Free weekend shows in November

Chinese, wind, and chamber music as well as a lecture will entertain local music fans at Shenzhen Concert Hall for free on Saturday and Sunday afternoons this month.

The Shanghai Quartet. Photos courtesy of Shenzhen Concert Hall

On Nov. 5, the four members of the Shanghai Quartet will share with the audience their four decades of performing experience, fun anecdotes and give advice to aspiring strings players. The four current members include founding brothers violinist Li Weigang and violist Li Honggang, first prizewinner in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition Angelo Yu and American cellist Nicholas Tzavaras.

Performers of the Nov. 19 chamber music concert. 

On Nov. 19, a chamber music concert will feature flutist Yu Qinghan, mezzo-soprano Yang Xin, pianists Wen Ming and Chen Qiaobing, alongside saxophone players Shao Weiping, Lin Ziyun, Huang Zicai, and Liu Tingyu. The program will include excerpts from Bizet’s masterpiece “Carmen,”“Suite Antique” by John Rutter, Ennio Morricone’s scores for “Cinema Paradiso,” Jean Baptiste Singelée’s “Duo Concertant,” and the first movement of Edvard Grieg’s “Holberg Suite.”

Performers of the Nov. 4 concert. 

The Afternoon Music Time series will bring a zheng (plucked board zither) concert of classical Chinese pieces Nov. 4, a piano concert of Chinese works by Shenzhen University teachers and students Nov. 11, and the familiar works of Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky as well as Chinese songs by organ and accordion teachers and students of the Shenzhen Arts School on Nov. 25.

Admission is free but tickets are required. Those interested can follow the WeChat account of Shenzhen Concert Hall (ID: szyinyuet) to apply for tickets.