Born and raised in Shanghai, New York-based composer Du Yun (b. 1977) holds a PhD in composition from Harvard. Her opera Angel’s Bone won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2017, and she is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

Dinosaur Scar brings together ten works composed between 1999 and 2009 that might be described as experimental chamber music and demonstrative of her association with the 35-member International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Of this relationship, Du Yun notes, “For me, ICE and I are like that flowing river, from the streaming start, the dramatic gorges, and to the currents that flood into the ocean.” With the exception of the two full-ensemble works, Impeccable Quake (2004) and By, of… Lethean...