with a new work that sets out to revive the sound of five ancient Chinese woodwind and string instruments: the chiba, five-string pipa, xiqin, bili and lusheng. The Five Muses of Dunhuang takes ...

wooden clappers and a substantial orchestra of Chinese string and woodwind instruments. Here and there in this ever more steel and glass city where old neighborhoods disappear from one month to ...

Chinese suona player Liu Wenwen has wowed the audience at the Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria with a virtuosic performance on January 8. Liu is China’s first doctoral degree holder in ...

Part of a four-part series focusing on the different types of traditional Chinese instruments, this instalment features the woodwind section which comprises instruments such as sheng???, ...

This ancient Chinese instrument is called a sheng. It's a woodwind instrument made of bamboo that sounds deceptively similar to steel drums. It's actually been around since 1100 BCE and sounds ...

Tang mixed the sounds of Chinese traditional instruments, especially that of suona (a traditional Chinese woodwind instrument). However, wishing to present original Chinese sounds in a modern way ...

Our fourth workshop of this series was an introduction to Chinese music and musical instruments ... to introduce the different types of musical instruments; bowed string instruments, plucked ...

Liu is China's first doctoral degree holder in suona, a traditional Chinese double-reeded woodwind instrument, also called dida, known for its loud and high-pitched sound. She is also a teacher at ...

This ancient Chinese instrument is called a sheng. It's a woodwind instrument made of bamboo that sounds deceptively similar to steel drums. It's actually been around since 1100 BCE and sounds ...