Erhu Player Song Fei Biography

Song Fei (宋飞), female (1969- ), originally from Hebei Province, born in Tianjin, is a renowned contemporary Chinese erhu player and national-level performer, who is proficient in as many as 13 stringed instruments, including the huqin, guqin, pipa, and other instruments, and is known as the "Queen of Folk Music. [1]Career

Song Fei began her career at the age of seven under the tutelage of her father, Song Guosheng, an erhu player and professor at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. 1981 she attended the Tianjin Conservatory of Music's middle school, and 1987 she was admitted to the instrumental department of the China Conservatory of Music, where she studied the erhu and guqin; she graduated as an erhu soloist with the Central Chinese National Orchestra in 1991, and 1998 she enrolled in the Ministry of Culture's postgraduate program of ethnic vocal and instrumental music, where she studied the erhu and guqin. In 1998, Song Fei enrolled in the postgraduate program of the Ministry of Culture, studying erhu and guqin, and graduated in 2000.　Since Song Fei's middle school days, she has participated in various folk music competitions throughout China, winning numerous awards. Song Fei has reaped awards in many domestic and international competitions. Over the years, she has traveled all over the world, especially as a representative of Chinese musicians, playing Chinese music in famous concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in the United States and Golden Concert Hall in Vienna, Austria.　In the 1990s, Song Fei performed regularly with Zheng Xiaoying's Philharmonic Women's Orchestra at various colleges and universities in China to popularize Chinese folk music. At the same time, they also traveled to Europe, where they performed with great success. In one of their return performances, Song Fei surprised a Western audience with a rendition of Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee on the erhu.　In 1996, Song Fei and nine other young female Chinese folk musicians formed the "Huayun Jiufang" Small Folk Orchestra to promote, study and perform folk music

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. Together with the music they play, they have given fresh vitality to traditional Chinese folk music and awakened the public to a new understanding of folk music.　In the Spring Festival of 1998 and 1999, Song Fei accompanied the China National Orchestra to the Golden Hall of Vienna twice, and Song Fei's erhu music y impressed foreign audiences.　In 1999, Song Fei suddenly chose a career in teaching when her performing career was in full swing. She said that this was influenced by her father's desire to be a teacher, but also by her expectation that folk music talents would be better than blue. Song Fei said she was willing to explore the vitality of folk music with more and more young lives when she was at her physical and psychological peak.　In 2002, Song Fei held a solo concert in Beijing, "Thirteen Strings", in which Song Fei played thirteen instruments such as erhu, gaohu, guqin, pipa, etc., which aroused a great response from the music world and the concert was a great success. The concert was a great success. His representative works include "Reflecting the Moon in the Two Springs", "Birdsong on the Empty Mountain", "Reflections on the Great Wall", and so on.

Personal Honors

In April 1989, he took part in the first "Shancheng Cup" National Television Grand Prix of National Instrumental Music and won the second prize; in June of the same year, he took part in the first "A

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RT" Cup of Chinese Instrumental Music International Competition and won the first prize of the young professional group; he also took part in the North China Music Festival and the China Arts Festival for many times and other major performances. Premiered the "herd horse boy" ﹑ "Yan Zhao Spring Tide" ﹑ "miss" ﹑ "Honghu" concerto ﹑ "river cloud dream" ﹑ "Jidong Xiaoqu" and other erhu new works. In addition to learning erhu, guqin, she also studied the singing of qin songs. In 1990, Tianjin TV station recorded a TV music movie for her, "Youth Romance 纔情飞", which showed her talent in playing, singing and composing. She has cooperated with the symphony orchestra of the Central Orchestra, the orchestra of the Central Ballet and the National Orchestra of the Central National Orchestra, and recorded and published the erhu music of Liu Tianhua, the works of Hua Yanjun, the erhu works of Liu Wenjin, the dream of the river clouds, the Great Wall of thoughts, the Great Wall, the Honghu Lake Concerto and other recordings. Also for the radio, television and other recordings and video recordings and special presentations. In 1991, he graduated from the China Conservatory of Music and was awarded the Grand Prize.

Playing on tour

Over the years, she has visited Sweden, Germany, France, Holland, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions, performing erhu, guqin solo; gaohu, jinghu leader. She is good at absorbing classical, folk and western music, and is diligent in studying the essence of each school. Her performances are deliberately focused on the meaning, emotion and interest of the works, sounding natural, smooth and free, so close to people's hearts and minds, so integrated, so touching and deep.　As a representative of Chinese musicians, Song Fei has performed in the Carnegie Hall in the United States, the Golden Hall in Vienna and other famous concert halls. Song Fei is currently the director of the Erhu Society of the China Music Association and the vice president of the Beijing Chinese Traditional Music Society, and has been teaching at the China Conservatory of Music since 1999, and in September 2009 he became the vice president of the China Conservatory of Music.

Personal works

Works:

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

Language:Music Genre:Folk Music Presented by Star Music Publishing House:Star Music Publishing Date:November, 2006 The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival: Chinese Soundscapes Album Description: Song Fei, a great master of Chinese music; Shi Zhiyou, a composer of national music; and Li Xiaopei, a top recording artist, are gathered together in this album! The Asia Philharmonic Orchestra concerto, *** with the creation of domestic recordings have the history of the most expensive, the most royal momentum of the sound and painting masterpiece. Recorded Chinese folk music the most expensive, the most royal momentum of the sound and painting masterpiece, the music world oddball, ancient treasures, taste erhu music feelings. The essence of this collection of the most expensive Chinese folk music with the most royal momentum is gathered!　With 18 pieces of music of different colors and flavors, the rhythmic beauty of "Along the River During Qingming Festival" is presented one by one. Time and space turn back, interplay, reproduce the Northern Song Dynasty music picture, it not only shows the Chinese national culture, but also to the world to show the vastness of China and beautiful scenery.　Qingming Riverside is a priceless treasure in the history of Chinese painting, which not only embodies the concept of traditional Chinese culture, but also shows the world the vastness and beauty of China, one of the greatest cultural heritages of the world. In order to promote national culture and show the charm of national art, Mr. Shi Zhiyou, a composer of Chinese folk music school, based on the explanations of "Qingming Riverside Drawing" by celebrities of all times, used the way of music interpretation to turn the picture of "Qingming Riverside Drawing" into a musical description, and completed this musical poem with eighteen pieces of music of different colors and flavors, so that the modern art of music and classical culture are intertwined. Mr. Shi Zhiyou has been collecting folklore and folk customs on both sides of the Yellow River for twenty years, and has collected a lot of Yu Opera, Qu Opera, Yue Opera, Siping Opera, and folk song materials. He incorporated these precious materials into the music of "Qingming Riverside Drawing", using his mother tongue as the basis for his composition and expressing the traditional language rhythm, which can be said to be the greatest achievement of concentrating on the elements of music and language, and moreover, it shows the regional color of "Qingming Riverside Drawing" and the local qualities of the culture that are emphasized by the music of

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Shi Zhiyou. Ms. Song Fei, a great master of national music and a first-class performer of huqin, led the bow erhu, drop hu, gaohu, zhonghu, banhu, erxian, jinghu, bass hu and other huqin families, and other first-class performers in the capital city, such as pipa, sheng, sanshin, guqin, guzheng and other ethnic instruments also had amazing performances, and joined hands with the chief of the major orchestras in Beijing's "Asia Philharmonic" passionate rendition. The work is performed by a veteran Chinese folk musician, the "Asia Philharmonic". The work by the senior Chinese folk musician Mr. Wang Fan Di as music director, China's famous record planner Mr. Liu Weiren to give guidance, China's chief recording engineer Mr. Li Xiaopei to complete the pre-recording and post-synthesis, the use of the CCTV 480 square meters of recording studios, the latest top-level equipment and analog recording equipment, and especially in Japan JVC mastering post-production. The huge orchestra and novel band compositions pave the way for a wide soundstage, blending with the ethnic instruments to create a perfect audio-visual miracle.　The sound painting "Qingming Riverside Drawing" mainly consists of 18 pieces of music such as "Merchant", "Garden", "Horses", "Bianhe", "Welcome Guests", "Slender Man", "Countryside", "Fighting Waves", "The Splendid Times", "Homesickness", "Sailing", "Watching the Fate", "Temples", "Enjoying Fish", "City Gate", "Sedan Chair", etc. The Overture and Epilogue turn around in space and time, awakening the old stories of the ancient capital, and creating a perfect audiovisual miracle. The "Overture" and "Epilogue" turn back in time and space, awakening the old stories of the ancient capital and adding new life to the distant scenery. This group of music with different colors and styles describes the 16 main partial images of "Riverside Scene at Qingming", and when listened to in order, it shows the whole picture of the "Riverside Scene at Qingming" in its entirety. Among them, the opening "Slender Man Picture" begins with a solid and heavy boatman's horn to create a picture of the laborious work of the slender men. Gradually, the power of the music grows, and the hard work and bravery of the slender men express their feelings about life in the erhu's music. At the end, the full orchestra and the erhu's continuous triplets allow the power of labor to break through the barrier of nature. As the most gorgeous movement of the "Shengshi Tu" is a very different another scene: mixed chorus leads to the theme motif of "Qingming Shanghe Tu", the string orchestra, brass and percussion orchestra played the prelude of "Shengshi Tu" with grandeur, and the deep-voiced gaohu, excitedly told the peaceful song of the Shengshi ...... After a large section of the gorgeous movement, the Gaohu and the orchestra once again mobilized the mood to the highest point, making people reminisce. In Homesickness, the erhu's minor-keyed colors cover the air with faint nostalgia, and the undulating strings seem to literally weave an unending stream of melancholy and sentiment, while the rhythm comes alive at the same time. The full orchestra deepens the longing for each other, and the final chorus with the strings brings a long distance of thoughts. Hometown, even in a dream, is still so heart-warming that it makes one's heart break down. The entire work takes about 80 minutes to perform.　This musical masterpiece is the development and inheritance of Chinese folk music, is the highest achievement in the development of Chinese folk music following the "Liang Zhu", "Red Detachment of Women", "Yellow River", and has become a landmark work of China's modern folk music school, and it is the millennium echo of the Northern Song dynasty's heydays and today's reform and development,

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Song Fei played the main theme of China's modern society's prosperity and prosperity of the Shenglei Huamadang! . Chinese Name: "Song Fei Teaches Erhu" Version: 12.30 New "Moonlit Night" Region: Mainland China Language: Mandarin

Personal Evaluation

Song Fei's erhu is a bit like viewing the calligraphy of everyone's brush strokes. Song Fei's performance is similar to that of the "Northern Tablet and Southern Poster": the boldness of the northern desert and the gongs and iron horses, but also the charm of the small bridges and rivers and the spring rain of the apricot blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River; and the simplicity and strength of the Han Clerical Scripts, as well as the elegance of the Jin Cao Cao Cursive Scripts. Of course, as a daughter of Yan Zhao, her more essential life temperament or that thick and generous. Emperor Taizong of Tang once praised Wang Xizhi's calligraphy: "The smoke falls and the dew knots, the shape is like a break and the transportation is continuous; the peak soars and the dragon coils, the momentum is like a slant and the opposite of straight. "When Song Fei played well, it was indeed a little close to this situation. She is smart and studious, but also has the pursuit, and just when a player is approaching the peak state of the years, can, and should push the erhu art to a higher realm.　But the word "realm" is not easy to talk about! If "realm" is the ideal, is the pursuit of words, then, "boundary" can carry a distinctive "thank you, such as inside" of the meaning of insurmountable. There is no nine sky to catch the moon's boldness, no perseverance and effort, no straight down the strong pass determination and talent, it is absolutely impossible to cross the border to board the pass and the triumph of the realm. The ancients "nine on people, seven strategic cultivation of Shi", not have to be equal to the nature of all beings divided into levels, but because in real life there is indeed a higher realm you can not see at the moment. To that remote but full of charm of the art realm, Confucianism is called "perfect", Taoism is called "heavenly music", Buddhism is called "the sea of sound", people call it People call it "the realm of freedom". Song Fei still has a long way to go before he reaches this realm!　Song Fei is one of the more prominent erhu players active in China and even on the world stage. She comes from a family of erhu players, and her father, Prof. Song Guosheng,

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is not only good at teaching erhu, but also has a deep cultivation of folk music and compositional achievements, which laid a solid foundation for Song Fei's playing skills, especially her training in the fundamentals and cultivation of her sense of music. As an adult, Song Fei continued to explore and innovate in practice, and soon stood out, winning the favor of the public and the recognition of experts. Song Fei is studious, thoughtful, wide-eyed and bold, with the ambition of being a man of many talents, and the image of a distinguished family. Song Fei's strengths: both "River Water" such as the classic erhu song, but also with the reform of the huqin performance of the outstanding works of "Grapes are ripe" of the new creation; both the glowing, distinctive personality of the plate hu ditty "Brother is back", the drop of the hu performance of the "Henan ditty", but also popular, often play the Guangdong music masterpiece "Autumn Moon on the Pinghu Lake" (gaohu), "Entertaining the Rise of the Ping" (erxin), Sun Wenming's Huqin's masterpiece "Liu Bo Qu", and Xiqin's "Songs in the Thatched Cottage", Zhonghu's "On the Grassland", which are less frequently played, but have unique flavor and deep connotation. There is a saying in the pear orchard that "people protect the theater, and the theater protects the people", and the music is still the same. The maturity of a musical instrument is the result of the efforts of generations of outstanding performers; and an expressive musical instrument will accomplish one outstanding musician after another. If Seinfeld was born for the huqin, the huqin was sounded for Seinfeld.

About his father

His father, Song Guosheng, born in November 1938, a native of Leting, Hebei Province, is an erhu player, composer, professor, master's tutor, and head of the Department of Folk Music at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. He is a member of the China Concert Association, executive director of the China National Orchestral Music Society, and director of the Tianjin Musicians Association Vocal Society and Instrumental Society.

Related Information

On April 5, 2004, CCTV's "News Investigation" aired a program titled "Strings of Destiny," which featured an interview with renowned erhu virtuoso Song Fei, who used the program to expose some of the injustices that had occurred in the spring enrollment process for the instrumental department of the China Conservatory of Music, where she teaches. The final result of the examination is that the students who "pull off" get a good ranking, while the students who pull off well are left far behind.