ABOUT

the group

Ensemble Shui Mo is a brand new group of dynamic young players on the UK scene dedicated to commissioning and performing new repertoires of contemporary music mixing traditional East Asian and Western instruments. Shui Mo looks to create a new repertoire in Britain unbounded by eastern or western aesthetics to provide new palettes for transculturally-minded composers and innovators of the 21st century.

‘Shui Mo’ (in Mandarin—Sumi-e in Japanese, Sumak in Korean, Shu-Mo in Cantonese) refers to watercolour art. With a core instrumentation of huqin (erhu), shakuhachi, guzheng, daegeum, sheng (mouth organ) and cello, the ensemble is in-residence at the University of Bristol.

the musicians