On a quiet side street of Beacon Hill, the studio of Warren Chang — founder and director of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra — is filled with instruments unfamiliar to most Westerners. There’s a yangqin, ...

“Learning Chinese instruments is not only for them to master playing Chinese music, but also for them to learn their cultural heritage.”— Gordon Lee For hundreds of the South Bay’s young Chinese ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Members of the Great Wall Youth Orchestra play traditional Chinese instruments at the New Year concert in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zijie/Xinhua) At a ...

Zhao Cong, vice-president and the principal pipa player of China National Traditional Orchestra, spent months arranging the Chinese musical piece Full Bloom into a duet for the pipa and the Russian ...

For an evening steeped in rich tradition, come see a night of Chinese dance and music Saturday in Shoreline. The music is played on traditional Chinese instruments and the folk dances spring from ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

EVERETT— Know what an erhu is? An ancient Chinese musical instrument, it’s a two-stringed bowed fiddle of sorts. Perhaps you’ve seen it played on street corners in big cities with Chinatown ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The mental image that generally accompanies the word “orchestra” is that of a large mass of ...

Avant-garde composer Tan Dun and the National Ballet's former chief conductor Bian Zushan once debated on television about the concepts of music. The heated debate showed Tan and Bian, representing ...

Muhammad Iman Mohamed Irfan understands only the most basic of Mandarin words — like lian (practice) and zhun bei (get ready) — but he has already performed solo parts on stage with a Chinese ...

Fei Xie has played music since he was 3, growing up in China, the son of two professional Peking Opera musicians. But over decades of training, his musical world remained distinct from theirs. Xie ...