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Music for the Motherless Child

183.7K streams

183,650

Immeasurable Light

152.1K streams

152,100

Wu Man And Friends

137.2K streams

137,177

Chinese Traditional & Contemporary Mus...

40.5K streams

40,532

Music for the Chinese Plucked Lute

33.8K streams

33,782

Man Wu: From A Distance - Pipa Music

33.7K streams

33,707

Man Wu: From A Distance - Pipa Music

24.2K streams

24,201

From a Distance

8.8K streams

8,830

Distant Mountains (Live)

4.1K streams

4,054

Distant Mountains (Live)

Biography

Wu Man is a virtuoso of the pipa, a Chinese lute. She is of the Pudong school of playing and was a pupil of Lin Shicheng. Wu Man received the first Master's degree in the pipa, won the first National Academic Competition for Chinese Instruments, and received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize. She was chosen for this award by prize recipient Yo-Yo Ma, with whom she performed at the White House for Chinese and U.S. leaders. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet and the New York New Music Consort, and has given first performances of works by new Chinese composers. At the close of the '90s, Wu Man was residing in the U.S. She has performed on recordings for a number of labels, including Axiom, Tzadik, Columbia, Water Lily Acoustics, and Ellipsis. She has also led her own releases for Nimbus Records. ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi