This summer school offers 5 full days of expert tuition in Chinese Instrumental music, including masterclasses on the qin, pipa, dizi and erhu. Participants choose the instrument in which they wish to specialise and the relevant artist becomes their teacher for the week. In addition to teaching individual instruments, there will also be the opportunity to join ensemble classes.
Location: The Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, United Kingdom
This year, Gong Yi will be the teacher for the Guqin classes. He is a world-class guqin master from Shanghai. As well as performing and teaching guqin, Gong Yi is chairman of the Jinyu Qin Society and performer with the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.
Also, visit the Asian Music Circuit website.