Panting in Yangzhou
Lunlun Zou has released a new guzheng music video with Panting as the star performer. The video was filmed in April 2005 in beautiful Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
Watch this video! Panting plays The Yi Festival Dancein a video titled Spring Comes to Yangzhou.
A new Guinness World Record has been set on 8 August in Huludao, when 2,348 guzheng enthusiasts from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore struck strings in unison, each using their own guzheng.
Hong Kong guzheng students and musicians too have taken part in this record-breaking activity under the leadership of guzheng artist Lunlun Zou.
Photos from this event can be seen here. Watch video on Youku.com.
3 Girls’ Band at the TVB studio
On June 3 Lunlun Zou and her 3 Girls’ Band attended shooting of the popular TV show Culture Plaza at the studios of channel TVB in Tseng Kwan O, Hong Kong. They recorded the 3 Girls’ Band playing 2 songs (Zhan Tai Feng and Wan Shui Qian Shan Zong Shi Qing), after which the girls answered curious questions of the host Albert Cheung.
Members of the 3 Girls’ Band are Lunlun Zou (guzheng), Cheng Yu Ting (erhu) and Zhang Ying (pipa). The band continues in the tradition of Lunlun’s earlier band, Three Sisters, performing Chinese traditional classics as well as contemporary compositions with sparkle and spunk.
The show has aired on 17 June 2007, at 8:30 AM on the channel TVB Jade. Please watch the full length interview and musical performance (Zhan Tai Feng and Wan Shui Qian Shan Zong Shi Qing):
Debut of the 3 Girls’ Band
After years of preparations, Lunlun Zou debuted with her Chinese music ensemble 3 Girls’ Bandat a private concert in Hong Kong.
Some of you may already know that during her stay in Sydney, Australia, Lunlun has been part of a band 3 Sisters, which was made up of Lunlun Zou (guzheng), Lulu Liu (pipa) and Ying Ying Liu (erhu). The trio often performed at events in Sydney, including the stage of the Sydney opera house.
Like the phoenix rose from ashes, so did the Three Sisters, this time under the name 3 Girls’ Band.
The name of the new ensemble in Chinese language is literally “3 Phoenixes”, although this translation has not been chosen in favor of the simpler and more memorable 3 Girls’ Band. The ensemble is directed by Lunlun Zou and plans to perform at events in Hong Kong and China.
Enjoy watching an abbreviated video recording from this concert:
The large part of the world which follows the lunar calendar has recently celebrated the arrival of the New Year.
The people of Hong Kong were thrilled to take some rest after 12 months of exhausting work. To their delight, Lunlun Zou and her student Panting have made this most special occasion festive as demanded by traditions. During several evenings they performed splendidly for the Hong Kong audience with a selection of Chinese festival music using the guzheng instrument.
As the Chinese literally say, “happy pig year!” and to the rest of you “happy year of the pig!”
