Chen Yaoxing, male, erhu player and educator. National level actor. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, vice president of the Erhu Society of the Chinese Music Association, director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, visiting professor of the Art Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts and the Central University for Nationalities, and enjoys special government allowances issued by the State Council.
Born in May 1941, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province. Since childhood, he has studied erhu, pipa, flute, flute and other musical instruments with his father Chen Shunnong. In 1958, he entered the Music Department of Nanjing University of the Arts. In 1961, he graduated from the Music Department of Nanjing Academy of the Arts, and studied under Ma Youde, Gan Tao, Qu Anhua, Cheng Wujia, etc. In 1963, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1978. Later, he served as an erhu player in the Cultural and Labor Troupe of the Political Department of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Corps and the Cultural and Labor Troupe of the Political Department of the Second Artillery Corps. In 1979, he composed the erhu solo song "War Horse Galloping", and participated in the Fourth Literary and Art Conference of the Whole Army and won the Excellent Creation Award and the Performance Award, which were widely circulated.
In his decades of erhu performance career, Chen Yaoxing has boldly innovated the playing techniques of this traditional stringed instrument, creating and developing a variety of new playing techniques such as the Lienton bow, the big percussion bow, the slingshot, the plucked string, the pseudo-overtone, the double-string rapid jiggle bow, the small pad kneading string method, etc., which are used to play "martial arts", which has produced magical effects. He also borrowed the right-handed bow handling technique of the Western violin, developed the erhu right-handed playing technique, and greatly enriched the musical expression of the erhu. His performance is robust and sensitive, flying dragons and snakes, clear and smooth, and natural, and has won many awards in the National Ethnic Instrumental Music Competition.
Chen Yaoxing has held solo concerts and lectures in Canada, the United States, South Korea, Japan, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Singapore, Poland, Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan and other countries and regions, and has been highly praised by people in the music circles at home and abroad, and is known as "one of the most advanced erhu players in contemporary China", "world performance master", "China's Paganini", "Oriental string master", etc. He was twice invited by Japan to serve as band conductor and art director for four countries at the Silk Road Concert.
"War Horse Galloping" is an erhu solo composed by erhu player Chen Yaoxing in the 1970s. In this "War Horse Galloping", the author's intention is fresh and original, and the image of the warhorse galloping is highlighted like a relief. Chen Yaoxing used his unique difficult playing skills to successfully represent the barracks life of the cavalry soldiers guarding the frontier, and the music set a precedent for using erhu to express military themes.
Following "War Horse Galloping", Chen Yaoxing has successively created and adapted a number of new works: "Northern Shaanxi Lyric", "Shadow", "Small Scene in the Mountain Village", "Good News of Meritorious Service Sent Home", "Hunting", "Soaring", "Pan" and other hundreds of erhu solos and concertos. These works have been recorded and videotaped by the Central People's Radio, television stations, local music publishing houses, China Recording Corporation and audio-visual companies, etc., and have been produced into special music programs and solo albums for publication and distribution.