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Bei Bei is a Gu Zheng (Chinese Zither) performer, educator, and composer. She started to play the Gu Zheng at the age of seven. She received her professional musical training, majoring in the Gu Zheng at the Central University of Nationalities in Beijing, China and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong from several Gu Zheng masters such as Li-Jing Sha, Mu-Lan Hai, Chun-Jiang Teng, and Ling-Zi Xu. Bei Bei is a multi-award winner of many national and international competitions such as the 1993 National Chinese Instruments Competition and the 1999 College Students Art Festival in Beijing. She immigrated to U.S. in 2003 and received her Recording Engineer’s Certificate from Citrus College in Glendora, CA. Bei Bei has been collaborating with musicians from different genres such as Classical, Jazz, Alternative, Rock, New Age, Hip-Hop, and dancers. Bei Bei has been featured as an instrumentalist and composer at Knitting Factory Hollywood, Ford Amphitheater, Barclay Theater in Irvine, UCI Claire Trevor Theater, Mt. Sac College Performing Arts Center, and more. As a studio musician, she recorded for Sci-fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica”. As a composer, she composed music, performed and engineered for China Central TV documentary series “Dun Huang”. Her dance music works include “Dancing Dream” which was premiered at the Asian American Children’s Dance Festival in 2007. She is the director of Lotus Bud Gu Zheng Studio in Fullerton, CA, where she teaches students to play and perform. The feedback that she has received as she has introduced American audiences to Gu Zheng and its broad and varied repertoire has been extremely positive. Her passion for her instrument and the beauty of her music have touched people across the world.