Pipa player Wu Man was recently recognized as Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. The New York Times reviews her recent performance at Symphony Space: Newly named instrumentalist of the year by Musical America, which...
The Huffington Post interviews pipa player Wu Man, whose new CD explores the origins of her instrument, Central Asia. On the CD, Borderlands: Wu Man and the Master Musicians of the Silk Route, she performs with two Uygur...
In a profile in the Los Angeles Times, pipa player Wu Man discusses her new work exploring China’s traditional music after working with contemporary composers such as Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Lou Harrison:...
The Denver Post profiles pipa player Wu Man, who will be performing in Boulder tonight: Wu Man — whose two recent Grammy Award nominations follow her appointment as a 2008 United States Artists Broad Fellow — is passionate about...
From the New York Times (link): Just because Wu Man plays the pipa, an ancient Chinese lute, there was no reason to suppose that her program on Thursday evening at Zankel Hall would focus on traditional Chinese music. The concert was, after all, part of the Kronos Quartet‘s “Live Mix” series, and when Kronos is […]
From the New York Times (link): In 1990, at 25, Wu Man was ushered onto a plane in Beijing as China’s leading player of the pipa, or Chinese lute. Sixteen hours later, she arrived in New Haven, an unknown adrift in the United States with scant English. Now Ms. Wu has risen to prominence again, […]
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
