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Haiqiong Deng, a performer on the traditional Chinese
instrument the zheng (or gu--zheng), was the winner
of the Outstanding Performance Prize at the Chinese
National zheng Competition in Shanghai. She made her
professional début in Beijing in 1997. Since
that time she has developed an international reputation
as zheng soloist and chamber musician with numerous
performances throughout China, Japan, Singapore and
the United States. Her instrument, the zheng or gu-zheng
is a 21 or 26-string plucked instrument with moveable
bridges for each string, and is the ancestor of the
Japanese koto and Korean kayagum. Since 2001, she has
performed in numerous works in music festivals and invited
to give performance and lectures at various universities,
museums, and national/regional conferences in the United
States that include: the 2000 World Music Festival in
Chicago, Lotus World Music Festival in Bloomington;
the 2003/2005 the Festival of New Music at Florida State
University, the 2002/2003 Region IV Conference Festival
of Contemporary Music in Memphis, 2003 national College
Music Society conference in Miami, 2004 The College
Music Society National Conference in San Francisco;
2005 Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra, the Presidential
Concert Series at Middle Tennessee State University,
the Concert-Lecture Series at Carson Newman College
and Guest artist at Darton College. Her Carnegie Hall
début recital in 2003 included two world premieres:
Dots, Lines, Convergence by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, a
concerto for zheng and chamber ensemble commissioned
by the Harvard Fromm Foundation, and CRUSH, a duo for
zheng and soprano saxophone by Michael Sidney Timpson.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Tallahassee Symphony
Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore
Chinese Orchestra, and the Singapore City Orchestra.
Recently, Haiqiong expends her musical expressions within
Indian classical music under the instruction of Indian
sitarist, Nalini Vinayak. |
Haiqiong released her solo CD, Ning – Chinese
Zheng Solo by Haiqiong Deng, in September 2002 by
the Celebrity Music Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. She also
appeared as a soloist in Out of Tang Court by composer
Zhou Long in Evelyn Glennie’s CD, Oriental Landscapes,
with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Tales From
the Cave, with Music from China.
Haiqiong received her Bachelor
of music degree in zheng performance from the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music and Master of Arts in Arts Administration
and Ethnomusicology from the Florida State University
College of Music. She is currently the Director of
the Chinese Music Ensemble at the Florida State University.
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has received many honors and grants from various organizations
including the Tallahassee Music Association, Tallahassee
Music Guild, the Florida State University School of
Music, Singapore Arts Council, Singapore Lee Foundation,
Shanghai Gu-zheng Association, and Shanghai Conservatory
of Music. |
Updated
upcoming events:
• October 1, 2006, “Moonlight Concert”,
Lexington, KY
• October 8, 2006, Guest Artist and Lecturer,
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL |
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