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Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble

Harmony Ensemble 

Harmony Ensemble play music from the rich traditions of China - and go further, drawing on Chinese, Western Classical and Scottish folk elements to create improvisations, new songs and compositions. For concerts and workshops we draw from a pool of musicians from East and West: Fong Liu presents a wide range of singing styles (‘mountain’ voice, folk, opera, even jazz style) and collaborates with Scottish composer Eddie McGuire (he plays bamboo flute) to compose new songs. Zheng and a fascinating array of Chinese percussion are played by Hooi Ling Eng (who is also a member of Gamelan Naga Mas). Other musicians often include Willem Mathlener (violin), Kimho Ip (yang qin), Cheng-Ying Chuang (liuqin, ruan and counter-tenor voice) and Xuan Shan (accordion).

 
Chinese music through the centuries

Sunday 6 November 2011, 2.00pm - 3.30pm
Kelvin Gallery, Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8Q

Li Bai

Harmony Ensemble will be celebrating the launch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow with a selection of Chinese songs and instrumental music ranging from songs based on poems from the Han, Tang and Song dynasties to contemporary compositions from the versatile composer and folk musician, Eddie McGuire and a world-premiere work from award-winning Malaysian composer Valerie Ross. Poems will be read in English by Tom Furniss.

Admission is free and your attendance is warmly invited.

Musicians

Fong Liu - voice
KimHo Ip - yangqin (Chinese dulcimer)
Willem Mathlener - violin
Eddie McGuire - dizi (Chinese flute)
Hooi Ling Eng - zheng (Chinese zither) and percussion

 
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