The Summer Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble is a club located in Tucson, Arizona and consists of community members as well as University of Arizona students. The goal of the club is to provide a place where people who are interested in Chinese music to get together and play their Asian instruments and enjoy Asian music. A secondary goal, now that we don't sound too bad, is to introduce the Tucson community to the great music that is Asian music. We do this through various community performances at the local 17th Street Farmer's Market, the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, and other venues. Recently, we have split our group into two pieces, a performing ensemble, and a beginner group. This allows us the opportunity to spend time helping people learn their Chinese Instruments, as well as allowing the more experienced players the enjoyment of learning new, harder pieces.

If you are a member or director of a Chinese Music Ensemble, we'd love to hear from you. Chinese music is a rare thing in the United States and we want to do all we can to encourage its growth. Please visit our links page for links to other Chinese music ensembles around North America.

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Andrew describing the erhu to the audience. Photo by Lin Yu Xiang
From: Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Graduation, August 26th, 2007

At the top of the page you can find links to various pages within our site. We have a calendar and news page that gives info about upcoming and past performances and events as well as pictures. In order to give an introduction to Asian music, we also have pages with examples of the music we are playing, as well as descriptions, pictures and video of the Asian instruments we play.