Chinese female pianist

Bao Huiqiao: China's first female pianist

"Chinese Music Master·2005 New Year Concert" master sketch Bao Huiqiao: China's first female pianist Xu Bin, chief reporter of New Business News /p>

The "Chinese Music Master·2005 New Year Concert" will be played at the Municipal People's Cultural Club on the 21st of this month. Following yesterday's Jiang Kemei, today's reporter will introduce to readers the second person to appear in this The female artist at the concert was the famous pianist Bao Huiqiao.

When mentioning Bao Huiqiao, people will always think of her glorious experience of winning many awards in international piano competitions in the 1960s, and her performance of the piano concerto "Yellow River" adapted from Xian Xinghai's "Yellow River Cantata" ", as well as her happy and sad marriage with Zhuang Zedong, who has won three consecutive World Table Tennis Championships. Currently, Bao Huiqiao has retired from the China Symphony Orchestra, but she is still busy. In addition to being frequently invited to perform in various places, she also has heavy teaching tasks. However, she admitted that the past ten years have made her feel the happiest and most relaxed. time. It is said that when she first divorced Zhuang Zedong in 1985, she experienced a lot of pain and pressure. At that time, she repeatedly suffered from many diseases: hepatitis, tuberculosis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, cancer, etc. Now these diseases are cured. In recent years, she likes to travel and has been to more than 20 countries. Her favorites are the artistic atmosphere of Italy and France and the South American style of Chile. Speaking of the present and the future, Bao Huiqiao once told her friends firmly: I will definitely not get married again, because I like my current life too much and it is very comfortable.

Bao Huiqiao once said a famous saying, "The piano is the center of my life." After experiencing the glory in her early years, she was very concerned about the development of China's piano industry in her sixties. She once said: "Now There are many piano talents in China. They have their own styles and can develop according to their own wishes. They are luckier than our previous generation of piano players." A few years ago, Bao Huiqiao opened a Bao Huiqiao Piano Shop in Beijing. She said: "Buy now. There are more people who play pianos. Pianos have become popular in recent years and have continued to flourish. People have overcome their previous blindness, herd mentality and comparison mentality when buying pianos, and have become very rational. Many parents buy pianos for their children. It is a gratifying phenomenon that middle-aged and elderly people buy their own pianos out of personal preference."

It is understood that Bao Huiqiao will play "Yellow River" again this time. In the multiple versions of the piano concerto "Yellow River", Bao Huiqiao's performance was praised by critics as: "technically skilled, combining hardness and softness, dazzling, and with strong artistic appeal. All the audiences who heard her play this piece fell in love with her. I am impressed by the superb skills and magnificent momentum. "Let us look forward to this passionate musical epic.