Results for "lute"

saad mamdouh

Born: June 8, 1992

music composer/ Fusion-jazz

Yang Jing

Andreas Dueker

Born: August 6, 1964

Andreas Düker studied classical guitar with Wolfgang Lendle in Kassel and lute with Stephen Stubbs in Bremen. His concert activity includes numerous ensemble and soloconcerts and participation in various opera-performances. In 1996, he was the only lute-player to get an “Ehrenvolle Erwähnung" (honored acknowledgement) at the international competition “Musica Antiqua" in Brügge. He played concerts at the Händel Festival in Göttingen, the Early Music Days in Kassel and Georgsmarienhütte and the Göttingen Jazz Festival. After years of experience in ensembles and orchestras in the early music field, he felt the urge to revive these “old" instruments through improvisation, arrangement and composition

Wu Man

    Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso, cited by the Los Angeles Times as 'the artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western World.' Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where she became the first recipient of a master’s degree in pipa. She currently lives in Boston where she was chosen as a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University. Wu Man was selected by Yo-Yo Ma as the winner of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize in music and communication

Andra Kouyate

Born: 1973

Andra Kouyate has invented, designed and built a new instrument; the bass ngoni, sort of an African contrabass. This invention has permitted him to develop a new way of playing, quite different from the more usual traditional ngoni. He is gifted with exceptional playing skills on both musical and rythmical level. Tapping deep into traditional manding sources he is a complete master on the ngoni, bass ngoni and the tama.

Through his impressive creativity Andra Kouyate shows us how traditional instruments can be used without any limitations in very different musical styles. His approach to music, his sensitivity and charism and also his power and playing technic make him a real virtuoso multi- instrumentalist.