You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...

In collaboration with the United Nations Music Organizations, the festival is dedicated to fostering cross-regional and cross-cultural artistic exchange, spreading profound messages of friendship and ...

China's national first-class musician Wu Yuxia performs pipa at a concert Photo: Courtesy of Wu Yuxia Once a little girl watching her teachers craft pipa fingernails with electric soldering irons and ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons ...

Blending sounds of an ancient Chinese pipa and instruments of a Western orchestra may be as incongruous as doctors using their hands to play the violin or the cello rather than lifting scalpels or ...

It is an interestingly shaped instrument with its pear-shaped body, a wooden belly and short neck. It contains four strings and similar to other plucked instruments, it is played with the fingers. And ...

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 Sunday, ...

In collaboration with the China Cultural Center in Malta, the 17th Gaulitana Music Festival presented the "Eastern Hues" pipa solo concert by Chinese pipa virtuoso Guo Mei in Gozo, Malta, on April 11.

The first time that Guo Mingxuan saw a pipa in the home of her music teacher Chen Yu, she was 6 years old and she was impressed by the 2,000-year-old four-stringed musical instrument. To her the ...