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 ...

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 ...

The first time I saw Wu Man play the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage, time seemed to stop. I stood silently and slack-jawed, watching her left hand dart along the instrument ...

Li Xinyang enrolled in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, in Sydney, Australia, in 2012, becoming the first student in the institution's history to major in pipa, the traditional Chinese stringed ...

Chinese born and U.S. based Wu Man has taken the pipa (a traditional Chinese lute) and brought it to concert stages around the world as well as introducing it into Western pop and other music styles.

The September 9 concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will feature a pipa concerto by Lou Harrison, the first by an American composer, plus traditional pipa pieces and folk tunes.

Wu Yuxia has played thepipa for about 50 years. Photos provided to China Daily Chinese pipa player Wu Yuxia never says "no" to educational performances and projects since she believes that spreading ...

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 ...