Since her childhood, Yurui “Rain” Hou was so fascinated by music performance that she became entranced watching what happens on stage and in rehearsals. She would then construct lines, words, and poems in her mind as an artistic response to things like the cellists changing their bows like a small eclipse, or the exuberant unity of people coming together in an orchestra.
She is finishing high school this year at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, but clearly she is far from just getting started as a musician and a composer. Having already produced many works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and large orchestra, she fully embraces her passion of being a musician, an artist and every aspect of it by playing chamber music with her schoolmates, taking jazz piano lessons, and on top of that– tutoring music theory, counterpoint, 4-part harmony, form and analysis to younger students.
She is very influenced by French composers like Debussy and Ravel. It is in recent years she became particularly interested in chamber music, because of its conversational nature. Not only conversational between players, but each note was actively taking essential roles in constructing a conversation like words. She began exploring her own writing, both in words and in notes. She wants to weave those two languages together into a conversation, in a voice that is uniquely her own. And she believes music to be a conversation where our differences become resolved.