Lu Buliang
Lineage & School of Heritage
At the age of sixteen he studied the suona under Wu Guilan, an heir of a family of bayin (eight-tone) musicians; at twenty-one he was selected by the former Xinzhou Prefecture Northern Lu Bangzi Opera Troupe and became a professional suona player, performing under the stage name Xiaogou'er (Little Dog).
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in August 1960, a native of Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. In 1987 he formed a bayinhui ensemble and set about recovering, collating, studying and rehearsing the Eight Great Suites (Bada Tao), a cycle that had been lost for many years, and he organised performances of traditional pieces well loved by the public, such as Da Desheng (Great Victory) and San Duimian (Three Confrontations). In 2011 northern Shanxi wind-and-percussion music (Jinbei guchui) was formally incorporated into the music curricula of Chinese universities and colleges, and Lu Buliang was engaged as a visiting professor by several institutions.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Suona Art (Northern Shanxi Wind-and-Percussion Music), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In July 2006, at the Seventh China Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award for folk performing arts and the First National Folk Wind-Music Showcase, he won the Shanhua Award with his piece Shanshui Guan Haoqing (Pride of the Mountain, Water and Pass).
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