Chinese female musicians change classical music culture from a new perspective

New York, known as a "metropolis", has always been the center of culture and art in the world. Today, it brings together the world's top classical music performers and creative talents. All along, students from various countries have come to New York with their own music dreams to receive the most orthodox and original music education at the same time. In Brooklyn, New York, a young Chinese girl with the same dream encountered a problem that made her ponder over and over while instructing her students to play the piano.

Huang Guanhua (stage name Huang Huaiyi) is a viola player in the United States. on weekdays, in addition to individual and orchestra performance activities, she is also keen to teach her enthusiasm for music performance to the younger generation of students. Over the years, in the process of mentoring young piano children, she noticed that she was impressed that they wanted to play more pop music and film and television music than classical music. Huang Guanhua soon realized that the repertoire that students wanted to learn and play, whether it was European and American pop songs or Japanese and Korean film and television music, seldom belonged to the Chinese. Although it is not difficult for her with excellent professional and technical skills to instruct piano children to learn these music, she feels very sad that she is unable to play music of her own cultural background with the instruments in her hands. More unfortunately, no matter in the field of publishing records or online music, there are no works with similar feelings and beautiful melodies that can really attract the attention of the younger generation of music lovers.

as a viola player, Huang Guanhua has accumulated rich experience in playing and recording in his career for many years. Her professional performance level is excellent, she has won the highest performance scholarship from the School of Music of New York University (New York University), and has participated in large-scale mainstream music festivals with strict selection held in Prague, South Korea, Norway and other places. At the same time, Huang Guanhua is not content with traditional concert repertoire. She is actively involved in cross-border music, recording viola solos for the promotional film of Harper's Bazaar Magazine's major charity gala in Shanghai in 2017, and recording all the soundtracks of millions-selling featured games by gaming company Rayark Games. Despite so many successful experiences, Huang Guanhua is still deeply pondered from time to time: what contribution can she make to this society and to the cultural traditions she has inherited? After nearly a year of thinking, she decided to produce and publish a picture that truly expresses her musical ideas. Viola album expressing pure and strong Chinese culture and Asian cultural tradition:

Chinese traveling beauty violinist Huang Guanhua recorded himself. The silhouette of the recording process of the album "the end of Music"

Huang Guanhua thinks The characteristics of the album "the end of the Song" should focus on the beautiful melody, easy to understand, fluent and not vulgar, so that the sound of the piano can be transformed into language and place one's own thinking on music and culture. The album repertoire includes a variety of musical styles, ranging from classical meditation to film soundtrack-like momentum, from deep attachment to hometown and city to emotional romantic arias. As an album performer and producer, Huang Guanhua uses her own musical instruments to perform a series of sad or romantic or melodious or majestic works with her pure heart, and at the same time projects her mental journey of many years in the United States. She once said: "New York is a city that can magnify its own personality characteristics and sensory feelings. Learning, playing, living and experiencing the joys and sorrows it brings to itself is a part of music life."

in order to produce the album "the end of Music", Huang Guanhua specially invited a number of well-known composers living in New York to create music together. They include composer Liu Yu, who represented China in the finals of the Ravel International composition Competition, Hollywood composer Huang Weiheng, famous Korean composer Kim Xinyuan, and Japanese composer Yoshida Akiyama. The album producer is co-performed by Sun Shaoting, the only Chinese recording engineer at Carnegie Hall in New York, and Huang Guanhua himself. At the same time, she also invited a number of top musicians to participate in the solo recording of the album, including Wang Liang, principal oboe performer of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, famous jazz clarinetist Adrian Cunningham, and guitarist Ham Choon-Ho, who wrote the soundtrack for the film and TV series "Love Blue". The accompaniment part of the album was recorded by the New York Film Symphony Orchestra.

the end of the song is recorded behind the scenes-upper left Huang Guanhua and recording producer Sun Shaoting, upper right New York string Orchestra recording in Manhattan, New York, lower left by blue life-and-death guitarist Ham Choon-Ho in Seoul, South Korea. The bottom right is recorded by Wang Liang, chief of the New York Philharmonic oboe

after a year of preliminary preparation and two years and three months of centralized production, this album, which has devoted all the painstaking efforts of the performers, has finally been successfully completed. Huang Guanhua believes that the real achievement of something to be proud of lies not only in the price he has paid, but also in the spirit and persistence as an artist behind it. Through this album, she hopes to let more people understand and listen to the music that belongs to their own cultural heritage, so that more young students and piano children can pick up musical instruments to hone their skills out of true love, and let more pure notes flow out of the fingertips of the Chinese and pass them on to the world.

the album "the end of Music" is expected to be released in mid-April 2018.