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CONCERT PIANIST DI XIAO, BIOGRAPHY AbstractChinese Concert Pianist Di Xiao began her musical studies at the age of four, subsequently studying at Guangzhou Conservatory, the Odessa Conservatoire, under the eminent Professors A. M. Bougaevski and G. V. Popova, and later at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Professor QiFang Li. She graduated from Beijing with one of the highest marks in the history of the Conservatory.  Later she was awarded a full scholarship by Birmingham Conservatoire which enabled her to travel to England to continue her studies under Professors Mark Racz, now Deputy Principle at The Royal Academy of Music London, and Malcolm Wilson. She graduated with distinction in 2006 winning a number of prizes along the way.Di Xiao has recently released her first album ‘Di Xiao Presents’ which is being played regularly on European radio stations including BBC Radio 3.  During the 2008/09 season she thrilled audiences across Europe on her Rising Star Tour which took her to 12 of the worlds most prestigious concert halls; Athens Megaron, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Barcelona L’Auditori, Brussels Bozar, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Salzburg Mozartium, Wien Konzerthaus, Stockholm Konserthuset, Köln Philharmonie, Birmingham Town Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall.  Later the … Read more

May I count the times you and I have heard “Practice makes perfect”? It’s stressed so often how practice is vital in learning and improving your musical skills on any instrument including the guitar. But how many days out of the week do you actually feel like practicing? Maybe a couple, maybe every day, maybe even only once a month. So how do you make yourself more prone to practice more often?You decide to discipline yourself to.Now when you hear the word “discipline” I’m not talking about a belt to the ass. I’m talking about self-discipline.Self-discipline is the willing mechanism to make yourself improve on whatever it is you are doing. It plays a vital part in your musicianship, and if you are real about wanting to be a good musician, this is the heart and soul of your way to be one. It is the process of making the habit and second nature actions to get you where you want to go. In the case of learning to play the guitar, it is not just about motivation and passion. Although those are very important aspects of practice and improvement, they are completely useless and non-existant without having the self-dicipline … Read more

There is really nothing in the world like music. There have been studies to show the amazing effect that is has on the human brain, such as the link between music and spatial intelligence. The only thing that can compare with listening to music is the ability to make our own music.Not everyone is as gifted as the rest when it comes to playing music. Not all of us have the time, or want to invest the time in learning to play a complicated instrument such as the piano. That does not mean that we don’t all want to be able to play an instrument. There are easy musical instruments that you can learn to play quickly. Here are eight:1. Drums. If you have a pretty good sense of rhythm, drums are a fairly easy musical instrument that you can learn to play quickly. You won’t be great, but you can sure have fun. There are many kinds of drums, from the congo drum to the high hat to the bass drum to the snare drum. Drums, along with the tambourine, belong to the percussion family. Which means the hitting of one body against another; the drum is also played … Read more

Jazz is an American art form whose roots date back to the mid-19th century slave songs and chants. The early 20th century saw the art form blossom as instrumental music in the southern United States, mainly along the Mississippi river and specifically New Orleans, Louisiana.Early instrumental jazz combos of New Orleans varied in instrumentation. More often than not, these early jazz groups generally consisted of trumpet, clarinet, trombone, tuba and drums. This instrumentation became what is known as the “dixieland” combo, making its way up the Mississippi river to Chicago where the music became popularized by jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong.Dixieland combos can be thought of as groups that play “polyphonic” improvisational music. Each instrument is independent of every other instrument, with each player creating separate musical improvisations based on known melodies, or “tunes” of the day.The players of these early jazz combos each had a separate role within the group. The trumpet player was depended upon to state the melody of the song, while the clarinet would improvise complex lines above him. The trombonists role was to improvise or “fill in” the middle register with lines and notes that were essential to the chord changes of the song … Read more

1. Non organic food has a less nutritional value.Most of the food we purchase from the supermarket is processed. It goes through industrial processes, and high-level temperatures heating.These processes wipe out the largest part of the vitamins, minerals and fiber in our food.The rest of the vitamins and natural resources are not sufficient for the process of life so our body “robs” several of the organs, like the liver or the brain, to make up for the missing nutrients. The “pillaging” of materials causes the weakening of essential organs of the body and leads as anticipated to the accelerating of disease and old age. Eating organic ensures you obtain all of the vitamins your food has to offer.2. Eating organic does not contain pesticides.Conventional cultivation uses more than 400 separate chemicals, and on occasion the same vegetable goes through several sprayings with dozens of types of pesticides.  For instance, Phosphates. This is a material proved to harm men’s fertility and is associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and Parkinson’s.Research conducted by the British government found that a combination of pesticides can be unsafe to our body. Organic supervision prohibits the use of artificial pesticides. Eating organic helps reduce the … Read more