Composer

Yixuan Hu 胡一轩

Chinese composer working across chamber opera, orchestra, film and dance.
Recent premieres at the Lucerne Festival, the NCPA Beijing, the Elbphilharmonie,
and Stadthalle Reutlingen — based between Hamburg and Beijing.

Based inHamburg · Beijing
LatestEarly Spring: Blossom · World Premiere
2026China National Arts Fund
Stadthalle Reutlingen · Junge Sinfonie Reutlingen

Recent Performances

Summer 2026 · 2026 年夏

06·28
Early Spring: Blossom — Guzheng Concerto · World Premiere
Junge Sinfonie Reutlingen · Stadthalle Reutlingen
2026·06
Cantonese Suite · Yang Yanhao, piano
Elise-Meyer International Piano Competition — Final Concert · Hamburg
2026·06
Icarus — reprise
Percussion Graduation Concert (Oscar) · Hamburg

Selected Works

Across opera, concerto,
film and orchestra

Der Große Buddha
Chamber Opera · 2025
Der Große Buddha
Der Große Buddha
15–16 November 2025 · HfMT Hamburg Forum · World Premiere
Icarus
Orchestra · 2024
Icarus
Icarus
2024 · World Premiere at the Lucerne Festival
Early Spring: Blossom
Concerto · 2023
Early Spring: Blossom
Early Spring: Blossom
28 June 2026 · Stadthalle Reutlingen · World Premiere by Junge Sinfonie Reutling…
The Rest Is Spring
Film Score · 2022
The Rest Is Spring
The Rest Is Spring
Best Film Nomination at the 2023 Macau Golden Lotus Cup International Film Festi…
View all 29 works →

Honours · Highlights

From Lucerne to Beijing,
from Reutlingen to Taoli

2026
Early Spring: Blossom — World Premiere, Reutlingen
Junge Sinfonie Reutlingen
2026
Dunwang Qinyuan — 14th Taoli Cup national dance showcase
China Ministry of Culture and Tourism
2026
Portrait Concert — Ten Years of Composing
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
2025
Der Große Buddha — Chamber Opera Premiere · Konzertexamen
HfMT Hamburg
2024
Lucerne Festival Academy — 20th Anniversary Special Project
Lucerne Festival, Switzerland
2024
NCPA — 6th Young Composer Programme · Finalist
NCPA Beijing
2023
Macau Golden Lotus Cup — Best Film Nomination (The Rest Is Spring)
Macau International Film Festival
2018
ISCM World Music Days — The Piano Tuner selected
Vienna · ISCM & BMMF
Full CV & honours →

Also · Director of Sound Impuls Education

The composer,
also the teacher

Alongside her composing practice, she directs Sound Impuls in Beijing — private tuition in composition and music theory, and production for concert and film. The teaching pages below are in Chinese.

See Music Education → See Production →