Wanderer in May (2018)

for string quartet

Written in May 2018, this piece grew out of my personal fascination with Western string instruments. Having spent my formative years surrounded by string players — many of my closest friends from high school and college — these instruments gradually became my native language. It felt natural, then, to draw on that language to capture something I knew intimately: the restlessness of summer.
On the front page of the score, I wrote a single line: Wandering in May, between dream and reality. It is an invitation. I hope listeners will find a quiet coolness beneath the chaos, and sense an undercurrent of disorder lurking within the calm.

Selected Past Performances:

五月的徘徊者(2018)

为弦乐四重奏而作

这首作品构思于2018年初夏。因早年间对西洋弦乐怀有独特的情感,加之中学至大学时期的挚友多为弦乐演奏者,我对这门语言的掌握渐渐如母语般熟稔。于是,我选择用这最熟悉的表达方式,记录下那个多事之夏的心绪。《五月的徘徊者》是我为数不多仍保留为传统弦乐创作的乐曲,亦是我在艺术探索道路上,意义尤为特殊的一隅。在作品扉页上,我曾写下:“五月的徘徊者,游走在梦境与现实之间。”愿听者能从狂放之中嗅得一丝静谧的寒;于安宁之间,感知那股难以平息的暗流涌动。

部分过往演出: