A Musical Journey To Northwest China
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Founded in 2003, the Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble is a professional Chinese music ensemble actively promoting local talents and producing quality chamber concerts with a mission to promote Chinese music culture in Hong Kong and to show the unique charm of Chinese instrumental ensemble music genre, known for being ‘small but elegant’ and ‘simple yet refined’. The Ensemble currently consists of 16 resident musicians, who are all graduates majoring in music or performance from various institutes in Hong Kong with rich experience in concert performance and they are versatile and flexible in both traditional and contemporary repertoires. The formation of the ensemble configuration has made reference with traditional Chinese sizhu, or silk and bamboo format. The Ensemble has commissioned and premiered around 20 new works. It was incorporated as the ‘Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble Ltd.’ in 2011, with conductor Ho Man-chuen as its Artistic Adviser and the Ensemble’s founder, Chan Chiu-yin, as Executive Director. It is at present a grant recipient of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and a registered non-profit organization in Hong Kong.
Repertoire：Reverberating Charm of Shaanxi (Ensemble)
Composer：Zhou Yuguo
Repertoire：Dance Music of Southern Xinjiang (Ensemble)
Composer：Li Ying
Repertoire：Overlapping II (Hong Kong Premiere, Ensemble)
Composer：Ma Di
Repertoire：The Gobi Desert (Arr. Wang Shaowei, Dizi & Ensemble)
Composer：Ma Di
Repertoire：Landscape of the Frontier (Dizi & Ensemble)
Composer：Zhao Jiping
Repertoire：Dance of Qiuci (Guanzi & Ensemble)
Composer：Ma Yaoxian
Repertoire：Spring in Xinjiang (Arr. Lo Leung-fai, Aijieke & Ensemble)
Composer：Ma Di
Repertoire：A Lyric on Qinchuan (Dizi Solo)
Composer：Ma Di
Repertoire：Looking Homeward (Dizi Solo)
Composer：Jin Wei
Repertoire：Qinfeng (Erhu Solo)
Composer：Huang He
Repertoire：A Symphonic Poem of Tianshan (Yangqin Solo)
Composer：Jiang Ying
Repertoire：Dunhuang (Hong Kong Premiere, Quintet)
Conductor：Huang Kuang-yu
Dizi：Ma Di
Erhu：Han Jingna
Aijieke：Han Jingna
Yangqin：Kwok Ka-ying
Guanzi：Wu Chun-hei
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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