A musician from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing plays the traditional Chinese instrument guzheng at a concert hosted at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco on Thursday for ...

The festival’s theme, “ Youth and the Future of Culture ,” focuses on intergenerational connections taking place nationwide.

For the concert, Chinese musicians composed or arranged pieces to embody the cooperation between Chinese and Russian musicians, exemplified by Hand in Hand and Full Bloom. The orchestra commissioned ...

CHINESE Guqin player Belle Qiu will perform two shows on June 28 at the Reps Theatre in Harare. Belle will partner Sabelo ...

Several of his instruments survive to the present day, and some of them can still be played. [3] [4] Many of the surviving instruments were among a consignment of 38 instruments delivered to Charles ...

Along with playing stringed musical instruments, the board game "Go" and painting, calligraphy was considered one of the four prized skills and pastimes of ancient Chinese literati. Chinese characters ...

Music A long-forgotten violin, a 300-year-old cello: The strange tales behind 5 rare musical instruments on Toronto stages ...

Indeed, Mlynczak has confirmed that NAMM has sent a letter in support of U.S.-based acoustic stringed instrument manufacturers, to try and dissuade the U.S. Secretary of Commerce from imposing tariffs ...

"Among Chinese bowed stringed instruments, erhu is most widely used in a variety of folk arts," says Li Ying, a professor with Minzu University of China (in Beijing). When she was a little girl, Li ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring ...

The koto (Japanese: 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument derived from the Chinese zheng, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The ...

Instead, their hands grasp ancient Chinese instruments, including the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle), guzheng (a Chinese zither), suona (a piercing double-reed woodwind) and the zhongruan (a lute).