To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University Library System presents "Flowing Sonority: Guqin from Rulan Chao Pian Music Collection of CUHK Library and Guqin Gathering with John Yiu".
27.9.2013, Friday, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, Tse Chiu Kit Room, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (beside Chung Chi Library)
Free Admission and No Registration Needed
The guqin that will be used for the performance comes from the unique and valuable Rulan Chao Pian Music Collection donated to The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library by the renowned musicologist, Professor Rulan Chao Pian. Mr. Sou Si Tai, a prominent guqin musician, kindly helped to restore the guqin. After much investigation, experts estimate that this guqin was probably crafted in the early Ming Dynasty, somewhere between 1368 and 1521.
A sophomore in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong, John YIU is learning the qin with Dr Tse Chun Yan. He has written articles on the qin including 'An Examination of the classification and concept of "Literati Qin" and "Artisan Qin" - Using Historical Sources on Late Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties' and 'Echoes of Ancient Tunes from Distant Mountains: Prof. Jao Tsung I's guqin recording made in Switzerland 1979'(to be published). His work of Dapu (the reconstruction of old qin scores) was selected and published in Delving into the Songxian Guan Qin Score (Shanghai Music Press, 2011). In 2011, he was selected as one of the ten RTHK 'Young Music Makers'. John also studies the connoisseurship of Chinese painting and calligraphy with Mr. Kwan S Wong.
*By kind permission of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.
