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Mu Xiao Hu is a Beijing-based musician who also releases music under his real name, Su Jiannan. Each artist name represents a different type of electronic music style; while Su Jiannan is more focused on experimenting with a variety of musical elements, Mu Xiao Hu’s sound uses structures and sounds from the electronic dance genre. .

Pipa player / vocalist Min Xiao-Fen, internationally known for her virtuosity and fluid style, is a prototype artist in this tradition. She has influenced countless Chinese musicians and her influence expands to players of all instruments and beyond China as well. Ms. Min learned the pipa with her father, Min Ji-Qian, a professor and pipa master at Nanjing University. Her work as a pipa soloist for the famed Nanjing National Music Orchestra from 1980 to 1992 set the standard for the rest of her career. Press Photos After arriving in the United States in 1992, she began working with composers...

A girl from China making music in her bedroom on a half-broken microphone and a second-hand guitar when she needs some euphoria. .

Miao Xiaoyun (苗晓芸) is a virtuoso player of various Chinese lutes. She is a Ruan player. She graduated at the Central Conservatory of Music in 1982 and became the first teacher in China Conservatory of Music to establish the Ruan as a major instrument. In 1987, she won the first prize in the First Folk Music Competition held in Shanghai. In 1997, she was invited by the Swiss National Radio Station to give a joint concert with Xu Pingxin and Wei Li. Her performance was highly appraised and was commented as an outstanding Pipa and Ruan musician. .