Man, a renowned modern pipa performer, teaches at Dartmouth University. (Host) All this week, students at Dartmouth have been learning about the pipa, a Chinese lute that dates back 2,000 years. Their teacher, named Wu Man, is a renowned modern performer.

Friday evening, the Spaulding Auditorium stage in the Hopkins Center will host Wu Man, a Grammy Award-nominated virtuosic musician who plays the pipa, a traditional Chinese string instrument. Her concert, “Ancient Dances,” promises to be an artistic...

Four of their core Western classical-oriented members also play as Brooklyn Rider — longtime NPR Music staff favorites — and other master musicians in this adventurous band include the Galician gaita (bagpipe) dazzler Cristina Pato as well as pipa...

Man, ‘the princess of pipa’, has single-handedly established her instrument on the world stage in recent years via solo performances and a series of cross-cultural collaborations. Earlier this year, the pipa player linked up with Kronos again at the...