Wang Changyuan

Organized by 迦夜 on 2022-03-18
Introduction to Wang Changyuan(guzheng)Master performer,composer

Wang Changyuan, female zheng player and composer. Daughter of Professor Wang Xunzhi, the most influential and famous zheng player in contemporary China and the successor of the Zhejiang school zheng, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

He started learning guzheng at the age of 9 and performed solo at the age of 12. Under the tutelage of Wang Xunzhi and Guo Ying, a Chaozhou zheng master, he graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1969 and has successively served as a guzheng player for the Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai Orchestra, China Art Troupe, and Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.

In 1984, he went to Kent State University to study world music and teach Guzheng. After arriving in the United States, he participated in guzheng-related speeches and performances. In 1995, the "New York Overseas Chinese Orchestra" and "Wang Changyuan Zheng Art Center" were established in New York. There were Chinese students and American, Japanese, and Vietnamese who were majoring in music to learn Guzheng.

In 1984, Wang Changyuan went to the University of Kent to study world music, and toured and gave lectures in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, Hawaii, Indiana and other places.

In 1988, she held a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York, was invited to perform in Israel in the same year, and held a recital in Hong Kong in 1990, and was hailed as a world-class performer.

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王昌元-百度百科
王昌元-搜狗百科

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