On January 22-23, 2022, a picture book story concert specially created for children will be presented at the Qintai Concert Hall.
Pianist Nie Chen and host Li Yaxin will tell children about the world masterpieces of music masters such as Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev through live piano performance, original illustration projection, live interaction and vivid commentary, and bring children into the music world with fun.
German professional music enlightenment content, famous songs vivid and easy to understand
The content of the concert comes from the "Classical Music Enlightenment Piano Performance Sketch Collection" issued by the German professional music publishing organization Schott Music Group, which is dedicated to children's musical enlightenment. The repertoire covers highlights of world-famous operas and symphonies. Each clip is accompanied by an engaging, vivid storyline and imaginative rich drawings, easy to understand, widely praised by professionals and loved by children.
In the first half of this concert, the "Symphonic Fairy Tale" "Peter and the Wolf" and the musical picture book version of Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same name, "The Nutcracker", will take everyone into the world of fairy tales. Sergei Prokofiev, one of the world's most important composers of the 20th century, was invited by the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow to compose this symphonic work written for children, "Peter and the Wolf", which has now become one of the classics of children's music, bringing endless joy and inspiration to children of different ages; and the characters of mouse soldiers and candy fairies in "The Nutcracker" are full of childlike fun, allowing children to enter the world of classical music with ease and happiness in the story.
In the second half, Vivaldi's world-famous classic "Four Seasons" was his most popular work. The four concertos in "Four Seasons" are composed of three movements of fast, slow and fast, which vividly describe the alternating changes of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Let the children experience the beauty and uniqueness of different seasons from both visual and auditory points of view.
Piano performances, storytelling, picture book projections, and fun live interactions
The concert will be performed by Nie Chen, a professional piano teacher and pianist at Wuhan Conservatory of Music, and Li Yaxin, a professional children's music education host, as the host of the explanation. The concert will be based on the original picture book picture projection as the background, and the professional music host will explain the story live. At the same time, the live interaction such as "Walnut Mantra" is interspersed between the songs to exercise the children's voices, rhythms, limbs, etc., fully mobilize the participation of the small audience, and start a joyful music journey.
Famous songs, pianos, interactions, picture books, explanations, all-round sensory mobilization, make classical music interesting. The concert hall has carefully prepared two concerts (Saturday/Sunday 14:30) on January 22 and January 23, 2022 for the audience to choose from.
Artist Introduction
Nie Chen, piano
He is a professional piano lecturer at Wuhan Conservatory of Music, the highest diploma in piano performance from Mozart University of Music in Salzburg, Austria, and is currently a doctoral student in opera art direction in the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. He was the piano art director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
While studying at the Freiburg Conservatory, he gave concerts all over Germany and was once commented by the German Baden newspaper as "singing with the heart on the piano". In 2013, he won the first prize in the Bartók International Piano Competition in Vienna and was invited by the Cultural Center of the Hungarian Embassy in Austria to give a concert in Budapest.
Li Yaxin, the moderator of the explanation
Graduated with honors from the Department of Music Education of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, with kindergarten teacher qualifications and senior middle school music teacher qualifications.
Studied the Orff and Kodayi teaching methods for four years with Dr. Chen Yiran of the School of Music Education of the Central Conservatory of Music, dr. Manuela, dean of the Orff Academy, Ms. Ge Xunna, editor-in-chief of the International Orff Magazine, and Yuta, a teacher at the Hamburg Conservatory. Feng Ke, South Korean Orff education expert Yin Hui. Rosensteiner, Arthur, the "father of the drum circle", and other famous teachers who are active in world Orff music education.
(Source: Qintai Concert Hall)
【Editor: Zhang Jing】
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