De Qing Wen Wen, De Qing

De Qing Wen is a renowned Swiss-Chinese composer. He studied at the Conservatory of Music of Fujian Normal University, the China Conservatory of Music, the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon in France, and was a visiting scholar with Tristan Murail at Columbia University in New York. Wen is currently Professor of Composition and doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a member of SUISA (the Swiss music copyright society), Vice Chairman of the China–ASEAN Musicians Union, International Advisor to the College of Music at Mahidol University in Thailand, and a mentor for the composition masterclasses of the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival and in Tchaikovsky City, Russia.

As a composer, he has presented portrait concerts and masterclasses in China, Switzerland, France, Denmark, the United States, Belgium, Germany, Israel, Thailand and Korea. His opera “Gambling on Life” (賭命) is in the repertoire of the Shanghai Opera House; his opera The Bremen Town Musicians (不萊梅的音樂家) was premiered at an international contemporary music festival in Switzerland; and his opera “Zhuangzi Revives the Dead” (莊週起死) was successfully premiered in 2024 at the Beijing Dahua Performing Arts Center. His works are published by a Swiss music publisher, Bärenreiter in Germany, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press and People’s Music Publishing House. His recordings have been released by Stradivarius of Milan, the publishing house of the Swiss Musicians’ Association, Naxos, Telos Music and Shanghai Music Publishing House.

Wen is a recipient of the Geneva Government Prize (1993), the Culture Prize of the Kiwanis International Foundation (1999), the Composer Prize of the Leenaards Foundation in Switzerland (2001), China’s Wenhua Award and the Shanghai Spring Outstanding Work Award.