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Her Silkroad Ensemble performances in recent years have included tours of the U. Adamant that the pipa does not become marginalized as only appropriate for Chinese music, Ms. Wu strives to develop a place for the pipa in all art forms. Projects she has initiated have resulted in the pipa finding a place in new solo and quartet works, concertos, opera, chamber, electronic, and jazz music as well as in theater productions, film, dance, and collaborations with visual artists including calligraphers and painters.

Her role has developed beyond pipa performance to encompass singing, dancing, composing, and curating new works. Other notable projects include Orion: China , co-written with Philip Glass for the Summer Olympics in Athens and recorded the following year; and Blue and Green , an original composition that she premiered with The Knights. Wu and the artists she brought to New York from rural China for the festival also took part in two free neighborhood concerts and a concert presented by the Orange County Performing Arts Society in Costa Mesa.

In the film, she travels to little-explored regions of China to uncover ancient musical traditions that have rarely been documented before. Among the musicians she met on her journey were the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band, which she brought to the U. In Wu Man and Friends , released on Traditional Crossroads in , she blends Chinese, Ukrainian, Ugandan, and Appalachian traditional music, performing alongside musicians from these regions. Fingertip Carnival , her latest release for Wind Music, explores the connections between Chinese and Mexican folk music and each culture's use of stringed instruments with the San Diego-based son jarocho group Son de San Diego.

Born in Hangzhou, China, Ms. Accepted into the conservatory at age 13, her audition was covered by national newspapers and she was hailed as a child prodigy, becoming a nationally recognized role model for young pipa players.

She subsequently received first prize in the First National Music Performance Competition among many other awards, and she participated in many premieres of works by a new generation of Chinese composers. Her first exposure to Western classical music came in when she saw Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing in Beijing.

In she participated in an open master class with violinist Isaac Stern, and in she made her first visit to the U. She moved to the U. Mission Why Liberal Arts? Next Trains to Philadelphia.

Next TriCo Shuttles. Wu joined the Silkroad Ensemble on tour across the U. Wu also tours Europe this season as a Master Musician in the Aga Khan Music Initiative—a group of performers, composer-arrangers, teachers, and curators who create music inspired by their cultural heritage of the Middle East, South and Central Asia, West Africa, and China.

All of Ms. Additional concerto performances take place as part of Ms. She also gives lectures, works with faculty and students, leads master classes and workshops, and performs music from her recording Our World in Song with the Daniel Ho Trio, following separate performances of this program in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Among Ms. The work was recorded and released on Nonesuch in Last season in Washington, D.

Wu has performed throughout the U. Her Silkroad Ensemble performances in recent years have included tours of the U. Adamant that the pipa does not become marginalized as only appropriate for Chinese music, Ms. Wu strives to develop a place for the pipa in all art forms.

Projects she has initiated have resulted in the pipa finding a place in new solo and quartet works, concertos, opera, chamber, electronic, and jazz music as well as in theater productions, film, dance, and collaborations with visual artists including calligraphers and painters. Her role has developed beyond pipa performance to encompass singing, dancing, composing, and curating new works. Other notable projects include Orion: China , co-written with Philip Glass for the Summer Olympics in Athens and recorded the following year; and Blue and Green , an original composition that she premiered with The Knights.

Wu and the artists she brought to New York from rural China for the festival also took part in two free neighborhood concerts and a concert presented by the Orange County Performing Arts Society in Costa Mesa.