Yusufujiang Yakupu
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1953, while in middle school, he began to study wind and percussion music (guchuiyue) with his father, Yakupujiang. He later followed the celebrated Ili masters of the genre Aisha, Aihetamu Apizi, Sailai Kuerban, Tajiding and Yiminjiang Yibulayin, and in the course of studying with Yiminjiang Yibulayin he gained a complete command of the performing essentials of the twelve suites of guchuiyue transmitted in the Ili region. He then learned from the teacher Manfu to play the suona and the bugle and to read staff notation.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Uyghur ethnicity, born in January 1936, a native of Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. From 1954 onward he has carried out various transmission and demonstration activities in Yining, Dushanzi and Urumqi. In 1994 he released a personal cassette album, The Art of Ili Naghra Drum.
Honors & Recognition
A national representative bearer of Uyghur Wind and Percussion Ensemble, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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