Chu Ting-shun explained

Chu Ting-shun
朱丁順
Birth Date:30 November 1928
Birth Place:Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan
Nationality:Republic of China

Chu Ting-shun (; 30 November 1928 – 26 December 2012) was a Taiwanese folk musician and yueqin player.

Born in Hengchun, Pingtung County, in 1928, when the area was still under Japanese rule, Chu began learning the music indigenous to the area on his own in 1945. In 1951, he entered his first singing competition, and, two years later, started formal training in Hengchun folk music. Chu Ting-shun was introduced to the piano by fellow musician Chu Hsien-chen. In 1993, Chu Ting-shun gave his first lesson in Hengchun folk music.[1] One of his most prominent students was Chen Ming-chang.[2] [3] Chu won the Best Concert Award at the 14th Golden Melody Awards.[1] Five years later, he received the Lifetime Contribution Award.[4] Chu was named a "living national treasure" by the Taiwanese government in September 2012. He died on 26 December 2012,[1] and was posthumously presented with the citation in June 2013.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: 恆春民謠國寶大師朱丁順辭世 享壽85歲. 11 June 2017. Central News Agency. 26 December 2012. zh. 1 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180301230143/http://www.cna.com.tw/postwrite/Detail/118870.aspx. dead.
  2. News: Ho. Yi. Arts & Culture: Fall moon fever. 11 June 2017. Taipei Times. 23 September 2011.
  3. News: Ho. Yi. Folk musicians gear up for Moon Lute festival. 11 June 2017. Taipei Times. 2 September 2012.
  4. News: Ho. Yi. Many a golden melody played on an old fiddle. 11 June 2017. Taipei Times. 22 June 2008.
  5. News: Tsai. Chung-hsien. Pan. Jason. Folk music’s Chu Ting-shun honored. 11 June 2017. Taipei Times. 6 June 2013.