Continuum XXI
Ensemble Modern
hr-Bigband
hr-Sinfonieorchester
IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26
Synergy Vocals
Trondheim Voices
Alberto Arroyo
Hed Bahack
Sylvain Cambreling
Helena Cánovas Parés
Pia Davila
Caio de Azevedo
Justine Emard
Bernard Foccroulle
Georg Friedrich Haas
John Hollenbeck
Eloain Lovis Hübner
Justė Janulytė
Michael Jarrell
Malika Kishino
Eungjin Lee
Lucie Leguay
Leon Liang
Brad Lubman
Sarah Nemstov
Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus
Julian Prégardien
Steve Reich
Diego Ramos Rodríguez
Rebecca Saunders
Yixie Shen
Miroslav SRNKA
Toby Thatcher
Thierry Tidrow
Stefan Weiller
Adriane Westerbarkey
Haotian Yu
Artist
© Wonge BergmannYixie Shen
Yixie Shen (b. 1993, China) is a Hamburg-based composer. She is the recipient of the Gaudeamus Award. Further prizes include Theater Kiel’s Hafenstädte – Tore zur Welt competition, Zwei Orgeln Plus by Musik 21 Niedersachsen, and the Alexander International Music Award by the Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie. Her music, described as having a »beautiful sense of timbre and colour… a refined and gripping narrative«, has been performed internationally by leading ensembles and orchestras, including State Opera Hamburg, Symphoniker Hamburg, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Yarn/ Wire, Trio Catch, collective lovemusic, and at festivals such as Gaudeamus, Klangspuren Schwaz, Heinrich Schütz, Musik 21, and blurred edges and more. Her musical journey began under her father and continued at the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory with Ju Wenpei. A Bachelor’s degree in composition followed at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Prof. He Xuntian. From 2018 she studied with Fredrik Schwenk at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg, where she completed both her Master’s degree and Konzertexamen with distinction.