Chen Xinguo
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of twelve he entered the Fujian Provincial Art School, and from the age of fifteen he served as an instrumentalist in the Fujian Provincial Experimental Minju Opera Troupe, studying under the Minju music master Lin Jiahui and inheriting his art of playing the principal huqin.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in September 1946 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. His playing is steady and resonant with a clear rhythm; his fingering and bowing are vigorous and agile, his dynamics and tempo precise and disciplined, and his style traditional yet infused with something new. To transmit the traditional art of Minju Opera he has worked to unearth and rescue historical documents and film and video materials on Minju Opera, to build a Minju Opera museum, to study and summarize the artistic individuality of renowned Minju artists, and to collate and restore classic excerpt plays that were on the verge of being lost.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Minju Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His music design for the play Bian Guan Ji (The Demoted Official) received the Wenhua Award for New Productions from the Ministry of Culture and the Five-One Project Award, among other honors.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Minju Opera Ⅳ-45
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