Lunchtime Dizi Concert ft. Daniel Tsz-shing Lei

Westminster Music Library proudly presents Daniel Tsz-shing Lei for a free performance of music for solo dizi (bamboo flute). All are welcome at this relaxed concert.

Trad./ arr. Daniel LEI: Picking Tea, Chasing Butterflies.

Xianwei JIANG: Journey to Gusu (1962)

Luting HE/Huanzhi LI: The Shepherd's Piccolo (1934/57)

Songting ZHAO: The Partridges Ascending (1957), Spring Comes Upon the Secluded Orchid (1979, with Xing CAO)

Chunling LU: The Little Cowherd (c. 1950)

Baosheng NING: Spring Arrives at the Xiang River (1976)

Datong LI : Spring in Pamirs (1969)

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Daniel Lei is currently a dizi (Chinese transverse bamboo flute) instructor at SOAS University of London, and was the London Horniman Museum musician-in-residence in 2024. He is reading for a DPhil in music at Merton College, Oxford University, with a concentration on Western music in the Sinosphere. Elected as a Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2024, his research focuses on musical cosmopolitanism and performativity of music, which have resulted in a lecture recital “Chinese Concerto: My Humble Views” in Hong Kong (2021), a descriptive text for the exhibition Music in Facsimile in The University of Hong Kong Music Library (2021), and a video project (2023) produced by Goldsmiths College, University of London, featuring a revival of Luding He’s The Shepherd’s Piccolo (1937/1957).

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