China Found Music Workshop Taipei was founded in 1991 by Huang Chen-Ming (erhu,
Chinese 2-string-fiddle) and Lin Hui-Kuan (pipa, Chinese lute) to perform
traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music as well as new works by contemporary
composers for Chinese instruments. From the beginning, one of its principal
aims has been to provide authentic performances of traditional music on a
high professional level and at the same time to stimulate musical creativity
with Chinese instruments both in Taiwan and abroad. The ensemble performs
in Taiwan frequently and on the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2001 has
held two major concerts in the prestigious National Concert Hall Taipei.
Since the early 1990s the group has been touring in Europe and America regularly
and has presented concerts and instrumental workshops in Austria, France,
Germany, Holland, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Poland, Singapore, Spain and
in the United States. Since 1999, a continuous collaboration with European
composers and musicians has been initialized and coordinated by the Vienna
based organization AsianCultureLink. For the first time, European composers
were motivated to write for Chinese instruments and consequently a series
of concerts at renowned festivals and concert venues could be realized, including
MaerzMusik 2002 (Berlin Festivals), Music Biennale Zagreb 2001, Hörgänge 2000
(Vienna Concerthouse) and Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Radiokulturhaus Vienna,
Porgy and Bess Vienna. In 2002, the ensemble cooperated with the Nieuw Ensemble
Amsterdam in a piece of Indian composer Sandeep Bhagwati for Chinese and Western
instruments.
Musicians: Huang Chen-Ming: Erhu; Wu Chung-Hsien: Dizi, Xiao; Lin Hui-Kuan:
Pipa; Lee Shu-Fen: Yangqin; Yeh Jiuan-Reng: Guzheng; Liang Yen-Ping: Liuqin,
Ruan ; Huang Lung-Yi: Sheng; Wang Hsiao-Yin: Percussion