The 2021 Special Event of Youth Music Culture Guangdong (YMCG) will be held online on January 30th, including the following three parts.

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● Online Concert

Conductor Long Yu, Artistic Committee Chairman and Music Director of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) will cooperate with young violinist Paloma Su from China's Hong Kong and pianist Serena Wang, who lives in America, online to play two pieces. They are Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, a famous Soviet composer and pianist, and Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, a composer of the European Classical period.

The concert will also feature a meaningful Chinese piece named Liang Xiao (meaning a good night), which was created by Erhu master Liu Tianhua during New Year’s Eve in 1928, adapted by Yuan Zhi.

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● Inside the Practice Room with Yo-Yo

On January 30, Yo-Yo Ma, Artistic Director of the previous four YMCG and famous cellist, will hold an online performance, entitled "Inside the Practice Room with Yo-Yo". To explain his own artistic philosophy, his performance will be divided into the following four parts:

▲ I was your age

▲ Asking Questions: Activating Imagination

▲ Dividing into Music

▲ Bringing it Forward

Meanwhile, those pieces Yo-Yo plays will cover French pianist Charles Camille Saint-Saëns's The Swan, the second chapter of Beethoven's The Six "Field" Symphony called A Small View of the Stream, as well as a Chinese piece called Yan Tou Yu (meaning rain on the eaves) by cooperating with Wu Tong, a Sheng player online (Sheng is a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument). Those three songs are totally diverse in style.

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Long Yu (R) and Yo-Yo Ma (Photo provided to Newsgd.com)

● Global Connect--- Dialogue with the Masters: on Harmony and Equilibrium

Last but not least, Long Yu and Yo-Yo Ma, as well as the young guests invited to the offline event in Guangzhou, will connect with the guests to hold an in-depth interview.

Those young guests encompass professional musicians who have attended the previous four YMCG, former volunteers of YMCG, young teachers from famous colleges and universities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, members of the Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as actress and singer Nana Ou-yang, a young cellist from China's Taiwan.

Nana Ou-yang has also studied at two world-renowned music academies, Curtis Institute of Music and Berklee College of Music, and she will also perform Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous piece Andante Cantabile with the GSO Youth String Quartet at the event.

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Live Streaming platforms (apps) include:

央视新闻移动网, 新华社现场云, "央视频"APP, "库客音乐"APP, 今日音乐, 广东移动"粤享5G"APP, "南方+"APP, "花城+"APP, "触电新闻"APP, "巨浪视线"APP, "B站", "抖音"APP, "西瓜视频"APP.

In addition, British BBC MUSIC will also rebroadcast the whole event on its official website and social media.

The YMCG is hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, organized by both GSO and Xinghai Concert Hall, and initiated by conductor Long Yu with Yo-Yo Ma. From January 2017 to January 2020, it has previously been successfully held on four consecutive occasions.

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