Diemecke:Bezaly - Gan-Ru: Fairy Lady Meng Jiang

Born in Shanghai in1954, Ge Gan-ru grew up at a time when Western music was not heard in public, and could only be studied in secret. As the political and cultural atmosphere in China changed, Ge became one of the first students to enrol at the re-opened Shanghai Conservatory. Moving to New York in 1983, he continued his studies, with the expressed aim 'to combine contemporary Western compositional techniques with my Chinese experience and Chinese musical characteristics'.