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About Wu Fei

Album Review

Composer Wu Fei , as evidenced by the five compositions on Yuan, occupies a world that straddles traditional Chinese music and more contemporary styles of writing and playing. Fei seems to be particularly interested in strings and percussion, as well as in percussive strings and melodic percussion. The instrumentation ranges from solo percussion and solo piano (the latter, of course, being the king of all strung percussion instruments) to the Eastern string trio Melody of China (who ...

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Wu Fei: A Distant Youth

Read "A Distant Youth" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 15, 2008

Wu Fei is a master player of the guzheng, a Chinese string instrument that is more than two thousand years old, and known today mostly as the parent instrument of the Japanese koto. Fei began her musical studies at the age of six in Beijing, later studied composition in Mills College in California, and now splits her time between Beijing and New York. She has collaborated with composers and improvisers such as Alvin Curran, Joelle Leandre, Elliot Sharp, Meredith Monk, ...