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The erhu. This is a list of erhu performers and contains a non-exhaustive list of notable players of the erhu, a bowed musical instrument with two strings.
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Erhu sound. The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.
At the very beginning, folk musician Liu Tianhua recomposed it as an Erhu composition based on Yuehu tune, and taught it to his students around the year 1929. Afterwards, many musicians developed it when they taught students and gave instrumental performances. Among them, Jiang was the most accomplished musician.
Min Huifen in her childhood. Min was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province in 1945. [3] Her father began teaching her to play the erhu when she was eight. [1] She studied at the Affiliated High School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and then at the Department of Traditional Chinese Music of the Conservatory.
Diverse Europeans critics particularly praise China's rare flower in the garden of traditional music. Nuremberg Daily said, "Erhu, an ordinary instrument in appearance, gains an incredible strength through the interpretation of Ma Xiaohui." Munich Times said "with nimble virtuosity… that we fully believed again in music as a universal language."
In 1991, he was admitted into The Royal Conservatory of Music and began studying piano and vocals. [4] He also established the Inner Pulse pop band during that year. Two years later, he became the first erhu instructor at the school, established the first erhu syllabus, and organized the first large erhu concert in Canada. [4]
Guo Gan [a] (Chinese: 果敢; pinyin: Guǒ Gǎn; born November 15, 1968) is an erhu master [1] from Shenyang, China, now based in Paris, France. [2] Gan was recognized as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2016. [2] He is the world's first Chinese national folk musician’s recipient, and the world's first Chinese erhu performer to ...