Huang Ruo is a multi-talented and award-winning Chinese-American composer, conductor, and conceptual artist. He is renowned for his inventive and seamless combination of Chinese and Western influences, creating a compositional technique he calls ‘dimensionalism’. In the opera Book of Mountains and Seas, Huang Ruo has taken the awe-inspiring imagery of four traditional Chinese creation myths and transformed their truly remarkable landscapes and creatures into vibrant music and drama. The work ultimately expresses the creation of the universe and the power of nature over destruction, including a warning of mankind’s responsibility to care for the environment.