Peter Tang Ensemble Traditional and modern Chinese music
Peter Tang, the erhu (Chinese violin) soloist of the Beijing Central Singing and Dancing Ensemble, moved to Philadelphia in 2000 and founding the Peter Tang Chinese Ensemble. His acclaimed musical group offers an aural and visual performance of classical Chinese music featuring instruments such as the erhu and the guzheng (zither). 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia (in Calvary Center) Sunday, January 27 Free children's program at 6:00, Concert at 7:30 pm Tickets ($10-30), audio and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org Wu Peter Tang has been performing a range of Chinese music for more than 28 years. Born in Liaoning province, Shenyang City, in Northeast China. His first teacher was his father, Yubin Tang, director of the Traditional Music Department in the Shenyang Music Conservatory. He began playing erhu in solo performance at the age of six and later studied traditional music at the Conservatory, specializing in erhu and gaohu with Professor Junming Guo and Mr. Wenjue Guan. In 1985, Tang was recruited by the Central Singing and Dancing Ensemble from Beijing, China, with whom he performed widely before immigrating to the United States in 1997 and founding his own Chinese music ensemble to continue contributing his musical talents to the greater Philadelphia community. In 2004, he was one of 12 recipients of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
