Contact details for Gong Yi and/or Li Xianting etc

[guzhenglover]

Hi guqin lovers

(I am normally a guzheng forum person but I am putting on my "guqin" hat now...) Can anyone please tell me how one would be able to get in touch with the renowned teachers such as Gong Yi and Li Xianting? I see that many people on this forum have already studied with him, or one of their students, and I am hoping that one day too I'll be able to study with them one day when I go to China. I've never been to China before and it'd be great to receive intensive tutions from one of them when I do go.

A telephone number and/or address would be great. Even more helpful would be an email address, though this may be less easy to get. oh, if you think someone else apart from Gong Yi and/or Li Xianting is worth considering, then please kindly let us know the name and contact details as well!

Many thanks - Guzhenglover a.k.a. guqinlover

[SCWGuqin]

Here's some info on Li Xiangting, from the Central Conservatory website:

www.ccom.edu.cn/jxjg/my/bxjj/200505310013.shtml (click on the third item from the menu on the left, on the next page he's at the bottom of the list, click on the house icon for his homepage and contact details. Direct web links don't work)

As to whether anyone but LXT or GY is "worth considering", there are plenty. Do you have any plans to stay in a particular city or region of China? Have you heard many qin masters (thus being able to compare their styles) or do you know only of the biggest names?

[guzhenglover]

Thanks for your quick reply, Solo Musician. I asked about Li and Gong mainly because these are two big names that I've been hearing since taking up the guqin. There may well be other maestros who may be great teachers and not necessarily well-known performing musicians. I'd be prepared to consider contacting these people as well. I think that, as the trip to China will be my first, I'll probably begin with the bigger cities like Beijing and Shanghai. I understand that the biggest names are in these cities. I've also heard of good guqin masters in the South, like Suzhou, but I really have a very vague idea about these people.

Also does anyone have any contacts for Gong Yi anyway?

Thanks again - Guzhenglover (and guqin, too)

[Charlie Huang]

Contact me for GY's e-mail.

[guzhenglover]

Thank you Professor of Music for that!

[Si]

Hey Suzhuo is only 1 hour west of Shanghai. Not realy "south", so you can visit these too places together.

[guzhenglover]

Thanks Tea-House Musician! Well Suzhou would definitely be worth a visit, too, not only for the music but also its scenery etc.. Anyhow I've noted that a number of fellow guqin lovers have commented on how wonderful "that" tea house is in Shanghai - I mean, the one that's supposedly very near the Conservatory, or in fact just across the road from it. I don't know for sure. But it just sounds like a wonderful place to visit to meet up with other guqin enthusiasts as well as possibly purchasing a new(er) qugin, etc. Would anyone have the tea house's contact details that I may be able to have? Thanks a lot! Guzheng/guqin lover

[Si]

its all in chinese - ill ask my receptionist tomorrow to translate it.

[guzhenglover]

Thanks Syburn/Tea-house Musiican! Are you giving us the contact details of Suzhou musicians, or the contact details for the tea house/guqin shop near the Conservatory? (Even better if you meant both!)

Thank you in advance! Guzheng/guqinlover

[Si]

Its :

East china normal university - room 406 (its on the 4th floor)
No. 3 Feng Yang Road close to the juction of Huai Hai Road
Shanghai

Dont get confused with the Abnormal university - they are a bunch of weirdo's over there!

[sanmenxia]

Haha! I've always wondered why they are called "normal"?
So I looked it up, it turns out "normal" in the sense of teacher
training was 19th and early 20thC US English. Does it still have this meaning in the US?

[davidmdahl]

There is Abby Normal whose brain was used for the monster in Young Frankenstein. Could she be the benefactor remembered by "Normal" schools?

<g>

Best wishes,

David

[guzhenglover]

Thanks Syburn/Tea-house Musiican and others who've responded. I guess what you've given me is the address for Gong Yi at East china normal university?

Would you happen to have the contact details for the tea house/guqin shop near the Conservatory as well?

Thanks!

[Si]

No I have given you the details for the shop. Its in a university - but thats the first I knew about that. I have been loads of times and just thought it was a sort of community extra tuition building. Dont be scared by the work "university", any Tom, Dick and Harry can entre and absolutely knowbody will care!

I havent a clue about Gong Yi details - but the conservatory of music is across the road. But the place is a construction site now as they are expanding the campus and supposed to be creating some new buildings that look like a piano and a few woodwind instruments in a pile!!!! You can just walk in there too - but i would give the man a call first!

[guzhenglover]

Thanks Syburn/Tea-house Musiican for that! And I think I'd email Gong Yi before visiting him (I don't have his phone number).

[guzhenglover]

Oh, I just remembered that I should also have asked for the contact details of a guqin teacher in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (I think that's where she lives). Her name is Chen Wen, and I think she's from Taiwan originally. She was supposed to have studied under a Maestro Sun in Taiwan - in fact, I think she was his goddaughter - and I believe that she's married to another guqin player, called Chen Guoxin.

Would anyone happen to know Mrs Chen? Or maybe I should post a separate thread...

Thank you people!

[Charlie Huang]

I have GY's phone number, but I'm reluctant to pass it on publicly...

[myears]

Hello fellow qin enthusiasts,
Does anyone know of anybody in the music department at Suzhou University who is interested in guqin?

Thanks,
John