Qui-Xia He

You can find few players from the four-string Chinese lute, the pipa, presently located in Canada, but musician Qui Xie He’s an exception. He originally comes from Bao Ji, China, where she went to music college, learning both music theory as well as the pipa. At that time in China, the only path to not become ordered to focus on a collective plantation was to become professional musician, and He find the second option option; she remaining school at age 13 to to remain using the Bao Ji Music Dance and Music Troupe. Until she was 20, He performed a huge selection of concerts around China using the troupe, before enrolling in the esteemed Xian Academy of Music, where she ultimately became a instructor after graduating in 1987. In 1989, He found Canada to get a performance in the Vancouver Folk Music Event, and opted to remain behind and live there; even though she didn’t learn how to speak British and didn’t understand anyone there. Nonetheless it didn’t consider miss He to become featured soloist using the Vancouver Symphony, furthermore to touring using the Ptarmigan Music and Theater Society, as well as gaining a Juno award nomination as an associate from the worldbeat collective, ASZA. 1991 found He organize a community forum called Silk Street Music, whose objective was to discover other Chinese music artists in the Vancouver region therefore they could “continue the musical professions they had left out when emigrating from China.” He shortly fulfilled such fellow Chinese language music artists as Shirley Yuan and Zhi Min Yu (who play the erhu as well as the ruan, respectively), which resulted in the trio playing frequently collectively. He, Yan, and Yu ultimately recorded an recording independently, titled Unlimited, which also presented insight by Brazilian jazz guitarist Celso Machado, Irish multi-instrumentalist Loretto Reid, jazz bassist Rene Most severe, and Chinese language flute participant Chai-man Cheng. He in addition has made an appearance on recordings by additional performers (Oscar Lopez’ Seduction and Tag Armanini’s The Heart Emerges), is normally a creator/musical director of the Vancouver concert series known as Enchanted Evenings, and can be an musician in residence using the Vancouver School Plank.