Wu Tong

Wu Tong (chin .: 吴 彤, * 1971 ) is a Chinese Sheng and Bawu player and singer.

Wu had lessons from his father from the age of five and won competitions for traditional Chinese wind instruments as a child. At the age of eleven he was accepted into the support program of the Central Music Conservatory, and at the age of nineteen he became the youngest solo instrumentalist of the China Central Traditional Music and Dance Company , with whom he performed in China and abroad.

In 1991, he and four students from the Central Conservatory founded the rock group Lunhui , which after the success of the title On the Way to Wartime Yangzhou, based on a text by Xin Qiji , released recordings at JVC Japan in 1995, 1997 and 2001 and was the Chinese rock band that (2000) made an appearance on Chinese television.

Since 1999 he has been a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble . With this he entered u. a. at Expo 2005 , the Hollywood Bowl , Lincoln Center , Carnegie Hall and Millennium Park, and in 2007 in a series of concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . He was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and worked on the development of an electric sheng in 2004.

Discography

• Silk Road Ensemble: When Strangers Meet
• Silk Road Ensemble: Beyond the Horizon
• Silk Road Ensemble: New Impossibilities
• Silk Road Ensemble: Off the Map
• Sounds of Yo-Yo Ma
• Essential Yo-Yo Ma

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• The Silk Road Ensemble - Wu Tong
• The Official Yo-Yo Ma Site - Wu Tong ( Memento from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Allmusic - discography

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Tong is the first name.