China's national first-class musician Wu Yuxia performs pipa at a concert Photo: Courtesy of Wu Yuxia Once a little girl watching her teachers craft pipa fingernails with electric soldering irons and ...

The woman now considered the world’s greatest pipa player spent years asking herself, “What am I going to do?” Wu Man, now 54 years old, was the first person to get a master’s degree in her instrument ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A simple visit to a school. That's all it took. With that, a major artist from India set a little girl in China dreaming about a career in the United States. Little could sitar ...

Wu Man's musical journey has taken her from the Chinese city of Hangzhou (where she was born), to Beijing (where she studied), to San Diego (where she now lives). Her traveling companion on this ...

Every autumn I devote extensive coverage in this column to Bloomington’s Lotus World Music and Arts Festival. I was recently surprised and excited to find out that Lotus Fest is just one element of ...

It has become a bit of a cliché for artists to say they will take audiences “on a journey.” But Wu Man can say this without much in the way of metaphorical stretching. Musically, her upcoming concert ...

Wu Man, "the world's finest player of the pipa" (The New York Times), is joined by one of her Silkroad Ensemble bandmates, shakuhachi virtuoso Kojiro Umezaki, on a new album, Flow (流芳), released by In ...

With flawless technique and depth, a classical music grandmaster shows how his art has seasoned with age. Lui Pui-yuen, a living legend in traditional Chinese music, treated a packed house yesterday ...

The first time I saw Wu Man play the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage, time seemed to stop. I stood silently and slack-jawed, watching her left hand dart along the instrument ...