Min Xiao-Fen

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Pipa player / vocalist Min Xiao-Fen, internationally known for her virtuosity and fluid style, is a prototype artist in this tradition. She has influenced countless Chinese musicians and her influence expands to players of all instruments and beyond China as well. Ms. Min learned the pipa with her father, Min Ji-Qian, a professor and pipa master at Nanjing University. Her work as a pipa soloist for the famed Nanjing National Music Orchestra from 1980 to 1992 set the standard for the rest of her career. Press Photos After arriving in the United States in 1992, she began working with composers Zhou Long, Carl Stone and Chen Yi, then recorded The Moon Rising (Cala), hailed by BBC Music Magazine as "one of the best CDs of 1996," and Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night (Asphodel), a brilliant solo set of traditional repertoire. Adventure and exploration have always been a hallmark of this great artist's work, and Min has received high acclaim for her classical, new music and jazz performances. She was featured soloist with the New York City Opera, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer, the San Diego Symphony and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, among others. She has performed solo concerts at the Vienna Music Festival, the Utrecht International Lute Festival, the Geneva Music Festival, the Berlin Chinese Music Festival, the New York Guitar Festival and at various jazz festivals in Paris, Quebec and Jakarta. In 1998, Min premiered Tan Dun's Peony Pavil

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The Moon Rising - Pipa & Ruan

Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night

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Dim Sum

With Six Composers

The Moon Rising

Mao, Monk and Me

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Rough Guide to The Music of China

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The Rough Guide To The Music Of China

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2003 - The Rough Guide to The Music of China

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Anicca (Impermanence) [feat. Rez Abbasi] - Single

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Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night [Asphodel]

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