For the first time, the Chinese dulcimer yangqin and the Indian dulcimer santoor were played together with a symphony orchestra at a recent concert in Beijing titled East Meets East. "I hope we can ...

BEIJING - Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes. Liu, 54, a ...

This unique event will bring together two-time Grammy winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chinese dulcimer virtuoso Chao Tian for a genre-blending musical event that unites Appalachian and Chinese ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium will host “From China to Appalachia,” a cross-cultural musical performance, this April. The show features two-time Grammy Award winners Cathy Fink and ...

The sounds of the yangqin, an instrument at the center of Chinese musical ensembles, resonated through Baird Hall on April 18 as multi-instrumentalist Helen Yee shared her expertise and knowledge of ...

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is intoxicated with the reverberating ...

BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The 3rd International Dulcimer Music Festival has opened in Beijing, inviting dulcimer artists from home and abroad to perform and exchange views on the instrument. More ...

The Chinese hammered dulcimer, or yangqin, has been around for hundreds of years, but no one has played it as radically as Mantawoman. Taking an instrument associated with classical Chinese works such ...

No Registration Required. For more information please visit the Toronto Reference library (5th floor Arts Department Reference Desk) or call 416-393-7157. Performance will be located at Toronto ...

Chinese yangqin player Liu Yuening (top) collaborates with Indian santoor player Tarun Bhattacharya (below left) and tabla player Vijay Ghate at the East Meets East concert in Beijing. Photos provided ...