Su Shiyong
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1960 she joined the Quanzhou Folk Music Troupe and studied the art of Nanyin under Wu Pingshui, Su Laihao, Zhuang Yongqi, Qiu Zhizhu, Chen Tianbo and others.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
She was born in 1946 in Quanzhou, Fujian, and is of Han ethnicity. Since 1992 she has been engaged by such bodies as the Guofeng Langjun Society of the Philippines and the Oriental Music Foundation of Indonesia to teach Nanyin. In 2001 she was appointed a member of the committee of folk artists for the Zhongguo Quanzhou Nanyin Jicheng (Compendium of Nanyin in Quanzhou, China). In Nanyin performance she excels at singing to her own accompaniment, at unaccompanied singing and at the pipa, and she has recorded several solo albums, including Su Shiyong Nanyin.
Honors & Recognition
She is a national representative bearer of Nanyin, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. From 1984 to 1992 she taught in the Nanyin class of the Fujian Provincial Art School, and in 1988 she won first prize in the amateur division of the Nanyin competition organised by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and other bodies.
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