Xia Bing
Gu Zheng Virtuoso and Teacher
Ms. Xia's Guzheng Solo CD,
The Rising Moon, is now available!
Ms. Bing Xia, Artistic Director of the Washington Guzheng
Society, is a well-known Guzheng soloist and teacher in
China
and the Washington DC area. Started Guzheng lessons at the age
of 8, Ms. Xia was majored in Guzheng performance at Nanjing Normal
University, and learned
from virtuoso, professor Yan, Ai-Hua. After graduating from Nanjing Normal
University, she pursued
advanced studies in Guzheng performance at the Shanghai Conservatory
of Music with Professor He Baoquan. Her professional career began as
a Guzheng soloist in the Xuzhou city
Song and Dance Ensemble in Juangsu Province, China. Since then, Ms. Xia and her
students have won a number of awards in national Guzheng
competitions. In 1996, she was honored nationally as a prominent
Guzheng teacher.
After moving to the United States,
Ms. Bing Xia was a featured performer in the "Music in the Age of
Confucius" program presented by the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in the summer of 2000, and in the
"Asian Song Festival" at the
Kennedy
Center in the May of 2003.
Ms. Xia has also performed as a soloist for many concerts and
special events throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area,
Richmond in Virginia, Pittsburg in Pennsylvania including the first
Chinese cultural festival and the Washington Millennium Celebration
in 2000, the DC City Council, the Department of Energy, the IMF, the
FCC, the FDA, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of
Maryland, the Strathmore Music Center, the Export-Import Bank of the
United States, the Secret Service, the George Mason University, the
Black Rock Performing Arts Center. In January of 2009, she performed
at Smithsonian Institution supported by Presidential Inaugural
Committee. She was also a featured performer in a concert held by
the Embassy of the People's Republic of
China
for vice premier Qian Qichen and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
She gave a lecture at
University
of Maryland and
UMUC. Her performances have been highly praised by Washington Post
critics, "The overwhelming artistry of guzheng soloist Bing Xia will
long resound in this reviewer's memory." Her performances have been
broadcast by both NPR and Voice of America nationwide.
Contact Ms.
Xia to arrange your Guzheng lesson.
