Tomorrow night the Chinese Royal Philharmonic welcomes the Year of the Dog at the Royal Albert Hall.
It is now officially the Chinese Year of the Dog and the Chinese Philharmonia Orchestra will be celebrating by playing an exclusive concert at the Royal Albert Hall. All the way from Beijing, conductor Yu Long has put together a choir from a small village in China’s Yunnan Province will be performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy along with selection of Chinese folk songs. One of the concert's outstanding features will be 13-year-old Chinese virtuoso Serena Wang, who will be the soloist in Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
The China Philharmonic was founded in 2000 and has since toured the world showcasing their outstanding talent. In 2008, the orchestra performed for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and in July 2014, the China Philharmonic was the first Chinese orchestra to perform at the BBC Proms.
Tickets are available here
Words by Natasha Potts
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