Jey Ping's Website

One of the things I enjoy most about music is the diversity of art, so I find that I jump around in my passions for musical genres. I like everything from baroque to minimalist modern classical, smooth jazz to trance techno, bluegrass to pop country, and of course the nebulous genre that we float around now of "alternative" music.

I play violin, or fiddle, depending on what mood I'm in. If you ask me what the difference betwen a violin and a fiddle is, my answer is definitely, "the way you play it." Though the electric violin definitely allows for all sorts of things beyond what you'd usually define a violin or fiddle...

I've enjoyed the experience of playing in a lot of quality orchestras, and I also find myself staying up late just playing by myself sometimes for enjoyment and discovering something new. Here are some recent recordings - the 2008 clips are multi-track recordings on the MRS-8:

Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas - July 2008 (2.9MB 100-kbps MP3)

Telemann Concerto in C Major for 4 Violins - June 2008 (130-kbps MP3)

Grave

Largo

Allegro

Blessed Be Your Name - Redman (2.2MB MP3) - 29th of May, 2008 (130-kbps MP3)

Hymns - Summer 2008 (130-kbps MP3)

Holy, Holy, Holy

Crown Him With Many Crowns

Amazing Grace

Bach Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 - Summer 2007 (60-kbps MP3)

Allemanda

Corrente

It Is Well - (Youtube Video) A spontaneous recording made on the 6th of January, 2008 - an improv solo violin arrangement captured on the 5-string electric violin with basic acoustic tone.

Lift Now Your Voice and Sing - (64-kbps MP4) A spontaneous recording made on the 13th of August, 2006 - an improv solo violin arrangement captured on the electric violin with basic acoustic tone.

Theme by Joseph Haydn - (64-kbps MP3) Another spontaneous recording made on the 12th of February, 2007, trying out double-stops on common tunes.

And now here are some other special clips, not of me playing:

Ciaccona, Joshua Bell - (96-kbps MP3) As an experiment he played at a subway station in Washington DC. You can't buy a recording of him playing this, and to think that people just walked on by on their way to work one morning. I'd fly out there just to hear this in person!
Interview with Joshua Bell - (96-kbps MP3) This feature I heard on XM Radio starts out with him playing Praeludium and Allegro, and goes into almost all of what's interesting about Joshua Bell.