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Yang Yi GuZheng Academy presented the "Love and Hope" - Fundraising concert for the China Earthquake Victims on June 7, 2008 at First Presbyterian Church of Dutch Neck in West Windsor, NJ. Approximatlely 250 people attended. Over $15,000 donation was raised.



Being the first and the only Chinese instrument competition organized by the American Mainstream music organization - NJMTA (an affiliation of National Music Teacher Assoc., the world's largest music teacher assoc.), under the direction of chairperson Yang Yi, the 2007 Young Musicians Competition on Chinese instruments was held on Nov. 4 at Westminster Conservatory (Princeton, NJ). 1st place winner recital on piano, string, woodwind and Chinese instruments were presented at NJMTA 2007 Conference at Bristol Chapel on Nov. 16 & Nov. 18 (including  Four 1st place Chinese instrument winners from varies age group). The results and photo gallary can be found from www.njmta.com.






Led by chairperson Yang Yi,, the 2007 CCTV (Chinese National TV Station) Chinese Instrument TV Competition  US Eastern Regional Competition was finished with a big success. 52 finalists from 6 surrounding states competed at the final competition on Oct. 13 in New Jersey. 21 winners were selected to compete in Beijing. The results can be found from  http://www.enjoyourmusic.com/act/newact.htmcom







 




 






 








 










 Instrumentalised by Yang Yi,  for the first time in history, NJMTA,, an affiliate of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association), included Guzheng into its annual programs. 2007 Spring Recital Audition was finished with big success. The winners concert was held at the Gill Memorial Chapel in Rider University on May 19, 2007.  22 students range from age of 8 to 53 received High Honor or Honor award certificates.






On June 9, 2007, invited by "Families with Chinese Children", the organization dedicated in helping families with adoped Chinese Children to learn about China and Chinese culture,
6 student performers from  Yang Yi Guzheng Academy performed 45-minutes guzheng solo and ensemble pieces at the organization's annual Culture Day program..






On May 20, 2007, invited by Somerset Culture & Heritage Commission,  9 teenage student performers from Yang Yi Guzheng Academy performed 10-minutes guzheng ensemble pieces at its Asian-American Heritage Celebration concert.












Yang Yi Guzheng Academy recently successfully presented the "Concert in Memory of Prof. Qiu Dacheng" at Westminster Conservatory, Princeton, NJ 
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Date
Location
Event / Program
5/16/2007 Department of Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City, NJ Presented by Department of Federal Aviation Administration, three ECPAC musicians gave an hour long Chinese music concert at FAA's Asian Culture Heritage Celebration program.
2/15/2007 Lehman Brothers, NYC Presented by Lehman Brothers' Global Diversity & Inclusion program, Yang Yi was specially featured at its 3rd annual Lunar New Year Celebration program. .
10/12/2006 American Cancer Society, East Hanover, NJ Benefit performance for the American Cancer Society by ECPAC members.
09/08/2006 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 07901 ECPAC members performed at the opening night of "Contemporary Chinese art" exhibition, which showcases a remarkable global phenomenon in the world of contemporary art.
06/22/2006 West Windsor Arts Council, West Windsor / Princeton, NJ West Windsor Arts Council presents its First Annual Music Festival: featuring a variety of string instruments from the globe. A special 60 minute music presentation on guzheng will be presented by ECPAC music director Yang Yi.
05/27/2006 Westminster Conservatory, Princeton, NJ Members of ECPAC - Yang Yi, Chen Yihan and Li Liqun, along with 26 students from Yang Yi Guzheng Academy, performed at the "Concert in Memory of Prof. Qiu Dacheng", presented by ECPAC & Yang Yi Guzheng Academy. Ms. Yang dedicated this concert to her conservatory mentor, Mr. Qiu Da Cheng, to commemorate his lifelong commitment to promoting Chinese Guzheng music education.
05/20/2006 Grounds For Sculpture, New Jersey ECPAC members presented Chinese Music performance & Workshops at the Mercer County Arts Showcase. This program is presented by the County of Mercer and Grounds For Sculpture.
05/20/2006 Liberty State Park, New Jersey ECPAC members performed at the "2006 Culture Day" event presented by "Families with Chinese Children organization. Thousands of families participated the event.
03/10/2006 US. Army Garrison, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Chinese Music performance at the "Women's History Month" Celebration program, presented by the Garrison EEo Federal Women's Employment Program Committee and U.S. Army in NJ.
2/10/2006 Asian Culture Center, New Jersey. Members of ECPAC, Yang Yi(guzheng), Chen Tao (flute), Li Liqun (yangqin), Zhang BaoLi(erhu) performed at the Asian Culture Center and Sino TV's YuanXiao Festival (last day of the Chinese New Year) performance program.
2/6/2006 West Windsor Arts Council, New Jersey. ECPAC Music Director Yang Yi presented ECPAC and its music programs with musical demonstrations to hundreds of leaders of NJ Arts organizations at the West Windsor Arts Council's "2006 INTROS" event.
02/04/2006 The State Theater of New Jersey, New Jersey. "Southern Lady Trio", consists of Chinese music masters Yang Yi (guzheng), Li Liqun (yangqun), and Chen Yihan (pipa), will appear at "2006 Hua Xia Chinese New Year Spectacular" - A Chinese New Year Concert by highly regarded Chinese musicians from both China and America. This program is presented by Hua Xia Chinese School, which consists of dozens of branch schools throughout New Jersey and New York area.
02/03/06 South Mountain School, Millburn, New Jersey Chinese Music performance and demonstration were presented to the full school students and staff members by South Mountain School PTA.
02/02/06 Fort Lee School, New Jersey Full Chinese Music Concert will be presented by Fort Lee School PTA.
01/29/06 Plainsboro High School North Auditorium, NJ Hua Xia Chinese School Chinese New Year Performance by students of ECPAC.
01/22/06 Wilkins Theatre at Kean University, New Jersey "Nature of Spirit" ensemble, which consists of Chinese music masters Yang Yi (guzheng), Gao Hong (pipa), Chen Tao (flute), Wang Hong (erhu) and Zhao Yang Qin (yangqin), will be performing the best of Chinese folk, classical, court, silk and bamboo music on dozens of traditional bowed strings, plucked strings, winds and percussion instruments concert at Kean University.
12/14/05 Golden Age Care, Matawan, New Jersey Chinese Music Performance for the seniors to celebrate the upcoming Christmas & New Year.
11/26/05 Monmouth Library, New Jersey An ECPAC Presentation "Music of Plucked Strings". A lecture & performance program featuring internationally renowned pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man and guzheng (Chinese zither) virtuoso,ECPAC music director Yang Yi.
11/03/05 Bergen County Community College, New Jersey Chinese Music perforamance by ECPAC musicians for BBC's Asian History and Heritage Celebration.
11/02/05 Brower Student Center Atrium, The College of New Jersey , NJ. Yang Yi guzheng Solo performance at the Opening Ceremony for the college's "Experience Asia Month"program ,the start of the first annual month-long Asian and Asian American cultural awareness multicultural programs that the school coordinates on campus at the College of New Jersey.
09/10/05 The State Theater of New Jersey, New Jersey. Yang Yi served as a panalist at the final competition of the 2005 East Coast Chinese-American Vocal competition.
08/27/05 Asian Culture Center, Edison, New Jersey Yang Yi served as a panalist at the semi-final competition of the 2005 East Coast Chinese-American Vocal competition.
08/05/05 Studio in New Jersey Yang Yi recorded multiple guzheng music (some improvisations) for a CD (Children's Phonics in Music) created by David Rimelis. Her music, named as "Zoe Zither", teaches Children the letter "Z", which stands for "Zither".
07/26/05 Brooklyn, New York Multiple improvisation pieces on gu-zheng was recorded by Yang Yi for movie "Linked Hybrid". In addition, collaborative music were also improvised by Yang Yi, as well as Balkan Beat Box and Shot Net
06/16/05 Sounth Boundbrook, New Jersey Yang Yi presented a Chinese music lecture and workshop at Sounth Boundbrook school under an Arts-in-Education project initiated by "Institute for Arts and Humanities Education" organization.
06/11/05 Brooklyn, New York ECPAC musicians recorded "Trident" section for Q-departmnet
05/14/05 Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey Chinese folk music will be performed at the "Culture Day" event presented by the "Families with Chinese Children" organization. Over 2000+ families will be participating.
05/06/05 at 7 pm Nicolas Music Center, Rutgers Univ. New Jersey Chinese Music Masters' Concert presented by ECPAC and Melody of Dragon.
05/06/05 at 12 pm Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp., Inc., East Hanover, New Jersey Chinese Music Performance at the Asian Months Festivals.
04/29/05 Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ 90 min. traditional and comtempory Chinese music concert led by Yang Yi, presented by Barron Arts Center from Woodbridge Township Mayor's office under a grant from Middlesex Culture & heritage Commission .
04/07/05 Trenton, New Jersey Arts Live! Yang Yi was chosen by The NJ Council on the Arts to Perform at "THE GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS" of New Jersey .
04/05/05 The College of New Jersey Yang Yi guzheng Solo Performance and lecture at the International Studies Program on the theme of "Fair Globalization" at the College of New Jersey.
03/10/05 & 03/11/05 Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Germany Two Guzheng concerto concerts will be performed by Yang Yi with the Anhaltische Philharmonic Dessau on famous German composer, Prof. Dr. Lutz-Werner Hesse)'s recent work - Sky and Earth.
02/05/05 West Windsor Library, NJ Perform at West Windsor's first "Chinese Culture Day" program, presented by West Windsor Township & Library.
12/04/04 Plainsboro Municipal Court Room, NJ 90-minute concert program at "Plainsboro Tradition's Day", presented by Plainsboro Recreation Department.
11/14/04 Hamilton, NJ Re-election Fund Raising Concert for the current West Windsor mayor - Shing-Fu Hsueh.
11/06/04 Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ In addition to the panalist roll at the 2004 East Coast Chinese-American talent competition, Yang Yi also was invited to perform at the winners' concert.
10/03/2004 Nicholas Music Center, New Brunswick, NJ As the only guest musician, Yang Yi was invited to play duet with the world-renowned violinist Lu-Siqing) at his solo concert.
05/23/2004 Raritan Community College Theater, Somerset, NJ Performed at the Asian Pacific Heritage Month celebration concert, presented by Somerset Asian Pacific Heritage commission
05/21/2004 Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Chinese Music performance in celebration of the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
05/16/2004 Pine Manor, Edison, New Jersey Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration Performance presented by the "New Jersey Asian Pacific Heritage commission".
05/13/2004 Provost Marshal Office, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Chinese Music performance in celebration of the Asian Pacific Heritage Month, presented by the US Marshal Milatary Services in NJ.
05/08/2004 Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey Full hour Chinese Folk song, music, and acrobatic program were performed at the "Culture Day" event presented by the "Families with Chinese Children" organization. Over 2000+ families participated.
05/07/2004 Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp., Inc., East Hanover, New Jersey Chinese Music Performance at the Asian Months Festivals.
02/11/2004 New York City Recording with Min Hui Fen, the #1 Erhu Master in China.
02/09/2004 New York City Recording with Min Hui Fen, the #1 Erhu Master in China.
02/08/2004 The State Theater of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. Appeared at 2004 Chinese New Year Spectacular - A Chinese New Year Concert by highly regarded Chinese musicians from both China and America.
02/06/2004 Princeton University - New Jersey "Chinese New Year Cultural Show presented by Princeton University.
01/31/2004 Denver 1st Church of the Nazarene, Denver, Colorado. Guzheng Solo by Yang Yi for Colorado Asian Pacific Culture Festival Concert.
01/20/2004 The main hall (Grosser Saal) of the Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, one of the most remarkable concert halls in Europe. Wuppertal, Germany Guzheng Concerto by Yang Yi (by famous German composer, Prof. Dr. Lutz-Werner Hesse) with Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, a Category "A" German orchestra. Conducted by Mr. George Hanson, named by Musical America as 揧oung Musician of the Year?and 1st prizes winner in both the Leopold Stokowski and Hungarian International Conducting competitions.
10/05/2003 WW-P School District, NJ WW-P Board of Education Chinese Culture series lectures - Lecture & Demonstration on Chinese instruments by Yang Yi.
09/20/2003 Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, NJ. Appeared at American Cancer society's annual Fund Raising "Benefit Concert" through Chinese Instruments Solo and Ensemble Music performance.
07/12/2003 West Windsor Library, New Jersey Yang Yi and guzheng Music Performance & Lecture and Chinese Painting Exhibit Zhang Mao Ming.
05/07/2003 Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Chinese Music and Acrobatic performances in celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
02/01/2003 Chinese New Year Performance in Honoring New Jersey Governor McGreevey and His Cabinet in Princeton, NJ. Music performance at the Chinese New Year Night presented by New Jersey Chinese American Unity Association.
02/01/2003 Edison, NJ. Ensemble performance presented by China Hua Nan Pharmaceutical in celebrating Chinese New Year,
01/18/2003 Edison, NJ. Ensemble performance presented by China Hua Nan Pharmaceutical in celebrating Chinese New Year,
10/20/2002 West Windsor Library, West Windsor, New Jersey 80 min. Lecture & Solo Performance by Yang Yi on guzheng to the 200+ audiences, Presented by the West Windsor Library for its "Building the Culture Heritage Bridge" program series.
05/17/2002 Prudential Insurance Co.in Florham Park, New Jersey Chinese Music performances in celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
05/10/2002 Prudential Insurance Co. in Newark, New Jersey Chinese Music performances in celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
02/24/2002 Sunny Garden at Princeton, New Jersey 90-min. Chinese Music concert present by Sunny Garden and ECPAC.
Feb.16,17,21 of 2002 4 concert performances in NYC and Philadelphia, presented by Chinese Consulate in New York Performances in celebrating Chinese New Year
02/17/2002 First Campus Center Performing Arts Theater at Princeton University - New Jersey "Enter the Horse" - Chinese New Year Cultural Show presented by Princeton University.
02/10/2002 Waterford High School's Auditorium, New London, CT Chinese Music and Acrobatic performances in celebrating the Chinese New Year.
10/03/2001 Tillet Hall, Rutgers Univ., New Jersey Zen Meditation and Japanese Tea Ceremony presented by Rutgers Asian American Cultural Center.
05/23/2001 Pfizer, Connecticut Chinese Music and Acrobatic performances in celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration
05/9/2001 Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical (Subsidary of Johnson & Johnson), New Jersey Full concert program featuring varies Chinese instruments in celebrating the Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration
2/10/2001 First Campus Center Performing Arts Theater at Princeton University - New Jersey "Enter the Snake - A Chinese New Year Cultural Show" presented by Princeton University
02/04/2001 Sunny Garden at Princeton, New Jersey 90 min. Chinese Music concert presented by Sunny Garden and ECPAC.
02/03/2001 East Brunswick Library, New Jersey Chinese Music Performances presented by East Brunswick Human Relations Council
08/26/2000 American-Chinese Friendship Performance Night - Colorado Presentation on some of the best Chinese and American artists in the world
7/25/2000 The Cooper Union College - For Advancement of Science and Art - New York City Concert Series on the Kings n'Things program for Caravan Foundation's Silk Road Study
06/09/2000 Botanical Garden, Staten Island, NY Concert for Annual "Chinese Scholar's Garden" Program
05/20/2000 Warren County Community College, New Jersey Lecture & Performances on varied Chinese Instruments
04/08/2000 92nd Street Y. New York City Presentation on Chinese Classical Music and European Classical Music
03/25/2000 Metropolitan Museum of Arts New York City Special Chinese Music Series
3/11/2000 Recording Studio - NYC Movie Music Recording
01/08/2000 New York City Chinese Jewelry Association Anniversary Celebration.