CUI, Wei

Cui is a Chinese composer currently residing in Montreal. Before moving to Canada, she formerly taught composition at Tianjin Normal University and worked as a composer-in-residence of Peiyang Chorus. Her complete catalog includes music for choir, chamber ensemble, and orchestra.

Cui has been dedicated to exploring the expressional and theatrical potential of multicultural rhetoric in choral music. Her music has been commissioned or premiered by many renowned ensembles such as Sydney Children’s Choir, Gaia Philharmonic Choir of Tokyo, Peiyang Chorus, Guangdong Experimental High School Choir, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and McGill Symphony Orchestra. The music of Cui has made its worldwide appearance at numerous international festivals and competitions, including Polyfollia, Tolosa Choral Contest, World Choir Games, and International Choir Competition Maastricht.

Cui was an adjudicator of the 2015 World Youth and Children’s Choir Festival in Hong Kong. In the same year, she was awarded the Jebsen and Co. Choral Arts Youth Scholarship to recognize her outstanding contribution to the contemporary Chinese choral repertory.

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