awards     grants & schoolarships     panels & lectures     projects 

productions & performances

Gong Linna: "Jing Ye Si" - CD-production & composition - 2006

Qiu Ji: "Qiu Shuo ..." - CD-production & composition - 2005

Overseas, Filmmusic - 2005

BR (Bavarian Radio): "Schluss mit Lustig", Music for Radioplay - 2005

Gong Linna: "Zou Shengming de Lu" - CD-production & composition - 2004

Martin Mallaun: "zwischen steinen" - CD-production - 2004

BR (Bavarian Radio): "Drei Kinder und ein Stern", Music for Radioplay - 2003

BR (Bavarian Radio): "Regenbogenzeit", Music for Radioplay - 2001

Touring with WU XING - Selection:
Amsterdam China Festival - 2005
WOMEX showcase - 2004
Bardentreffen Nuernberg/Germany - 2003
Festival Mediteran, Izola/Slovenia - 2003

Selected festival Solo performances:
Musiques sur L'ile, Nantes/France - 2002
Festival de L'Imaginaire - Paris,France - 2001
Kaltenberg Music Festival - Kaltenberg, Germany - 2000
Tanz & Folk Festival Rudolstadt - Rudolstadt, Germany – 2000
Warszawa Music Festival - Warsaw, Poland – 2000

Touring as bandleader for Urna & Ensemble, 1994 – 2001
(concerts and festivals in Taiwan, USA, Russia, China, Holland, Germany, Spain,
Slovenia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Croatia, Poland, Portugal, Belgium)

Touring with Eurasian Art Ensemble – 1998

Touring with Ensemble, Omen - 1996
traditional Chinese Music and self compositions with Chinese musicians

Concert tour with Mongolian musicians in Beijing and Shanghai – 1994
(Beijing jazz festival)

Concer tour with avantgarde jazz ensemble SHESH – 1993-95:
Posen Jazz Festival, Jazzweek Hannover, Nordjazzfestival Westerstede, Jazz nad Orda

Concert tour with trio Lamayuru (avantgarde jazz) - 1992:
Jazz Festival Jena, Intl. Days of Zither Music Germany, Frankfurt Music Mess

Featured Soloist in concerts with the Norddeutsche Vocalconcertisten – 1992
Self arrangements of Renaissance compositions and self compositions

 

awards (top)

Recipient: Berlin World Music Award, Musica Vitale - 2000

Recipient: German Folk Förderpreis Award - 1999

 

grants & schoolarships (top)

Founding of the Eurasian Art Ensemble with musicians from China, Russia,
Czech Republic & Germany funded w/ grant from the Berlin Senate - 1997

Received grant from the Berlin Senate, Berlin, Germany to
compose pieces for Chinese instruments - 1995

Received grant from Government of Niedersachsen,
Germany for artistic merit with Shesh - 1994

Received scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service
for studying the Chinese zither (Guqin) in Shanghai - 1993-94

 

panels & lectures (top)

Central Conservatory of China, Beijing: lecture & panel discussion on Chinese Art Music, 2006

CHIME 2005: Lecture on development of New Art Music in China

WOMEX 2005: Culture, Kitsch & Pirate Copy
(Music and Records in China)

Head of Jury: German Folk Award RUTH - 2002/2003

Jury member: German Music Instrument Award
Germany - 2001

Lecture on Experiences with World Music in China,
Mongolia and Tibet at WOMEX - Rotterdam/Holland - 2001

Jury member: German Folk Förderpreis Award - Rudolstadt, Germany - 2001

Radio programs about Tibetan Folk Music for German national radios - 2000

Lectures on Life and Music in the Ordos Grassland, Inner Mongolia - 1997

Guest Lecturer for Music theory at Bundesakademie für
musikalische Jugendbildung in Trossingen/Germany - 1997

Jury member: Jazzpodium - Niedersachsen, Germany - 1996

Lecture on own composition at Music conservatory Hannover, Germany - 1995

Jury member: German Musicinstrument Award
Germany - 1992

 

projects (top)

Design and construction of a new model of zither - 2001

Project: Tanning in Inner Mongolia:Introduction of new
leather tanning methods after traditional methods have been lost - 1999

Producer: Tibetan Folk Music (Ethnographical CD Recording)
for Cultural Centre for Traditional Music Lhasa, Tibet - 1998

Composition and première of Phase V - A quartet for four zithers - 1998

Tibet: Organization of concerts in Lhasa, revival of Nangma-tradition - 1997

Project: Meeting China: Four weeks of music in Beijing
with various Chinese musicians - 1995

Foundation of Gaoshan Liushui (later renamed Crossing) in Shanghai
(Ethno fusion with traditional Chinese and western instruments) - 1994

Design and construction of an electric zither - 1992