Shui Mo Ensemble

水墨

The Shui Mo Ensemble is a group of dynamic young players on the UK scene dedicated to commissioning and performing new repertoires of contemporary music mixing traditional East Asian and Western instruments. Shui Mo looks to create a new repertoire unbounded by eastern or western aesthetics, to provide new palettes for transculturally-minded composers and innovators of the 21st century. ‘Shui Mo’ (水墨 in Mandarin— ‘Sumi-e’ 墨 絵 in Japanese, Sumug (수묵) in Korean, Shu-Mo in Cantonese refers to water and ink painting). Shui Mo’s increasingly wide span of commissions include top composers Jia Guoping (Beijing), Shao Litang (Hong Kong) Xu Zhengtong (Chengdu) and numerous up-and-coming composers. The ensemble enjoys regular collaborations with visual arts presenters and festivals. Shui Mo ensemble is in residence at the University of Bristol. Recordings may be found here from BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show: https://www.shuimo.org.uk/projects

Musicians and instruments:

Kiku Day キク デイ(shakuhachi), Hyelim Kim 김혜림 (daegeum), PENG Cheng 彭程(érhú), HE Shuiqingqing 何,水清清 (guzhēng), Jingyu Chew 周荆玉 (shēng), George Owen (‘cello). Visuals by Ting Huang.