Australian Chinese Music Ensemble
Comprising Wang Zheng-Ting (sheng), Dong Qiuming (dizi), Tao Wennliang (erhu), and Gu Chuen (yangqin) and founded in 1989, the ensemble's musical skill and mastery of both traditional and contemporary Chinese music has taken it to many festivals throughout Australia.
The list includes Melbourne International Festival, the Port Fairy Festival, the Adelaide Festival, the World of Music Festival in Brisbane, Carnivale and Asia Festival in NSW, Canberra's National Folk Festival and the Launceston Festival. In 1995 it was invited to perform in Taipei. It is directed by Wang Zheng-Ting who has toured the U.S giving solo sheng concerts.
Australian Chinese Music Ensemble appears on
Scent of Time
Six Australian composers take Asian instruments and voices beyond their own traditions. From dan tranh and sheng to shakuhachi and erhu, the programme is cross-cultural concert music at its most exploratory.
Recorded Messages: Violin
Composer Eve Duncan commissioned violinists in Austria, China, Japan and Australia to record her works, gathering solo, duo, quartet and ensemble pieces onto this cross-cultural violin programme.
The Marvellous World of George Dreyfus, Vol. 2
The second volume of marvellous music from one of Australia’s favourite composers, George Dreyfus. The programme ranges across folk ballads, choral suites, film and television themes, chamber works and solo showpieces, and gives a clear view of his many-sided craft.
Members of Australian Chinese Music Ensemble
Wang Zheng-Ting
Wang Zheng Ting is a composer and master performer of the sheng (Chinese mouth organ). He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and had performed with many leading Chinese orchestras before migrated to Australia in the late 1980s.
