Happy Friday everyone,
I have a lot of videos of home practices, concert footages, and scenes from different places where I have performed. Now Substack is making it really easy to share video, so I will be sharing some of them with you in the coming months. If you are not familiar with the guzheng 古筝, you can see more of how I play and sing at the same time—this is rather rare in the guzheng world.
If you search for “guzheng” on the internet, there is a lot of information in English, Chinese, and probably other languages too. It is an ancient plucked string instrument from China and has remained popular in China for more than two thousand years. It is still super popular in China nowadays. I feel very fortunate to play this beautiful instrument, compose for it, and to share my music with people all over the world.
My next concert is my duo project Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn at the Debartolo Performing Arts Center in University of Notre Dame on April 5th, 2025. Details and tickets are available here, or see below:
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Abigail Washburn is a banjo virtuoso who became fluent in both the language and culture of China while prepping for a career in law focused on U.S.-China relations. Wu Fei, a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the 2,000-year-old 21-string guzheng, was destined for a professional career performing state-sanctioned works in her homeland.
Diverging from those paths resulted in a convergence of musical careers that now boldly push the boundaries of what you expect to hear in concert. Blurring the lines between their different art forms and homes in Appalachia and China, the effervescent resonances of Fei's guzheng dance around Washburn's expressive banjo playing, creating a musical thread the two friends can't help but use to draw us all closer together.
Special thanks to the Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Studies.
Wu Fei 吴非
wufeimusic.com
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