A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

On a quiet side street of Beacon Hill, the studio of Warren Chang — founder and director of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra — is filled with instruments unfamiliar to most Westerners. There’s a yangqin, ...

Zhao Cong, vice-president and the principal pipa player of China National Traditional Orchestra, spent months arranging the Chinese musical piece Full Bloom into a duet for the pipa and the Russian ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The mental image that generally accompanies the word “orchestra” is that of a large mass of ...

Muhammad Iman Mohamed Irfan understands only the most basic of Mandarin words — like lian (practice) and zhun bei (get ready) — but he has already performed solo parts on stage with a Chinese ...

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has set a record under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals after the collective attendance of the group’s performances of an eco-friendly remake of an ancient string ...

Fei Xie has played music since he was 3, growing up in China, the son of two professional Peking Opera musicians. But over decades of training, his musical world remained distinct from theirs. Xie ...

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...