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When Chinese music encounters the West

By Dong Lin (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2012-10-24 15:52

When Chinese music encounters the West

Chinese Pipa master Wu Yuxia (left) plays on stage in Tianjin in 2010;Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [Provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

What would you discover were you to Google the number of Chinese students of western instruments, such as the violin, and those who study traditional ones, for example the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese violin, as it is known in the West?

It is estimated that there are 10 million violin students, but just over 600 thousand erhu enthusiasts in China, although the proportion of the latter has seen a rapid increase in the past decade.

"There are 40 million people learning the piano here in China. The population in Australia is 20 million," said Rory Jeffes, Managing Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, during his recent trip to Beijing. He sees a "huge" market prospect for classical music in China.

Chinese children are usually pushed into studying an instrument to achieve a competitive edge in the hypercompetitive school system, but some take up music simply because they wish to.

Piano, violin and guitar are among the top choices for most.

It is not uncommon to read in the media about Chinese contestants winning championships in famous international classical music competitions, and this is a clear signal that China is cultivating virtuosos who can compete worldwide.

Although traditional Chinese music has little recognition abroad, westerners have probably heard of Wu Man - the Grammy-nominated master of the pipa, a four-string plucked Chinese instrument, known as a Chinese lute in the West.

The first person to receive a master's degree in pipa, Wu Man, at the age of 27, penniless, and speaking no English, took her instrument to New York in 1990, when China unleashed a wave of musicians to the West.

Wu said in a media interview with the Los Angeles Times that curiosity drove her to move to the States. "I wanted to learn, wanted to know what the world was like outside China. The Chinese government had closed the door for so many years. In the early '80s, they opened the door to the West. It was the most exciting period. I was at a conservatory in Beijing; Isaac Stern visited and gave a master class, and some groups from Europe came. I was like a sponge; it really opened my mind."

She has worked on soundtracks for films such as Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, and was the first Chinese musician to play at the White House, when President Bill Clinton invited her to perform.

A flow of Chinese musicians went abroad in the 1980s and 90s as a result of China's reform and opening-up after 1978.

Sun Yi, the Associate Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is one of them.

Born into a family of amateur musicians in 1968 in Hunan, China, he started to play the violin under parental decree when he was aged seven, during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76).

It was a period when western classical music was forbidden in public. Instead, revolutionary Chinese operas were prevalent, according to 53-year-old Benjamin Li, a Beijing-born violinist from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

"Draw the curtain, shut the door, install the mute, and then I can practice Beethoven privately," Li recalled.

In 1988, Sun was admitted to China's venerable Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where "I was so lucky to be able to learn chamber music."

"Even during the first few years after 1978, there were only two professional orchestras in Beijing and Shanghai apiece," said Li. "That's why Sun said he learned mainly solo performances instead of orchestral music."

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