Performers of Nanyin, an ancient Chinese folk music art form originated from southeast China's Fujian Province, chat with each other at a tea house in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, May 8, 2014.

The China National Traditional Orchestra is fighting a battle familiar to anyone who performs classical music: getting young people to enjoy their art. And it’s often an uphill battle. Some of ...

Chinese traditional music reached its peak during the Sui and Tang dynasties when both wind and string instruments came into being. It was a new era for China’s music, and many poets also ...

Continuing our week of exploring connections between traditional music and classical music, we look at Chinese influences in Western classical music today. From the Shanghai Quartet's recording ...

Allex Chan Cheuk-lik, 29, was studying traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at university when he started playing music with his friends. He did it for fun and because “it looked cool”.

This is the second in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

The 2024 Beijing Traditional Music Festival — Chinese Music (National Instruments) Performance Event took place from Oct 26 to Sunday in Beijing.

In addition to traditional Chinese folk music, Zheng sometimes performs — on erhu — music popular with Westerners. In fact, she is working on an innovative approach to combine electronic erhu and ...

VALLETTA, April 11 (Xinhua) -- During the 17th edition of the Gaulitana music festival on Gozo Island, Malta, a mesmerizing solo concert showcasing pipa, a pear-shaped stringed instrument in China ...