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Cecilia Li |
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| Cecilia Li's artistic engagement covers soloistic piano concert and chamber music activities as well as music dramaturgy for Tanz Atelier Wien, a laboratory for research in contemporary dance and music. Cecilia Li's repertoire goes from classical to contemporary composers. Over the last decades, she has been focusing on various compositional oeuvres in a dialectical fashion: i.e. contrasting Friedrich Cerha and J.S. Bach, Giacinto Scelsi and W.A. Mozart, etc. Through the choice of specific music series – thematically based compositions from classic to modern music – she opens new soundscapes for the audience. Most importantly, there is a frequently recurring to the symbiosis of visual and acoustic art: architecture, fine arts, dance and music are made to interact, thereby creating a new work of art.
Cecilia Li was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She started to study the piano in Taiwan (Prof. Iman Wu and Prof. Robert Scholz) and continued at the age of 14 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mozarteum Salzburg, concert class Prof. Kurt Neumüller. Later she took courses and lessons with Tatjana Nikolaijewa, Norman Shetler, Meira Farkas and Sandor Végh. Cecilia Li received several awards and honours. Cecilia Li performed amongst others at solo/chamber music concerts at Taipei Opera Music Recital Hall, at the chamber music festival in Salzburg, at Liszt Concert Hall Raiding, “Jeunesse Austria” and Palais Coburg Vienna. A very successful performance took place at Nikosia Theatre Cyprus where she played in presence of 400 high standing persons, among them the Cypriote president, the Austrian ambassador and several ministers. In 1988, Cecilia Li founded Tanz Atelier Wien together with her husband, choreographer and solo dancer Sebastian Prantl. In this research centre for contemporary dance and music she is in charge of music concepts and plays leading parts in productions and projects of various kinds and various places such as Secession, Wiener Konzerthaus, Odeon, Universitätskirche, Academy of Sciences in Vienna and festivals e.g. Wien Modern, styriarte, Beijing Art Festival (China), Festival Autunno Danza (Sardinia), India Dance Festival (India). In 2004, Cecilia Li founded her own CD label shiuling records. Besides her solo piano work, she established herself as a distinguished teacher and music advisor. Concerts, TV and radio recordings have been realized nationally (ORF) and internationally (TV Taiwan, NHK Japan). |
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