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List Of Guzheng Performers
The following is a list of notable guzheng players in alphabetical order. (Note that in Chinese, the order is surname first followed by given name. See Chinese names.) The guzheng or zheng is a Chinese musical instrument (specifically a zither) with movable bridges. *Alan Walker *Chen Huiqing (陈惠清) *Chen Meilin (陈美霖) *Chen Xiyao (陈希垚) *Barbie Chien *Bradley Fish *Jiang Nan (江南) *Mei Han (韩梅) *Lou Harrison *Bei Bei He (荷蓓蓓) *Mike Hovancsek *Cynthia Hsiang (向新梅) *Jaron Lanier *Liang Tsai-Ping (梁在平, Liang Zaiping) (1910–2000) *Zi Lan Liao *Liu Fang (劉芳) *Liu Weishan (劉維姍) *Fiona Sze-Lorrain *Luo Jing (罗晶) *Ma Li (马丽) *Onette du Joyeux *David Sait *Buedi Siebert *Andreas Vollenweider *Tan Su-Hui, Sophy (陈素慧) *Yijia Tu (涂议嘉) *Wang Changyuan (王昌元) *Wang Yong (musician), Wang Yong (王勇) *Wang Zhongshan (王中山) Winnie Wong(黄凯筠) *Wu Fei (吴非) *Vi An Diep *Bing Xia (夏冰) *Xu Fengxia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guzheng
The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from ''Paulownia'' wood. Other components are often made from other woods for structural or decorative reasons. Guzheng players often wear fingerpick made from materials such as plastic, resin, tortoiseshell, or ivory on one or both hands. Strings There are nylon steel strings, steel strings, silk strings, etc., depending on the genre. Now, the most common guzheng is 21 strings guzheng. The high-pitched strings of the guzheng are close to the player, and the low-pitched strings are on the opposite side. The strings' order from the inside to the outside is 1 to 21. The guzheng is ancestral to several other Asian zithers such as the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, Mongolian yatga, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi, and the Kazakhstan jetigen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain (born 1980) is a French writer, musician, poet, literary translator, and editor. Early life and education Born in Singapore, Sze-Lorrain grew up trilingual and has lived mostly in Paris and New York City. She spent her childhood in a hybrid of cultures, and her formative years in the United States and France. She began studying piano, classical piano and guzheng at a young age. A graduate of Columbia University, she obtained her master's degree from New York University and attended the École Normale de Musique de Paris before earning a PhD in French language, French from the Paris-Sorbonne University. Work Sze-Lorrain's work involves fiction, poetry, translation, music, and the visual arts. She writes mainly in English, and translates from Chinese and French. She has written for venues related to fashion journalism, music and art criticism, and dramaturgy. In 2007, Sze-Lorrain worked with Gao Xingjian on a book of photography, essays, and poetry based on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zou Lunlun
Zou Lunlun () is a player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither. She is fourth-generation guzheng player in a family of musicians. She has performed concerts in Vienna and Sydney, and performed for China's President Jiang Zemin and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. While she lived in Australia, Lunlun established a Chinese traditional music group, "3 Sisters", with pipa player (Lulu Liu), and erhu player (Yingying Liu). She has recorded a CD called ''Spring Hope'' by the Art Tune Recording Company of Hong Kong. She currently performs and teaches in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt .... References External linksLunlun Zou's site about guzheng (includes music video clips) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double J (radio Station)
Double J (formerly Dig Music) is an Australian digital radio station owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is positioned as a spin-off of the youth-oriented Triple J catered towards an older adult audience, emphasizing genres such as pop, rock, blues, country, soul, jazz and world music, as well as archive content from Triple J's library. Currently it is mostly automated, but has a few regular live programs. It is available terrestrially via DAB+, as well as other online and digital television platforms. History Dig Music (2002 – 2014) ABC Dig Music began in November 2002 (double j was originally the name for triple j in the mid 70's, but was changed to triple j when the station switched to FM). It emerged from formats developed by Bill Gates and Phil Cullen at ABC Coast FM, which broadcast an Adult Alternative music format and was for many years ABC Radio's only continuous stream. It was part of a suite of three digital channels, alongside Dig Jazz and Dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindy Meng Wang
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Vi An Diep
VI or Vi may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Characters * Vi (League of Legends), a character from the ''League of Legends'' video game franchise * Vi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a minor character in the American TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' *Vi, Violet Parr's nickname, a character of Walt Disney Pictures animated film ''The Incredibles'' *Vi Praskins, a major character in the 1950s American TV series '' Private Secretary'' Music * Submediant chord, symbolized "VI" or "vi" * ''VI'' (Circle Jerks album), 1987 * ''VI'' (The Danse Society album), 2015 * ''VI'' (Onslaught album), 2013 * ''VI'' (You Me at Six album), 2018 *'' Ice-T VI: Return of the Real'', an album by Ice-T, 1996 *VI Music, a Puerto Rican record label Magazines *'' Voetbal International'', a prominent Dutch football (soccer) magazine * ''Vi'' (magazine), a Swedish lifestyle magazine Businesses and organizations *Vi Senior Living, a provider of retirement communities in the United States * Victoria I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Fei
Wu Fei (, born May 12, 1977) is a virtuoso Chinese American composer, performer, and improviser from Beijing, China. She performs on the Chinese guzheng, an ancient zither with twenty-one strings, as well as sings. She currently resides in Nashville. Wu Fei has composed for a variety of musical genres, including choir, string quartet, chamber ensemble, Balinese gamelan, orchestral, film, and modern dance. Life Born in Beijing, Wu Fei studied at the China Conservatory of Music until 2000. She continued her education at Mills College where she earned a M.A. in Composition (2002–04). Her musical mission has been to extend the sonic experience of the traditional guzheng performance with twenty-first musical improvisational materials, techniques, and performances. As a participant in the downtown New York improvisation scene, she had many opportunities to explore genres with a myriad of like-minded musicians. She has teamed up with John Zorn, Fred Firth, Gyan Riley, Carla Kihls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Yong (musician)
Wang Yong (王勇; Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ..., 1964) is a Chinese rock and world music musician. He trained as a guzheng player.Andreas Steen, biographical entry in editor Edward L. Davis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture 2012 " 1964, Beijing Rock musician Wang Yong belongs to the first generation of Chinese rock musicians in the PRC and is now active in the broader field of worldmusic. He began learning the 24string guzheng (zither, see zheng) at age nine under ... In 1996 he issued his best-known album ''Samsara'' (往生). References 1964 births Living people Chinese rock musicians Musicians from Beijing Date of birth missing (living people) {{China-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Changyuan
Wang Changyuan (; born 1945 or 1946 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China) is a Chinese guzheng performer and composer.Hutton, Mary Ellyn.Spotlight on Chinese Music, Dance" ''The Cincinnati Post''. January 23, 2003. Retrieved on March 2, 2009. The only daughter of the eminent guzheng master Wang Xunzhi, she graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1969 and in 1984 came to the United States to study world music at Kent State University. Wang Changyuan is the composer of the famous guzheng solo piece, ''Zhan Tai Feng'' (Chinese: 战台风, "The Fight with the Typhoon"), a dramatic depiction of fight of the Shanghai harbour proletariat against the forces of nature, while protecting the property of the people and the Chinese communist government. She composed the work in 1965 while living for three months in the dormitories of the Shanghai harbour and sharing her quarters with the workers there. Wang lives in Rego Park, Queens, New York and teaches in Manhattan, Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yijia Tu
Yijia Tu (; born 8 November 1997) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and dancer. She was celebrated in China after placing in the top three of singing competition ''Sing My Song'' (中国好歌曲 第一季), 中国好歌曲》将开播 刘欢为《卷珠帘》落泪 an open contest for songwriters to sing their own compositions. Her music drew praise from both judges and audience. After graduating from high school with a certificate in composition, Yijia released her debut album '17' via in collaboration with Chinese and internationally acclaimed musicians including winner Luca Bignardi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album ''Down to the Moon''. Vollenweider's style has been described by ''The New York Times'' as "swirling atmospheric music, which evokes nature, magic and fairy tales". Biography Early life Vollenweider was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and is the son of Hans Vollenweider (1918–1993), an organist and composer, while his mother was a painter. In 1971, he married Beata, a kindergarten teacher, with whom he has two sons (Jonathan and Sebastian) and a daughter, Noëmi. In 1975, Vollenweider discovered the harp and, finding its traditional versions too limited for his own musical ideas, developed his own style, tailoring the instrument according to his needs. He created the electro-acoustic harp. He for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
