Education
He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987.
叶小纲, 葉小綱
He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987.
He is originally Cantonese but spent his early years in Shanghai. He teaches at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he serves as Assistant President and vice dean of the composition department. His father is the composer Ye Chunzhi.
His Starry Sky was premiered at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
In the summer of 2006, Ye took part in the inaugural "Composer Alive!" transpacific correspondence project with Accessible Contemporary Music in Chicago, Illinois. This project consisted of Ye composing a piece, Datura, and sending its fragments as they were completed to Chicago, electronically.
They were subsequently read by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)"s performance ensemble and posted to the Internet for Ye"s approval. The project culminated with Ye traveling to the United States for the completed work"s premiere performance.
The (2002) symphony consists of nine movements, with vocal parts and traditional Chinese musical instruments and folk tunes are used in lieutenant
Ye composed the soundtrack to the documentary The.