# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bright-sheng
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:30.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bright-sheng"
name: "Bright Sheng"
slug: "bright-sheng"
description: "Bright Sheng is a Chinese and American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His music has been commissioned and performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, in addition to the Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among numerous others. His music has been performed by such musicians as the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, David Robertson, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff; the cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, and Alisa Weilerstein; the pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Peter Serkin; the violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin; and the percussionist Evelyn Glennie."
tagline: "Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.59
  momentum:             1.118012422360248
  historical:           11.825992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "1phIbMgOSrOvcDsx4yLqzf"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brightsheng.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Bright Sheng"
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    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Sheng"
    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Sheng"
    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Sheng"
    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Sheng"
    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Sheng"
    title: "Bright Sheng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bright Sheng"
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    title: "Шенг, Брайт"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump