Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons of pipa, a ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Min Xiao-Fen, virtuoso on the Chinese stringed instrument pipa, and guitarist Rez Abbasi about their collaboration on White... The Traditional Chinese Pipa Meets Guitar In Min ...

The woman now considered the world’s greatest pipa player spent years asking herself, “What am I going to do?” Wu Man, now 54 years old, was the first person to get a master’s degree in her instrument ...

The Ruan, a traditional plucked string instrument of the Han Chinese, also known as the Ruan Xian or Ruan Qin, has a rich history and evolving identity. It was originally referred to as the Qin Pipa ...

WHEN Wu Man arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, from Beijing in 1990 she spoke no English and gambled on surviving with the help of her pipa, a traditional lute-like Chinese instrument. She has ...

Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...

Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

The composer Gordon Lee, an ebullient character with shoulder-length hair and an eruptive laugh, is sitting in the small studio at his Cupertino home — crammed with saxophones, Chinese string ...

You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...

You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...