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Liu Fang transmits in an expressive and erudite way the beauty and grace of Chinese traditional classical music, while drawing out the subtle sonorities of the pipa and the guzheng. Through the power and sensitivity of her playing, she gives renewed interpretations of the ancient repertory, of the poetic as well as the martial styles.
Liu Fang is most well-known for her virtuosic and expressive interpretation of traditional pipa and guzheng music from the classical and folkloric traditions.
Liu Fang is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso for pipa and guzheng. Born in 1974 in Kunming in the province of Yunnan, China, she began playing the pipa at the age of 6, and by 11, she performed before Queen Elizabeth II. Her studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music broadened her musical range to include the study of the guzheng.
The pipa (pronounced "pee-paa") is a four-stringed lute, one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments with over 2000 years of history. The term pipa () consists of two Chinese characters symboliz ing two playing techniques (known as "Tan" and "Tiao" today) while their pronunciations p'i and p'a are imitations of the sounds produced accordingly.
Solo albums. Chinese pipa and guzheng music from the classical and folkloric traditions and world music.
“… Thus the “pipa”, which the young Chinese virtuoso Liu Fang plays with an surreal grace, … and the zither “guzheng", the other traditional instrument she plays, both emanate the same intangible sensations, and the same subtleness of evocation. …” - Les Inrockuptibles (Music magazine for World, Jazz, and Songs), France, 2006.
Chinese traditional classical music for pipa & guzheng. An Asian Heritage Month PREVIEW CONCERT ( explorASIAN Festival) Saturday, April 25, 2009 @8pm. Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. 6265 Crescent Road, UBC, Vancouver. Tickets at available at www.ticketmaster.ca. Tel.: 604-280-3311 or 604-280-4444.
