Guitar and accordion are modern instruments with strong South American colors, classical guitar sounds are warm and soft, delicate and changeable, with the melodious and pure sound of accordion, you can show unlimited musical colors.
From August 26 to 27, 2022, Kuang Junhong and Mao Junpeng, two young post-95 musicians, performed two consecutive performances at the Chinese Theater of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, bringing a wonderful musical dialogue on guitar and accordion under the name of Bach and Piazzolla.
The two musicians are typical "other people's children", who have won numerous awards and can be called "the king of the industry".
Kuang Junhong is in the Middle Theater of the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
It is not an exaggeration to describe Kuang Junhong as a teenager and a guitar genius. He was the first Asian to win the highest prize in the guitar competition at the 66th ARD Munich International Music Competition, and won the Most Popular Audience Award and the Music Foundation Award, setting a record for the youngest winner in the history of the ARD competition (aged 17). At present, he is a teacher at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and enjoys the title of associate professor, making him the youngest associate professor of guitar in the world.
Kuang Junhong was admitted to Chuanyin High School on a scholarship at the age of 12, a full undergraduate scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University in the United States at the age of 15, and a full scholarship for a master's degree in classical guitar at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University at the age of 20, and is currently studying with Master Baru Ike.
Kuang Junhong in the middle of the performance.
In 2021, Conductor and cellist julian Weber, President of the Royal Academy of Music in Birmingham, UK, nominated "Thirty of the World's Most Outstanding Young Musicians Under the Age of Thirty", and Kuang Junhong was honored to be selected.
Kuang has performed with more than a dozen well-known conductors and well-known professional theaters, and has successfully performed hundreds of concerts around the world, including the Munich Philharmonic Hall, the New York Symphony Hall and other world-renowned performance venues.
Since the age of 12, Kuang Junhong has been challenging various international guitar competitions without age restrictions, and he has won the first place in the Changsha International Guitar Competition (12 years old); 1st prize in thailand international guitar competition (12 years old); Best Bach, Best Interpretation of Spanish Work at the Iserlon International Guitar Competition, Germany (12 years old); Second place in the International Guitar Competition of Iserlon, Germany (14 years old); 1st prize in the Daejeon International Guitar Competition in South Korea (14 years old); First prize in the Yale Gorden Orchestral Concerto Competition in the United States (16 years old) and the first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Germany (17 years old).
Mao Junpeng is in the Middle Theater of the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
Mao Junpeng is a young teacher at the Central Conservatory of Music. As an outstanding young accordionist, Mao Junli has won awards in more than 20 major competitions at home and abroad. In may 2017 in particular, he won the first place in the Performers Group at the Klingenthal International Accordion Competition in Germany, which is recognized as the top level of the competition in the industry. He has performed solos and concertos in famous concert halls at home and abroad, such as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall in Germany and the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China.
Mao Junpeng is playing.
As an accordion soloist, Mao Has also collaborated with many famous conductors at home and abroad to perform accordion concertos with the Symphony Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music, the National Symphony Orchestra of China, vogtland Philharmonie and other domestic and foreign orchestras.
In addition, Mao has also composed a number of solo and chamber music works for the accordion, and published a series of albums, which is a future star of the accordion world.
On the afternoon of August 27, two artists rehearsed in the theater.
Two artists who became famous as teenagers, in private, looked a little childish in their dress and style. But when they picked up the instrument in their hands, the notes began to flow from the fingertips, as if the speed of the air flow had changed.
Mao Junpeng waited on the side platform.
It was a belated concert. March 11 and March 21 are the birthdays of "Father of Tango" Piazzolla and "Father of Music" J.S. Bach. The Shanghai Grand Theatre was scheduled to take the stage on March 31 this year, but the impact of the epidemic made the belated performance after 167 days of waiting.
On August 27, coinciding with the 24th anniversary of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the two artists used their superb skills to bring a wonderful birthday celebration performance to the audience.
Presenting Bach and Piazzolla in a concert comes from a wonderful idea.
Playing Bach not only shows the expressive ability of the guitar and accordion, two modern instruments, to classical music, but also confirms the solid hand skills of the two musicians. Bach's music for "pleasing the gods" emphasizes extreme precision, order, and transcendent emotions.
And Piazzolla's tango music, passion, tenderness, and mountain and water, require musicians to have a deep reading ability and self-interpretation of emotional expression.
However, this looks like a cold and a hot, rigorous and unrestrained two styles, but in the root not only do not conflict, but have a certain unity of the source. Piazzolla's childhood experiences in New York exposed him to and deeply influenced Bach's music. Therefore, Bach's neat music writing also laid a solid theoretical foundation for Piazzolla's "wanton play" later.
With exquisite technique, the two artists presented the audience with an authentic cross-border dialogue between Bach and Piazzolla, guitar and accordion.
On the evening of the 27th, the 24th anniversary of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the two artists paid tribute to the Grand Theatre by affectionately performing a "Magic Reform" "Happy Birthday" in the middle of the scene, which received a warm response from the audience.
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