About the Website
The objective of this website is to introduce the Chinese Mouth Organ – Sheng（笙）to people from all over the world. Although the Sheng is an ancient Chinese traditional wind instrument, it is now able to play many different genres of music besides Chinese classical/folk music.
This website was launched on 22 November 2003 with a different website name and domain name. The website and domain names were changed again after a few years.
Old website names:
1) Tunes of the Sheng (Version 1)
2) theshengplayer.com (Version 2)
Old domain names:
1) www.geocities.com/chinesesheng (Version 1)
2) www.theshengplayer.com (Version 2)
The website was shut down on 29 November 2010. On 11 August 2015, The Sheng Player website was re-created with a new domain name (www.theshengplayer.net).
About the Sheng Player
Chris Lim is a Singapore-based Sheng musician and educator, exploring tradition and innovation through performance and teaching.
He began his musical journey in 1991 with the Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), and in 1992, commenced dedicated study of the Sheng (Chinese mouth organ) under Mr. Er Chiang Song. He gave his first Sheng solo performance at Singapore’s Victoria Concert Hall in 1997. In 2005, he undertook short-term Sheng studies with Professor Yang Shou Cheng at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and in 2007, expanded his musical practice by taking clarinet lessons under Mrs. Liu Yoko.
As a performer, Chris has appeared in concerts, festivals, Chinese opera productions, and fusion music projects. From 2011 to 2012, he performed with the Neoterikos Ensemble, presenting fusion works in schools under the National Arts Council-Arts Education Programme (Arts Exposure). His performance practice bridges traditional Chinese repertoire with contemporary and cross-genre explorations of the Sheng and other woodwinds.
As an educator, Chris has coached the woodwind sections of Chinese orchestras in Singapore public schools and led music enrichment programmes in schools and community clubs. In 2014, he was invited to present a seminar on the Sheng at the Singapore Woodwind Festival.
Chris graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with a Master of Arts (Arts Pedagogy and Practice) and continues to advance the practice and appreciation of the Sheng through both performance and education.
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