Book Signing Event: My Father Xu Beihong: Music Inspired by His Art

Event Schedule

1:00 pm - 1:03 pm Introducing Xu Fangfang and announcing the speaker's requests.
1: 03 pm - 1:53 pm Xu Fangfang's Talk
1:53 pm - 2:05 pm Q & A
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm Book Signing

About the event

My Father Xu Beihong, Music Inspired by His Art Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Chinese artist and art educator, is widely known as the father of modern Chinese painting. Jiang Wenye (1910-1983)，Chinese composer and music educator, was among the earliest to write Chinese music for Western orchestra and piano. Xu Beihong's daughter, author and pianist Xu Fangfang, will introduce her new bilingual book, Xu Beihong’s Color-And-Ink Paintings－Piano Concerto by Jiang Wenye Discovered After Half a Century, describing how Jiang Wenye’s hand-written score of the piano concerto portraying Xu Beihong's color-and-ink paintings was lost and brought to life after its recovery half a century later. She will present high-quality images of Xu Beihong's masterpieces, followed by her performance CD sale and book signing of her new book and her memoir Galloping Horses: Artist Xu Beihong and His Family in Mao's China.

XU Fangfang Bio
Born in Beijing, Xu Fangfang graduated in piano performance from Beijing’s Preparatory Music High School affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music. She moved to the U.S. in 1981 and earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
In 2000 she became the founding director of the music department at Renmin University of China. On October 22, 2022, she performed the world premiere of the third movement of Jiang Wenye’s Piano Concerto Xu Beihong’s Color-And-Ink-Paintings in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
She has published her memoir, Galloping Horses: Artist Xu Beihong and His Family in Mao's China, Xu Beihong’s Color-And-Ink-Paintings: Piano Concerto by Jiang Wenye Discovered After Half a Century, and several articles about Xu Beihong and his art, including “Xu Beihong’s Connection with India” in the journal Art, no. 09 (2020).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Qualia Contemporary Art, 229 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, United States