And here I thought the viola was hard...
Who needs 4 strings to play this concerto anyways?
Shanghai born, George Gao lives in Toronto and teaches there at the Royal
Conservatory of Music. His is an erhu master who has performed with many
leading orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia, most recently with
the Pacific Symphony in March of 2013 in a performance of the original
erhu version of “The Butterfly Lovers.” Gao is the inventor of a modern
version of the erhu, Shaoqin Erhu, and also a composer, whose credits
include co-composing the scores for Bill Moyers’ documentary “Becoming
American: The Chinese Experience” and the Oscar-winning documentary “The
Blood of Yingzhou District.”
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