Wu Man
Wu Man 吴蛮 | |
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Chinese music, world music, contemporary classical | |
Instrument(s) | Pipa, ruan, zheng |
Website | www |
Wu Man (
Biography
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Wu Man began taking pipa lessons at age 9. When universities opened their doors to new students in 1977 after the Cultural Revolution had ended, Wu Man traveled to Beijing to audition for the Central Conservatory of Music. At 13, she became the youngest student at the school, and her final audition was covered in national newspapers.[3] While at the Conservatory, she studied Pudong-style pipa performance under Lin Shicheng, Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, and Liu Dehai.[4] She was first exposed to non-Chinese music in 1979 when Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed in Beijing, and again in 1980 when she attended Isaac Stern’s master classes at the Conservatory.[3] She received her Master's Degree (the first such degree conferred on a pipa player) in 1987.[5]
Wu Man first performed in the United States as a member of the China Youth Arts Troupe in 1985. She moved to the U.S. five years later to pursue a career in pipa performance that would allow her repertoire to extend beyond traditional Chinese music.
In 2003, Wu Man began working with
In 2009, Wu Man curated a pair of concerts at
Wu Man's achievements in bringing the pipa to new audiences were recognized at the end of 2012 when Musical America selected her as the 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year. She is the first performer of a non-Western instrument to receive this award.[15] Later that season, Wu Man premiered her composition Blue and Green with New York–based chamber orchestra The Knights. Arranged for pipa and string orchestra by Lev Zhurbin and The Knights' Colin Jacobsen, the work is influenced by folk melodies that Wu Man heard travelling through China.[16] That same season, Wu Man premiered Zhao Jiping’s Pipa Concerto No. 2 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, who commissioned the work along with a consortium of North American orchestras.[17]
In 2014, Wu Man was named the first Musician-in-Residence at the
Collaborations
Kronos Quartet
Wu Man first performed with the Kronos Quartet in the premiere of Zhou Long's Soul for pipa and string quartet at the Pittsburgh New Music Festival in 1992.[20] The Quartet's founding violinist, David Harrington, says he "heard all sorts of possibilities in Wu Man's vivid pipa sound,"[21] and the Quartet subsequently commissioned Tan Dun to write a piece for the same instrumentation. The resulting Ghost Opera, a semi-staged work with minimal sets and lighting, received its premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1995.[22] The work was later recorded and released on Nonesuch in 1997.[23] On the occasion of Terry Riley's 70th birthday in 2005, the Quartet commissioned a new work from him that would include pipa. After working with Wu Man for over a year to learn the intricacies of the instrument, Riley composed The Cusp of Magic, a work in six movements that included Wu Man on pipa and vocals. All five musicians also play a variety of percussion instruments and toys. The premiere was presented by Cal Performances at Hertz Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus, and was recorded and released on Nonesuch in 2008.[24][25] Wu Man's most recent project with the Quartet is a multimedia work entitled A Chinese Home, co-conceived by Wu Man, Harrington, and Chinese theater director Chen Shi-Zheng. The work, which received its premiere at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in 2009, depicts a broad stretch of Chinese history, from the Qing dynasty through the Chinese Communist Revolution to present day.[21]
Wu Man continues to perform regularly with Kronos, and was a featured guest artist in the Quartet's 40th Anniversary concerts in the 2013-14 season at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Cal Performances, Center for the Art of Performance at
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project
Wu Man is a founding member of
In the 2006-07 season, the Silk Road Project partnered with the
Wu Man has also performed multiple times with Yo-Yo Ma outside of the Silk Road Ensemble. In 1999, Wu Man and Ma performed at the White House, premiering Bright Sheng's Three Songs for Pipa and Violoncello.[33] That same year, Ma was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize and selected Wu Man as the Glenn Gould Protégé.[34] They performed together again in 2003, premiering Sheng’s The Song and Dance of Tears alongside pianist Emanuel Ax, with David Zinman conducting the New York Philharmonic.[35]
Miscellaneous cross-cultural collaborations
In 2005, Wu Man and composer
In 2010, Wu Man traveled to Taiwan to study the music of
With funds from the
In 2013, Wu Man received an Individual Artist Fellowship from San Diego Foundation's Creative Catalyst Fund to pursue a project titled "When China Meets Latin America", collaborating with son jarocho quartet Son de San Diego. In their initial rehearsals, Wu Man and Son de San Diego explored the commonalities in Chinese and Latin American folk traditions, both of which, Son de San Diego's Eduardo Garcia Acosta notes, have "love songs, silvery dawns, birdsongs, broken hearts, tales of sailing, and the sheer joy of dancing."[44] Following these rehearsals, the ad hoc quintet has performed arrangements of Chinese and Latin American folk music in workshops and concerts presented by the Carlsbad Music Festival.[45]
Wu Man performed in several concerts at the 2023 Ojai Music Festival, including two performances of "Ghost Opera".
Personal life
Wu Man lives with her husband, Peng Wang, in Carlsbad, California, where they moved in 2004 after her husband accepted a job there.[46] She and her husband became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2000, two years after the birth of their son.[46]
Discography
Solo or as leader
- 1991 — The Over Lord Removed Off His Armour (China Record Corporation)[47]
- 1993 — Chinese Music for the Pipa (Nimbus)[48]
- 1996 — Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Music (Nimbus)[49]
- 2000 — Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Music for Pipa & Ensemble (Nimbus)[50]
- 2000 — Liu Sola: Spring Snowfall (Also Productions)[51]
- 2003 — Pipa: From a Distance (Naxos World)[52]
- 2005 — Wu Man and Friends (Traditional Crossroads)[38]
- 2010 — Immeasurable Light (Traditional Crossroads)[53]
- 2012 — Music of Central Asia, Vol. 10: Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route (Smithsonian Folkways)[54]
- 2013 — Elegant Pipa Classics (Wind Music)[55]
- 2014 — Wu Man, Luis Conte, and Daniel Ho: Our World in Song: An Odyssey of Musical Treasures (Wind Music)[56]
Orchestral
- 2004 — Lou Harrison: Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra, on Lou Harrison: For Strings
with Rebecca Miller and The New Professionals Orchestra (Mode)[57] - 2004 — Ye Xiaogang: Pipa Concerto, on Xiaogang Ye: The Last Paradise / Winter / Pipa Concerto / Horizon
with Günther Herbig and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken (WERGO)[58] - 2008 — Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto, on Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto / Hayashi: Viola Concerto / Takemitsu: Nostalghia
with Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists (ONYX)[59] - 2008 — Lou Harrison: Pipa Concerto, on Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago
with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO Resound)[60]
with Kronos Quartet
- 1997 — Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (Nonesuch)[23]
- 1997 — Early Music (Nonesuch)[27]
- 2005 — You've Stolen My Heart (Nonesuch)[28]
- 2008 — Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)[24]
- 2014 — Kronos Quartet: A Thousand Thoughts (Nonesuch)[29]
with Aga Khan Master Musicians
- 2023 — Aga Khan Master Musicians: Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways / SAMAA)
with
- 2002 — The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet (Sony Classical)
- 2005 — The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon (Sony Classical)
- 2007 — The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: New Impossibilities (Sony Classical)
- 2009 — Silk Road Ensemble: Off the Map (World Village)
- 2013 — The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: A Playlist without Borders (CD) / Live from Tanglewood (DVD) (Sony Classical)
with Philip Glass
- 2005 — Philip Glass Ensemble: Orion (Orange Mountain Music)[61]
- 2007 — Suite from The Sound of a Voice, on Theater Music, Vol. 1 (Orange Mountain Music)[11]
with Bang on a Can
- 1998 — POINT Music)[62]
- 2001 — Terry Riley: In C (Cantaloupe)[63]
- 1994 — Sola: Blues in the East (Axiom, 1994)
- 1995 — Sola & Wu Man: China Collage (Avant, 1995)
- 1999 — Sola & Friends (Also Productions, 1999)
with Henry Threadgill
- Carry the Day (Columbia, 1995)
Film soundtracks
- 1993 — The Wedding Banquet (Rock)[65]
- 1994 — Eat Drink Man Woman (Rock)[66]
Misc. duo
- 1997 — with Martin Simpson, guitar: Music for the Motherless Child (Water Lily Acoustics)[67]
- 2001 — with Yoshio Kurahashi, shakuhachi: Aki No Yugure (Autumn Dusk) (Sparkling Beatnik)[68]
- 2003 — with Tatsu Aoki, bass: Posture of Reality (Asian Improv)[69]
Misc. ensemble
- 1994 — Henry Threadgill: Carry the Day (Columbia)[70]
- 1998 — Lam Bun-Ching: The Child God (Tzadik)[71]
- 2003 — Bright Sheng: Silent Temple with Shanghai Quartet and Bright Sheng, piano (BIS)[72]
- 2004 — Zhou Long: Nature and Spirit (Composers Recordings, Inc.)[73]
- 2006 — Shih-Hui Chen: 66 Times: The Voices of Pines and Cedars (Albany)[74]
- 2012 — Lei Liang: Verge / Tremors of a Memory Chord (Naxos)[75]
Appearances on anthologies & compilations
- 1992 — An Anthology of Chinese Traditional and Folk Music, Vol. 4: A Collection of Music Played on the Pipa (China Record Corporation)[76]
- 1994 — World Music Sampler, Volume 2 (Nimbus)[77]
- 1995 — A Taste of Asia (Nimbus)[78]
- 1997 — Treasurable Collection of Traditional Chinese Music: Pipa[79]
- 1998 — China: Time to Listen (Ellipsis Arts)[80]
- 2001 — Masterpieces: Pipa (China Record Corporation)[81]
- 2002 — The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan (Smithsonian Folkways)[82]
- 2002 — Chinese Music Classics of the 20th Century: Pipa I (China Record Corporation)[83]
- 2004 — The Classics of CRC Instrumental Music, Vol. 2 (China Record Corporation)[84]
Awards and honors
- 1989 — Chinese National Traditional Music Performance Prize[need quotation to verify][85]
- 1998 — Bunting Fellowship[8]
- 1999 — The City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize[34]
- 2008 — United States Artists Fellowship[86]
- 2006 — Nominated, Grammy Awards: Best Contemporary World Music Album (for You've Stolen My Heart with Kronos Quartet)[87]
- 2009 — Nominated, Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra (for Lou Harrison's Pipa Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)[7]
- 2009 — Nominated, Grammy Awards: Best Small Ensemble Performance (for Tan Dun's Pipa Concerto with Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists)[7]
- 2011 — Nominated, Grammy Awards: Best Classical Crossover Album (for Off the Map with the Silk Road Ensemble)[88]
- 2013 — Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year [2]
- 2013 — Nominated, Independent Music Awards: Best World Traditional Song (for "Shadiana" on Borderlands) [89]
- 2013 — Nominated, Independent Music Awards: Best Long Form Video (for Borderlands) [90]
- 2014 — Nominated, Independent Music Awards: Best World Traditional Album (for Elegant Pipa Classics) [91]
- 2014 — Nominated, Golden Melody Awards: Best Traditional Album (for Elegant Pipa Classics)[need quotation to verify][92]
- 2014 — Nominated, Grammy Awards: Best World Music Album (for Our World in Song with Daniel Ho and Luis Conte)[93]
- 2023 — National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts[94]
See also
- Pipa
- Kronos Quartet
- Silk Road Project
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