Jia Pengfang

Name: Jia Pengfang Gender: Male Birthplace: Birthday: April 1958 Erhu player. Member of Chinese Musicians Association and Japan Oriental Music Society. Influenced by his brother since childhood, he started learning Erhu at the age of 8. In 1978, he joined the China National Traditional Orchestra. In 1979, he began to serve as the erhu soloist of the troupe, and in 1984, he became the deputy principal of the troupe's national orchestra. Since 1980, he has recorded many Erhu solos for Beijing People's Broadcasting Station, Central People's Broadcasting Station, China Radio International, etc. In 1988, the Central People's Broadcasting Station's music program "China Music Circle" featured his Erhu, Gaohu, Banhu and Jinghu solos. China Radio International introduced the music he played to various countries in English, Japanese and other languages. China's "Talent" magazine conducted an exclusive interview with him and published his journey of success. The overseas edition of "China Pictorial" also featured his artistic activities in China and after his stay in Japan in the art column. In 1990, China Musicians Audio and Video Publishing House and China International Station Audio and Video Publishing House published erhu solo album recordings titled "The Moon A Thousand Miles Away" and "Wedding Farewell" respectively. Studied in Japan in 1988. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, the highest institution of art in Japan, where he studied musicology and received a master's degree. After traveling to Japan, he served as a soloist many times in the laser disc recording work of the famous Japanese composer Katsuhisa Hattori. He was appointed as a permanent guest performer in his concerts, and the live concerts were broadcast many times by Japan's NHK TV station TBS. He has recorded music for many movies and TV series such as "Sad City", "Chinese Poetry Journey", "Beijing's Thousand-Year City" and "Forbidden City". In addition, he is also active on music stages across Japan, such as appearing in the "Japan Hiroshima Peace Music Festival" and "Asia Music Festival". In 1993, he held a solo concert in Tokyo. It received critical acclaim from the music industry. In the same year, at the invitation of the Singapore Southern Art Research Association, he went to Singapore to give lectures. In 1994, the Japanese JVC record company published a Chinese string solo CD titled "Hua Xian" in which he performed. In the same year, he held his second solo concert in Tokyo. In 1995, Japan's Crown Records released his second CD of his performance. In the same year, he toured Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and other countries with the Asian Fantasy Orchestra (afo). In the same year, he won the Japan Asahi Music Award. From 1996 to 1997, he performed with the Honolulu Orchestra of Hawaii for two consecutive years. In September 1997, he also collaborated with the New York Pops Orchestra to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York. As a main performer with the Asian Fantasy Orchestra (AFO), from March to April 1998, he toured in India, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan and other countries. In February of the same year, Japan's Columbia Records released a CD of ambient music titled "Eternal Landscape" that he performed. In August of the same year, Japan's Pacific Moon Records released a CD of his performance titled "River". In October of the same year, the "10th Anniversary of Coming to Japan and the 20th Anniversary of the Performer's Life" solo concerts were held in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan respectively. Now he is actively cooperating with Japanese classical, pop, jazz and other music performers, making unremitting efforts to open up new fields of erhu performance. In addition, he was invited by the Nippon Music University to hold lectures such as "On the Development of Chinese National Music" at the university. At the same time, in order to introduce Chinese folk music, he also organized Chinese folk music performers in Japan, established the Tianhua Art Troupe, served as music supervisor, and was active on music stages across Japan.