{"id":6751,"date":"2020-05-18T14:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2020-05-18T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T14:56:24","slug":"pipa-virtuoso-wu-man-joins-the-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/pipa-virtuoso-wu-man-joins-the-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man Joins the Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opus 3 Artists is very happy to welcome Wu Man back to our roster. Recognized as the world\u2019s premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator, and composer giving her lute-like instrument\u2014which has a history of over 2,000 years in China\u2014a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. Through numerous concert tours she has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China\u2019s ancient musical traditions. Her adventurous spirit and virtuosity have led to collaborations across artistic disciplines, allowing her to reach wider audiences as she works to cross cultural and musical borders. Her efforts were recognized when she was named <em>Musical America<\/em>\u2019s 2013 \u201cInstrumentalist of the Year,\u201d marking the first time this prestigious award has been bestowed on a player of a non-Western instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;world\u2019s finest player of the pipa\u201d (<em>The New York Times<\/em>), Wu Man has been making the most of her time away from the concert hall with a new video series, <em><strong>Pop Up Pipa<\/strong><\/em>, which blends cross-cultural performances with fun facts about her and her guests\u2019 musical traditions. New episodes appear every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the next month on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WuManPipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>. Episode 1 premieres on May 18 and features Eduardo Garc\u00eda of the son jarocho ensemble Son de San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/artists\/wu-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about Wu Man.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opus 3 Artists is very happy to welcome Wu Man back to our roster. Recognized as the world\u2019s premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator, and composer giving her lute-like instrument\u2014which has a history of over 2,000 years in China\u2014a new role &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/pipa-virtuoso-wu-man-joins-the-roster\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5734,3955,3956,3657,5735],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pipa","tag-roster","tag-signing","tag-world-music","tag-wu-man"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}