| Date & Hour: Friday, 2nd May, 6.30pm |
| Line Up: Liu Feng (pipa & guzheng) |
Montreal resident Liu Fang has achieved an international reputation for her masterful and deeply spirited pipa playing.
Born in 1974 in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan, Liu Fang began studying the pipa at the age of six and gave her first public performance as a pipa soloist when she was nine.
In 1985, at the age of just 11, she played for Queen Elizabeth during a royal visit to China. Honoured with several provincial and national prizes, Liu Fang graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she also studied the guzheng, a Chinese zither.
Since moving to Canada in 1996, Liu Fang has built a remarkable artistic profile by captivating audiences and critics with the richness and grace of her playing as well as her wide ranging repertoire.
Liu Fang is most well-known for her virtuosic and expressive interpretation of traditional pipa and guzheng music from the classical and folkloric traditions.
Liu Fang is able to transmit in an erudite and significant way the beauty and the richness of this ancient music as well as the subtle sonorities of the instruments by the power and sensibility of her playing.
"Liu Fang is a remarkable virtuoso of the pipa, a Chinese lute. She plays with a grace that captures the soul of the Pipa possessing such profound presence that she becomes one with the instrument" - Montreal Mirror
"Out of Liu's fingers ooze serenity, precision and beauty" - All Music Guide.
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