Zou Lunlun () is a player and teacher of the

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 co ...

, a Chinese

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. She is fourth-generation guzheng player in a family of musicians. She has performed concerts in

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and

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, and performed for China's President

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and Australian Prime Minister

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. While she lived in

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, Lunlun established a Chinese traditional music group, "3 Sisters", with

pipa The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a () is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets rang ...

player (Lulu Liu), and

erhu The ''erhu'' (; ) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a ''Southern Fiddle'', and is sometimes known in the Western world as the ''Chinese violin'' or a ''Chinese two-s ...

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

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References

External links

Lunlun Zou's site about guzheng (includes music video clips)Lunlun Zou's 3 Girls' Band
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Guzheng players Hong Kong artists Hong Kong musicians People's Republic of China musicians Hong Kong women artists {{china-musician-stub