural pollination, integrating the East and the West, with the requisite understanding of both cultures.
A complete biography is available here.
Selected works by Chou Wen-Chung:
- Windswept Peaks (1990)
“La joie de l'artiste est dans la poursuite.”
--Edgar VarËse