Ding Shuiqing
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He committed to memory a large body of Nanyin zhi, pu and qu repertories and attained a very high standard of performance, excelling above all on the pipa. He collaborated with others in compiling and collating such works as the Xian Guan Guozhi Taoqu Xuanji (Selected Suites of the String-and-Pipe Tradition), the Xian Guan Zhipu Daquan (Complete Scores of the String-and-Pipe Tradition) and the Xian Guan Guqu Xuanji (Selected Ancient Melodies of the String-and-Pipe Tradition).
Honors & Recognition
He was born in 1936 in Jinjiang, Fujian, of Hui ethnicity, and died in 2009. He was a national representative bearer of Nanyin, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, executive director of the Quanzhou Artists Association and vice-president of the Jinjiang Nanyin Association. From the age of sixteen he studied Nanyin under such distinguished masters as Cai Senmu, Huang Shouwan and Ren Qingshui. He took part many times in Nanyin mass-singing gatherings at home and abroad, performing on exchange tours in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and he trained many young Nanyin artists.
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