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Film, Video Conversation with Chao Tian, Chinese Dulcimer Master

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Title

  • Conversation with Chao Tian, Chinese Dulcimer Master

Summary

  • Chao Tian is a master of the Chinese hammered dulcimer, as well as a sound designer and visual artist. Her creative interests include synesthesia in cross-disciplinary collaboration; interplay between visual art and music; applying Chinese musical vocabulary and philosophy to improvisation; and the use of music in conflict resolution and healing. She enjoys working across creative genres and creating multidimensional experiences for audiences. Chao Tian's music reflects her role as a leader of a younger generation of Chinese musicians. She began playing at age 5, and at age 12 she gained entrance to the Affiliated Middle School of the China Conservatory of Music. Later, she attended the conservatory itself, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Musical Performance in 2010. Chao has performed in over 30 different countries and regions across the globe and collaborated with numerous talented musicians in many groundbreaking projects. Her reputation grew in the United States in 2015, when she was accepted into the prestigious Artist in Residence program at Strathmore Music Center, where she became fascinated by many cultures and expanded her creative imagination.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-06-22.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown from Home. 82
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Steven Winick, Chao Tian.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-06-22.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697967

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Chao Tian, Chinese Dulcimer Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-22, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697967/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2022) Conversation with Chao Tian, Chinese Dulcimer Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-22. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697967/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Chao Tian, Chinese Dulcimer Master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-22, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697967/>.