Recent Invited Lectures
4/29/2022 Zoom lecture for UCLA Archive of World Music. Songs of Tragic Love: Young Scholars and Beautiful Courtesans on Pearl River’s Flower Boats.
10/14/2021 Zoom lecture for Xinghai Conservatory of Music 传统音乐创作探讨 1：瞽师杜焕史无前例的自创南音中篇史诗.
10/28/2021 Zoom lecture for Xinghai Conservatory of Music传统音乐创作探讨2：从认知观点剖析文人琴娱己的表现力——给音乐下新定义.
2/22/2019 University of Washington. "Creative Process in Traditional Music".
8/21-23/2018 Keynote speaker for the 6th Symposium of the Study Group on Music of East Asia, International Conference on Traditional Music. Title: “Exploring Creativity in Traditional Music. National Gugak Center, Seoul, South Korea.
10/12/2017 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Metrical Transformation and Tune Metamorphosis in Cantonese Opera
--dedicated to Rulan Chao Pian, pioneer in the study of Chinese traditional opera”
9/21，22/2017 the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1. “Hong Kong’s Folk Music and Local Culture: The Art of a Cantonese Blind Singer”（sponsored by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, UBC)
2. "An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati" (sponsored by the Music Department, UBC)
4/2/2017 Keynote speaker at the 20th international conference of CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), World Music Center, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
“Pines in Ten Thousand Valleys: The Life of a Qin Zither”
11/28, 29, 30/2016 three lectures at the City University of Hong Kong
“民間音樂搜集：瞽師杜煥富隆茶樓唱南音” (Collecting People’s Music: The Blind Singer Dou Wun Sings Naamyam Songs in a Hong Kong Tea- house)
“粵劇的藝術價值和唱腔特點” (The Artistic Value of Cantonese Opera: Focusing on Its Vocal Musical Style)
“以‘廣陵散’為例試論琴曲演變的‘今’、 ‘古’相互影響” (Historical Interdependency of Music: the Development of Qin Compositions)
11/10/2016 Keynote speaker for the 20th anniversary conference of the Association for Chinese Music Research. Washington DC.
Title “An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati”
5/15/2016. Lecture-Recital on the qin at the Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
11/17/2013. Lecture on Cantonese Opera (in Chinese: 宏觀粵劇介口的音樂成份和編排), Lecture Series on Cantonese Opera at Open University of Hong Kong.
11/23. 2013 Guest speaker at the Memorial Concert for Wong Yuet Sang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
4/15/2012. Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh. Lecture and demonstration on the qin.
2/17/2012. Emory University, “On fieldwork in Ethnomusicology."
12/6/2011. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (December 6), lecture on Chinese opera.
12/5/2011. University of Haifa, Israel, lecture-demonstration on the qin.
11/25,26/2011 Keynote speaker for “Asia ICH Performing Arts Forum: In Search of the Future of Intangible Cultural Heritage”, November 25-26, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Rights.”
5/5, 6/2011 Keynote speaker for “Creativity in Cantonese Opera: An International Symposium,” May 5 and 6, Hong Kong Institution of Education. Read two papers: “Creativity in Cantonese Opera: the aria type Chatjiching”, and “Creativity in Chinese Music: the case of qin composition Guanglingsan”
4/29/2022 Zoom lecture for UCLA Archive of World Music. Songs of Tragic Love: Young Scholars and Beautiful Courtesans on Pearl River’s Flower Boats.
10/14/2021 Zoom lecture for Xinghai Conservatory of Music 传统音乐创作探讨 1：瞽师杜焕史无前例的自创南音中篇史诗.
10/28/2021 Zoom lecture for Xinghai Conservatory of Music传统音乐创作探讨2：从认知观点剖析文人琴娱己的表现力——给音乐下新定义.
2/22/2019 University of Washington. "Creative Process in Traditional Music".
8/21-23/2018 Keynote speaker for the 6th Symposium of the Study Group on Music of East Asia, International Conference on Traditional Music. Title: “Exploring Creativity in Traditional Music. National Gugak Center, Seoul, South Korea.
10/12/2017 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Metrical Transformation and Tune Metamorphosis in Cantonese Opera
--dedicated to Rulan Chao Pian, pioneer in the study of Chinese traditional opera”
9/21，22/2017 the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1. “Hong Kong’s Folk Music and Local Culture: The Art of a Cantonese Blind Singer”（sponsored by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, UBC)
2. "An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati" (sponsored by the Music Department, UBC)
4/2/2017 Keynote speaker at the 20th international conference of CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), World Music Center, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
“Pines in Ten Thousand Valleys: The Life of a Qin Zither”
11/28, 29, 30/2016 three lectures at the City University of Hong Kong
“民間音樂搜集：瞽師杜煥富隆茶樓唱南音” (Collecting People’s Music: The Blind Singer Dou Wun Sings Naamyam Songs in a Hong Kong Tea- house)
“粵劇的藝術價值和唱腔特點” (The Artistic Value of Cantonese Opera: Focusing on Its Vocal Musical Style)
“以‘廣陵散’為例試論琴曲演變的‘今’、 ‘古’相互影響” (Historical Interdependency of Music: the Development of Qin Compositions)
11/10/2016 Keynote speaker for the 20th anniversary conference of the Association for Chinese Music Research. Washington DC.
Title “An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati”
5/15/2016. Lecture-Recital on the qin at the Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
11/17/2013. Lecture on Cantonese Opera (in Chinese: 宏觀粵劇介口的音樂成份和編排), Lecture Series on Cantonese Opera at Open University of Hong Kong.
11/23. 2013 Guest speaker at the Memorial Concert for Wong Yuet Sang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
4/15/2012. Winchester Thurston School, Pittsburgh. Lecture and demonstration on the qin.
2/17/2012. Emory University, “On fieldwork in Ethnomusicology."
12/6/2011. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (December 6), lecture on Chinese opera.
12/5/2011. University of Haifa, Israel, lecture-demonstration on the qin.
11/25,26/2011 Keynote speaker for “Asia ICH Performing Arts Forum: In Search of the Future of Intangible Cultural Heritage”, November 25-26, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural Rights.”
5/5, 6/2011 Keynote speaker for “Creativity in Cantonese Opera: An International Symposium,” May 5 and 6, Hong Kong Institution of Education. Read two papers: “Creativity in Cantonese Opera: the aria type Chatjiching”, and “Creativity in Chinese Music: the case of qin composition Guanglingsan”