Biography
Angela Jui Lee, gu-zheng master, was born in China, in the city of Xian. Her family lived in Taiwan for many years, and from there she emigrated to the United States in 1971. She studied music as an apprentice to master gu-zheng artists Wei De-Liang and Li Ying.
Her official website is, http://ajlee.com.
Angela's 1998 CD, titled Heart's Strings in loving memory of her son, Andrew (1963-1988), is a compilation of ten of her arrangements of traditional Chinese tunes. Following on its success, her most recent CD, The Moon Is High, was released in 2001 on the T'ang Dragon label. Where the earlier CD is largely meditative and introspective, The Moon Is High is a more exuberant and outwardly expressive endeavor, featuring Angela's 23-string and 25-string gu-zhengs, two of four gu-zhengs which have been made especially for her.
Angela has also co-authored English-language gu-zheng method books with American composer Mark Gresham, An Introduction to the Gu-Zheng, Vol. One and An Introduction to the Gu-Zheng, Vol. Two, which were published in 2002 by Lux Nova Press.
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