Wed 4/8 @ 7:30PM
Chinese musician Wu Man is known as a master of the pipa, a pear-shaped four-stringed traditional Chinese instrument similar to the lute. As a performer, educator and composer, she’d served as an ambassador for the instrument around the world, premiering new works for it while keeping alive its history.
She’s performed with major orchestras like the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. She’s a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project and has performed and recorded with the Kronos Quartet. She’s won widespread acclaim among classical music aficionados.
But she’s also played in places where most of the population has never even heard of Chinese pipa music, let alone heard it. In 2013, she performed the world premiere of a Pipa Concerto No. 2 by Zhou Jiping with the Sydney Symphony, followed by performances in Santa Rosa, New Orleans, Buffalo, Fresno, San Diego and Hartford, Illinois, just north of St. Louis, opening new ears to a strange instrument.
She’ll do a solo performance of “Ancient Dances” when she comes to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium.
Tickets are $38-$55.
Photo by Steven Kahn
Cleveland, OH 44106