A German composer has spent over 20 years researching and writing music for traditional Chinese instruments. Chen Nan talks to Robert Zollitsch ahead of a retrospective performance of his works in ...

How can art and culture from the past survive in a globalized world? Inheriting the treasure of art and culture from the past thousands of years, young Chinese have created a new trend - Guochao, or ...

Traditional Chinese music is very different from western music. It's usually played on different instruments, in a different scale. But the Shanghai Quartet has melded the two traditions in their 2002 ...

It may seem odd to have two American banjo players perform an ancient Chinese folk tune to welcome the new year, but once you hear it you're likely to be enchanted. This duo, Abigail Washburn and Bela ...

Four years after her A Dream of Red Mansions piano concerto, renowned Malaysian pianist Claudia Yang recently debuted her latest work, Twelve Chinese Folk Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra, a series ...

At the just-concluded two sessions, namely the National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC national committee), many ...

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, who released a self-titled debut album as a duo on Friday, have lived almost parallel lives. Both women were born in 1977, and both grew up to be accomplished and ...

Folk song has the longest history, simplest structure, richest numbers, and widest spreading musical genre among traditional Chinese culture. The poems of Chinese earliest poetry anthology -- The Book ...

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia, Malaysian artiste Ah Niu and Chinese singer Huang Ying have released a music video that seamlessly blends our ...

Tatar singer Saida Mukhametzyanova from Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan Republic, sings Jasmine Flower, a Chinese folk song, in a studio in Kazan. [Photo/Xinhua] KAZAN, Russia — In a small ...