Liu Fang

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Liu Fang, 2016

Liu Fang ( Chinese  劉芳  /  刘芳 , Pinyin Liú Fāng ; * 1974 in Kunming , Yunnan Province ) is a Chinese musician. She is internationally known as an interpreter of traditional Chinese music on the instruments pipa and guzheng (Zheng).

Life

Liu Fang began learning the pipa (Chinese lute) at the age of six and was soon giving public performances as a child prodigy, including a concert for the British Queen during her visit to China. Liu Fang received numerous awards and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1993. With her move to Montreal in 1996, Liu Fang began an international career with concerts and solo evenings, including at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Philharmonie in Liège, Belgium. She plays traditional music and modern western compositions. In June 2001 she received an award from the "Canada Council for the Arts" and in 2006 she was awarded the French Academie Charles Cros Award, the French "Grammy", the Academy Charles Cros .

Discography

Solo albums:

  • Chinese Traditional Pipa Music : Oliver Sudden Productions Inc, Canada / USA, 1997
  • The soul of pipa, vol. 1 : Chinese Pipa Music from the classical tradition, Philmultic, Canada, 2001
  • The soul of pipa, vol. 2 : Chinese classical Pipa Music: from the ancient to the recent, Philmultic, 2003
  • Emerging Lotus : Chinese traditional guzheng music, Philmultic, 2005
  • The soul of pipa, vol. 3 : Pipa Music from Chinese folk traditions, Philmultic, 2006

Duo et ensembles:

  • Musique chinoise : Solo, duo, et avec orchester de chambre, Philmultic, 1999
  • Arabic and Chinese music : Liu Fang et Farhan Sabbagh, Philmultic, 2000
  • Mei Hua - Fleur de prunier : ATMA Classique, Canada, 2004
  • Le son de soie : Accords-Croisés / Harmonia Mundi, Paris, 2006
  • Changes - Duo pipa & Guitar : Philmultic, 2008
  • Along the Way - Duo pipa & violin (with Malcolm Goldstein ): Philmultic, 2010

Prices

  • Future Generations Millennium Prize, June 2001
  • Academy Charles Croc Prize, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communication from the Canada Council 2001
  2. ^ Academy Charles Croc Prize ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.charlescros.org
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liu is the family name here, Fang is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Liu Fang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liu Fang; 劉芳 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunming , Yunnan Province , People's Republic of China