Wang Xiuyi
Lineage & School of Heritage
A national first-class performer, she began studying nanyin instrumental music as a child and trained under the renowned nanyin teachers Ye Chengji, Chen Meigu, Ren Qingshui and Lin Yuyan.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
She is a woman of the Han ethnic group, born in November 1957 in Xiamen, Fujian Province. She excels at the pipa, playing with consummate skill and a style of her own; she has memorized a large repertory of instrumental pieces and vocal numbers, performs with complete freedom of control, and has taken part in many performances in China and abroad. Engaged as artistic adviser and music adviser by a number of nanyin societies in China and overseas, she has trained a group of core nanyin artists in the mainland, in Hong Kong and Macao and in Southeast Asia, and she has collected rare historical materials on nanyin; in 2005 she compiled and collated the Complete Collection of Nanyin Finger Notation and Notation Scores, filling the gap that had left Xiamen without a published collection of nanyin notation.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Nanyin, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. The nanyin music-and-dance drama Chang Hen Ge (The Song of Everlasting Sorrow), in which she took the leading pipa part, won the Tenth Wenhua Award for New Productions from the Ministry of Culture, and Mei Hua Cao (Plum Blossom Prelude) won a gold medal at the First International Chinese Music Festival.
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