zhou WANG

GUZHENG

A respected performer of the Shanxi zheng genre, Zhou Wang is a professor of guzheng at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, and director of the conservatory's Chinese Music Department. She also serves as vice president of the China Guzheng Society.

Zhou Wang learned from her father Zhou Yanjia, a world-class musician in the Qin (Shanxi) zheng genre. She then studied with Maestros Zicheng Gao, Zheng Cao, Sihua Xiang, Xiuming Yang, Shange Fan, and Zhaoyuan Shi, combining north-south flavors and inheriting the true art of zheng playing from different genres. She joined the Central Song and Dance Troupe in 1977, and has been an active performer in China and abroad. She was invited by the National Record Association to record The Tune of Qin Mulberry, a classical masterpiece of the Shanxi genre.

As a musical ambassador and soloist, Zhou Wang has toured internationally on behalf of China's Ministry of Culture on many occasions. As a scholar of musical exchange, she has given lectures at various institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, she held a zheng recital at Carnegie Hall.
 
Zhou Wang has served as judge and chairperson for many national and international competitions: the Golden Bell Award, Mandarin Award, Central China Television, National Chinese Instrument Competition, and Hong Kong International Zheng Competition. Throughout her more than 40 years of teaching she has fostered many outstanding young guzheng players, who have won prizes in major competitions around the world. Many of them maintain careers as educators, teaching the next generation of guzheng musicians.

In promoting Chinese music, Professor Zhou Wang has published recordings of many core classical repertoires, such as High Mountain and Running River, and albums featuring traditional guzheng solo works—Famous Melody of the North, Geniuses Traditional Zheng—as well as course materials for the Central Conservatory of Music. Her publication Qin Zheng Qin Ren Qin Sheng has been widely cited in Chinese musical journals.

Zhou Wang also arranges and composes traditional and contemporary zheng musical works. She arranged the Shanxi genre pieces “Huan Music,” “Lao Long Cries the Sea,” and “Ming Fei’s Resentment” (a guzheng and erhu duet). Together with Professor Zhenyu Huang, she has composed the contemporary zheng pieces “Fantasia in the West,” “Reflection,” and “Slowly Voice.”

周望
古筝教授
 

周望教授是山西派古筝艺术的杰出传承人，现任中央音乐学院古筝教授、中国民族器乐系主任，并兼任中国古筝学会副会长。

周望自幼随父——山西派古筝大家周延甲先生学习古筝，后又师承高自成、曹正、项斯华、杨秀明、范上娥、等名家，兼收南北诸派之长，全面继承并发展了中国古筝艺术的精粹。1977年，她进入中央歌舞团任古筝演奏员，长期活跃于国内外演出舞台。

作为国家文化部派出的文化使者，周望曾多次代表中国赴海外演出，进行文化交流，举办独奏音乐会。她也曾以学者身份在麻省理工学院（MIT）等高等学府讲学，2014年在纽约卡内基音乐厅举办了专场古筝独奏音乐会。

周望多次担任重要古筝赛事的评委及主席，包括中国音乐金钟奖、华乐奖、中央电视台民族器乐大赛、全国民族器乐比赛、香港国际古筝比赛等。她从教四十余年，培养出大批优秀古筝演奏人才，众多学生在世界范围内的重大比赛中获奖，并担任教育工作，继续推广古筝艺术。

在推动中国传统音乐传播方面，周望出版了诸多经典古筝作品唱片，如《高山流水》《名家名曲·北派古筝精髓》《传统古筝专辑》，并主编中央音乐学院古筝教学系列教材。她的学术著作《秦筝．秦人．秦声》被多家专业音乐期刊引用，成为研究古筝艺术的重要资料。

此外，周望还致力于传统与现代古筝作品的改编与创作。她改编并演绎了山西派代表作品《欢音曲》《老龙哭海》《明妃怨》（与二胡合奏），并与黄枕宇老师共同创作古筝曲《西部主题畅想曲》、《声声慢》、《映像》，展现出她对古筝艺术不断探索与创新的精神。