Soloists 獨奏:
Zhongxi Wu 吳忠喜 – suona 嗩吶 & sheng 笙
Hailing from the 4th generation of suona players in his family, he graduated from the Heilongiang Performing Arts University in 1993. He has toured in China, Japan, the USA, Europe, and Canada, and has been featured in numerous solo, chamber and orchestral recordings and performances, spanning a diverse range of styles including traditional Chinese music and opera, contemporary music, experimental theatre, Celtic traditions, and jazz collaborations. Recently, the Western Canada Music Awards awarded “Jasmine Jazz,” his collaboration with the Vancouver Chinese Ensemble and the Jodi Proznick Trio, Best Instrumental Artist of 2023. As suona and sheng soloist, he premiered Rita Ueda’s double concerto, Birds Calling…From the Canada in You, with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal in 2022. Subsequently, he performed this work to great acclaim in London, UK with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2023, and in 2024, with the Esprit Orchestra in Toronto, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center in New York, working with conductors Alexandre Bloch, Nicolas Ellis, Alex Pauk, and Steven Mercurio. He has taught students at the University of British Columbia’s Music Department, and is a faculty member at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.

Hsuan-Ning Huang 黃宣寧 – Percussion 打擊
Hsuan-Ning graduated from Tainan Arts University in Taiwan and received her Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China. She has studied with master percussionists Dehua Shi, Huang-ren Su, and Jianhua Wang. Before moving to Canada in 2021, she was the percussionist with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Kaoqiong Percussion Ensemble, China Youth Chinese Orchestra, Tainan Chinese Orchestra, and Macao Chinese Orchestra. She has been a soloist at the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s Percussion Festival in 2012, 2019, and 2020 and toured Macao, China, Singapore, Russia, Korea, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, and Czech. She has won the 3rd place at the 2011 China International Percussion Competition, the 1st place of the 9th Hong Kong Best Young Drummer Competition.

Charlie Lui – dizi/Chinese bamboo flutes 笛子
A multiple award winner, Charlie masters a wide range of Chinese wind instruments. He is a member of the Sound of Dragon Ensemble, BC Chinese Music Ensemble, Vancouver Inter-­Cultural Orchestra, and the principal dizi player of the BC Chinese Music Orchestra. As a soloist, Charlie has performed numerous dizi concerti and has released a number of CDs. In 2011, he premiered concerto grosso“Tsu­ur Song” by Dr. Ning Wang with the Nu:BC and the BC Chinese Music Ensemble in a Canada­-China collaboration. In the same year Charlie also performed Steve Chatman’s “Earth Songs” with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Charlie studied the dizi with Jian Min Pan in Vancouver and Wei‐Yu Tan in China.

Orchid Ensemble 蘭韻樂團:
Lan Tung 董籃 – erhu (Chinese violin) & vocals
Dailin Hsieh 謝岱霖 – zheng (Chinese zither)
Jonathan Bernard – percussion
special guest Sutrisno Hartana – suling, vocals, gender

Sutrisno Hartana is an arts educator, ethnomusicologist, researcher, and performer of gamelan and wayang (Indonesian puppetry) in North America. He has completed his doctoral degree in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada. He hold a MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia in Canada. As a Javanese performing artist, he graduated his bachelor degree from the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta, Java. In 2004, the King of Paku Alaman garnered him the title “Mas Lurah Lebda Swara” making him a court musician at the Paku Alaman Palace in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has toured/performed/taught internationally in both traditional and contemporary performances throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Sutrisno has taught at School for the Contemporary Arts Simon Fraser University, and the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, as well as at Ningbo University in China.

Orchid Ensemble 蘭韻樂團
Established in 1997, the JUNO nominated Orchid Ensemble is acclaimed as “one of the most adventurous groups uniting Eastern and Western musical traditions” (Georgia Straight). The ensemble regularly commissions and premieres new compositions. It has embraced a variety of styles in its repertoire, ranging from Taiwanese and Chinese music, World Music, New Music to Creative Improvisation. Its highly regarded interdisciplinary productions fuse music, dance (contemporary, aerial, flamenco, Chinese…etc), visual arts, and media arts. The ensemble collaborates with artists from various genres, exploring new grounds and breaking down boundaries. In addition, the ensemble has created unique collections of works for its choral, orchestral, and cross-cultural collaboration projects.