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This May marked Silk Screen’s third and
most successful Asian Film Festival. Now, the Asian Arts
Organization is expanding to showcase artists, dancers,
filmmakers and musicians throughout the year. This
September, Silk Screen will present a concert by the
world-renowned Min Xiao-Fen and her Blue Pipa Trio in what
promises to be an exciting evening of cultural fusion and
cohesion.
Blue Pipa is a New York City based trio and non-profit organization
dedicated to the exploration and promotion of traditional
and modern cultural music. The group’s musical
experimentation features the Pipa, a plucked Chinese string
instrument similar to the lute. The Blue Pipa Trio plays Min
Xiao-Fen's compositions and arrangements, interpreting and
improvising Chinese folk music,?American Jazz and?Bluegrass.
The trio includes Dean Johnson on the bass and guitarist
Steve Salermo.
Min Xiao-Fen is a critically acclaimed pipa player who came to the
United States from China in the early 90s and achieved
musical fame. She has given solo performances in Brussels,
Vienna and New York. Min became the first Chinese musician
invited to play at Jazz at the Lincoln Center where she
performed a solo set of the music of Thelonious Monk. Last
year, Ms. Min was a featured composer and performer for the
American Composers Orchestra’s “Composer Out Front” project.
She participated in the Pacific Symphony's American
Composers Festival 2004 alongside Yo-Yo Ma and worked on
Bjork’s recent album Volta on the song “I See Who You Are.”
She was last in Pittsburgh for the Opera Theater’s
Production of a Philip Glass opera Sound of a Voice in 2007.
She will play traditional pipa solo repertoire and Haung Ruo's new
piece for solo pipa "Written on the Wind" for the Silk
Screen concert.
The concert will take place downtown at CAPA (111 Ninth
Street), Saturday, September 27, at 7 PM. Tickets will be
available at the door or online starting August 1st at
www.silkscreenfestival.org, www.proartstickets.org or by
phone at 412-394-3353. Tickets purchased before September 20
are $20, and $25 after. Student and senior tickets are $15
with valid ID. Discounts are available for groups of ten or
more.
More information about Min Xiao-Fen and the Blue Pipa Trio as well
as audio samples can be found at www.bluepipa.org.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rachel Shepherd
Rshepherd@silkcreenfestival.org
412-322-3300 x 114
Mimi Jong mljarchitects@comcast.net |
