“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...

An annual music festival themed on bowed string instruments was held by the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts from Nov 13 to 17. [Photo provided to China Daily] An annual music festival themed ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

The sounds of the yangqin, an instrument at the center of Chinese musical ensembles, resonated through Baird Hall on April 18 as multi-instrumentalist Helen Yee shared her expertise and knowledge of ...

Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the bow and the strings of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

The sound of the traditional Chinese musical instrument erhu is becoming better known globally thanks to the effort of one college student. Chen Yimiao, born in 2004, comes from a Beijing family ...