Xue Ke, a famous erhu player and educator, professor and doctoral tutor of the Central Conservatory of Music, member of the Chinese Musicians Association, director of the Bow and String Society of the China Music Association; He is the executive director of the Erhu Society of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society and the vice president of the Erhu Society of the Beijing Music Association.
In recent years, he has recorded the National Erhu Examination Demonstration CD, the traditional music album "Thirteen Sets of Strings", the DVD of Mr. Liu Wenjin's "Caprice of the Great Wall" and the DVD of Mr. Liu Wenjin's Erhu Collection "Narrative of Northern Henan". He also compiled the textbook "Erhu Style Exercises", which was listed as a project of the "211 Project" textbook of the Central Conservatory of Music and published by the People's Music Publishing House.
In recent years, he has participated in large-scale performance activities such as the Finland Arts Festival, the France Arts Festival, the Asian Arts Festival, the Macao International Music Festival, the National Erhu Elite Concert, the "Xuzhou Erhu Art Festival", the "Liu Tianhua Centennial Birthday Concert", the "Liu Wenjin Works Concert", the "Famous Artists Concert", the "Jiang Fengzhi Centennial Birthday Commemorative Concert", "Min Huifen Master Memorial Concert", "Liu's Sanjie Erhu Concert", "Erhu Art Week" and other large-scale performance activities, as an erhu soloist. In 2005, the "Voice of Yake" concert was successfully held at the Tainan Concert Hall. He has performed with the Central Chinese Orchestra, Guangdong Provincial Chinese Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra, Tainan Chinese Orchestra, Qingdao Chinese Orchestra, Central Conservatory of Music Youth Chinese Orchestra, Central Conservatory of Music Youth Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, etc. In addition, a series of erhu lectures and academic exchange activities have been held at the School of Arts of Shanxi University, Xinghai Academy of Arts, Anhui Vocational Art College, and Macao Academy for Performing Arts. The students have won gold, silver and bronze awards in the country's top erhu competitions for many times; I have won the Erhu Outstanding Instructor Award many times.
In 1995, Professor Xue Ke won the second prize in the youth group of the first "Fulitong" Cup International National Instrumental Music Solo Competition, and in 2003, he won the gold medal in the "Golden Bell Award" of the third government's highest award. Xue Ke's erhu performance has a delicate and pure timbre, enthusiastic and unrestrained, with a distinct personality and full of tension. He is a contemporary erhu player with great explosive and stage appeal.
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Excerpts
1. "The Grapes Are Ripe"
Composer: Zhou Wei
"The Grapes Are Ripe" is a popular erhu solo composed by Zhou Wei based on the tune of Xinjiang Uygur music. The smooth and fresh melody of the music shows the rich and beautiful scenery of southern Xinjiang, and expresses the jubilant atmosphere of the people of Xinjiang singing and dancing to celebrate the harvest. The structure of the work is rigorous, the form is distinct, the melody is fresh and beautiful, the style is rich and unique, the rhythm is bright and hearty, and the mood is warm and unrestrained.
Performer: Huang Xinping
2. "The Legend of Zeng Houyi"
Composer: Li Bochan
"The Legend of Zeng Hou Yi" was composed by young composer Li Bochan in 2013. The work is full of Hubei musical elements and styles, and uses the unique instrumental language of erhu to vividly describe the composer's understanding of the Warring States prince Zeng Hou Yi and his life, and expresses the life of the Warring States prince Zeng Hou Yi and his love for the country. The work simulates the sound of the majestic chime, combines the musical materials of the Hubei folk song "Dragon Boat Tune" and the sound of war drums to express the fierce war scenes, depicting the chivalrous feelings of the Warring States monarch Zeng Hou Yi and the heroic scenes of the Warring States Period. This piece not only integrates singing and technique, but also reflects the author's deep understanding and emotional expression of Zeng Houyi, a historical figure.
Performer: Huang Huanying
3. "Tianshan Style"
Composer: Wang Jianmin
"Tianshan Style" is a solo erhu piece composed by composer Wang Jianmin in 1993 with a rich flavor of Xinjiang music. It not only shows the composer's deep understanding and innovative use of Xinjiang music, but also injects new vitality into the traditional instrument of the erhu, which has won wide recognition and praise in the international music scene. Through its unique musical language and rich emotional expression, this work expresses the beautiful and rich natural scenery of the motherland's border and the happy and pleasant life of the people, and also makes it a bright pearl in the treasure house of Chinese national music.
Performer: Wang Qien
4. "The Third Erhu Rhapsody"
Composer: Wang Jianmin
"The Third Erhu Rhapsody" was composed by composer Wang Jianmin in August 2003. The music is based on Xinjiang folk music materials and composed in the form of rhapsody of Western music genres, incorporating many traditional and modern composition techniques, and is an excellent erhu song with Xinjiang folk music style and reflecting the atmosphere of the times. The music depicts the vast beauty of the Tianshan Mountains with a melody rich in Xinjiang rhyme, and vividly portrays a beautiful and moving picture of the Western Regions with rhythmic and changeable rhythms and colorful accompaniment harmonies.
Performer: Zeng Yujie
5. "Nyorai Zang"
Composer: Liu Wenjin
"Rulai Zang" is selected from Liu Wenjin's 2012 erhu suite "Rulai Dream", also known as "Robe Shuluolan", which is the finale of the suite "Rulai Dream". The suite "Dream of Nyorai" is composed of eight parts: earth, water, fire, wind, air, see, knowledge and nyoraizang. "Earth, water, fire, wind, and air insight" are what Buddhism calls the "Seven Greats", which are the seven cosmic elements that combine to form the entire world. In the end, the seven major convergences belong to the Rulai Zang, so "The Rulai Zang" is a very important theme in these eight songs, just like the sea where a hundred rivers converge into the sea, and the seven major are the seven major tributaries. If "Rulai Dream" is from the chaos of the earth to the pinnacle of life here, then "Rulai Zang" is the absolute truth, just like the summary and summary in the Western symphony, the majestic finale, "Rulai Zang" is the embodiment of the first seven works in terms of theme and musical structure, and the meaning is endless.
Performance: Ma Yixin
6. "Silk Road Picks Up the Light"
Composer: Li Bochan
"Picking Up the Light on the Silk Road" is a work composed by composer Li Bochan for erhu, pipa, cello and piano after collecting the style of the Central Asian Silk Road, and was later adapted into an erhu and piano version. Inspired by the Silk Road experience in Central Asia, the work is fresh and pleasant to the ear with the mix of various exotic tones, and the musical language is easy to read, creating a broad and free space for the audience to associate with the Silk Road customs. This work not only shows the composer's deep understanding and emotional experience of the Silk Road, but also allows the audience to feel the magnificence and mystery of the Silk Road through the form of music
Performer: Li Rei
7. "Snow Mountain Soul Sculpture"
Composer: Liu Wenjin
"Snow Mountain Soul Sculpture" is an erhu concerto composed by composer Liu Wenjin to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, and the whole piece is divided into four parts: "Journey", "Snow Mountain", "Comrades-in-Arms" and "Sunrise". Through music, it shows the military spirit of the Red Army standing proudly on the towering snow-capped mountains, as well as the longing for the motherland and family.
Performer: Li Runze
8. "Oman Nisha"
Composer: Wang Danhong
The Erhu Concerto "Oman Nisha" was composed by Wang Danhong to tell the story of Oman Nisha, the princess of Yarkand Khan. This work not only shows the talent and beauty of Oman Nisha, but also blends romantic and impressionist styles, with a rich Western atmosphere. The background of the erhu concerto "Oman Nisha" originated from the 15th century Uyghur poetess Oman Nisha, who was not only talented, but also good at singing and dancing, and was the collector and organizer of the "Twelve Muqam". Through the narration of the erhu, this work leads the audience to uncover the mysteries of the ancient kingdom and experience the stories of that distant and magical land. In addition, "Oman Nisha" also embodies the concept of "a thousand people have a thousand Oman Nisha", so that everyone can paint a unique image of Oman Nisha in their own mind.
Performance: Sun Ling
9. "Song of Chu"
Composer: Li Bochan
"Song of Chu" was composed by composer Li Bochan in 2014 for the opening ceremony of the "2nd Beijing Huqin Art Festival". This work is based on the famous Chinese historical allusion "Farewell My Concubine", and tells a poignant love story that has been passed down through the ages around the two theme characters of Xiang Yu and Yu Ji. In the music, it is also interspersed with the fierce scenes of the Chu army fighting on the battlefield and heroically killing the enemy, and praising the determination of the soldiers who are not afraid of death and the belief that death is home. This work celebrates the heroism and perseverance of the Chinese nation throughout the ages, as well as the unswerving love and belief of the Chinese nation through the depiction of the fierceness of the battlefield, the pain of the overlord Farewell Concubine, and the grandeur of Wujiang's self-slaughter.
Performance: Qu Zhihao
10. "Bright Walk"
Composer: Liu Tianhua
"Bright Walk" is an uplifting march composed by Liu Tianhua in the spring of 1931. The music is magnificent, the melody is bright and firm, and the rhythm is full of elasticity. When Liu Tianhua composed this song, he said: "Because foreigners say that mainland music is sluggish, they composed this song to prove their mistake." For the first time in this piece, the author uses a highly functional fifth-degree modulation, the tonality is bright, and the change of registers is also very colorful, and the whole piece uses a high-spirited melody to eulogize the warriors who pursue the light and the light they seek.
Performer: Whole Concert
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Piano Artistic Direction
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Ma Jun
Young teacher of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, young pianist, member of the Piano Professional Committee of Tianjin Musicians Association, stayed on to teach with excellent results in 2007. He studied under Professor Zhao Pingguo of the Central Conservatory of Music and Professor Shen Naifan of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and was carefully guided by famous pianists and educators from Ukraine and Russia, such as Prof. A. Goncharov, Prof. N. Kryzhanovsky, Prof. Lyu-Shedakova and Hakina Sokolova. And received the guidance of many famous piano artists. Such as: Ms. Bao Huiqiao, a famous Chinese pianist, Mr. Choi Chongli, a Hong Kong pianist, and Mr. T-Kreuzberger, an Austria pianist. He won the second prize of the 10th Hong Kong Open Piano Competition in 1999, the "Outstanding Musician Award" of the IBLA International Piano Competition in Italy in 2002, and served as the 7th China Music Golden Bell Award Vocal Bel Canto Singing Competition in November 2009, the 9th National Vocal Competition Bel Canto Group in August 2010, and the 14th Golden Bell Award Erhu Group Piano Artistic Director in October 2023, and won the Excellence Award, second place, and finalist in the finals. He was invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the Singapore Arts Festival, the closing ceremony of the first Central Conservatory of Music National Music Festival, the inaugural meeting of the Love and Peace Fund of the China Women's Development Foundation, the 3rd Plucked Music Festival of the Central Conservatory of Music, the 2nd Plucked Art Week of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and the closing ceremony of the 2023 China Bowstring Art Festival. Collaborated with Professor Song Fei, a famous contemporary erhu performer and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Drama, to publish a series of concerts DVD entitled "The Golden Sound of Chinese Music - The 50th Anniversary of Professor Song Guosheng's Teaching"; Collaborated with the famous German soprano Professor Jiang Yong to publish "I Come Up Like a Snowflake in the Sky - Chinese Song Album"; Published the latest edition of the dulcimer and piano work "Phoenix Nodding" by Professor Xu Changjun, the famous composer and Tianjin Juilliard School; Collaborated with Professor Wang Hongyi, a famous liuqin player, Professor Yang Hong, a guzheng player, and Professor Liu Hong, a pipa player and deputy director of the Department of Folk Music of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, to publish the DVD of "Chinese National Instrumental Music Plucked Music Special Concert"; Collaborated with sheng player Chen Shuo to publish "Bamboo Reed Shen Yun - Sheng Solo Album" and so on. As a team member, he was approved for the 2023 Tianjin Conservatory of Music Academy-level and 2024 Tianjin Municipal Ideological and Political Quality Course Project. In November 2021 and May 2023, Ma Jun's piano art direction special concerts were successfully held.
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Huang Xinping
Born on August 30, 2015, he is a native of Jiangsu. At the age of 4 and a half, he began to learn erhu. In June 2021, he was admitted to Nanjing Art Primary School (Little Red Flower Art Troupe), during which he was carefully guided by the famous erhu player Professor Xue Ke. In May 2024 (8 years old), he will be admitted to the fourth grade of the Primary School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music.
Huang Huanying
He began to learn the piano at the age of 8, and in 2020, he was admitted to the first year of junior high school attached to the Central Conservatory of Music, where he studied erhu under the famous erhu player and educator Professor Xue Ke. She is currently a first-year high school student. In 2023, he won the gold medal of the 7th "Voice of Dunhuang" Professional Youth Group A.
Wang Qien
Born in Beijing in September 2008, he studied erhu under Professor Zhao Hanyang of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2016, was admitted to the fourth grade of the Primary School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music in 2018 with the first place in the country's erhu major, studied erhu under Professor Xue Ke of the Academy in 2019, and was admitted to the Central Music High School in 2021 with the first place in the erhu major, and participated in the outstanding student concert held at the opening of the high school. In April 2015, he won the gold medal of the 18th Beijing Children's National Musical Instrument Solo; In 2017, he won the gold medal in the children's group of the 7th International Erhu Competition; In 2018, he won the Erhu Newcomer Award in the Youth Group of the Little Golden Bell of Chinese Music.
Zeng Yujie
He is currently a student majoring in erhu at the Central Conservatory of Music, and is currently studying under Professor Xue Ke, a doctoral supervisor of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2016, he won the Champion of the 68th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival Gao Hu Solo Postgraduate Group and won the Wing Sing Music Award. In 2018, he won the Chinese Music Little Golden Bell 11 National Erhu Performance Award. In 2021, he won the gold medal of the overseas professional youth group of the 6th Beijing International National Instrumental Music Competition of the "Dunhuang Cup". In July 2017, he held solo recitals for erhu, gaohu and piano in Guangzhou.
Ma Yixin
He is currently studying in the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music, where he is studying under Professor Xue Ke, an erhu performer, educator, and master's tutor.
In 2015, he went to Paris, France with the Jinfan Orchestra of Cuiwei Primary School to participate in Sino-French cultural exchange performances, and served as the leader of Jinghu and Erhu. He has won the silver medal of the "Rhyme of Chinese Music" International Erhu Competition in Group B of the Youth Major; Third Prize in the Asia-Pacific Regional Performance Competition of the 29th International Music Open; In 2021, he was shortlisted for the 7th National Youth Instrumental Music Education and Teaching Achievement Exhibition of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In July 2024, he participated in the second "Guoyun Cup" in Wuxi and won the "Star of Hope".
Li Si
Born in Beijing in 2004, he studied with Professor Zhao Hanyang at the age of 11. In 2016, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the China Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Associate Professor Duan Yongqiang of the China Conservatory of Music, and participated in the 2019 "Dunhuang Cup" China Erhu Performance Competition and won the silver medal during the High School Affiliated to the High School, and represented the school to participate in the China Instrumental Music TV Competition of China Central Radio and Television, and achieved excellent results. He has performed with the school's Chinese orchestra many times. In 2022, he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music as an undergraduate student with excellent results, and studied under Professor Xue Ke, a famous erhu player and master's and doctoral tutor. In 2023, he won the gold medal of the professional youth group of the 7th Voice of Dunhuang Beijing International National Instrumental Music Competition, and the title of "Star of Hope" in the string group of the 2nd "National Rhyme Cup" Chinese National Instrumental Music Art Exhibition in 2024.
Li Runze
He graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music with a major in erhu performance and is a member of the Erhu Society of the Beijing Musicians Association. In 2009, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music and studied under Professor Zhu Jiangbo; In 2015, he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Professor Zhao Hanyang, and minored in Gao Hu and Banhu with Professor Tian Zaili and Professor Hu Yu during his undergraduate studies. In 2019, he was admitted to the Graduate School and studied under Professor Xue Ke, during which he studied Jinghu performance with Teacher Bai Miao. He is now working at Jinzhou Normal College. In 2012, he won the gold medal in the junior professional group of the 2nd China-Japan Korea Erhu Competition (Japan). In 2016, he won the gold medal in the Group A of the 7th International Erhu Competition of "The Rhyme of Chinese Music". In 2016, he won the 3rd Dunhuang Cup Shanghai Erhu Performance Competition Professional Youth Group A Performance Award.
In 2022, he won the Best Performance Award at the first "This is Our Melody" exhibition.
Sun Ling
He began to learn erhu at the age of 8. He has studied under young erhu performers He Na and Zhao Yuanchun, and has received careful guidance from the famous erhu performer and Professor Zhao Hanyang of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2016, he was admitted to the Primary School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place, and continued to study erhu with Professor Zhao Hanyang. In 2019, he was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place, and has been studying under Professor Xue Ke, a famous erhu player and master's and doctoral tutor. In 2017, he won the silver medal of the professional A junior group of the 4th Beijing International National Musical Instrument Competition of the "Dunhuang Cup", and in 2018, he won the gold medal of the professional junior group A of the international finals of the 8th International Erhu Competition of "The Rhyme of Chinese Music". In 2022, he won the Best Performance Award in the professional string pulling group of "This is Our Melody 'Music Journey'". In 2023, he won the gold medal of the 7th Beijing International National Instrumental Music Competition of "Voice of Dunhuang". In 2024, he won the title of "Star of Folk Music" in the string group of the 2nd China National Instrumental Music Art Exhibition of the "National Yun Cup". In 2024, he will go to the Macao Academy for Performing Arts to participate in exchange performances with the outstanding students of the Qin family, and at the same time perform as an erhu soloist in the "Melody of Youth" concert held by him, which was well received.
Qu Zhihao
Born in Qingdao in 2004, he began to learn erhu at the age of 6 with Zhao Jianping. In 2023, he will be admitted to the undergraduate erhu major of the Central Conservatory of Music with the third place in his major, and will study under Professor Xue Ke, a famous erhu player, master's and doctoral supervisor. He has won the gold medal in the youth group B of the "This is our melody" erhu competition sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the gold medal of the Qilu love erhu competition. After entering the Central Conservatory of Music, he participated in the concert of the China Bowstring Art Festival, and performed many times with the Chinese Orchestra of the China Conservatory of Music and the Beijing Opera Troupe at the Beijing Art Center, Beijing Guotu Concert Hall and the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
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