Xuefei Yang Guitar Recital with Guest Tenor Ian Bostridge 杨雪霏吉他音乐会 —— 第四届中英国际音乐节第四场（9 May 2021）

00:00 - 06:00 Interview with Xuefei Yang She is the first guitarist to enter a music school in China and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts from the Central Conservatory of Music, being the first Chinese guitarist to launch a successful professional career on the international stage. She is the first guitarist from China to study in the United Kingdom and the first-ever guitarist to receive an international scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and the only recipient of the Royal Academy of Music Principal’s prize for an exceptional all-round studentship in 2002. She was named as one of the 100 top classical musicians of our time by Classic FM, the UK classical music magazine. She was named “Six of the best female classical guitarists” by BBC Music Magazine. She was acclaimed by the classical music magazine Gramophone that “the guitar world has a new star”. She is Xuefei Yang！ For the 4th China-UK International Music Festival online concert series, we are honoured to have invited “China’s Finest Guitarist” and “Guitar Goddess” – Xuefei Yang, joined by the special guest, the renowned British tenor In Bostridge, to give us a concert featuring the fusion of Chinese and Western music. The programme of the concert is also very diverse, including “Seven Desires for Guitar” by the Chinese compose Tan Dun, rearrangements of The Beatles, and some works adapted from ancient Chinese poetry. Let us wait and see!