A Musical Journey to Northwest China - A Concert by Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble

When: 8 Jun 2014 Sun 20:00
Where: Auditorium, Tsuen Wan Town Hall

⇒丝路·竹韵：大西北音乐文化之旅-竹韵小集

The Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble is a professional Chinese music group actively promoting local talents and producing quality chamber concerts. Founded in 2003, it has a mission of developing Chinese music culture in Hong Kong and showing the unique charm of Chinese ensemble music known for being "small but elegant, and simple but refined". The Ensemble currently consists of 16 resident musicians, all music graduates from various institutes in Hong Kong with rich experience in concert performance and they are versatile and flexible in their repertoire, which includes both the traditional and the modern.

The Ensemble has commissioned and premiered close to 20 works by Hong Kong composers. It was incorporated as the "Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble Ltd." in 2011, with conductor Ho Man-chuen as its Artistic Adviser and the group's founder, Chan Chiu-yin, as Executive Director. It is at present a grant recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and a registered non-profit organization in Hong Kong.

Conductor: Huang Kuang-yu
Dizi: Ma Di
Erhu / Aijieke: Han Jingna
Yangqin: Guo Jiaying
Guanzi: Wu Chun-hei

Programme
Ensemble: Reverberating Charm of Shaanxi - Zhang Xiaofeng and Wang Fangliang
Ensemble: Dance Music of Southern Xinjiang - Zhou Yuguo
Ensemble: Overlapping II (Hong Kong Premiere) - Li Ying
Dizi & Ensemble: The Gobi Desert - Ma Di, Arr. Wang Shaowei
Dizi & Ensemble: Landscape of the Frontier - Ma Di
Guanzi & Ensemble: Dance of Qiuci - Zhao Jiping
Aijieke & Ensemble: Spring in Xinjiang - Ma Yaoxian and Li Zhonghan, Arr. Lo Leung-fai
Dizi Solo: A Lyric on Qinchuan - Ma Di
Dizi Solo: Looking Homeward - Ma Di
Erhu Solo: Qinfeng - Jin Wei
Yangqin Solo: A Symphonic Poem of Tianshan - Huang He
Quintet: Dunhuang (Hong Kong Premiere) - Jiang Ying

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