Mathematics & Music:  Patterns, Structures, and Harmony

Date and Time (China standard time): Friday, November 6, 2:30 PM – 4:45 PM

Location: CCTE 2120/3110 Theatre

Agenda: 2:30–3:10 p.m. — Talk by Man Fang

3:10–3:30 p.m. — Talk by Yuying Li

3:30–3:45 p.m. — Break

3:45–4:45 p.m. — Performance by Jeroen Den Herder and Hua-Hsuan Lee

Bio: 

Man Fang

Hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by The New York Times, Fang Man is a Chinese-born American composer whose music unfolds between cultures, memory, and imagination. Rooted in Chinese literary and philosophical traditions and profoundly shaped by Western musical aesthetics—especially the coloristic refinement of the French repertoire—her work reveals a distinctive voice of lyrical intensity and textural subtlety. Educated in China, the United States, and Europe, she creates sound worlds that resonate across cultural landscapes while remaining deeply personal and poetic. Her artistic practice embraces interdisciplinary collaboration, engaging dance, visual arts, film, opera, and theatre.

Jeroen Den Herder

Jeroen den Herder completed his studies with distinction at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Dmitri Ferschtman, and in London with Christopher Bunting. He then became a leader of the Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico, a group with a worldwide reputation as a full time cello ensemble, performing around 40 concerts a year.

He has won several music awards through the years, he won the “Postbank Sweelinck” competition in 1992 and the first prize of the Foundation of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He recently won the “Anton Kersjes Prize” as a member of the Ruysdael Quartet.

He’s been an active chamber music player, performing with musicians like Janine Jansen, Igor Roma, Anner Bijlsma and Yo-Yo Ma.

Hua-Hsuan Lee

Hua-Hsuan is a mulitple-side musician. She began her piano studies at the age of five when she studied in the young talent class with Taiwanese pianist Wei-Lung Li and his wife Chun-Ju Yen. After finishing her bachelor degree in Tainan National University of the Arts, Hua-Hsuan continued her studies in Germany with the esteemed Russian pianist Stepan Simonian at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theatre Hamburg where she graduated from her master with distinction. During her studies, Hua-Hsuan took masterclasses with worldwide maestros such as Boris Slutsky, Vladimir Tropp, Natalia Troull, Sergei Glavatskikh ,Victor Rausenbau,David kuyken,Paul Komen and also with Igor Roma, Enrico Pace and Piero Rattalino in the International Imola Piano Academy.

As a talented pianist, Hua-Hsuan Lee has been awarded prizes in numerous national and international competitions in her young age, including the first prize of International Cross-Strait International Music Competition(2015), the first prize of International Violin & Piano Competition of Vienna (2011), the first prize of Taiwan Music Competition (2007) , the second prize of Taiwan National Student Competition(2007) and awarded as 3ème Prix à l’unanimité of International Music Competition (2022).