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 ...

Ethnomusicology graduate student Rose Boosma plays the Chinese dizi, a traditional bamboo flute. Watch this video as Boosma demonstrates the precision and skill necessary to play this instrument ...

Lu Chunling, the renowned dizi (Chinese transverse bamboo flute) soloist and former professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, died in Shanghai on May 22 at the age of 97. The musician gave his ...

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 ...

Children aged between five and 14 can learn either the Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), Pipa (a four stringed lute) or Erhu (a two stringed fiddle, also called Chinese violin). Junlong Zhang teaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Veteran flautists from Hong Kong, the mainland, Japan and Singapore celebrate the life of renowned composer and dizi (Chinese flute) virtuoso Zhao Songting (right), backed by the Hong Kong Music ...

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 ...

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 ...