Liu Sola

小簡介
劉索拉 —— 作曲家，人聲表演家，作家。劉索拉畢業(yè)于中央音樂學院作曲系，師從于杜鳴心先生。 畢業(yè)后先后為影視戲劇作曲，曾被電影作曲金雞獎聯(lián)合提名，她的鋼琴獨奏作品也曾在全國鋼琴創(chuàng)作比賽中獲獎。1985年她創(chuàng)作了小說［你別無選擇］，在全國引起轟動，曾被香港媒體稱為“劉索拉旋風”。此中篇小說獲全國中篇小說獎。1987年她應美國新聞總署邀請赴美訪問，回國后根據(jù)同名獲獎小說創(chuàng)作了中國第一部搖滾歌劇[藍天綠海]。 1988年至2002年她先后定居倫敦和紐約,曾經(jīng)專程去美國曼菲斯學習藍調(diào)，93年移居紐約后又受到自由爵士大師們的直接指教， 先后在英美組織自己的樂隊，在國際各大藝術節(jié)上演出自己的作品，并和世界各流派的知名藝術家廣泛合作。
她的唱片[藍調(diào)在東方]（美國寶利金唱片公司），曾被英美權威音樂雜志Billboard作為焦點聚光唱片推出，稱其為“一種新流派的醞釀”， 并被列入《英美新世界音樂》排行榜前 10 名。此唱片引起眾多美國媒體的關注和探討，并稱劉為“唯一有資格在新奧爾良爵士音樂節(jié)演奏的中國音樂家（紐約評論）”。隨后她推出的［中國拼貼］（日本阿萬德唱片公司） 由于它的“極端瘋狂（周.撒克）”和“豐富有力的表現(xiàn)了同種文化的不同處（紐約時報）”引起了先鋒音樂界的關注。隨后她在美國制作了若干唱片，包括［纏］等等。 1997年，她在紐約建立了[索拉與朋友們]樂隊，混合了民樂、搖滾爵士樂及新音樂的風格，這支樂隊在1999年北京爵士音樂節(jié)上破土而出。2000年，劉索拉聯(lián)合打擊樂家李真貴先生及其弟子們在北京首圖音樂廳做了民族器樂“爵士”即興音樂會，2003年［劉索拉與朋友們樂隊］以美國搖滾爵士樂家和中國民樂家的聯(lián)合形式在德國新音響現(xiàn)代音樂節(jié)作為開幕樂隊演出，引起德國媒體的關注：“劉索拉在尋求避免向西方古典音樂和流行音樂徹底投降的道路。（南德日報）”“這樣的全球化完全可以對西方置之不理。（南德日報）”。 2005年后，“傳統(tǒng)重新主宰了劉索拉。（南德日報）”， 樂隊完全成為民樂隊，風格特異，有“中國式的心醉神迷狀態(tài)。（南德日報）”。
2006年，劉索拉創(chuàng)作了大型室內(nèi)歌?。垠@夢］，由著名的德國現(xiàn)代室內(nèi)樂團[ENSEMBLE MODERN]和[劉索拉與朋友們]中國樂隊共同參演。她本人是編劇，作曲及總導演并領演。在歌劇中她大膽運用了“傳統(tǒng)和現(xiàn)代音樂各流派及流行音樂（法蘭克福評論）”， 音樂語言“驚人的清晰和緊湊 （法蘭克福評論）”。 2007年， 劉索拉作為重點音樂家被丹麥環(huán)響音樂雙年展邀請，丹麥皇家音院打擊樂團世界首演了她的新作品［節(jié)奏的密碼］，丹麥電影中心及作家協(xié)會重點介紹了她的電影音樂作品及她的文學作品，［劉索拉與朋友們］樂隊的演出成為音樂節(jié)的熱點。
2002年至06年，劉接受德國文化媒體部長的邀請，擔任德國世界文化大廈世界顧問組成員，策劃了有美國天才音樂家約翰.縱參與的［反叛者音樂家系列音樂會］、[你別無選擇]中央音樂學院作曲系77屆音樂會等等。［你別無選擇］音樂會成為德國現(xiàn)代室內(nèi)樂團連年世界巡演項目，曾在北京國際音樂節(jié)演出。
劉索拉近年創(chuàng)作的電影音樂作品包括：寧瀛的獲獎電影［無窮動］（參與編劇和演出）， 呂樂的獲獎電影［十三棵泡桐樹］等等。
作為作家，劉索拉的作品多次獲獎和被譯成多國語言。 由于喜歡用不同風格的中文構造小說，英文版譯文［混屯加哩咯楞］獲得英國比較文學翻譯獎（Richard King 譯），最新的譯文版是小說［女貞湯］的法文版(Sylvie Gentil 譯)由法國著名出版社Seuil出版。劉索拉近年新書先后由海峽出版社，昆侖出版社，上海文匯出版社出版。
劉索拉目前定居于中國北京和美國鄂宛。
The musical traditions of China have been blended with jazz, blues, and improvisation by composer, author, and vocalist Liu Sola. Her recordings have spanned from multicultural treatments of the blues — Blues in the East, recorded with guitarist James Blood Ulmer, Parliament-Funkadelic drummer Jerome Bailey, Chinese pipa player Wu Man, avant-garde saxophonist Henry Threadgill, and vocalist Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets, and produced by Bill Laswell, to psychedelic Chinese rock, China Collage. While www.chinasprout claimed that "this is not your standard Chinese music — it is extremely contemporary with a strong multicultural influence," the New York Press referred to Sola as "the only Chinese artist who would qualify to play the New Orleans Jazz Festival." The New York Times cited her ability to "wander from echoes of Chinese opera to simple folk-like melodies."
The daughter of prominent figures in China's Communist Party, Liu spent her early life in luxury. An uncle, Liu Zhidan, was a high-ranking general in the Red Army until his death and martyrdom in 1936. Her family's fortunes changed dramatically when her father's comrade-in-arms, Gao Gang, was accused of treason by Mao Tse-Tung and sentenced to death in 1955. As the result of a scorching account of the situation written by her mother, both of her parents were exiled to a rural pig farm, where they remained for two decades. Together with her older brother and sister, Liu was raised by a family in the capital city. Music played an essential role throughout Liu's life. She began studying classical piano at the age of five. Although she also studied Peking Opera, she was drawn more to Chinese folk music. Entering the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, in 1977, she studied composition. A symphony memorializing her uncle, composed for her thesis, was performed by the Chinese Opera House Orchestra.
Graduating in 1981, Liu began writing short stories and novels. Her first novella, Ni Bie Wu Xuanze (You Have No Choice), was hailed by China's disenfranchised urban youth and won a prestigious Chinese National Novella award. Liu's first full-length novel, Chaos And All, written while she was briefly residing in London and published in 1989, was followed by Da Ji Jia De Xiao Gu Shi in January 2000. Her novella, Blue Sky Green Sea, was translated into English and performed as a rock opera in 1998 with the Chinese Central Symphony Orchestra and a rock band.
Liu has continued to explore a diverse range of music. She formed an all-female Pink Floyd-influenced rock band in the mid-'80s. She recorded a rock opera version of Blue Sky Green Sea in 1988 with the Chinese Central Symphony Orchestra, and a Hong Kong-based rock band. Moving to London later the same year, she formed a reggae band with British, Japanese, and Chinese musicians. Inspired by the music of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin, who she first heard while visiting the United States in 1987, Liu returned to the U.S., two years later to spend time in the Mississippi Delta, meeting and playing with scores of blues musicians. She made her permanent home in the United States after being accepted into the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 1992. Liu continued to be active as a musician and composer. Her modern dance composition, "June Snow," was featured in Michael Apted's documentary video, Moving the Mountains, in 1999. The same year, the New Julliard Ensemble performed her piece "In Corporeal" at Lincoln Center. Returning to China for the first time in a decade, Sola performed in Beijing and Shanghai and recorded an album, Sola & Friends in Beijing.