


Wandering around the historical Qianmen Street in Beijing and the traditional old commercial street of Dashilanr, I feel the excitement of being a tourist whilst at the same time the nostalgia of returning home. I found it interesting that when I was teenager living in Beijing I preferred to go to the very modern places in the city - I was always impressed to see the changes to people's lives. Now coming back to my hometown from abroad I particularly like to go to those traditional locations in the city that have a distinctive character that belongs only to us.



Sharing a new video with you - made by ABRSM to help promote their new guitar syllabus ! It was filmed in the open air near their offices in central London.
The music is Sons de Carrilhões (Sound of Bells) by the Brazilian composer João Pernambuco. The guitar is by Zbigniew Gnatek.
Enjoy !
https://youtu.be/Nu12v-wlKBc



Enjoy this short clip of Monti's Czardas with violinist Jiafeng Chen !
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtTVTP5A9yu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


Latest news about an additional Rodrigo prize for competitors at this year’s Changsha International Festival! A big thank-you to the Victoria and Joaquin Rodrigo Foundation for their generous support.
#Rodrigo @ediciones.rodrigo
https://www.facebook.com/275961156088760/posts/810500962634774/


Happy birthday to Tom Jobim - born this day in 1927.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TrRLQaTO8Yxusp5F8vKa3?si=DpeSg_l0SPOoaaNdIq4rig





Xuefei is looking forward to performing her all baroque program at the Bath Bach Festival on Friday 22nd February.
The festival runs from 21st-23rd Feb.
https://www.bathbachfest.co.uk/events/xuefei_yang


Happy New Year everyone ! Wishing you all a great year in 2019, along with some more music in your life.
Here is an informal clip of a cheerful piece to start the year !
https://youtu.be/1qamAlxnsvo


Sharing these pictures from the recording sessions of last summer ! This brings me such a nice memory of those days.
After a long debate we all agreed to use Milonga del Angel as the album title. Not only we particularly like that track, we also recorded at London's Angel Studios.
The recording sessions had a quite spontaneous, almost party-feeling, which really suited to the music we played.
The editing took place in the idyllic English countryside. We could listen to the takes and look out on the beautiful scenery on a rare fine day - life felt beautiful.
Hope you can catch how we felt during the making of the album when you listen to it!
https://open.spotify.com/album/4UPlM5eQqvyNnoD1l4BVp2


I was happy to be interviewed again by the English language newspaper China Daily !
https://enapp.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201812/15/AP5c146de3a3109966cea8face.html?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0



Hot off the press ! I am excited to announce my brand-new recording ! It's guitar and violin duets with the Paganini competition winner Mengla Huang. It includes two of my brand-new arrangements.
It's available digitally worldwide, eg :
Spotify :
https://open.spotify.com/album/4UPlM5eQqvyNnoD1l4BVp2?si=PJ8kGweSTWeBBPY6mBOT0w
Apple -
USA : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/milonga-del-angel/1444411649
Japan : https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/milonga-del-angel/1444411649
UK : https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/milonga-del-angel/1444411649
Have a listen and hope that you enjoy it !
#milongadelangel
