Min Xiao-Fen   Ensembles

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Min Xiao-Fen, a breathtaking virtuoso and courageous pioneer in both orchestral and underground projects, plays traditional and modern composition and her interpretations of the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, as well as her own experimental music for the pipa.

She played solo concerts at the Utrecht International Lute Festival, the Vienna Music Festival, the Brussels Lute Festival and the New York Guitar Festival and performed a solo set of the music of Thelonious Monk for Jazz at Lincoln Center.
 

REPERTOIRE   selection

Flying Flowers Touching the Green

Traditional lyrical

Song of the Northern Frontier

Traditional lyrical

Jackdaws Playing in the Water 

Traditional lyrical

King Chu Sheds His Armor

Traditional martial

Ambush from all Sides

Traditional martial

The Moon Rising

Traditional lyrical

Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night

Traditional lyrical

Sunny Spring, White Snow

Traditional lyrical

Three and Six

Southern Folk Music

Thunder after the Dry Season

Cantonese Folk Music

REPERTOIRE  selection of compositions and arrangements

Satin Doll, Shanghai Doll  pipa & vocal

All Blues

Red Haired Boy

Ask Me Now

Thelonious Monk  Arr. Min Xiao Fen

North of the Sunset

Thelonious Monk  Arr. Min Xiao Fen

Lake Biwa a Full Moon Pure Water Gold

Ismail Wadada & Leo Smith

Duo Ye

Chen Yi

The Points

Chen Yi

The Pipa

Hsu Po-Yun

Dance of the Yi People

Wang Hui-Ran

A Hero  pipa & vocal

Min Xiao-Fen

Crepuscule with Nellie

Thelonious Monk  Arr. Min Xiao Fen

The Sound of a Voice

Philip Glass

Cannel Street Operas

Min Xiao-Fen

Terrain

Min Xiao-Fen

Silent Mountain

Xiao-Song Qu