美国 U.S.A. / 德国 Germany
场地 Venue
华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场 B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT
演出者 Artists
闵小芬 Min Xiaofen – 琵琶 Pipa / 中阮 Ruan / 人声 Vocals
吴巍 Wu Wei – 笙 Sheng / 装置二胡 Repatur Erhu / 人声 Vocals
徐凤霞 Xu Fengxia – 三弦 Sanxian / 古筝 Guzheng / 人声 Vocals
“名－无－虚”三重奏于2009年成立于荷兰阿姆斯特丹。三位中国当代音乐先锋音乐家——闵小芬、吴巍和徐凤霞，代表着当代中国正在发生的极速变化，他们深深根植于中国传统文化，同时对实验保持着开放的态度，不断探索着音乐的新方向。三重奏运用音乐家“闵小芬－吴巍－徐凤霞”名字来诠释道家的“万物皆无为而有为”的思想。经过对中国传统音乐的多年潜心研习，他们三位已在各自的乐器上造诣颇深。十几年来，他们辛勤耕耘在世界艺术的舞台上，曾在澳大利亚、瑞典和荷兰进行演出，与各领域的艺术家广泛合作，从世界音乐到现代自由即兴皆有所涉猎。虽然来自中国，这次的演出将是“名－无－虚”三重奏在中国的首次亮相。
闵小芬
闵小芬是国际上公认的用琵琶诠释现代音乐及爵士乐的权威演奏家。2004年，她受邀于多伦多国际爵士音乐教育大会（Toronto IAJE International Conference）演出，她是首位受邀的华裔音乐家，并获得了“杰出的爵士教育使者”的殊荣；她也是第一位被美国纽约林肯中心邀请、用中国琵琶来演奏美国著名爵士作曲家Thelonious Monk作品的民乐演奏家。
西方音乐评论家们称她为“跨时代的先锋，将琵琶推向一个崭新的巅峰” ；美国《纽约时报》评论“闵小芬的演奏出神入化，使人屏息，时间留步”；美国《华尔街日报》刊载专文介绍闵小芬：“将中国传统的琵琶演奏与西方爵士乐的即兴演绎相结合，形成的独特音乐风格。……纽约长期以来就是不同文化交汇的平台和个人化音乐表达的助动器，但即使在这样的环境中，闵小芬的故事仍然是独树一帜。”
闵小芬已先后录制了近二十张唱片。她的独奏专辑《月儿高（The Moon Rising）》由英国厂牌Cala Records发行，1996年被《BBC音乐杂志》评为“年度百佳专辑”之一；她与英国著名前卫吉他大师Derek Bailey合作的琵琶与吉他即兴二重奏作品《青花蛇（Viper）》由日本厂牌Avant发行，在1998年被英国《The Wire》杂志评论为“点燃世界的100张最佳专辑之一”；她与爵士钢琴大师Randy Weston合作二重奏“商（Shang）”并录制唱片，于林肯中心演出； 她与John Zorn进行了多次合作，并为他录制了多部电影音乐及唱片；她与Derek Bailey合作录制的第二张即兴二重奏专辑《飞龙（Flying Dragons）》，由英国Incus唱片发行，被加拿大杂志《Coda》评为2002年“全球十佳唱片”之一。
闵小芬曾获得包括来自亚洲文化协会、美国Meet the Composer、The Kitchen、The Peter S. Reed基金会的众多重要国际奖项，曾受邀担任John Zorn的新艺术家空间The Stone和美国华人博物馆的音乐总监，并创作了琵琶独奏系列“毛，蒙克与我（Mao, Monk and Me）”、蓝调琵琶三重奏系列“从哈林区到上海 – 再返回”，以及《龙之归》、《蓝调琵琶》、《鬼面具》等作品。2012年录制个人专辑《点心（Dim Sum）》。
闵小芬现居纽约，是蓝调琵琶艺术团的创办人。
吴巍
旅德音乐家吴巍是活跃于当今国际乐坛的现代派笙演奏家。
吴巍1992年毕业于上海音乐学院笙专业，同年考入上海民族乐团。1995年获得德国DAAD文化交流奖学金赴汉斯․艾斯勒音乐院研习，现定居柏林。
吴巍曾拿下多项国内外比赛的奖项，1996年及2002年分别摘下德国Musica Vitale比赛首奖，2004年再获德国Global Root世界音乐奖。2011年，吴巍于爱丁堡国际艺术节演出陈银淑的笙协奏曲《Šu》（由郑明勋指挥首尔爱乐），获颁先驱天使奖（Herald Angels Award）。
自1996年开始，吴巍以笙独奏家的身份与世界各顶尖乐团合作，如柏林爱乐（长野健指挥）、洛杉矶爱乐（杜达美指挥）、BBC交响（沃可夫指挥）、法国广播爱乐（郑明勋指挥）和东京交响（秋山和庆指挥）等。他演出的足迹遍及美国、加拿大、南美、欧洲、俄罗斯及中东地区，首演作品超过百部，其中包括十首写给笙与乐团的协奏曲；他经常演出现代作曲名家如John Cage、陈银淑（Unsuk Chin）、细川俊夫（Toshio Hosokawa）、Enjott Schneider、Joerg Widmann、Guus Janssen、谭盾、陈其钢、郭文景及黄若等人的作品。
最为人所赞叹的，是吴巍以游刃有余的演绎能力开创性地将现代37簧高音笙融入到即兴音乐、爵士融合音乐、新音乐和极简音乐以及其他许多音乐领域中。吴巍是一位前卫的笙独奏家，他将中国传统音乐透过现代的形式和音乐概念传达，以奇巧新意、过人技巧和不拘流派的高超演奏，让笙这个具有四千年历史的古老乐器摇身一变，成为在当代音乐中令人耳目一新的声音。
徐凤霞
徐凤霞，国际知名的华裔音乐家，精通多种中国民族乐器，包括古筝、三弦、古琴和柳琴等。自上海音乐学院毕业后，她作为三弦独奏加入了著名的上海民族乐团，早在1987年就随乐团进行了德国巡演。
自1991年移居德国后，徐凤霞展开了全新的音乐探索之旅，并发展出独树一帜的个人风格。在传统中国民乐之外，她融合了来自世界各地不同风格的音乐和更为抽象和前卫的元素，也开始将自己独具美感的人声作为声音素材。
她与众多蜚声国际的大师级艺术家有过合作，包括Peter Brötzmann、Joe Fonda、Hamid Drake、Assif Tsahar、Matthias Schubert、Frank Gratkowski、Baby Sommer、Misha Feigin、Michael Heupel、Uwe Oberg、Lê Quan Ninh、Martin Blume、Johannes Bauer、Luc Houtkamp和Wilbert de Joode等。其中，与著名自由爵士低音提琴演奏家Peter Kowald的合作对她产生了深远的影响。她加入了Peter所创立的国际自由即兴乐团Global Village，并成为其核心成员，随乐团在世界各地的众多音乐节登台献演。
她曾获得多个国际奖项，其中包括2009年德国埃森爵士大奖Jazzpott，是首位获此殊荣的华裔音乐家；同年，她与瑞士鼓手Lucas Niggli合作、由Intakt厂牌发行的专辑《Black Lotos》获得德国唱片乐评人奖协会奖（German Record Critics’ Award）。
“Min-Wu-Xu” Trio was founded in Netherlands in 2009. Three pioneers of contemporary Chinese music, Min Xiaofen, Wu Wei and Xu Fengxia, represents the rapid changes occurring in modern China, standing for openness for experiments and new directions in music, but firmly rooted in traditional Chinese culture. The three of them have gone through intensive studies in ancient Chinese music and have become masters on their respective instruments. The trio has staged in Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands. Although originally from China, this will be their first gig in China.
Min Xiao Fen
Hailed by The New York Times as “a pipa player like no other” and the Village Voice as an artist who “has taken her ancient Chinese string instrument into the future”, Min Xiaofen is a master of the pipa, a four-stringed, pear-shaped lute with a 2000-year history.
Known for her virtuosity and fluid style, Min has expanded her instrument’s possibilities as an element for contemporary composition, tacking fluidly between the extended techniques of free improvisation, jazz, full-on noise and contemporary classical vocabulary. Her music interweaves traditional music, regional operas and Taoist music with John Cage, jazz and blues. Her works transcend borders with their own brand of cutting-edge fusion. Min’s treatments of jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, mixed with some of their historical counterparts in 1930s Shanghai nightlife repertoire, led her to be the first Chinese musician invited to perform in a Jazz at Lincoln Center program. Her special interest in trumpeter Buck Clayton’s visits to Shanghai in that time led to her 2014 program with her Blue Pipa Trio. On her latest solo set, “Mao, Monk and Me”, Min investigates the deep and unexpected connections between the jazz standards of Thelonious Monk and Chinese music.
Her 2012 CD, “Dim Sum”, reflects the dues she’s paid and the returns on her investments in her own voice and language. She has worked with many distinguish composers and musicians including John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Tan Dun (谭盾), Chen Yi (陈怡), Zhou Long (周龙), Wadada Leo Smith, Randy Weston, Jane Ira Bloom, Philip Glass, Ned Rothenberg, sound artists Carl Stone and DJ Spooky, as well as sound and visual pioneer Christian Marclay. Min has received awards from Meet the Composer, Asian Cultural Council and The Peter S. Reed Foundation. Min has been a curator at The Stone, John Zorn’s venue, and Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. She is the founder of Blue Pipa Inc. and currently lives in New York City.
Wu Wei
Wu Wei, sheng virtuoso and professor at Shanghai Music Conservatory, born in China, studied at Shanghai Music Conservatory and Hanns Eisler Academy with a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, where he is now based. He has helped to develop the ancient instrument into an innovative force in contemporary music.
In addition to many prestigious national and international competitions for traditional Chinese music, he won the Musica Vitale Competition, Germany, in 1996 and 2002 and the Global Root world music prize in 2004. In 2011 he won the Herald Angels Award by Edinburgh International Festival for composition of Unsuk Chin “Su-Concertro for Sheng” with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chun.
Since 1996 he has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov, the Radio France Philharmoic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chun and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Akiyama Kazuyoshi.
His international engagements include appearances throughout the USA, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia, and the Middle and Far East, and he has given the world premieres of more than 150 works including ten concertos for sheng and orchestra, by composers including John Cage, Unsuk Chin (陈银淑), Hosokawa Toshio (细川俊夫), Enjott Schneider, Joerg Widmann, Guus Janssen, Tan Dun (谭盾), Chen Qigang (陈其钢), Guo Weijing (郭文景) and Ruo Huang (黄若).
Wu Wei is an avant-garde sheng soloist. He has helped to develop this four thousand’s years old ancient instrument into an innovative force in contemporary music, through the creation of new techniques, expanding the new repertories and integrating different styles and genres.
Xu Fengxia
Born in China, Xu Fengxia is an internationally renowned musician who plays traditional Chinese instruments including guzheng, sanxian, guqin and liuqin. After graduated from Shanghai Conservatory, she joined the famous Shanghai Chinese Orchestra as a sanxian soloist and toured Germany with the orchestra as early as 1987.
After having moved to Germany in 1991, Xu Fengxia began to discover new musical ideas and materials. In addition to traditional Chinese music, Xu Fengxia has developed her own personal style of a mixture of elements from different styles of music all over the world to more abstract and avant-garde materials, and in many contexts her own beautiful voice.
She has worked with with various accomplished artists such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe Fonda, Hamid Drake, Assif Tsahar, Matthias Schubert, Frank Gratkowski, Baby Sommer, Misha Feigin, Michael Heupel, Uwe Oberg, Lê Quan Ninh, Martin Blume, Johannes Bauer, Luc Houtkamp, Wilbert de Joode
and many more. A main influence for her was the cooperation with free jazz bass player Peter Kowald in his international improvising ensemble Global Village. She was one of the core member and staged many festivals around the world.
She has received several awards, including the Jazzpott of Essen in 2009 as the first ethnic Chinese musician, and the Award for Best Recording of the German Record Critics’ Award Association in 2009 for CD “Black Lotos” under Intakt, a collaborative work with Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli.
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网站 Websites
闵小芬 Min Xiaofen www.bluepipa.org
吴巍 Wu Wei www.wuweimusic.com
徐凤霞 Xu Fengxia www.xu-music.de
视频 Videos
Min/Wu/Xu
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盘涉调
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Mist on a Hill, played by Min Xiao Fen
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Min Xiao-Fen – ABC (Inspired by John Cage) – Brooklyn Public Library – March 3 2013
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