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'Featured Artist...10/April/2026...bei_bei

Bei Bei (Bei Bei Monter, 荷蓓蓓）is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning artists. As one of the world's premier guzheng musicians, she has played a key role in bringing this ancient Chinese instrument to a global audience. Since her 2006 debut, she has been featured on several Disney movie soundtracks, performed with Christina Aguilera, appeared as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony, and released several critically acclaimed original music albums. Her virtuosity and unique fusion of Chinese and Western music continues to resonate with a growing fan-base.

As a performing artist and composer, Bei Bei roots her art in classical music and expands into other styles, combining new with old into creative new expressions. This is heard especially in her collaborations with musicians from different genres such as funk, jazz, pop, electronica, hip-hop, and dance.

She released her debut album "Quiet Your Mind And Listen" in 2006 and her collaborative album "Heart of China" (Universal Music), with Richard Horowtiz, in 2008. In 2009 Bei Bei started collaborating with England's prolific producer / musician Shawn Lee. The team has released two albums – "Into The Wind" (Ubiquity Records) in 2010, and "Year of The Funky" (Légère Recordings) in 2017. In 2024, Bei Bei recorded the album Rhythm of China, released by Hatch for Sleep. The album features five fully improvised pieces, interwoven with embedded audio interviews in which Bei Bei shares her musical journey. In 2025, Bei Bei began a bold new chapter with London-based composer/producer Paul Simon Elliott. Together, they released Walk the Fame (guqin with downtempo electronic, May 2025) and Silk Soirée (jazzy guzheng with electronic beats, August 2025), leading up to their full-length album Two Moons, released in February 2026.

Eager to share her knowledge of music and skill in guzheng with the world, Bei Bei is both an author of guzheng instructional texts and a teacher of this classical Chinese instrument. She is the author of "Gu Zheng Sessions" and "Bei Bei's Easiest Guzheng Course." In 2011, Bei Bei and her music "Hot Thursday" were included in the college textbook "World Music" by Michael Bakan. Currently, she is the director of her own music school – Lotus Bud GuZheng Academy and instructor at OC Music and Dance in Irivne, CA.