'''Julian Jing-Jun Yu''' (born 2 September 1957)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=McCallum |first=Peter |date=2001 |title=Yu, Julian |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000043418 |website=Grove Music Online}}</ref> is a Chinese-Australian composer.
== Biography == Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Chen |first=Jia |date=8 May 2006 |title=Classical Meets Contemporary |url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/167624.htm |work=China Daily}}</ref> In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Whiffin |first=Laurie |title=Sound Ideas: Australian composers born since 1950 |publisher=Australian Music Centre |year=1995 |isbn=9780646224978 |editor-last=Broadstock |editor-first=Brenton |location=The Rocks, NSW |pages=339-340 |trans-title= |chapter=Julian Yu |oclc=33395013}}</ref> He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble.<ref name=":4" /> With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood in 1988 and received the Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00kenn_0 |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of music |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-280037-4 |edition=4th |series=Oxford paperback reference |location=Oxford |pages=807 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-06-11 |title=Is Julian Yu tragic? Only to order |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/is-julian-yu-tragic-only-to-order-20030611-gdvutn.html |access-date=2025-10-06 |website=The Age |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />{{Reference page|page=175}}
== Prizes ==
* Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize (1988)<ref name=":3" /> * Irino Prize (1989)<ref name=":3" /> * Paul Lowin Orchestral Prizes (1991, 1994)<ref name=":3" /> * Vienna Modern Masters Recording Award (1992), for ''Wu-Yu<ref name=":3" />''
== Compositions ==
* ''Impromptu'' (1982)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Scintillation'' ''II'' (1987)<ref name=":2" /> * ''3 Haiku'' (1987)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Scintillation'' (1987)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Wu-Yu'' ''(''1987)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Medium Ornamental Fuga Canonica'' (1988)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Great Ornamented Fuga Canonica'' (1988)<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/currencycompanio0000unse |title=Currency companion to music & dance in Australia |date=2003 |publisher=Currency House Inc. in association with Currency Press, Sydney |isbn=978-0-9581213-1-6 |editor-last=Whiteoak |editor-first=John |location=Strawberry Hills, NSW |editor-last2=Scott-Maxwell |editor-first2=Aline |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=55}} * ''Reclaimed Prefu'' (1989-90)<ref name=":1" />{{Reference page|page=55}} * ''The White Snake'' (1990), a puppet opera<ref name=":2" /> * ''Reclaimed Prefix'' ''II'' (1991)<ref name=":2" />
== Recordings of Yu's work ==
* ''Classical Allusion:'' ''Selected Works by Julian Yu'' (2000, Move Records, MD 3207, {{OCLC|222743895}})
* ''China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu'' (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, {{OCLC|849711216}}) * ''For our'' ''Natural World: Julian Yu Works'' (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, {{OCLC|988950247}}) * ''126'' ''Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'' (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, {{OCLC|1030203922}}) * ''Old and Yu:'' ''The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2'' (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, {{OCLC|1086292255}})
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://www.universaledition.com/en/Contacts/Julian-Yu/ Julian Yu's profile] at Universal Edition * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxQK6bHTGA A film about Julian Yu] by Brenton Broadstock {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yu, Julian}} Category:Living people Category:1957 births Category:Musicians from Beijing Category:Australian male composers Category:Australian people of Chinese descent