Yunchuan Ye, Joshua Creek guests in next 'East Meets West' concert/forum Nov. 16

Alfred University’s Confucius Institute will host its tenth East Meets West virtual concert and forum on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 8 pm, welcoming music producers Yunchuan Ye and Joshua Creek. 

How do musicians become known, and their performances reach an audience beyond the stage or studio?  Ye and Creek will explain, and discuss, the exchange and integration of music between the East and the West from their perspective in the music industry, along with the fusion of Eastern and Western music cultures in the recording industry. They will introduce and show some of their work, including videos from Ye’s Musical Map of China project.   

Ye is a producer, composer, arranger, graphic designer, and founder of one of China’s most prestigious audiophile recording labels, Rhymoi Music. As a producer, his records and musical works have won more than 180 awards and nominations, including the  American Independent Music Award, Global Music Award, and China Gold Record Award.

As the initiator and music director of the National Art Foundation project, Musical Map of China, he also won the Best Musician Special Award of the China Gold Record Awards. This series of works has been added to the permanent collection of the National Library. He is further distinguished as the first Full Voting Member of the American Grammy Awards (The National Academy for Recording Arts and Science – NARAS) representing the Chinese music industry.

Cheek has been engaged for more than 25 years in every aspect of the music industry, from retail sales to public relations. He has served as marketing director for Naxos of America and has more than 70 published credits in all categories of music production, including several award-winning and Grammy nominated recordings. These include the multi-award-winning album of world premieres works for choir and recorder, “The Nightingale,” Michala Petri’s critically acclaimed “Chinese Recorder Concertos,” and the triple-Grammy nominated "Transfigured Bach."

Cheek also is active as both a musical scholar and respected booklet annotator. He has provided texts for numerous recording labels, including Koch International, Naxos, hänssler CLASSIC, OUR Recordings and numerous texts for Rhymoi Music (瑞鸣音乐)(China), including texts for the Rhymoi’s lavish commemorative Olympic production “The Songs of the 56 Chinese Nationalities” sung by Tan Jing.

East Meets West is organized by the Confucius Institute at Alfred University and is co-sponsored by the Almond 20th Century Club Library, the Cuba Circulating Library, the Hornell Public Library, the David A. Howe Library in Wellsville, the Wimodaughsian Library of Canisteo, the Performing Arts Division of AU, and the Music Department of China University of Geosciences.

All are invited to join the Zoom audience with host, Daisy Wu, Director of the CIAU. Register here or scan the QR code of the poster for this free event.