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Playing a dynamic role on the Canadian music scene, Lan Tung is an erhu performer, composer, concert producer, and administrator. Immigrated from Taiwan in 1994, she incorporates Chinese music with contemporary expression in her works. Her strong interest in music outside her tradition has been a major drive in her artistic explorations, crossing the lines between classical, contemporary, folk, blues, creative improvisation, and various ethnic styles, such as Indian, Flamenco and Middle Eastern, to expand the horizons of the erhu.
Lan Tung has toured extensively in North America, working with composers, musicians, dancers, visual and media artists of various cultural backgrounds. She performs regularly in a number of ensembles: the JUNO nominated Orchid Ensemble (http://orchidensemble.com) performs Chinese and western contemporary music in a trio of erhu, zheng/Chinese zither, marimba and various percussion instruments. The collaborative trio Birds of Paradox (with Ron Samworth and Neelamjit Dhillon) explores the fusion of composition and improvisation on the combination of electric guitar, erhu, voice, tabla, flutes and saxophone. Tandava (http://tandava.com) is inspired by the folk and classical music of India and Bangladesh with the instrumentation of erhu, voice, guitar, bamboo flutes, tabla and percussion. Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (http://vi-co.org) is a large ensemble of musicians and musical instruments from various ethnic traditions and the west, with trainings in both oral and notation traditions, to perform original compositions.
Tung has been playing the erhu for more than twenty five years. She received her training at the Chinese Cultural University in Taiwan, where she has won numerous first prizes in national music competitions. She was a member of Taipei Youth Chinese Orchestra, and she has studied with the world-renowned American Chinese virtuoso Jebing Chen and the principal erhu player of the China Radio Orchestra Fun Ming Zhang. Inspired by the virsatility of the western violin in different context, she travels to India to study with Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath, to Amsterdam with improviser and contemporary violinist Mary Oliver, and to Egypt with Egyptian violinist Dr. Alfred Gamil.
Tung has premiered numerous Canadian and US compositions, including solo, chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic works. In 2010, she performed erhu concerto "Heartland" by Mark Armanini, as a featured soloist with the Nova Scotia Symphony.
Her fascination for creative improvisation has driven her to create new vocabularies on the erhu. She has studied with Barry Guy (UK), Evan Parker(UK), Han Bennink (NL), John Butcher (UK), Paul Plimley (Canada), and Francois Houle (Canada)...etc at the Vancouver Creative Music Institute. She has performed with Mary Oliver, Ig Henneman, Anne La Berge and Magpie (contemporary improvised dance) in Amsterdam and Xu Fengxia in Germany. Her unique voice draws inspiration from her background in Chinese music and various ethnic styles in a contemporary framework.
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