Artist: Shao Rong
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Orchid 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Orchid II
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Orchid 1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Shao (marked shaw-oh) Rong is a Chinese-born musician based in Japan world Health Organization plays the Chinese pipa (pronounced pee-pah), a four-string lute. She began pickings forte-piano lessons at pentad and luting lessons at 10. When she was in her irregular yr of junior high school school, she applied to the newly conventional Beijing National Central Music Institute and was among the five-spot students out of 20,000 applicants chosen to attend. She studied the genus Pipa at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Liu Dehai, a passkey of the cat's-paw. Graduating from college in 1987, she returned to her home in Shanghai and joined the National Folk Music Band as a featured soloist. She moved to Japan in 1989 to attend Tokyo National University and remained in Japan after graduating. In 1998, she joined Tempyo-Gafu, an Asian ancient-music ensemble, which toured the U.S. She performed as a soloist with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in July 1998 and with the Sapporo Symphony in April 1999. Her appearance at the Pan Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo in July 1999 attracted international attention. Signed to Pacific Moon Records, she released her debut solo album Orchidaceous plant in the U.S. in January 2001.
