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FAN-QI WU
Pipa
Fan-Qi is a Pipa player from Taiwan. She is currently based in Sweden, pursuing her Master degree at Högskolan för scen och musik, Göteborgs university.
Fan-Qi is an award-winning musician who has been invited to cooperate with many orchestras as a soloist including TYCO chinese orchestra, TCO Teacher chinese orcestra and NTNU symphony orchestra. After she won the first prize in National Pipa competition in 2019, she started to immersed herself in improvisation and world music, hoping to connect with the world through her instrument—the Pipa
Influenced and inspired by minimalism music, Nordic Jazz, and folk music, Fan-Qi has absorbed diverse vocabularies and developed her own voice in an eclectic, poetic, and spacious way. Her groundbreaking exploration of Pipa extends the possibilities of pipa music, creating an innovative, unique bridge between different cultures. Besides her solo works, she is also a member of Mykorhiza, PIPA-ensemble and the holder of Hsing Tian Kong Long-Term Fellowship for Special talented Students.