PhD student composition and performance on BBC Radio 3 New Music Show

A group of 10 musicans: 4 kneeling in front of 6 holding instrumnts in front o the main entrance the Department of Music,Victoria Rooms

Ting Huang (2024)

24 October 2024

Radio 3's second radio broadcast of the Bristol University-based ensemble Shui Mo from its inaugural 28 April Bristol New Music concert was the live recording of our PhD student Zhihong Guo’s The Vanishing Parasol Leaves, online until 28 October 2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00236cr
Congratulations to Zhihong Guo, and to the brilliant players of Shui Mo!

Zihong Guo: The Vanishing Parasol Leaves.

The Parasol leaves drift away with the wind, each fallen leaf becoming a fragment of fleeting years. The composer attempts to capture their aimless drifting in the language of music, sometimes in tranquil contemplation, sometimes in restless agitation. Through music, one can sense the poetic melancholy of the falling leaves, evoking resonance within the audience towards life, time, and nature.

Zihong Guo

was born in 1987 in Fujian province, China, received his master’s degree in Music Composition from the University of York in 2020, and is in the last year of his Ph.D. at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor Neal Farwell. Since arriving in the UK, Guo has devoted his work to combining Chinese musical and cultural elements—in particular music of the indigenous, mountainous She people of Zhihong’s home province—which he deftly combines with western contemporary compositional techniques in his most recent compositions.

Further information

For more info on the Bristol-based ensemble:

https://www.shuimo.org.uk/