Wu Man Announced as 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. The first traditional musician ever to receive this prestigious award!
Photos by: Pamela Tsai
“I feel very honored to receive this award. This country has offered me endless opportunities to express myself and to be creative as a musician, and to share and celebrate my native culture with so many people. I am honored to be recognized by Musical America along with many other excellent musical colleagues.” – December 6, 2012, Musical America Award Ceremony
Since moving to the United States from China twenty years ago, Wu Man has created a new life for her instrument, which has a history of over 2,000 years in China. In the United States and throughout the world she has been a passionate educator, both illuminating and preserving the ancient musical traditions of her native home. Click here
Wu Man Makes Her Debut with New York City’s The Knight
Photos by: Stephen Kahn
This coming spring she will tour with the ensemble and will premiere her own composition Blue and Green (arranged for pipa and string orchestra), along with Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Pipa & String Orchestra. See schedule page for tour dates
New CD/DVD!
Wu Man illuminates musical kinship between China and Central Asia on the Smithsonian Folkways CD/DVD Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians From The Silk Route. The album marks the tenth and final release in the Smithsonian Folkways and Aga Khan Music Initiative's "Music of Central Asia” series.
This DVD is available here
Wu Man’s most recent project was her ethnographic documentary DVD “Discovering a Musical Heartland:Wu Man’s Return to China.” During the course of the film, Wu Man both interviews and performs with musicians from small villages throughout China. This documentary DVD is currently available here
Wu Man with Aboriginal Singers of Taiwan
Photos by: Julia Lai
During the 2012-2013 Season Wu Man is also touring with the Silk Road Ensemble and separately for solo recitals across the United States. She will also perform at the 2013 Auckland Arts Festival in New Zealand both in a solo recital and together with the Kronos Quartet in a performance of “A Chinese Home.”
CONTACTS
Worldwide General Management
Opus 3 Artists
Earl Blackburn
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New York, NY 10016
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212.584.7514
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Tania Leong, associate
212.584.7574
tleong@opus3artists.com
Publicity
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New York, NY 10019
212.315.1300
Connie Shuman
cshuman@shumanassociates.net
Leah Rankin
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Wu Man Interview with BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlgmGGHFbc
Trailer of Wu Man's Documentary Film - Discovering a Musical Heartland: Wu Man Returns to China
http://projectsite.unitedstatesartists.org/project/discovering_a_musical_heartland_wu_man_returns_to_china
Join Wu Man’s Facebook Fan Page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Wu-Man/138665362813863?ref=ts
Wu Man Profiled on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
In November, Wu Man was profiled by Jeffrey Brown on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Link » |
