Guo Yazhi, a famous wind musician, graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music and studied under Chen Jiaqi, Hu Haiquan, Ren Tongxiang, Wang Gaolin, Liu Bingchen, Song Lichun, Hu Zhihou, Yin Erwen and other famous suona and pipe teachers. He is proficient in nearly 30 kinds of wind instruments including suona, pipe, xiao, xun, flute, bawu, cucurbit flute, ethnic minority indigenous blowpipe and western saxophone. He has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Hungary, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and all over China. He has held solo concerts in famous concert halls in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and other places. He is known as "China's No. 1 Wind Music", "The World's No. 1 Wind Music", "National Music Pride", and "International Wind Music Master".

Achievement

In 1987, the first album "Suona Songs" was published.

In 1988, the second album "Suona Opera" was published.

In 1990, Guo Yazhi graduated with honors and stayed at the school as a suona teacher.

From 1988 to 1998, he served as the suona music for CCTV's annual Spring Festival Gala. He has successively composed music for hundreds of film and television works such as "No One Can Be Missed", "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as well as soundtracks for several TV shows. album.

In 1993, he invented the suona "living core" device, which made the traditional suona play a chromatic scale and a twelve-tone system, which enriched the expressive power of the suona, and won the second prize of the Ministry of Culture's Science and Technology Progress Award. He has also collaborated with a number of modern music composers, and has pioneered Huang Anlun's "Chinese Rhapsody", Qin Wenchen's "Calling the Phoenix", Jia Ping's "The Trembling of the Decadence Line" and Wen Deqing's groundbreaking suona. "Trace No. 4" made a sensation in the music world.

In 1998, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, he participated in the Pro Musicis International Grand Prix held in New York, USA, and won the only award in the finals in history, and won the opportunity of a world tour. The American "Overseas Chinese" called him "an important step for Chinese national wind music to go global". In June of the same year, during U.S. President Clinton's visit to China, Guo Yazhi used the saxophone to play "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" for him, and he used the "live core suona" invented by him to play the American music "Morning of Cutting Erqi". The performance became the most exciting program of the night and was highly appreciated by the two heads of state.

In 1999, he was invited to join the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as the principal suona.

In April 2005, he collaborated with the Swiss Philharmonic Orchestra to premiere the "Suona and Grand Orchestra Concerto "Trace No. 4" by Wen Deqing, a famous composer in Europe. Switzerland's "Geneva Tribune" commented that "Guo Yazhi is an excellent performer. ... He made the suona shine and became a shining star in concerts."

In May 2006, he performed "Trace No. 4" with the Daejeon Metropolitan Orchestra of South Korea. In the same month, the concert "The First Suona - Guo Yazhi" was held in cooperation with the Taiwan Experimental Chinese Orchestra. In August, in cooperation with the National Orchestra of the Malaysian Music Academy, three concerts of "Great Northwest" were held in a row, and they received strong responses wherever they went.

In April 2007, at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra successfully held two concerts of "Guo Yazhi's Wind Music World - The Legend of Suona", and invited famous singer Huang Yaoming as a guest performer, and the news media competed. The reports are unprecedented.

In 2008, the "Guo Yazhi Jazz Concert" was held at Shenzhen Poly Theater, which was the most exciting scene for the 3rd Sino-French Cultural Exchange Spring.

In May 2008, "France Saxophone Trio and Guo Yazhi Jazz Concert" was held at Qintai Grand Theater.

In 2009, he collaborated with singer Hacken Lee in "The Woman Before Marriage" at the Hong Kong Coliseum. He imitated the saxophone with suona, which gave Hong Kong people a new understanding of suona.

In May 2012, he won the Hong Kong "2012 Artist of the Year Award".

In July 2012, the Hong Kong Cultural Center-Concert Hall held the "Lifting the Sedan chair and welcoming the bride-Guo Yazhi's world of blowpipe II".

In 2012, he went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston to continue his studies.

Guo Yazhi is currently the most expensive suona performer in the world. He has set the record for the most expensive suona album and the largest release in the world. He also has the most collaborations with famous concert hall symphony orchestras around the world, as well as the most collaborations with world-renowned composers and conductors. , the suona player who has premiered modernist works and has the most pop music.

Invention of suona "living core"

The active core is a freely retractable copper suona core, which is used to assist the traditional suona to play semitones and transposition. It has practical significance in broadening the expression space of suona art. On February 2, 1992, it passed the technical appraisal organized by the Education and Technology Department of the Ministry of Culture in Beijing. The core is one of the important parts of the suona. The reed is attached to the top and the main tube is attached to the bottom. The traditional core is a single-tube type, while the active core is a movable sleeve type, which can be extended and changed to change the length, and the reset depends on the action of the spring. When playing, by pressing up on the live core with both hands, you can play a temporary change of chromatic or chromatic scale. If the active core is pushed in and locked, it can be used as a high semitone transposition instrument, and the fingering remains unchanged.

The small deviations in the interval relationship produced by the advance can be adjusted by controlling the mouth strength, and the player can easily adapt and make effective corrections. There are 3 kinds of specifications for the active core. Because its telescopic length can be adjusted, it solves the application problem of large, medium and small suona. The suona live core has been unanimously affirmed by experts, who believe that this achievement is very practical, and the small changes have achieved great results and have promotion value. The suona live core was produced with the assistance of Master Zhuang Zhenghe from the Beijing Wind Instrument Factory.