Yu Hongmei

Artistic Adviser, erhu

A graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Yu Hongmei is one of the most brilliant erhu virtuosos as well as the most influential erhu educator in contemporary China. She is an educator, professor, graduate supervisor and director of the Chinese Music Department at the Central Conservatory of Music.

Yu Hongmei maintains an active solo career in erhu performing. She has toured Europe, America, Africa, and many regions in Asia, and has successfully held hundreds of recitals in the United States, France, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Her album String Glamour won the Indie Award for Best Traditional World Music award by Indie Music in the United States. She was the first Chinese recipient honored for this award in its 30-year history.

Yu Hongmei has premiered many classic erhu works and core repertoires, and has produced exemplary works embodying different times in Chinese history: Dreams of Jinghua, Eight Banners, Tianxiang, and West Rhapsody. She has appeared in many world-class concert halls: Musikverein (Golden Hall in Vienna), Carnegie Hall in New York, Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and Lucerne Concert Hall at KKL Luzern. She has participated in many major performance events, such as American Culture in China, New Culture in Australia with Chinese Culture, Spring Prague in the Czech Republic, Chinese Arts Festival, Beijing International Music Festival, Shanghai International Arts Festival, German Music Festival, and the Macao Arts Festival.

As an educator, Yu Hongmei recorded Erhu by Maestros, and edited and published Collections of Erhu Works presented by China Central Television, the most predominant state television broadcaster. Her publications, such as Dynamics in Erhu Performance and How to Play a Flower (an erhu piece by Song Fei), are well recognized and widely cited in Chinese music journals. Yu Hongmei has been invited to lecture at various institutions, including the California Institute of the Arts and the City University of Hong Kong.

The New York Concert Journal complimented Yu Hongmei on her exquisite touching sounds as she “represents the contemporary spirit of Chinese musical culture.” Joining the US-China Music Institute of Bard Conservatory of Music, Yu Hongmei continues committing herself to preserving cultural heritage, and promoting and developing Chinese music in America.

于红梅
艺术顾问，二胡教授 

于红梅，毕业于中央音乐学院，是当代最杰出的二胡演奏家之一，同时也是中国最具影响力的二胡教育家。她现任中央音乐学院教授、博士生导师，并担任该院中国音乐系主任。

在演奏方面，于红梅保持着活跃的独奏生涯，足迹遍及欧洲、美洲、非洲及亚洲多个地区，曾在美国、法国、加拿大、日本、香港及中国大陆成功举办了数百场个人音乐会。她的专辑《弦舞》荣获美国Indie Music颁发的“世界民族传统音乐最佳专辑奖”，她也是该奖项设立三十年来首位获得此殊荣的中国艺术家。

她首演了多部重要的二胡作品，代表了不同时代的艺术风貌，包括《追梦京华》《八阕》《天香》《西口狂想》等。她曾登上世界众多著名音乐厅的舞台演出，包括维也纳金色大厅、纽约卡内基音乐厅、林肯中心艾弗里·费舍音乐厅、华盛顿肯尼迪艺术中心、巴黎香榭丽舍剧院，以及瑞士卢塞恩KKL音乐厅。

她亦频繁受邀参加国际重要演出活动，如“中国文化美国行”、“澳大利亚新文化中国行”、捷克布拉格之春音乐节、中国艺术节、北京国际音乐节、上海国际艺术节、德国音乐节和澳门艺术节等。

在教育方面，她录制了《名家教二胡》，并主编、出版了由中国中央电视台推出的《二胡作品集》。她的研究著作《二胡演奏中的力度变化》和《“一枝花”的演奏法》被广泛引用于中国音乐类学术期刊。她曾应邀在美国加州艺术学院、香港城市大学等院校进行讲学。

《纽约音乐会杂志》称赞她的演奏“音色动人、触感细腻”，称她“代表了中国当代音乐文化的精神”。如今，作为美国巴德学院中美音乐学院的客座教授，于红梅持续致力于中国传统音乐的国际传播与发展，在中美之间架起了文化理解与交流的桥梁。