This week, we highlight the Chinese “dizi,” a bamboo flute. Rose Boomsma sat in a music room in Schoenberg Hall with her nervous hands wrapped around her dizi, a Chinese bamboo flute.

These are two of the most common bamboo instruments: The dizi is a bamboo flute and is widely used in Chinese folk music and opera. The first flutes excavated date back to over 8,000 years ago in ...

He will also perform Meeting At The Broken Bridge, composed by his dizi (Chinese flute) teacher Zhan Yongming, as well as a fusion Indo-Chinese melody, Nataraja, written by young composer Phang ...

Each time Dong performs, she wears traditional Chinese clothing, such as hanfu or qipao. According to her, many countries have instruments similar to dizi, such as the flute, India's Bansuri ...

Ling Lun is said to have replicated the sound of the phoenix, a mythical bird, by carving holes into a piece of bamboo and ...

He speaks the language of music, and with his dizi (Chinese flute) Qian Lan has travelled to 40 countries, playing his music and accumulating friends. He defines music as an international language ...

SINGAPORE – He understands only the most basic of Mandarin words – like lian (practise) and zhun bei (get ready) – but Muhammad Iman Mohamed Irfan has already performed solo parts on stage ...

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 ...

A Chinese student, Ms Luo Qianqian, who is in her second year of a nursing course at the University of Malta, will show that she has other skills besides caring for the sick at the M6 ward.

while next Friday and Saturday would see performances from the Indian flute, dizi, together with the tabla and percussions and keyboards. Songs include Jasmine Flower — a Chinese folk song which ...

This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...