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Robert Jacobsen, Presenter Dr. Jacobsen is the founding curator of the Department of Asian Art at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and has worked in that capacity for 20 years. He has served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota where he received his Ph.D. in Asian Art History with a minor in Chinese language and literature. He has B.A. and M.A. degrees in architecture, fine arts, and art history from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and the University of Minnesota. He did Ph.D. coursework at the University of Michigan and advanced language training at Shih-fan Ta-hsueh University, Taipei, Taiwan. Before coming to Minneapolis, he was a research fellow and translator in the Department of Antiquities at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. During his tenure at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, he has organized thirty-seven special exhibitions, added nearly 6,000 Asian art objects to the permanent collection and written thirty-two articles and books on Asian art. In 1998, he supervised the recent expansion from five to twenty-two galleries dedicated to the permanent display and interpretation of Asian art. Mr. Jacobsen has delivered over 300 public lectures in his career and worked with KTCA Television on the production of Ming in Minneapolis in 1998. Michael Trosman, Producer Michael Trosman received a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts with a specialty in Radio, Television and Film from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He received a Master's degree in Asian Studies with a specialty in Chinese Language, Literature and Media Studies. For the past 15 years he has worked in television production focusing his energy on documentary work and programming related to Asia. Trosman spent a year studying and working in Northeast Asia. He documented his travels by taking hundreds of photographs that were eventually used as source material for his television program "Three Faces of China." In 1988 Trosman worked with NBC sports to help televise the Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Most recently, Trosman produced "Ming in Minneapolis," a thirty minute documentary about traditional Chinese architecture in a modern context. Trosman is currently working closely the Curators of Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to develop Chinese and Japanese related television projects. He is fluent in Chinese language and has studied Japanese language at the University of Minnesota. Trosman is a full-time producer at tpt, the PBS-affiliated station that serves St. Paul and Minneapolis. Gao Hong, Composer and Arranger of original music for "Made in China" Gao Hong , a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa, began her career as a professional musician at the age of twelve. She graduated with honors from China’s premier music school, The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied with the great pipa master Lin Shicheng. Gao has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, China and theU.S. in solo concerts and with symphony orchestras, jazz musicians, and musicians from other cultures. She has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, the Next Wave Festival, Festival d’Automne in Paris, the International Festival of Perth, Australia, and the Festival de Teatro d’Europa in Milan, Italy. Gao has also performed world premiers with the Minnesota Chorale and Ragamala Dance Theatre and the West Coast premiere of Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Pipa with String Orchrestra, with the Seattle Creative Orchrestra. Since her arrival in U.S. in 1994, Gao Hong has been featured in over 90 newspager and magazine articles and four television documentaries. She has introduced hundreds of students to the pipa through courses she teaches at MacPhail Center for the Arts and Metropolitan State University and as a guest lecturer at universities throughout the United States. For the series, "Made in China: Fine Art from the Middle Kingdom to Minnesota," Gao Hong performed with Wang Hong and Marc Anderson, with Music Coordination by Paul Dice and International Friendship through the Performing Arts. Music Samples more information: http://www.chinesepipa.com/  |
