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Sheng 笙 (Chinese mouth organ) – solo, duo, ensemble

Ling Husan Shen 沈翎玄 (Taiwan)

Saturday April 23, 2016 – 2:40-3:40pm, Exhibition Hall, Roundhouse

Ying Chun Chen 陳瑩純 (Taiwan) & Charlie Liu 呂畇初 (Vancouver) & Klaus Bru (UK)

Ying Chun Chen – pipa (Chinese lute) – Chen will give a pipa solo recital concert on Sunday April 24 at 1:20-2:20pm

Born in Taiwan, Chen graduated with a master degree from the Chinese Cultural University in Taipei and a Bachelor degree from the Tainan University of the Arts. She has toured in Europe, North America, and China. Currently, she is a member of the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, TCO College Orchestra, Taichung Pipa Ensemble, and performs regularly in solo recitals and as soloist with orchestras at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Chen is also active performing in theatre, music theatre, and multimedia productions.

陳瑩純 – 琵琶

陳瑩純,臺中市人,中國文化大學音樂系中國音樂演奏組碩士,先後畢業於臺中市光復國小國樂班、臺中市新民高中國中部音樂班、國立臺南藝術大學七年一貫制中國音樂學系。陳瑩純曾於歐洲、北美、中國各地巡迴,演出經驗豐富。主修琵琶,由黃麗娟老師啟蒙,曾師事王世榮老師、張舒淳老師、李光祖老師、杜潔明老師、顧寶文老師、陳麗晶老師、王正平教授及賴秀綢老師。現為小巨人絲竹樂團、TCO學院樂團、台中琵琶樂團團員,經常於國家音樂廳舉行音樂會,擔任琵琶協奏與獨奏。2006年至今舉辦過多場獨奏會,並積極嘗試不同的演出類型,包括舞台劇、音樂劇場或結合多媒體等跨界合作。

Klaus Bru (Saxophone), a German, who has lived in Taiwan and China for decades, has worked with an abundance of artists in dissimilar musical contexts, covering a spectrum from Experimental Noise, Electronica, to Mainstream Jazz, and Pop Music. Bru is one of only a handful of saxophonists who specialize in the rare C-saxes, which he likes to electrify and treat like a guitar. He has performed and recorded with Marc Ribot, Sunny Murray, Franz Hautzinger, Peter Herbert, Michael Moser, Bilal Karaman, Li Jian-Hong, Aming Liang, Sabu Toyozumi, and Eddie Prevost.

“The Phoenix Spreading Its Wings“ (1956) – Dong, Hong-De & Hu, Tian-Cyuan 
《鳳凰展翅 (1956) – 董洪德 & 胡天泉
“Love Song on Lancang River” (1983) – Wang, Hui-Zhong 
《瀾滄江戀歌(1983) – 王慧中
“Song of the Forests” (1972 ) – Gao, Yang & Tang, Fu
《林海新歌(1972 ) – 高揚 & 唐富
“Celebration on the Prairies” (1977) – Jhang, Jhin-Liang 
《歡樂的草原 (1977) – 張之良 
“Joyful Encounter” (1953) – Arr. Fong, Zih-Cun
with Charlie Liu (dizi) 
《喜相逢(1953) – 馮子存改編, 呂畇初 (笛子)
“Transparent Periphery” (2003) – Cai, Sin-Wei
with Ying Chun Chen (pipa) 
《透明邊緣(2003) – 蔡欣微, 陳瑩純 (琵琶)
“Improvisation” (2016) – Ling Husan Shen & Klaus Bru
with Klaus Bru (saxophone 薩克斯風) 
 《即興(2016) – 沈翎玄 & Klaus Bru  

Ling Hsuan Shen – sheng (Chinese mouth organ)

Shen has studied music in conservatory training since elementary school. She studied the sheng with Tsai Mei-Hua, Chen Hsiao-Ping, Huang Lung-Yi and Su Wen-Cheng; music theory with Yu Hsing-Yi and Huang Chao-Ying. She received her master degree in sheng performance from the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan. Shen has won many music awards, including the first prize of the Sheng Solo Competition organized by Chinese Music Association, Taiwan, R.O.C. She has given solo recitals in many prestigious venues, including the National Concert Hall, Taipei City Government Performance Hall, the Metropolitan Hall of Taipei Cultural Center, and Forum Music. Ling is a soloist with Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra and a member of Taipei Chinese Orchestra Academy Orchestra and Taipei Youth Chinese Orchestra. Shen teaches the sheng at a number of schools in Taiwan.

沈翎玄-笙

畢業於東門國小、中正國中、復興高中音樂班、中國文化大學中國音樂學系、中國文化大學藝術學院音樂學系中國音樂組碩士班。主修笙,先後師事:蔡美華老師、陳小萍老師、黃朧逸老師、蘇文慶老師。音樂理論先後師事:于興義老師、黃朝英老師。現任台北市立國樂團附設學院樂團、台北青年國樂團、小巨人絲竹樂團團員,並為多所國中、小學笙分部指導老師。

Charlie Lui – dizi/Chinese bamboo flute  (呂畇初 -笛子)

A multiple award winner, Charlie masters a wide range of Chinese wind instruments. Charlie is the principal dizi player and general director of the BC Chinese Music Orchestra, a member of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, and the co-founder of Pentatonics. As a soloist, Charlie has performed numerous dizi concerti and has performed on a number of CDs. In 2011, he premiered concerto grosso“Tsu-ur Song”  (潮歌) by Dr. Ning Wang (王寧) 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 (潘建明) in Vancouver and Wei-Yu Tan (譚謂裕) in China.

呂畇初 -笛子

呂畇初,出生於音樂家庭,六歲跟隨父親呂其嶺學習大提琴。自1995年起對中國音樂產生了濃厚的興趣,開始學習笛子並參加中樂團。1996年移民溫哥華後隨笛子演奏家潘建明老師深造。2000年到中國向上海音樂學院譚謂裕教授學習管樂。曾經於溫哥華Kiwanis音樂節贏得多個獎項,亦參與灌錄多個光盤錄音項目。現擔任庇詩中樂團笛子首席及團長、庇詩華夏樂團及溫哥華多元文化樂團團員。到現在為止除了笛子以外亦掌握了多種管樂器,包括:尺八、簫、塤、口笛、排簫、巴烏以及葫蘆絲等。