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Asian music encompasses numerous different musical styles originating from a large number of Asian countries.

Musical traditions in Asia

• Music of Central Asia
  • Music of Afghanistan
  • Music of Kazakhstan
  • Music of Mongolia
  • Music of Uzbekistan
• Music of East Asia
  • Music of China
  • Music of Japan
  • Music of Korea
  • Music of Taiwan
• Music of South Asia
  • Music of Sri Lanka
  • Ravanahatha
  • Asian Underground
  • Music of Bangladesh
  • Music of Bhutan
  • Music of India
  • Music of Nepal
  • Music of Iran
  • Music of Pakistan

• Music of Southeast Asia
  • Music of Indonesia
  • Music of Malaysia
  • Music of Vietnam
  • Music of Thailand
  • Music of the Philippines
• Music of West Asia
  • Arabic music
  • Music of Cyprus
  • Music of Israel
  • Music of Turkey

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Wu Man (Chinese: 吴蛮; pinyin: Wú Mán; born 1963 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing.

Biography[link]

Wu received a Master's degree at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing,^[1] where her instructors included Lin Shicheng, Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, and Liu Dehai. She became the first recipient of a master's degree in pipa and won the first prize in the 1989 National Music Performance Competition.^[1]

Wu came to the United States in 1990 at the age of 25, ostensibly to study English. She lived in Boston, and began playing with an ensemble called Music from China. In 1992, she first played with the Kronos Quartet, the beginning of an ongoing relationship whose first full-length album was Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1997), containing music written by Tan Dun for quartet and pipa.^[2]

Wu performs with Chinese traditional music groups but is also known for her interpretation of contemporary compositions, as well as her work in jazz and cross-cultural music. Many composers (including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bun-Ching Lam, Evan Ziporyn, and others) have composed new works for her.

Wu has performed and recorded with the Kronos Quartet, Henry Threadgill, Liu Sola, Martin Simpson, and Yo-Yo Ma's The Silk Road Ensemble. In 1999, she became the first Chinese musician to play at the White House.^[1] She played there, together with Yo-Yo Ma, in honor of Zhu Rongji, the premier of China. Also in 1999, Wu was chosen by Ma to receive the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. The award consisted of a bronze statue of famous Canadian pianist Gould himself.

Discography[link]

A standard modern pipa with white ox horn for neck and pegs

• 1993 - Chinese Music for the Pipa (Nimbus)
• 1995 - Zhou Long: Nature and Spirit (Composers Recordings, Inc.)
• 1996 - Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Music (Nimbus)
• 2003 - Pipa from a Distance (Naxos)
• 2003 - Posture of Reality (Asian Improv)
• 2003 - Bright Sheng: Silent Temple (Bis)
• 2004 - Lou Harrison: For Strings (Mode)
• 2005 - Wu Man and Friends (Traditional Crossroads)
• 2008 - Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto (Onyx Classics UK)

With Philip Glass[link]

• 2005 - Orion (Orange Mountain)

With Kronos Quartet[link]

• 1997 - Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
• 1997 - Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)
• 2008 - Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic

With Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle[link]

• 2005 - You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R. D. Burman's Bollywood (Nonesuch)

With Martin Simpson[link]

• 1997 - Music for the Motherless Child (Water Lily Acoustics)

With Liu Sola[link]

• 1994 - Blues in the East (Axiom)
• 1997 - China Collage (Avant Japan)
• 2001 - Spring Snowfall (Also Productions)

With The Silk Road Ensemble[link]

• 2002 - Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet (enhanced SACD) (Sony)
• 2005 - Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon (Sony)
• 2007 - New Impossibilities (Sony Classics)
• 2009 - Off the Map (World Village & In a Circle Records)

With Henry Threadgill[link]

• 1994 - Carry the Day

Compilations[link]

• 1994 - World Music Sampler, Volume 2 (Nimbus)
• 1997 - China: Spirit and Wisdom (Ellipsis Arts China)
• 1998 - China: Sounds of Our Stories (Ellipsis Arts China)
• 1998 - China - Time To Listen: The Best of China (3-CD set) (Ellipsis)
• 2008 - Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago (CSO Resound)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Wu Man official site
• Wu Man biography

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