Henan Museum concert calls for wider preservation of ancient music

"We want to draw seasoned scholars and guqin lovers from all walks of life to join us in promoting excellent traditional Chinese culture," Luo said.

Henan Museum founded its Ancient Music Orchestra in 2000. For more than two decades, the group has studied the wealth of musical relics unearthed across the Central Plains, emerging as one of China's pioneering museum programs focused on comprehensive ancient music preservation. Staff musicians have transcribed and arranged nearly 200 regional melodies spanning prehistoric times through the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

Luo served as the lead creator of the concert, which featured prominent guest artists Yang Chunwei, head of the Music Research Institute at the China Conservatory of Music, and Zhang Meng, a rising guqin performer from the Central Conservatory of Music, together with the Huaxia Ancient Music Orchestra. The ensemble has performed nearly 20,000 live shows and toured over 20 countries, including France, Turkey, South Korea, and the United States, for cultural exchange events.