Ma Xiaohui biography, Ma Xiaohui discography
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.Please improve this article if you can.Her concert at the Kennedy Center in 1999 was named one of the Center's Ten Best Concerts of the Year.Before beginning her solo career, she was concert master of the Shanghai Traditional Orchestra.Appearances in 2006 have included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.She serves as Adviser of the Hong Kong Youth Music Association, the Ning Bo Folk Music Orchestra, is Guest Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu) and envoy to the Special Olympics.She has made over 40 CDs.Her virtuosity blends classical beauty and contemporary originality by integrating different cultural schools.These are evidenced in her own compositions and in her performance of new works by Chinese composers as well as the mainstays of European repertoire.Ma XiaoHui has advanced and enriched the complex potential of the erhu.Lectures
Xiaohui Ma has lectured at the Notre Dame University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, Tanwai University, Fudan University, Jiaotong University and Tongji University.Her globetrotting appearances in international art festivals have won her a large following worldwide.This page was last modified on 28 April 2008, at 16:34.Ma Xiaohui is one of the best traditional Chinese instrument performers of today.She represents a new generation of artists and is a role model for many young musicians in Shanghai.She also played with the French National Symphony Orchestra in Paris, with the Greek Symphony Orchestra in Athens, at the Spring Festival in Prague, the Grand Theatre in Seoul, the Philarmonie Munich, the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Hong Kong Traditional Chinese Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and at other festivals around the world.Ma Xiaohui will also give a few recitals in Japan.More Info:For more information, please visit Web Site.Performers:Ma Xiaohui (erhu), Tsuda Mari (piano), Wang Luowei (cond.Video: Watch Ma XiaoHui perform on the erhuVideo by David Gilkey and John W.The sadness, the sensitivity, the warmth, the romance: It fits my instrument."Ma Xiaohui says that in China, people associate it with beggars.But Ma is a virtuoso performer on the erhu, fluent in both regional Chinese and Western repertoire.She recently spoke with Robert Siegel about her craft.The erhu is an instrument with two long strings, played using a bamboo bow strung with horsehair.Press down, and you play one string; pull up, and you play the other."But if you press a little deeper, it sounds different."With only two strings, performing Western classical selections is also tricky.Wow, that song is just right for the erhu.The sadness, the sensitivity, the warmth, the romance: It fits my instrument."Virtuoso soloist Ma Xiaohui demonstrates how to finesse music out of it.Virtuoso of the Erhu, will be in New York City for her first performance at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.Ma has produced over 40 CDs, and has given more than 500 recitals and lectures around the world over the past 10 years.Xiaohui Ma has a unique power in her music that moves the audience deeply, even to tears.Master Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, David Stern, Tan Dun, and others have recognized her unique talents, and may wish to express their greetings for this concert.Chinese traditional repertoire and her own compositions, as well as western classical, jazz and tango with new arrangements.Crested Butte Music Festival, noted jazz pianist Burnett Thompson, and others.South west Jiaotong University (Chengdu), envoy of the Special Olympics and Cultural Ambassador to the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai, she also serves as adviser to the Hong Kong Youth Music Association and the Ning Bo Folk Music Orchestra.Castleton Theater, and an internationally televised program at the famed Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California.In Asia, Ma Xiaohui has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra in China, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Singapore National Symphony.Her virtuosity blends classical beauty and contemporary originality by integrating different schools.Call Mother in the Nunnery.Ma Xiaohui has been bestowed many recognitions and awards.In China, she received the Top Prize for the National Guangdong Music Competition (Gaohu Section) in 1987, the local Baosteel Classic Arts Award in 1994 and 1999, and the Top Prize for the 1st Shanghai Spring International Music Festival in 2001.Erhu, she embraces international art festivals in every corner of the world where she may explore culture, learn from people everywhere and share not only the richness of China, but also the human spirit through music.In reaching out so warmly, in such a genuinely human way, audiences adore her, fans love her and she leaves every new city with treasured new friends and rich memories.The gem of Chinese music continues to maintain a broad international performance schedule from her base in Shanghai.Erhu, an ordinary instrument in appearance, gains an incredible strength through the interpretation of Ma Xiaohui.CD of music selections and a DVD of her life and concert appearances, including finely produced MTV videos of her own major compositions.Never content to rest on her exceptional history of accomplishment, Ma Xiaohui constantly presses musical horizons, exploring new possibilities, bringing people closer together through her music, sharing her warm heart with the world.The Ma Xiaohui story has only begun .Xiaohui Ma is a principal Er'hu player of Shanghai National Music Orchestra, Nomitation Prize Winner of Shanghai Ten Excellent Young Performers, artistic director of Hongkong Youth Music Association.Born and bred in an intellectual family, she began to learn music at the age of six from Prof.Shu Zhao of Sichuan Conservatory of Music.In 1987, she gained the bachelor degree and entered Shanghai National Music Ochestra; henceforth, she began to take up the stage as her artistic career.She has given almost twenty recital concerts and artistic course of lectures, from schools to theaters, both from home and overseas.She has performed in the U.A, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Hongkong, Macao and some other areas and countries.With adept skills, her playing has pure timbres, rich lasting appeal, especially in sliding the bowstring, she has all her own great originality in the skill of playing bow, exquisite variations of timbre, range and portamento.Ma Xiaohui performs music indigenous to the Far East on the ehru, accompanied by Burnett Thompson on piano.
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