Shen Fengquan
Lineage & School of Heritage
Influenced from childhood by his father and uncle, he developed a passion for Jiangnan sizhu music. In 1958 he graduated from the erhu department of the folk music faculty of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied under Professor Lu Xiutang.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1934, a native of Shanghai. He holds the rank of national first-class performer. He served successively as erhu player and erhu teacher in the Zhejiang Folk Song and Dance Troupe and the Zhejiang Art School. He fused the rustic flavour of the Jiangnan sizhu music of Nanhui, Shanghai, handed down in his family, with the local colour of Zhejiang folk music, and elevated it through the modern erhu; his tone is brilliant, mellow and sweet, rich in the character of the Jiangnan countryside. In 1983 he toured Hong Kong with the Hangzhou Jiangnan Sizhu Ensemble of China to perform and lecture, and subsequently toured Beijing, Tianjin and other places giving performances and lectures. In 1986 he held a summer course on Jiangnan sizhu and the erhu. In 1992 he held a six-month rotating training course on Jiangnan sizhu and the erhu, attended by students from music and art academies and performing groups in Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Xi'an and Harbin.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Jiangnan Sizhu (Silk and Bamboo Music), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1963 his performance of Man San Liu (Slow Three-Six) won third prize at the First National Erhu Solo Competition of the Spring of Shanghai festival.
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