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First name: Jeffry
Last name: Ching
Dates: 1965
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Filipino
Opus name: Grande quartetto concertante in A major (nach der Sinfonia Concertante in A-Dur, Vervollständigung der Mozart-Fragmente KV Anh. 104 (320e) und KV Anh. 72 (464a) und Adagio in E, KV 261, von Jeffrey Ching)
Publisher: Gravis
Peculiarities: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2274_Grande-quartetto-concertante-in-A-major.html
Information: Composer website:http://www.jching.com/ Ching was born in Manila on 4 November 1965. His distinctive musical language owes much to the diversity of his cultural background and education. Born to a Chinese Buddhist family in the former Spanish-American colony of the Philippines, he received a Catholic education while growing up next door to his grandfather's private museum of ancient Chinese scrolls (now on permanent display in the Shanghai Museum). He began composing before he was ten and remained self-taught until the age of seventeen, when his first opera was premiered. In the United States he studied music and Sinology at Harvard University, there receiving the John Harvard Scholarship for "academic achievements of the highest distinction" twice, and the Harvard Detur Prize, the university's oldest prize for academic excellence. He graduated with a double magna cum laude, submitting a graduation thesis on the sumptuary laws of the Ming dynasty based on extensive research into primary sources. Afterwards he went to England and earned a BA (Honours) degree in Philosophy from Cambridge University and two master's degrees, in Philosophy and Composition, from the University of London, where he was subsequently Lecturer-in-Music for several years. He became a British citizen in 2004, but now resides most of the year in Berlin with his wife, the Spanish-Philippine soprano Andión Fernández, for whom the vocal parts in his principal works were created. They have a son and a daughter.