On November 1, Fang Jinlong, a Chinese music artist, musical instrument collector, and representative of contemporary five-stringed pipa, will set off for Europe with a team of more than 10 people to start a 15-day series of activities in Europe, Spain and France 2023. Among them, on November 4, he was invited by the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, to give a lecture entitled "Chinese Music" at the Falla Concert Hall with Chinese and foreign musicians at the Falla Concert Hall, and on November 13, he gave a lecture on the origin of Chinese and French music at the "Second Conference on Dialogue between Chinese and French Civilizations" held in Paris on November 13. It will be the highlight of this series of activities.
It is reported that during the stay in Europe, there will also be various activities for the younger generation, including guiding lectures at the Confucius Institute at the University of Granada in Spain, performing Chinese works with the student orchestra of the Conservatory of Music in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and holding special concerts in the school, and street flash mobs with Chinese and foreign musicians from China, Japan, France and other countries in front of landmark buildings such as the Alhambra in Spain and the Eiffel Tower and the Pompidou Art Center in France.
"The team should not only be young and international, but also enter the local colleges and universities and people with a 'circle-breaking' and 'innovative' attitude in the form of performance, and also use the advantages of the Internet to expand the communication channels of Chinese folk music", is Fang Jinlong's requirements for the organization, planning and dissemination of this tour. In this tour, Fang Jinlong will bring Ms. Zhang Weina, founder of Anqing Jingxin Guqin House, guqin player/educator, and vice president of Anhui Guqin Society, the organizer of the tour, to lead young Chinese music practitioners in China, such as guqin intangible cultural heritage inheritors, young musicians, etc., to join hands with the Chinese Silk and Bamboo Orchestra composed of Spaniards, the Spanish Granada-San Bastian Bastian Basto Wind Orchestra, the Japanese Chinese Orchestra, and the Paris Chinese Chamber Orchestra, and join hands with Peng Jingxuan, a young guzheng player in France with tens of millions of Internet fans. French erhu virtuoso Eliott Tordo and others co-starred.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Fang Jinlong's art in 2018, the officially launched "Fang Jinlong Chinese Music" world tour, starting from Guangzhou, this year, it brought musicians from Asian, European, African, and American countries and domestic famous troupes to all over the country, as well as Osaka, Japan, nearly 30 tours, in May 2019, "Fang Jinlong Chinese Music" World Tour Oceania Station in Sydney, Australia and Aatlan, New Zealand, and held in Kyoto, Japan in November. After three years, the 2023 "Fang Jinlong Chinese Music" World Tour European Station will be another wonderful musical journey.