Hechou (arr. Mei) - Han Tian Lei (Thunders in the Drought) (Guangdong/Canton)

Tieshan/Yuan (arr. Mei) Yao Zu Wu Qu (Dance of the Yao People) (Yunnan)

Yucheng (arr. Fubin) - Kuai Le de Luosuo (The Happy Luosuo) (Sichuan)

Nianyi (arr. Mingyuan) - Xi Yi Ge (Laundry Song) (Tibet)

Huiran (arr. Mei) - Tajik Wu Qu (Tajik Dance) (Xinjiang)

Shaanxi Folk Song (arr. Fubin) - We Ge Fang Yang (Wu Ge is Herding His Flocks)

Inner Mongolian Folk Song (arr. Yun) - Hong Yan (Swan Geese)

Haihuai (arr. Xin) - Sai Ma (Horse Racing)

Jiangsu Folk Song (arr. Jinlong) - Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower)

The UNT Chinese Ensemble is the first Chinese ensemble established at a Texas university. Directed by Yuxin Mei, the ensemble plays in the traditional “Silk Bamboo” style. They have played at many UNT and DFW events, including the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Plains Conference, the Celebration of Chinese New Year at the Crow Collection of Asian Art Museum in Dallas, and the AT&T Performance Center Volunteer Award Party. They also performed at the Denver Chinese New Year Celebration invited by the Denver Confucius Institution in February 2018.

Yuxin Mei is a renowned pipa performer and currently a PhD ethnomusicology student at UNT and director of the UNT Chinese Ensemble

Free admission.

Free Parking spaces will be available in Lot 26 (Highland Street, between Bain Hall and Music Practice South) for patrons attending performances at the College of Music on weekends and after 5:00pm on weekdays.