Who's Wu Yuxia?

Wu Yuxia is a famous pipa player and master tutor. Director of China Musicians Association, member of China People's Political Consultative Conference. Deputy head of the Central National Orchestra, chief pipa player, national first-class actor, expert enjoying special allowance from the State Council. Outstanding academic leaders in the theory, publishing, journalism and art circles of the national propaganda and cultural system, and outstanding literary and art workers in various literary and art associations of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Senior title of the Ministry of Culture, judge of the national pipa competition; Member and reviewer of graduation thesis defense committee of Central Conservatory of Music, visiting professor of art education in China Academy of Art Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music and China Renmin University, national March 8th red flag bearer.

Chinese name: Wu Yuxia.

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Shanghai

Date of birth: 1959 10 month

Occupation: Pipa player

Graduate school: Central Conservatory of Music

Main achievements: National March 8th Red Flag Bearer.

1980 won the second prize of the first national pipa competition.

Representative works: Love in Changbai Mountain, Pipa and Rhyme in Wu Yuxia, Ode to the Millennium, etc.

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Female,/kloc-0, born in June 1959, Han nationality, college degree, without party affiliation. Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, national first-class actor, chief pipa player of the Central National Orchestra, deputy director of the Performing Arts Committee of the China Musicians Association, executive director of the Chinese National Orchestral Society, vice chairman of the Youth Federation of the Ministry of Culture, and an expert enjoying special allowance awarded by the State Council. Outstanding academic leaders in the fields of art, theory, news and publishing in the national propaganda and cultural system; Outstanding literary and art workers of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Director of China Musicians Association, member and reviewer of graduation thesis defense committee of Central Conservatory of Music, and visiting professor of art education of China Renmin University.

1980 won the second prize of the first national pipa competition. In recent years, he has successfully held solo concerts at home and abroad for many times and visited dozens of countries and regions, especially in the Golden Hall and Carnegie Hall in Vienna, USA. There are dozens of CDs and VCDs such as Love in Changbai Mountain, Wu Yuxia Pipa Rhyme, Ode to the Millennium and Dunhuang Ancient Music. He recorded music for movies and TV series such as The Last Emperor and The Wind and Moon, and created and premiered works such as Spring and Autumn Annals, Thoughts on the Ancient Road, Ode to the Millennium, Rhythm and Willow in the Wind. , and published articles and works "Japanese Pipa Performance", "Pipa Performance Music Collection" and "Pipa Performance Basic Course".

From being chosen to choosing, take the road of virtue and art.

Born in an ordinary family in Shanghai, Wu Yuxia was selected by Wei Zuguang, a teacher of Children's Palace, at the age of 10, and was introduced to music. If you choose to attach the pipa, then crazy about the pipa is her choice. Although her family has never studied music for generations, she has matured her skills step by step and deepened her artistic accomplishment through hard training and pondering for several hours a day.

Wu Yuxia was admitted to Beijing from Shanghai on 1977. He studied in Beijing Dance Academy and Central Conservatory of Music successively, and studied under Liu Dehai, Li Guanghua, Chen Zemin, Li Guangzu, Wei Zuguang, Yang and Zhao. In recent years, he studied under famous artists such as Wang Fandi and others. Under the artistic nourishment of her predecessors, after years of hard training and learning from others, she finally grew into an excellent pipa player with outstanding skills and unique style, and formed her own unique artistic style.

Li Guanghua, Wu Yuxia's tutor and famous pipa player, once commented: "Yu Xia's performance is sometimes like ink and wash, the lighter and quieter it is, like an antelope hanging on the corner, showing a strong cultural charm, which is exactly where Yu Xia is beyond the times and peers." And her artistic pursuit of "showing skills lightly and emphasizing realm" has also been recognized on the stage. 1992 first performed in Taiwan Province province, the media commented on her: "Playing pipa tunes has already gone beyond the stage of only paying attention to pipa playing skills and beautiful melody, and entered the core of pipa tunes, exploring the inner world of the protagonist in music, and skillfully interpreting that emotion perfectly, which always makes listeners moved and unforgettable." As a leader among contemporary pipa players, Wu Yuxia often participates in major performances at home and abroad, and has touched countless audiences with his superb acting skills and abundant passion, and won wide acclaim. Over the years, she has appeared in the splendid stage of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Art Center, Vienna Golden Hall and other important performances such as Ode to the Long March-Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. She also visited Europe, Africa, Asia and America with the Central National Orchestra, and spread China folk music all over the world.

As a performer, only by constantly communicating with the broadest audience on the stage and serving the public with his own art can his value be fully reflected. But in the period of social transformation, artists are also facing the test of values and outlook on life. Some people can't stand people's alienation from art, and their pursuit of art gradually fades; Some people seem to forget the responsibility of artists and become very utilitarian. As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an artist with both ability and political integrity, Wu Yuxia has always been committed to serving the public and returning to society. Over the years, he has actively participated in various orchestra performances and grassroots performances with difficult conditions such as cultural going to the countryside. She often said: "I have the responsibility to set an example and change some quick success and bad habits in the literary and art circles;" I also have the confidence to influence people around me with my own actions. "

From improvement to reference, persistent in artistic innovation and development

Wu Yuxia believes that the meaning of life lies in continuous progress, and the life of art lies in continuous innovation. Over the years, she has resisted the temptation and interference from the outside world and been fascinated by her own art world. In the intensive study day after day, we constantly explore sensitive and spiritual artistic tentacles, capture beneficial elements, add color and wings to the pipa, and explore and innovate the repertoire, techniques and styles of the pipa at multiple levels, thus entering the free kingdom of pipa art.

Wu Qu Wen Tan is another exploration form that she transcends traditional aesthetics and makes old songs glow with new voices. Pipa can be divided into literary music and martial music according to its playing style. Unloading Overlord Jia is a famous pipa Wu Qu, which is adapted from the story of where Xiang Yu and Yu Ji, the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty, went after their defeat. On the other hand, Wu Yuxia combined her understanding of this tragic event as a woman with her unconventional playing skills. In her performance, she combined Wu Qu's boldness and boldness with Wen Qu's graceful and ethereal, gentle and delicate, which made people who were used to this famous song feel refreshed. Ching Tien, a famous music critic, said: "Wu Yuxia's pipa solo" Farewell "can be said to be a masterpiece of classic traditional repertoire. Wu Yuxia wants to ask more questions, understands the truth that "Kung Fu is beyond poetry", and pays attention to absorbing artistic nutrition in many aspects under the stage and in life, which makes her performance have a profound cultural background and makes her artistic temperament more and more elegant. Her performance of "Overlord Dismantling Armor" is magnificent, delicate and euphemistic, with rich levels, strong contrast, moderate relaxation and an atmosphere. " Wu Yuxia said frankly: "Traditions and rules also need to be enriched and developed. I added Wen Qu's skills to Wu Qu, hoping to add characterization and emotional description to Wu Qu's narrative, so as to enrich the expressive force of pipa. "

In the performance, Wu Yuxia also tried to interpret the traditional pipa repertoire through new instrument combinations, which made the pipa performance art more layered and personalized.

For example, most performers performed "Send me a rose" in the form of pipa solo, and Wu Yuxia gave it a new interpretation in the form of pipa and tambourine. The original cheerful and clear style of pipa, set off by masculine percussion music, highlights the soft and graceful aesthetic feeling, brings different artistic experience to the audience and provides a broad imagination space for the audience to better understand this piece of music.

Let the West serve China is another bold attempt by Wu Yuxia. In 2007, Wu Yuxia held a pipa solo concert, adding new combinations such as pipa and zhongruan duet, pipa and zhongruan and cello trio, pipa and double bass, and New Zealand folk songs played by percussion. The cooperation of different musical instruments has expanded the playing space of pipa and increased the affinity between folk music and foreign audiences; The use of western chamber music forms such as trio, fugue and improvisation organically combines the characteristics of Pipa and other national musical instruments, which enables some western music to enter the Pipa repertoire and promotes the complementarity and blending of China national music and western music.

These conservative people's seemingly "unconventional" innovations reflect Wu Yuxia's pursuit and achievements in continuously expanding the artistic expression of pipa and developing China national chamber music from different angles.

Apart from inheritance and innovation, Wu Yuxia is also an active promoter of new works. Her debut pipa concerto "Spring and Autumn" and "Thoughts on the Ancient Road" are outstanding pipa music works that have emerged in recent years and have been well received by peers and experts.

I am responsible for the inheritance of folk music from small to large.

In Beijing, many primary and middle school students have heard Wu Yuxia play the pipa. She is also a director of the China Musicians Association and a visiting professor of art education at Renmin University of China. Wu Yuxia has many social activities, but out of a sense of responsibility to promote national music, she always takes time to run around, popularize music education, and cultivate reserve talents of national music: she has held dozens of "Wu Yuxia Pipa Appreciation Sessions" in Peking University Centennial Lecture Hall, China Renmin University, City University of Hong Kong, Guangdong Sun Yat-sen University, Nanjing University and Lanzhou University of Technology. Over the years, she has served as the conductor of Beijing middle school student Jinfan Folk Music Orchestra and China Renmin University Student Folk Music Orchestra, and has carefully trained many outstanding people who won gold medals in various pipa competitions; For more than ten years, she has participated in the "Opening the Door of Music-Summer Concert Series" held in Beijing for primary and secondary school students almost every year, and tried to have a new perspective every year.

Talking about spending a lot of time and energy at the expense of family and reputation, Wu Yuxia sincerely said: "I was born in an ordinary family, and everything I have benefited from cultivating my society and audience. I should repay the society. "

Being elected as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference urged Wu Yuxia to shoulder the sacred responsibility of participating in and discussing state affairs, and his concern also extended to hot issues in the art world and society. In view of the current educational situation of attaching importance to intellectual education over moral education, she put forward the suggestions of "setting up adult ceremony day for senior high school students" and "strengthening artistic quality education for primary and secondary school students" in order to arouse students' sense of responsibility to society and family and the comprehensive cultivation of students by society; She has unique views on the cultivation and use of artistic talents, calling for amateur popularization of art education, rather than quick success. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, students in vocational colleges should constantly adapt and inject new ideas, and strive to be comprehensive and comprehensive compound talents.

Personality assessment

Wu Yuxia's performance is full of passion, beautiful timbre, skillful and good at delicate expression, so its charm is meaningful; He is also very good at revealing the connotation of his works, so he has a strong artistic appeal. "People's Music" commented in an article entitled "A Generation of National Performers in the womb": "Her performance is exquisite but not artificial, passionate but not wild, with profound understanding, delicate expression, rich emotions and distinctive personality, which has set a new face for the art of pipa performance." An overseas magazine said that her performance "has already surpassed the stage of focusing only on pipa performance skills and beautiful melody, entered the core of pipa tunes, and explored the protagonist's role in music.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Wu Yuxia has a happy family and a successful career, so she should have a rest. But in the eyes of friends, she is a "person who likes to compete with herself." As a director of China Musicians Association and a visiting professor of art education at China Renmin University, she has many social activities, but she always sets new demands on herself. She actively participated in cultural exchange activities between China and foreign countries, and constantly made beneficial explorations to promote national music to the world. She also visited Europe and Africa, which was welcomed and praised by local audiences and China people. More people take it as their responsibility to enter the music hall, enjoy music and get happiness, and are busy with the inheritance, innovation and development of national music. Out of a sense of responsibility to promote national music, she held dozens of pop concerts, and "opened the door to music" with the goal of popularizing music education for nearly ten years. Wu Yuxia said: "The life of art lies in continuous innovation, and the meaning of life lies in continuous progress."