It’s been more than a dozen years since audiences at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival first heard the ancient Chinese lute the pipa. But at this year’s festival, which kicks off on ...

Presented by Third Angle New Music Ensemble, this concert (March 2-3 at New Expressive Works) features Min’s command of the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute, several other traditional ...

If the pipa - the pear-shaped lute with the distinctively percussive, banjo-like twang - has become increasingly well known outside the world of traditional Chinese music, much of the credit goes ...

Nobody wields a pipa like Wu Man, the reigning virtuoso on the ancient four-stringed instrument.Almost single-handedly, she has raised awareness of the pipa — sometimes called the Chinese lute ...

Wu Man is a virtuoso on the Chinese lute, the pipa. On Performance Today, she performs ancient traditional music and new music written by Western composer Philip Glass.

A horse trotting, flowing water, a woman singing. These are just a few of the sounds and images pipa player Gao Hong can evoke with her versatile four-string Chinese lute.

Quartet and lute virtuoso craft a soundscape of Chinese history. February 14, ... to hear the Kronos Quartet and pipa virtuoso Wu Man on Friday night at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. ...

The Pipa, a four-stringed lute with a pear-shaped body, has been an integral part of Chinese music for over 2000 years, featured in various genres, ...

The set also features a snake next to a water lily representing life and re-birth, and the Pipa, which is a Chinese lute, to symbolise balance and joy.

Among them is Zhao Yang, a 24-year-old Chinese student studying film at the University of Strasbourg, who plays the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute.