高虹老师是我心目中非常敬重的一位旅美琵琶演奏家、教育家。一直以来，高虹老师都以专业的技术知识、严谨的教学精神在美国传承发扬我们的民族乐器琵琶，使更多外国友人能够有机会近距离接触、认识这件千年的乐器。

Gao Hong is an American Chinese pipa performer and educator that I feel great respect for. Throughout her career, Gao Hong has used her professional technical knowledge and rigorous spirit for teaching to inherit and carry forward the Chinese pipa in the United States, giving a great many Americans the gift of getting to know this millenia-old instrument.

 

令我印象深刻的是，她还培养了多位外国朋友成为琵琶学习者、爱好者。她与多国音乐家合作，演奏不同风格的音乐，同时她也以中国音乐元素为基调创作出了许多优秀的作品，令人敬佩！

What has left the biggest impression on me is that she has also supported many people outside of China in becoming students and enthusiasts of the pipa themselves. She has collaborated with musicians from across the world, performed many different styles of music, and at the same time used elements of Chinese music as foundations to create many excellent new works—all of this is truly admirable!

 

感谢高虹老师对琵琶的世界推广作出的巨大贡献！

I give my thanks to Gao Hong for her enormous contribution to the promotion and expansion of the pipa world!

 

2022年4月3日，在明尼苏达州最著名的剧场将迎来“高虹音乐作品专场音乐会”，令人期待的事，这也是高虹老师从事琵琶演奏50周年和纪念恩师琵琶浦东派大师林石城先生诞辰100周年的音乐会，我们也将听到她的原创作品与即兴作品！

On April 3rd, 2022, the famous Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota will welcome a special concert of Gao Hong’s musical works. We look forward to this concert that is both the 50th-year anniversary of Gao Hong’s pipa career and the 100th-year anniversary of her teacher, Pudong pipa master Lin Shicheng—and the opportunity to hear Gao Hong’s original compositions and improvisations!

 

音乐是连接世界各国的纽带之一，在此，预祝这场音乐会圆满成功！

Music is one of the threads that brings together all of the world’s peoples, and I wish this concert resounding success!

 

赵聪

中央民族乐团 团长， 中囯著名琵琶演奏家

2022年2月20日, 写于北京

Aritic Director of the China National Traditional Orchestra, Chinese Pipa Master Zhao Cong

February. 14, 2022, Beijing