Gong Yi
Lineage & School of Heritage
He began learning the qin in 1954, entered the attached middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1957, and graduated in 1966 from the guqin programme of its Chinese Music Department, having studied successively with twelve qin masters, among them Zhang Zhengyin, Zhang Ziqian, Gu Meigeng, and Liu Jingchao; he thus absorbed the performing styles of several qin schools and built up a large stock of representative repertoire.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in 1941 in Qidong, Jiangsu. After more than thirty years of study, research, and practice he developed distinctive features in his playing, and he has transcribed twenty qin pieces, including Gu Yuan (Ancient Resentment), Jiu Kuang (The Drunkard), Jie Shi Diao: You Lan (Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode), and Da Hu Jia (The Great Barbarian Reed Pipe). He served as director of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and president of the Shanghai Jinyu Qin Society. He is currently a national first-class performer with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, an adjunct professor and master's supervisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and vice president of the Guqin Professional Committee of the Chinese Nationalities Orchestra Society. He is the author of The Art of Guqin Performance and New Qin Scores, and has recorded solo albums including Shan Shui Qing (Affection of Landscape), Jiu Kuang, Xiao Xiang Shui Yun (Clouds and Waters of the Xiao and Xiang), Qin Yu (Qin Speech), and Ping Sha Luo Yan.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Guqin and its Music, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
- Guqin and its Music Ⅱ-34
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