{"id":939,"date":"2025-08-20T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/?page_id=939"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:26:23","slug":"wu-fei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wu-fei\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu Fei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1.png\" alt=\"Wu Fei\" class=\"wp-image-996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1.png 805w, https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2025\/08\/Wu-1-1-140x79.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Date &amp; Ticket <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025<br>7:30 PM, CARLSON THEATRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Admission:<br>General $15<br>BC Students with ID Free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/buytickets.at\/bcguitarseries\/1829326\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu Fei is a classically trained composer, singer and renowned master of the guzheng \u2014 the 21-string Chinese zither. She has taken her music around the world, appearing at such venues as the Forbidden City in Beijing, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery, MoMA (New York), the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. She has performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Vossa Jazz in Norway, the Europalia Festival in Belgium, and Big Ears Festival in Tennessee.<br><br>Wu plays in the guzheng\u2019s vernacular \u2014 a musical language at least 2,500 years old \u2013 mixing Western classical and Chinese traditions with a contemporary, idiosyncratic sound. She composes for choir, string quartet, chamber ensemble, Balinese gamelan, and orchestra.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philadelphia Orchestra has performed her composition for chamber orchestra,&nbsp;<em>Hello Gold Mountain<\/em>. The work was inspired by the real stories of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai from Europe in World War II and built new lives in China, and features Wu Fei herself on guzheng and vocals and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (of the Silk Road Ensemble) on oud.&nbsp;<em>Hello Gold Mountain&nbsp;<\/em>has also been performed by the Winnipeg Symphony, Bellingham Symphony, at the National Gallery of Art with the Inscape Chamber Orchestra, and by Chatterbird Ensemble at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wu Fei&#039;s Hello Gold Mountain full symphony Lehigh University Philharmonic at Zoellner Arts Center\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVO62cgC10Q?start=903&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu has appeared in concerts and workshops at numerous universities and institutions around the world, including Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chautauqua Institution, UNC Chapel Hill, UC Irvine, Butler University, Vanderbilt University, the China Conservatory of Music, the Norwegian Academy of Music and the University of Los Andes of Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu\u2019s work in television has included compositions for AMC\u2019s Hell on Wheels and PBS\u2019 web series The History of White People in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her many commissions have ranged from a composition for Percussions Claviers de Lyon, which premiered in the Forbidden City, to live performances in Paris and Tokyo for luxury brand Herm\u00e8s.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu has collaborated with artists from many different disciplines and genres, ranging from Emmy-winning directors Pierce Freelon and Jon Halperin to Grammy-winning musicians B\u00e9la Fleck, Abigail Washburn and percussionist Billy Martin (Medeski-Martin-Wood) to avant-garde composers John Zorn and Fred Frith. In 2024, she launched House of Wu Fei in Ghent, Belgium with Dijf Sanders, Simon Segers and Louise van den Heuvel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In solo programs, Wu Fei presents a rich combination of contemporary guzheng compositions and music from the traditional guzheng repertory from the ancient schools of Shandong, Henan, Chaozhou and others. As a singer, she also presents Kunqu opera, Peking opera and Chinese folk music. As a composer, Wu Fei plays her original guzheng solo works inspired by traveling the world while missing her old traditions. As an improviser, she draws on her classical training, the riches of global music of the last decades, and American folk music. Her solo concerts are pure magic, spellbinding the public with her sensitivity, charisma, and virtuosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wu has released two solo recordings and two collaborative albums \u2014 one with classical guitarist Gyan Riley, and the other with singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn, released on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and listed among the \u201cBest Albums of 2020\u201d by The Times\u2019 culture section. Each of Wu\u2019s recordings exhibits her unique solo improvisational vocabulary, her knowledge of Chinese traditional and folk music, and the craft of her compositions for Western classical chamber orchestras.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wu Fei &amp; Abigail Washburn - &quot;The Roving Cowboy \/ Avarguli (\u963f\u74e6\u5c14\u53e4\u4e3d)&quot; [Official Music Video]\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GpFMF55DEKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She received her early musical education at the China Conservatory of Music and earned a master\u2019s in composition at Mills College in California before immersing herself in New York\u2019s downtown improvisation scene at venues including The Stone, where she has frequently performed and curated. A native of Beijing, Wu currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date &amp; Ticket WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 20257:30 PM, CARLSON THEATRE Admission:General $15BC Students with ID Free Wu Fei is a classically trained composer, singer and renowned master of the guzheng&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/guitarclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}