Artists L to W

Starts her classical dance training at the age of 4, graduated from Beijing Dance Academy, performing and teaching Chinese dance.

Specialising in recreate old Shang Hai theme, drama and settings.

Ruan player. She graduated at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1982 and became the first teacher in China Conservatory of Music to establish the Ruan as a major instrument.

In 1987, she won the first prize in the First Folk Music Competition held in Shanghai. In 1997, she was invited by the Swiss National Radio Station to give a joint concert with Xu Pingxin and Wei Li. Her performance was highly appraised and was commented as an outstanding pipa and ruan musician.

Performs on various Chinese Traditional Instruments including Dizi, Erhu, Banhu, Yan, etc. Specialising in Peking Opera.

Rosemary held a number of exhibitions in Canada where she lived for 30 years. She now lives in Northampton.

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Sun Zhou was born in Xian, China and learnt the zheng from a young child. In 1994, she majored in zheng at the National Music Department of the Central Conservatory in Beijing supervised by the famous zither educationalist Professor Li Meng.

She has won numerous awards and prizes such as the Youth Group of the National zheng Invitation Contest, the Fucheng xian scholarship from the Central Conservatory, Millennium zheng Contest held in Taiwan and others. She was recognized as the great talented young zitherist and the new generation Qin zitherist on the cover page of Music Life and the Music Weekly.

In July 2001, she graduated with a Masters degree of arts. Her dissertaion was a debate in the History and Revitalization of The Qin Zheng.

She is currently studying for her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London. She continues to perform both here in the UK and abroad regularly.

Wang xiao was born in Luoyang of China. She began learning the Erhu when she was six years old and graduated from the Wuhan Conservatory of music in China. In 1999 she joined the Headquarters Arts Troupe of the Henan Provincial People's Armed Police as its Erhu soloist. In 2001 she took part in the Luoyang Casio Young Instrumentalists Competition, where she won a Silver Prize, and in the same month a Gold Prize as an Erhu soloist in the Henan Provincial 'Hundred Fountains Cup' Young Instrumentalists Competition.

Before going abroad she was Erhu ,Banhu soloist with the Luoyang Symphony Orchestra.She has given many performances since arriving in the UK.

Soprano; member of Chinese Musicians Association, Life Executive of the Bell Canto Association, Lead Solo Soprano of Guangdong Musical Company. Wei Li has won many distinguished awards in China and abroad, among them: The Best Soprano at the South China Opera Competition and for 3 years between 1992 and 1994, represented China in the Asian Art Festival, and won the prize for the best soprano.

Wei Li now resides in London and lectures at London University in music, opera and drama. In 1997, she was invited by the Swiss National Radio Station to give a joint concert with Xu Pingxin and Miao Xiaoyun, and was hailed as the best Chinese soprano.

Born in Shanghai, Wu Qian began her training at the Shanghai Conservatoire of Music. She went on to win a scholarship at the Menuhin School studying with Irina Zaritskaya. At the age of 15, Qian performed Mozart¡¯s Piano Concerto in E flat Major (K449) in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and later at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland.

In 2002 Qian gave recitals in the Royal Festival Hall in Hanover and Amsterdam and in the Steinway Halls of Hamburg and New York where her performance was recorded by NHK TV for broadcast throughout Asia.

Performance and recitals include, Wigmore Hall, the International Music Festival in Klobenz, City Hall, Hong Kong, St. Johns Square, London.

Qian had won many awards including: the Sydney Perry Award, winner of the Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition, Martin Foundation Award, the 2005 Boise Foundation Scholarship. Qian is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton.

Yang acrobatic artists who grew up in a acrobatic family. She started her professional training at a very young age.

She performs Rolling Glasses, Balancing Act, etc