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Bingyao hails from Hunan, China and has been playing the yangqin since 5. She received her bachelor’s degree in music from the Mount Holyoke College in the US. During her time there, she founded a Chinese music ensemble which performed regularly at cultural events and concerts. Bingyao has played the yangqin with ensembles of various music styles in the US and Australia, including a klezmer Jewish music band and the Chao Feng Chinese Orchestra.

Bingyao moved to Melbourne in 2018 to study a Master of Music Therapy at the University of Melbourne. Now a registered music therapist, Bingyao works with children and adults with disabilities and people with mental health diagnoses. She has had the privilege of getting to know people’s stories and share joy with them in music. This experience inspired Bingyao to dedicate her work to creating access to arts for people of all backgrounds and abilities.
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Bingyao has a passion for theatre and has taken on various roles in community theatre productions in the past, including costume designer, sound designer, sound board operator and stage manager. An emerging theatre producer, Bingyao recently worked on ‘The Best Cabinet Maker’ by Small Ripples Theatre, which had four sold-out shows in 2023.

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Jun Bin Lee is a Melbourne-based composer and writer of Malaysian-Chinese heritage who works across film and theatre. Lee has written multiple musical and theatrical productions across New Zealand, Taiwan and Australia, often featuring diverse musicians, languages and musical instruments. This includes Taonga pūoro (traditional musical instrument of the Maori people of New Zealand), African drums, Chinese Erhu, GuZheng, YangQin, Indian Sitar and Tabla.

Lee is passionate about cross-disciplinary collaboration and often works with academic researchers, social workers, advocacy groups, documentary filmmakers and historians to create educational and awareness-raising projects.

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Sarah is a New Zealand-born Chinese multidisciplinary artist whose work spans site-specific dance, musical theatre, movement coaching, and dance film. She explores themes of identity, culture, and human expression through her diverse artistic practice. A passionate advocate for social change, Sarah addresses critical issues such as gender-based violence and societal transformation. Notable projects include Elixir (2011), How A Perpetrator is Born (2019), A Fundamentally Flawed Love Story (2019), The Ari Project (2021), and Best Cabinet Maker (2023). Through these works, she challenges societal norms, using performance as a transformative tool for dialogue, reflection, and change.