Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system ...

Hard-working musician who wows international audiences plays with best in the business, says parents 'dragged' her to ...

Less well-known are the musical instruments made of clay ... Today, clay is one of the bayin, the eight categories into which Chinese instruments are grouped based on the material traditionally ...

When I turn on my car radio in the last decades of my life, I tune it first to classical music. How and why did this come to be? I play no instruments and my ear and voice are not musically ...

"I like that's it's classical music with Chinese instruments involved. It's very good," Dmitry Shlykov, an audience member originally from Russia but now living in New York told China Daily.

Artists from the Hubei Performing Arts Group play traditional Chinese instruments during "Charming Hubei" flash mob in ...

We will discuss how the violin influenced Chinese musical development and explore various compositions written over the last century. The last instrument in the series is the guzheng. The talk will ...

a traditional Chinese double-reeded woodwind instrument, also called dida, known for its loud and high-pitched sound. She is also a teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The 34-year-old ...