何训田
著名作曲家，音乐新语言开创者，上海音乐学院教授。
一九八一年创立「三时说」和「音乐维度论」；一九八二年创立「RD作曲法」，是中国当代第一部作曲法；一九八六年创作了具有里程碑意义的《天籁》；一九九三年创立「五非说」（非西方，非东方，非学院，非民间，非非）和「结构流作曲法」；一九九五年开创了国际唱片史上在全球发行第一张中文唱片的历史，创作的《阿姐鼓》全集、《央金玛》全集在全球八十多个国家出版发行，销量数百万张；一九九七年创立「空隙论」和「一訸体」；二〇〇三年发布人类第一部献给所有物种的元音乐《声音图案》；二〇〇八年发布人类第一部前意识音乐《一訸上歌》；
二〇一二年至二〇二二年创作《米囊旋转舞》、《樱桃祈祷文》、《迦陵频伽经文》、《石榴树十七次出神》等九部结构流长篇钢琴作品，德国朔特音乐全球出版发行。
获得〖1989－1990美国国际新音乐作曲家比赛/唯一/杰出音乐成就大奖〗等十五项国际作曲奖；获得〖第三届全国音乐作品评奖/一等奖〗等十三项国家作曲奖。
国际华纳、朔特音乐等多个国际出版机构在全球出版发行他的作品。英国BBC爱乐乐团、以色列交响乐团等数十个乐团为他的作品在全球作世界首演和演出。《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》、《华盛顿邮报》、《泰晤士报》、《人民日报》、CCTV、BBC、ABC、CNN、NHK等全世界数千家新闻媒体和学术刊物评述了他的作品、作曲技法和创作思想。他的理论和作品被誉为“具有划时代意义”，“无法在西方文献中找到蓝本”，“最具个性的中国作曲家”，“他的音乐出现标志着中国有了自己的音乐学派”。《纽约时报》称他“帮助中国人实现了让其音乐走向世界的理想”。传略被编入《新格罗夫音乐与音乐家大辞典》。
（何训田作品目录见www.hexuntian.com）
Xuntian He
Distinguished composer,
Creator of a new musical language,
Professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
In 1981, he established Three Periods Theory and Theory of Musical Dimension. In 1982, he developed RD Composition (Renyilv & Duiyingfa Composition), the first compositional method of contemporary China. In 1986, he created Sounds of Nature, which was a landmark work. In 1993, he established the Five Nons (Non-Western, non-Eastern, non-academic, non-folk, and non-non.) and SS Composition (Stream of Structure Composition). In 1995, Sister Drum was launched, making him the first Chinese composer to have his record released worldwide. This album, together with a number of others including Voices from the Sky, was released in more than 80 countries with a total sales volume of several million copies. In 1997, he established Theory of Interspace and Ehe Style. In 2003, he composed Images in Sound, which was humanity’s first gift of primordial music to all species of the natural world. In 2008, he produced Ehe Chant, the first work of Preconsciousness Music in human history.
2012~2022, he created 9 long piano works with SS Composition, including Whirling Papaver, Cherry Prayer, Kalavinka Sutra and Seventeen Trances of the Pomegranate Tree, etc., which all published by German Schott Music and distributed worldwide.
He has received 15 international composition awards, including the Outstanding Musical Achievement Award of the International New Music Composer Competition USA 1989-1990. 13 national composition awards, including the First Prize at the Third All-China Music Competition, and a number of international and national honorary awards.
His works have been published globally by a number of international publishing companies, including Warner Music Group and Schott Music, and premiered and performed worldwide by many leading orchestras and ensembles, including BBC Philharmonic and The Israel Symphony Orchestra. Thousands of national and international news media and academic journals, including the New York Times, the Times Magazine, the Washington Post, The Times, People's Daily, CCTV, BBC, ABC, CNN, NHK etc., have reviewed He’s works, composition techniques and ideas. His theories and works are believed to be “epoch-making” and “You can hardly trace the origin of He’s music in any Western music literature”, as “the most distinctive Chinese composer”, “Xuntian He’s music marks the emergence of China’s own school of music” and according to the New York Times, he “fulfilled the Chinese people’s dream to introduce their music to the world”. His brief biography appears in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
(Xuntian He's Catalogue of Works can be found on www.hexuntian.com）
