Tang Feng
Tang Feng has been awarded the title of National First-Class Performer, is a Vice-President of the China National Traditional Orchestra (CNTO), a recipient of the National Special Grant Programme, and other honours awarded by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.
He began studying the erhu at the age of 7 and graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in 1990. In the same year, he joined the CNTO, and six years later, at the age of 28, he became principal violinist, the youngest musician in the orchestra’s history. In 1998, he participated in the first Chinese New Year Ethnic Music Concert as a National First-Class Performer. In the years 1996–2002, he was the principal musician of the Asian Orchestra, which was composed of artists from China, Japan and South Korea.
As a soloist, he has performed at home and abroad with renowned orchestras such as the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, Guangdong National Orchestra, Tianjin Song and Dance Theatre National Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra, Hsinchu Youth Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Youth Chinese Orchestra and many others.
As principal musician and soloist of the CNTO, he has performed in more than thirty countries in Europe, America, Asia and Africa in many prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein in Vienna, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Odeon Herod Atticus in Athens and Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (Japan), contributing significantly to the global promotion of Chinese traditional music.
In 2023, at the opening ceremony of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Spain, he performed Sunshine Forever Shines on Our Friendship with Spanish musicians. In front of the Egyptian pyramids, he successfully performed Horse Racing with the CNTO. The artist also took part in the opening of the ‘Oriental Melody’ International Music Festival organised by UNESCO in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), where he received the Highest Achievement Award, the only award for an instrumental performance. Mountain Song, his solo composition for erhu won the Best Composition Award at the Fule Tong Cup International Chinese National Instrumental Solo Competition.
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