Zheng Jimin

Organized by 没头脑 on 2022-04-11
Introduction to Zheng Jimin(dizi)Master performer

Zheng Jimin, born in Fujian, China, is a flute and flute player from Hong Kong, China.

He has also been invited to perform solo at the Cardiff Music Festival, Singapore National Music Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Asia Arts Festival in his personal capacity. He has collaborated with BBC Wells Symphony Orchestra and Beijing Central Orchestra. , Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan United Experimental Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra and Taiwan Chinese Orchestra, etc. And won the 1992 Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award.

The traditional music played by Zheng has a strong local style and charm. His flute performance draws on the strengths of the northern and southern schools, and integrates into a unique style - "The music he plays is soft and smooth, with passion, music without losing its state, emotional without forgetting its essence. It is in this way that he created The music has a kind of attractive charm." (Xiao and Hua, "Beijing Daily") The "Flute and Erhu Concerto" and "Butterfly Dream" flute concerto he played broke the tonality limitation of the traditional bamboo flute. It can play the chromatic scale fluently on a traditional bamboo flute and change the key freely, which is known as "a must in the south". He is good at playing different flute instruments and is keen to play various styles of works. He has a broad artistic vision and profound cultivation. He premiered Qu Xiaosong's orchestral piece "The Divine Comedy", showing his multifaceted playing ability. It has been highly praised in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taiwan, Japan, Macau and other places. He studied and improved the ancient Chinese orchestral instruments Xun and Chi, as well as the ethnic minority orchestral instruments Bawu, Tuliang, and Hulusi, and re-arranged them and put them on the stage, showing his colorful playing world - "He can not only combine traditional and Modern integration, comprehensive consideration, and the ability to innovate and expand the traditional wind instruments in the field of performance without losing its inherent essence."

In July 1988, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Music Association formally invited Zheng to hold a solo recital at the Beijing Concert Hall, with the Central Orchestra as the concerto. The recital was successfully praised, and China Central Radio and China International Radio gave a special introduction to him. The overseas edition of "People's Daily" even featured "Hong Kong's Generation Flute King Zheng Jimin" as a special article to introduce his efforts and achievements in Chinese music.

Zheng is also an excellent record producer. He has successively recorded a series of best-selling Chinese music records for record companies such as Philips, Xinge, Lifeng, and Fengxing, and has won three Golden Tripod Awards.

For the past ten years, he has turned his attention to the planning and production of concerts. He successfully produced sold-out concerts for the 1988 and 1989 Hong Kong Arts Festivals. Subsequently, he has been invited to plan and produce many wonderful concerts for the Taipei Spring Art Festival, the Macau International Arts Festival, the Shenzhou Arts Festival, the China Fashion Festival and the Cultural Program Department of the two municipal councils in Hong Kong. After moving to Vancouver, Canada, in 1997, he launched a series of wonderful folk music concerts at the Jiayi Theater, which were sold out and well-received, actively promoting multiculturalism.

When Cheng was in Hong Kong, he taught in professional institutions such as the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. And established the "Transsion Art Center" for more than ten years to promote music education. He is also frequently interviewed by radio stations, newspapers and magazines in various places to introduce Chinese music and spare no effort to promote culture.

He is currently the executive director and director of the Overseas Liaison Department of the National Orchestra Research Association of the China Music Association, the deputy director of the Overseas Liaison Department of the Shanghai Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo Association, the consultant of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Overseas Examination Grading Committee, a member of the Hong Kong Composers Association, and a member of the American Celebrity Association. Listed in the "International Celebrity Biography" of the University of Cambridge, UK. In 1997, the "Transsion Art Center" (a non-profit organization) was established in Vancouver, and in 1999, the "Harmony Music Collection" was organized to continue to work on production, performance and teaching.

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