"Sound of Emptiness" performed by Zhang Qiang on the lute

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Zhang Qiang's pipa performance is from the folk music album Little Sisters in the Grassland.

Under the enlightenment of his father, Zhang Qiang also learned from famous artists such as Wu Junsheng, Kwong Yuzhong, Li Guanghua and Liu Dehai. He has a profound knowledge and learned from others. He won many awards and won the first place in the Pipa division of the International Chinese Musical Instrument Competition held in Taiwan in 1993. For this album, he meticulously recorded "Little Sisters on the Grassland", "Jackdaw playing in the Water", tone poem "Spring River and Moon Night", "New Feathering and Green Waist" and other famous pieces, which were performed by the symphony orchestra of the China Central Orchestra. They are fine works of pipa music.

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Zhang Qiang, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, is a pipa player and a master tutor of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
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Pipa (pinyin: pí pa), the first plucked instrument, is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, a plucked stringed musical instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is half-pear-shaped and has four strings on the top. It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon.

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