8/7/2023 0 Comments Ho ho hopefully piano![]() ![]() This combination of instruments bringing together two of the world’s great musical traditions, now has a unique collection of works for Ms. The result is a new and flourishing catalogue of works for the piano and the erhu composed in the musical languages of the 21st century. The composers for the project come from China, Japan, Canada and the United States. This Piano Erhu Project is familiarly known as PEP. His most extensive collection of commissioned works includes over 45 pieces for Piano and Erhu. Many of these commissions have been for various chamber music formations. He has commissioned, premiered and recorded over two hundred works from composers all over the world. Li works out of her JW Musical Studio, in Richmond, BC where she teaches, rehearses and records her growing erhu repertoire.Ĭorey performs widely as both a soloist and as a chamber musician. As a teacher, Li is known for her ability to inspire students to excel, as evidenced by all her students’ successful exam results. ![]() These performances are being supported by a Canadian Art Council grant as part of a cross-cultural music exchange project.Īs a performing artist, Li is known for her interpretive expressiveness, stylistic versatility and ability to transverse a wide range of musical genres from the East to the West, from the traditional to the avant garde. During the 2013/14 season, Li collaborated with virtuoso pianist Corey Hamm in bringing the first of many world premieres of new works for erhu and piano by Chinese and Canadian composers. ![]() Later that year, Li performed the celebrated erhu concerto “Butterfly Lovers” with the BC Chinese Orchestra. In 2013, she was invited to perform for Prime Minister Stephen Harper as the only Chinese instrumental soloist at the Chinese New Year Gala in Vancouver. In 2011, she organized and performed in her own erhu recital in Vancouver, which was also the first full-scale erhu performance event of its kind held in Canada. Li was later admitted to the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree in erhu performance in 2008.Īn active erhu performer, both as a solo artist and as a member of an ensemble, since 2000, Li is a much sought after performing artist in Vancouver. Nicole Ge Li began learning the erhu at the early age of six and started training professionally at the age of 11 at the Wu Conservatory of Music Affiliated Secondary School, where she received a full scholarship for four consecutive years. Chinese Orchestra and gaohu soloist with the BC Chinese Music Ensemble. ![]() These include such composers as Dai Fujikura, Si Ang Chen, Roydon Tse, Brian Cherney, Keith Hamel, Dorothy Chang, Chan Ka Nin, Alice Ping Yee Ho, Hope Lee, Jordan Nobles, Jocelyn Morlock, Scott Godin, Remy Siu, Edward Top, Aaron Gervais, Jared Miller (and dozens more).Ĭurrently Concert Master of the B.C. PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) has commissioned over fifty composers to write works since it began just three years ago. PEP is delighted to see composers deal with these elements in such different ways. The blend is not only a tonal and musical one, but also cultural. March 15th-31st, 2019 Nicole Ge Li, erhu Corey Hamm, pianoĮrhu and piano virtuosos Nicole Ge Li and Corey Hamm began PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) to explore the fascinating blend of these two iconic Eastern and Western instruments. h Birds in Warped Time II by Somei Satoh. ![]()
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