Music

Liu Peiyi, jazz saxophonist and composer.

In 2010, he received a scholarship and was admitted to the Berklee College of Music, where he studied with jazz saxophonist George Garzone, jazz educator Ed Tomassi, Hal Crook, and Dr. Shannon LeClaire. In 2013, he obtained a bachelor's degree in jazz saxophone performance from the college. In 2014, he recorded and released his first jazz album "15 Years" in Boston. In 2017, he received a scholarship and was admitted to the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the world-renowned jazz saxophone educator Jerry Bergonzi, Grammy Award winner Donny McCaslin, Jazz Pioneer saxophone musicians Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon, and followed Ken schaphorst and Frank Carlberg to study jazz composition, also took a year of band rehearsal in the band class of legendary jazz drummer Bob Moses, and obtained a master's degree in jazz performance from the school in 2019. . In 2019, he recorded and completed his second original jazz album "Flow of Soul" in Boston. As a professional saxophonist, Liu Peiyi has lived in the United States for many years, and has maintained cooperation with international musicians and has been well received. Join legendary contemporary jazz bassist Dave Holland at Brown Hall in Boston in 2019. In 2013, he collaborated with the famous American saxophonist Wealter Beasley on Wealter Beasley's classic work "Free" Liu Peiyi held saxophone lectures and special concerts in many music academies in China, including Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Xi'an Conservatory of Music, Xinjiang Conservatory of Music Art Institute, Northwest University for Nationalities School of Music, and Beijing Midi School of Music, etc. Many of his students have been successfully admitted to the Berklee College of Music in the United States and the Prince Claude Conservatory of Music in the Netherlands.

This will be jazz saxophonist and composer Liu Peiyi's second original album "Flow Of Soul" recorded in Boston in 2019. This is a record of his years of studying jazz in the United States. Personal experience, as well as an original album of jazz teaching in China and the United States in recent years, precipitation and reflection on cultural exchanges

Singer: Sue Wang Wang Yisu (China)

Singer, host in Chinese and English. Sue is an experienced singer who pays attention not only to musical skills but also to cultural and social significance. Her timbre is full and rich, and her sound processing is flexible and changeable. Her understanding and presentation of music also incorporates her sense of the world. The delicacy of the East and the power of the West. Sue has been studying traditional vocal soprano/second soprano in the city choir since she was 10 years old, and obtained a level 7 certificate in vocal music. The university began to frequently perform on stage and win awards. Since 2014, he has cooperated with musicians from all over the world to perform jazz-based, pop, soul, R&B and other styles of music, showing the flexibility of the melody and the flow of feelings in the improvisation of singing. Sue can sing in Chinese, English, Korean, Cantonese. Lead duo, quartet, quintet, also participate in jazz big band.

Experienced in performing/winning:

Performed solo performances at well-known live houses in Beijing such as Jianghu, The Bricks, DDC, etc.; in November 2020 at BlueNote Beijing with a quartet to perform a special fusion jazz performance; in October 2020 with a quintet at the "Intelligent Manufacturing Life Festival" "Do live performances; In 2019, he was invited to be a guest performer at the "Peking University Stanford Center" in the US National Day Celebration; in 2019, he was the resident singer of the "Balboa night" quartet at the Sunday Swing Ball at The Bricks, and in 2018 in Hong Kong for "The Italian" Sea Group” served as a bilingual host and singer for the first Asian VIP dinner event; was invited to perform at the 2017 annual grand ceremony of the Chinese youth elite community NGCC; resident performance at the Wanda Sofitel in 2016; Poly Group’s 2015 Time Museum Auction VIP In 2014, he participated in the adaptation of the Broadway musical "The Wild Party" by American director Andrew Delo (founder of "Future Dance Troupe" under Peking University Film School), and sang "Buenos Aires" from the classic opera "Evita". He used to be the designated propaganda singer of "Coca-Cola" in Jiangsu from 2005 to 2007; as a singer guest, he participated in the recording of China Education TV's evening party, and participated in the recording of many variety shows on Jiangsu TV.

Kyle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Bloomington. He currently lives between Verona, Italy and Beijing, China, teaching and performing Jazz all over the world. He studied music performance and education at Berklee College of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Northern Colorado, completing his doctorate in 1995. In 1991 he received the prestigious Fulbright Grant for a year of pedagogical research in Hungary, exploring new methods of teaching improvisation.

For the last 30 years, Kyle has performed and taught in the United States, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, England, Spain, Romania, Germany, the Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Taiwan, Turkey, and China. He has performed with numerous internationally-known jazz and commercial artists, including Paul Motian, Vincent Herring, the Mingus Dynasty Big Band, The Temptations, and Liza Minelli. He has recorded over 50 albums with various artists and independent labels, including his original compositions Be Still and Know, World Downside Up and Tongues of Fire, collaborating with European jazz masters Paolo Birro, Salvatore Maiore, and Roberto Dani.

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生活與工作於紐約的片岡知志(Satoshi Kataoka) 為吉他手、作曲家和編曲家。他在紐約市立學院(The City College of New York)專攻爵士表演，並師承世界知名音樂家 John Patituci, Mike Holober, Scott Reeves等人。

片岡知志曾與知名爵士樂手合作，包括 John McNeil (Horace Silver, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, Bob Brookmeyer), Joe Martin (Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch, Maria Schneider), Jochen Rueckert (Mark Turner, Marc Copland, Pat Metheny, Sam Yahel), Michael King (Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robin Eubanks, Theo Crocker), Mark Whitfield Jr (Orrin Evans, Buster Williams, Joey Alexander) 。

2015年他發行首張創作專輯「Fall Into the Place」，由美國音樂品牌Surca與日本音樂品牌Apollo Sounds 發行。這張專輯與 Adam Kolker (Billy Hart, Paul Motian), Pablo Menares (Melissa Aldana’s Crush trio, Claudia Acuna) and Allan Mednard (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Aaron Parks) 共同演奏。

He has participated in the performances of the Takeshita Tea Series, Sichuan Hongyuan Prairie Music Festival, Orson Park Summer Music Festival, the 2nd Beijing Drum Music Festival, Beijing TV "Creative China", Shenzhen "National Music Yantian" Xiamen "Chuan Jazz Music Festival" music Drama "The Voice of the Silk Road", Tencent Tengyun Summit "Qinghai Satellite TV 2021 Spring Festival Gala", etc.

He has been invited to participate in the TamburiMundi-International FrameDrum Festival in Germany to exchange and learn with percussionists from all over the world.

He has studied with world music percussion master drummers, Zohar Fresco (Israeli frame drum/tambourine), Andrea Piccioni (Italian tambourine), Berkant Çakıcı (Turkish middle east drum), Nora Thiele (German frame drum/tambourine) )Wait."

Meng Qingze, born in Beijing, is a young saxophone player. He has studied saxophone performance since childhood, and has successively studied with Mr. Zhang Kecheng and Mr. Lu Tingquan, the famous domestic saxophone players. Graduated from the Modern Music Department of Tianjin Conservatory of Music in 2016. In 2017, he went to Tokyo, Japan to study jazz, and in 2021, he graduated from the Jazz Department of the National University of Music in Japan with a bachelor's degree. The saxophone studied under the Japanese jazz saxophonist Atsushi Ikeda, and studied jazz composition, arrangement and ensemble with Japanese first-line jazz performers such as Kosone Makoto, Shiotani Tetsu, Inoue Tomo, Yamashita Yosuke, Nakagawa Eijiro, and Inoue Yosuke. During the four years in Japan, I collaborated with local jazz musicians and participated in many jazz festivals and jazz live performances. After returning to China in 2021, he will be engaged in saxophone performance, recording and teaching. Participated in the recording of the saxophone part of singers Huang Xu and Jude's songs, and participated in Jude's 2021 national tour. He also joined Bluenote Beijing Jazz Big Band, Actually Jazz Big Band, Senlin Jazz Big Band. Now active in various music performances, with a unique performance style and rich performance experience.

Yiwu, a city with600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for theentire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can nowafford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrantsin their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss theirfamilies left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from thefactories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired oflong factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not carefor their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese traditionand the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to berich, to be independent, to be in love.