Projects

A visionary musical project curated by Cheng Yu, Lutes of the Silk Road explores the…

This special event combines a summer school, a guqin music conference, instrumental grading exams and…

Robert Hans van Gulik (1910–1967), Dutch diplomat, musician, writer and sinologist, was a great admirer of traditional Chinese literati culture. Ahead of Fine Chinese Art on 2 November in London, Dr Cheng Yu was invited to play Van Gulik’s 17th-century guqin (zither) and pipa (lute), both brought to the market for the first time.

WOMAD AT HOME: Cheng Yu – Silk Breeze, 15th October 2020, 8pm Cheng Yu &…

The orchestra launched in 2019 with a week’s residency in The Pit at the Barbican Centre, London, leading to three sold-out performances. The vision is of an orchestra originating in multi-cultural London, and Berlin, reaching out to the world, an orchestra without boundaries. Musicians from North, South, East and West are welcome and it is inclusive, with a gender balance, and it is 50% BAME and aged from 17-70. The orchestra is not about ‘fusion’. Rather welcoming each musician’s individual story, the lineage and experiences they bring from traditions or from their explorations of newness. Looking for a music that allows them to retain and celebrate whatever identities they choose to bring. The orchestra is made of distinguished creator/perfomers all working on the co-creation of the music.

Monkey: Journey to the West is a stage adaptation of the 16th century novel Journey to the…

The pipa (Chinese lute) boasts a history of two thousand years and is regarded as the quintessentially…