www.simonyu.netFretted,Fretless,Microtonal Guitarist/Composer/Arranger Simon Yu was born in Hong Kong, 1987. He started his first classical piano lesson at 4 and he started to play guitar at 12. After he won the best guitarist award in a High School Band Competition when he was 14, he decided to be a professional musician. At 17, he came to U.S. and study music in Berklee College of Music. He graduated in Dec 2007 majoring Performance and also Contemporary Writing and Production and he moved to Manhattan, New York on Spring 2008.
By the influences of his traditional Chinese music musician family, he has been using some of the Chinese inflections in his playing and also in his composition too. Also, he plays and composes Micro-tonal music by mixing Chinese/Indian/Turkish micro-tonal systems with Western modern groove music. He is one of the performers of American Festival of Microtonal music on 2007, performing with his teacher David Fiuczynski's "Micro Jam".
He also performed in the Hong Kong Dragonboat Festival in New York in 2007 summer, leading his quartet and performed his original tunes. During the summer 2007, he led his other group Hip-Jazz project to perform in the Berklee Performance Center. Featuring 5 of his original Contemporary Groove Jazz compositions.
In Berklee College of Music, He studied with David Fiuczynski, Tim Miller, Mick Goodrick , Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Alain Mallet, David Gilmore, Rick Peckham, Dave Santoro, Ed Tomassi, Hal Crook, Steve Rochinski...etc. At school, he has a chance to work/perform with a lot of best students around the college by playing recitals in both recital halls and concerts in the Berklee Performance Center. In Dec 2006, he took his fusion band to a tour in LA/HongKong/Osaka performing all his original compositions and he took his new Trio on a Tour in China(Hong Kong/Bei Jing) and Japan in May 2008.He has been working on production projects for his father's company Wavemotion LTD. HK. Works on various styles of music; Contemporary Jazz, Be-Bop, Free Jazz, Funk, Drum&Bass, R&B, Experimental...etc and tried to combine some of those components to create his own style. He also compose/arrange/produce for variety styles; Pop, World, Big Band, Orchestra, Jingles...etc He has been in charged for a Video Game Music project in China recently, composing and producing all the tracks in the Game.His first album "Beginning..." has been released on March 2008!! Featuring 8 original Contemporary Groove Jazz compositions and Amazing musicians. Please check here.
He also appears on Evan Marien's CD "The Way"
http://cdbaby. com/cd/evanmarien4
BOTH ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON ITUNES TOO!!!P.S. I speak Cantonese/Mandarin/Japnese/English welcome to message/contact me in any of these languages.
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