This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Min Xiao-Fen, virtuoso on the Chinese stringed instrument pipa, and guitarist Rez Abbasi about their collaboration on White... The Traditional Chinese Pipa Meets Guitar In Min ...

Wu Man, the best known virtuoso player of the pipa, a lute-like four-stringed Chinese instrument, is also an acclaimed ethnomusicologist. Both pursuits have led her to “Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons of pipa, a ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons ...

Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

The woman now considered the world’s greatest pipa player spent years asking herself, “What am I going to do?” Wu Man, now 54 years old, was the first person to get a master’s degree in her instrument ...

We recently hosted our most exotic Lobby Lounge show to date. You don’t often get to hear music by Chinese pipa and 11-string fretless guitar. But that’s what we have in the duo of Shenshen Zhang ...

Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...

The growing interest in China globally has led to a boom in culture exchanges, and now a new initiative aims to take the country's traditional music to foreign audiences.Chen Nan reports. Visitors to ...

The composer Gordon Lee, an ebullient character with shoulder-length hair and an eruptive laugh, is sitting in the small studio at his Cupertino home — crammed with saxophones, Chinese string ...

You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...