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UPCOMING SHOWS:
Morristown, New Jersey, United States -
Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
May 19, 2012
New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States -
Zeiterion Theater
Mar 15, 2013
Markham, Ontario, Canada -
Markham Theatre
George Gao
CAST
Linsey Beckett
Lenny Solomon
Bill Bridges
Shane Cook
Bogdan Djukic
Ray Legere
Lew Mele
Bernie Senensky
Wendy Solomon
Roger Travassos
April Verch
Lynae Dufresne
CREATIVE TEAM
Lenny Solomon
Kelli Trottier
Theodore J Mendez
BOWFIRE ALUMNI
Stéphane Allard
Russ Boswell
Stephanie Cadman
George Gao
Yi – Jia Susanne Hou
Miranda Mulholland
Jon Pilatzke
ORIGINAL STAGING CREATIVE TEAM
Stafford Arima
Patricia Wilcox
David Korins
Karen ann Ledger
Marion J. Caffey
Virtuoso of the Chinese Erhu
Hailed as one of the most exciting, innovative and respected erhu masters today, George Gao began studying the erhu at the age of six. In 1985, he swept the three highest prizes of the Beijing China National Invitational Erhu Competition. This launched George Gao on a truly international performing career. Billions of people around the world have watched him on CCTV, China's most watched TV station. George was featured on the soundtrack for the popular science fiction television program Earth: Final Conflict, nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Theme Music. He also played on the soundtrack for the Oscar winning short documentary THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT. An enthusiast of many musical styles, he has pioneered the development of new music for the erhu, fusing traditional Chinese music with jazz, Western, Classical music, New Age, and other ethnic music from different world cultures.
