Wu Fei is a classically trained composer, renowned master of the guzheng — the 21-string Chinese zither — and vocalist. She has taken her music around the world, appearing at such venues as the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Shanghai’s Expo 2010, New York’s MoMA, The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Vossa Jazz in Norway, the Europalia Festival in Belgium, the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee, and live performances in Paris and Tokyo for luxury brand Hermès. 

Wu has collaborated with many artists from different disciplines and genres, ranging from Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn and Billy Martin (Medeski-Martin-Wood) to avant-garde composers John Zorn and Fred Frith. She has received commissions from Nashville’s chatterbird Ensemble and Intersection ensemble.

Wu has appeared in concerts and workshops at numerous universities around the world, including Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UNC Chapel Hill, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, the China Conservatory of Music, the Norwegian Music Academy, and University of Los Andes of Colombia.

She has released two solo recordings and two collaborative albums: one with classical guitarist Gyan Riley, and the other one with Grammy winner Abigail Washburn released on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2020. 

She received her early music education at the China Conservatory of Music and earned her master’s at Mills College before immersing herself in the New York downtown improvisation scene at venues like The Stone, where she has frequently performed and curated.

Awards:

• MAP Fund Award for her original orchestral composition Hello Gold Mountain, 2018
• The Nashville Scene: Best New Classical Work – Hello Gold Mountain, 2019
• The Nashville Scene: “Best Music Newsletter 2020: Wu Fei’s Music Daily”, 2020
• Folk Alliance International: Nominated for “Album of the Year”, 2021
• Folk Alley: “Best of 2020”
• The Guardian “Among the Best 10 Folk Albums of 2020”
• The Times: “The Best Albums of 2020”
• Transglobal World Music Chart : “Best Transregional Album”, 2020

Jeremy Goldkorn is editor-in-chief of SupChina.com and co-host of the Sinica Podcast. He moved from his hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa, to China in 1995 and became managing editor of Beijing’s first independent English-language entertainment magazine. In 2003, he founded the website and research firm, Danwei, which tracked Chinese media, markets, politics and business. It was acquired in 2013 by the Financial Times. He is regularly interviewed by BBC, NPR, CNN etc. for his views on Chinese media and politics.

While in China, Goldkorn published and edited several magazines, books, and websites. He also lived in a workers dormitory, produced a documentary film about African soccer players in Beijing, and rode a bicycle from Peshawar to Kathmandu via Kashgar and Lhasa. He moved to Nashville Tennessee in 2015 and is a board member of the Tennessee China Network. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.