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Yuan Sha
Yuan Sha started learning to play guzheng when she was six years old with Ms. Liu
Miao.  In 1987, she entered the primary school attached to the Central Conservatory
Music; in 1990, as an excellent student, she entered the middle school of the Central
Conservatory of Music directly; in 1996, again she entered the Department of the
Central Conservatory of Music directly, receiving instruction from Professor Li Meng;
in 1998, she held a successful solo-playing concert; and in 1999, she was
recommended to be a guzheng post-graduate by the Central Conservatory of Music.  
She has always been an outstanding student, and gained numerous awards and titles
in China.

Yuan Sha became a mature and excellent Guzheng player on the stage, still when
she was in the university.  With her musical talent and perfect playing skill, she had
hold several concerts, including playing in the TV program in about twenty countries
and regions in all over the world.  The foreign critics said she was the player who
showed the harmonious connection between the Chinese traditional music and
contemporary music.  She even played guzheng cooperating with the piano maestro
Liu Shikun in the famous music hall of Geneva Conservatory of Music in Swiss.  She
gained the enthusiastic praises from the reviewers.  In August 2001, she and her
sister, Yuan Li hold a special concert successfully.  In this concert, she invited
maestro Liu Shikun to accompany for a classical music.  It excited the audiences.  
Yuan Sha becomes and outstanding guzheng player in the new generation of the
Chinese traditional music.
Sound of China Guzheng Music Promotion Center