Friday, September 20, 2013, 8:00 PM
Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Blvd Flushing, NY 11354
A cross-cultural live improvisation featuring contemporary and traditional world artists. Join us for an evening with virtuoso Chinese pipa player Min Xiao-Fen and Korean komungo player Jin Hi Kim as they team up with award winning rhumba tapper Max Pollak.
Bios
A world recognized virtuoso in both orchestral and underground styles, pipa player, vocalist and composer Min Xiao-Fen is known for her fluid style. Ms. Min began her career as a pipa soloist with the Nanjing Traditional Music Orchestra in China by winning the Jiangsu national pipa competition.Since she moved to the United States in 1992, she has been a featured soloist with the Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Macao Orchestra and many others. Min has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York Guitar Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Amsterdam-China Festival, Utrecht International Lute Festival, Geneva Music Festival, TUM Festival in Finland, Macao Arts Festival, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Great Mountains International Music Festival in Korea and Festivalgerie 2010 and 2011. She has performed with and premiered the work of such noted composers as John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Tan Dun, Randy Weston, Philip Glass and many others. She made an appearance on Bjцrk’s album, Volta, and later performed as Bjцrk’s special guest at Madison Square Garden. As a composer, Min received a commission in 2007 for “Return of the Dragon” from The Kitchen. She was a featured composer and solo performer in “Blue Pipa” for the American Composers Orchestra’s Composer Out Front series. Her “Ghost Masks” was commissioned and performed by Min–Wu–Xu at the Glatt & Verkehrt Festival in Krems in 2009. Her “Dim Sum” was premiered and performed at Interpretations in 2010, the Undead Jazzfest 2011, in 2012 at WQXR-FM New York Public Radio, and her newest album “Dim Sum” with guest percussionist Satoshi Takeishi was released December 15, 2012 at The Stone (John Zorn’s venue) . Min was a curator at The Stone and Museum of Chinese in America in New York. She is the founder of Blue Pipa, Inc. www.bluepipa.org.
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