Artistic Director / Chair of the Committee / Editor
Kui Dong 董夔
艺术总监 / 委员会主席 / 编辑
Kui Dong’s music has been described as “ceaselessly compelling,” “exceptional beauty and imagination,” and “beautiful and haunting and thought-provoking” by publications including The Washington Post, Gramophone, and the San Francisco Examiner. Praised for its 21st-century sensibilities, her work has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles and institutions worldwide, including the Arditti Quartet, Third Coast Percussion, Spain’s Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra and Chorus of the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China. She has received awards and honors from institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation, Opera America, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Fromm Music Foundation, Ars Electronica, and the Tanglewood Music Center and Festival. Kui Dong is Professor of Music Composition at Dartmouth College. Also active as a pianist in free improvisation, Dong writes prose fiction; her first novel, The Story of a Little Soldier, was published in 2022 by Knowledge Press in China.
董夔的音乐被《华盛顿邮报》、《留声机》和《旧金山观察家报》等媒体评价为“引人入胜、令人无法抗拒”，“极具美感与想象力”，以及“美丽、萦绕心头且发人深省”。她的作品以其“具有21世纪感性”而受到赞誉，曾获古根海姆基金会、美国歌剧协会、美国国会图书馆谢尔盖·库塞维茨基音乐基金会、哈佛大学弗罗姆音乐基金会、奥地利电子艺术节（Ars Electronica）和坦格尔伍德音乐节等众多机构的委约与奖项，并由世界各地重要乐团和机构演出，其中包括坦格尔伍德音乐中心与音乐节、中国中央芭蕾舞团，以及中国国家大剧院管弦乐团与合唱团。董夔现任美国达特茅斯学院作曲教授。除作曲外，她亦从事自由即兴钢琴演奏与小说写作。她的首部长篇小说《小兵的故事》于2022年由中国知识出版社出版。
