Guest Artist: Lina Cao (guzheng)

Name: Guest Artist: Lina Cao (guzheng)
Start: 2025-03-13T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 121 Water Street, 156 Haas Fine Arts, Eau Claire, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54703

Schedule

Thu, 13 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

121 Water Street, 156 Haas Fine Arts, Eau Claire, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54703 | Eau Claire, WI

The University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents a guest artist recital in Phillips Recital Hall at the Haas Fine Arts Center (121 Water Street Eau Claire, WI 54701) Admission is FREE. Doors open 15 minutes before start time.
Lina Cao, a young guzheng musician, is also an Guzheng instructor of Wilfrid Laurier University, a member of the Toronto Musicians Association (TMA 149)，American Federation of Musicians and Guzheng Society of Chinese Musicians Association. Lina was taught by Professors Yan Aihua, Ren Jie who are a guzheng master and educator in Nanjing University of the Arts and Professor Wang Wei who is a Guzheng master and an educator in Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Lina received master's degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2016.
Lina Cao received popular acclaim when she held guzheng solo concerts and chamber-music concerts in many cities in China. She has been invited to visit many Asian, North American and European countries for artistic exchanges. Lina was invited to attend Sino-Japanese Friendship Concert and was awarded an international gratitude certificate of “The Cause of World Peace” in 2011. In 2015, Lina was unanimously applauded when she played the Chinese zither concerto “Qinhuai Capriccio” with Jiangsu Nationalities Orchestra. Moreover, the performance was taped by The WFMT Radio the Network website from Chicago. Moyu Guzheng Group mainly played by Cao Lina is the first guzheng philharmonic society who won the two most authoritative awards of China: the highest music award “The Golden Bell Awards” and top prize of Chinese Ministry of Culture “Wen Hua Award”. The album of the MoYu Guzheng Chamber was Pulished by Beijing Global Audio & Video Publishing House.
After living in Canada in 2017, Lina Cao was invited to premieres many pieces of music like "Reincarnation", "Tempered Moon", "Buddha's Song" and an opera "The Monkiest" in cooperation with the Chinese Radio and Film Symphony Orchestra, the Music Department of the University of Toronto, the Canadian Children's Opera Company, the Toronto Chinese Orchestra, and the Chinese-Western Symphony Orchestra etc. Lina was invited to give lectures in the Music Department of the University of Toronto, the Music Department of York University, UCC and TFS. Lina participated in the performance of the children's opera "the Monkiest King" was nominated for the 40th Dora "Outstanding Performance Ensemble" of Canada in 2019. The opera was produced on CD by the Canadian Children's Opera Company in 2020 and released by the Canadian Music Center. Lina Cao became a young guzheng player who was active in the Canadian music stage.