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Du Yun · Du Yun - vocals, programming, engineering, kitchen sink
Two Montreal newspapers described Du Yun as 'ineffably quaking' and 'impeccably powerful'. Well, here at Tag Team we have a home for both of these qualities... The Submissionaries have definitely been known to quake, especially after a night on the shandy, and Lonely China Day create powerful, impeccably arranged music. So why not Du Yun? In actual fact, Du Yun's list of qualifications and achievements is so long and impressive, she sort of intimidates us poorly edu-ma-kated folks here at Tag Team Records...but in a good way. We'll paraphrase; Du Yun started piano lessons at age 4 and entered the Shanghai Conservatory at the age of 6. That's right - 6 years old! We suspect that her parents may have been a little pushy, but we'll never ask them, since they scare us more than the Back Street Boys [has anyone ever noticed just how gay that band name is?]. In 1997 she went to the States where she graduated Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and gained an M.A. from Harvard University in... well, you know where Harvard is. Oh... and did we mention she's about to finish her Ph.D at Harvard! Hold on, hold on! That's just her academic achievement. Check out what she does when she's not spending far too much time hanging out in university libraries. Du Yun has won; 1st place of the China National Young Composers Competition [and you know for sure that the other competitors at this event were all vat-grown in a laboratory on the outskirts of Guanzhou], the Herbert Elwell Memorial Prize, a Klutznick Grant, the Adelbert W. Sprague Prize, the British and International Bass Forum Composition Competition, a Jerome Foundation Grant, a Harvard Dissertation Completion prize, the only public award at the 2004 International Forum at Montreal, and a Jens Aubrey Westengard Foundation Grant.
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