Tudi Niyazi
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Tudi Niyazi, male, Uyghur, was born in May 1971 and is a native of Yuli County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He has loved folk songs since childhood and has studied in exchange with renowned folk singers in every township of Yuli County, and he has a thorough command of both the singing and the playing of Lop Nor folk songs. Because of his artistic gifts, he worked at the Yuli County Cultural Centre from 1995 to 2009, and during that period he pursued further study at the Xinjiang Arts Institute. From 2009 he served as head of the Yuli County Populus Euphratica Art Troupe. Throughout his artistic career he has taken part many times in the collection, collation, recording and research of Uyghur folk songs organised by radio stations, television stations and academic institutions.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Uyghur Folk Songs (Lop Nor Uyghur Folk Songs), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He has trained more than twenty bearers who sing folk songs to the accompaniment of plucked instruments. He has composed new Lop folk songs on the basis of the traditional ones and has also attempted to apply Lop folk songs to dance, comic sketches, instrumental performance and other art forms.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Uyghur Folk Songs Ⅱ-116
- Uyghur Folk Songs Ⅱ-116
- Uyghur Folk Songs Ⅱ-116
Profile
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