It’s been more than a dozen years since audiences at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival first heard the ancient Chinese lute the pipa. But at this year’s festival, which kicks off on Sunday, ...

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, Min Xiao-Fen, brings her adventurous musical talents to provide live accompaniment to “The Goddess,” one of the greatest films from China’s silent film era ...

Wu Man will share how the pipa, a pear-shaped, four-stringed Chinese lute, serves as a bridge between cultures. Through music and storytelling, she explores how this ancient instrument has helped her ...

I hold the view that world music musicians are great when they take a regional music and expand it so that it becomes internationally known, even concert music. Ravi Shankar did that with Indian raga.

Like to hear a python’s skin sing? You will in this show, which features a very expressive virtuoso of the erhu Guo Gan’s instrument looks and sounds unlike any western violin, but his upright, bowed ...

Zhang Hongyan, director of the Traditional Instruments Department at the Central Conservatory of Music. [Photo provided to China Daily] A training session that aims to promote the Pinghu style of pipa ...

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Pipa player Wu Man moved overseas to promote the Chinese instrument. Now, she hopes to do the same in her homeland. Chen Nan reports. Wu Man is regarded as the ambassador of the Chinese pipa to the ...

A pioneer of "new folk music," Zhang Shuang is the former chief pipa performer of Twelve Girls Band. Photo: Courtesy of Zhang Shuang One of the first modern folk music bands in China, Twelve Girls ...