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Sanlitun is an area of Beijing popular for outings. Yet its recent attraction was unique. A concert 11 features music pieces by famous composers has taken place there.
The concert also opened this year’s China Youth Music Competition-Hummingbird Music Award. The competition 12 (base) on the German Music Council’s music competition for young performers in Germany. Winners of the two competitions are offered the opportunity 13 (perform).
Zhang, organizer of the concert, met Benedikt Holtbernd, the artistic manager of the German Music Council in 2014. Since then the event 14 (serve) as an important cultural bridge between young people of China and Germany.
In Sanlitun the young musicians show their musical talent and the beauty of chamber music. Because they do it at close range, they 15 receive immediate response from the audience.
One of the performers is Jiang, who is studying at the middle school of the Central Conservatory of Music. 16 he first took part in the competition in 2016, he performed with another performer. 17 was a rare chance for him to play with another person 18 shared the joy of music with him.
“It was an eye-opening experience because I got to know a total foreign musical instrument and as a team we won first prize.”
He is now keen 19 playing chamber music and he is prepared to study conducting, which will allow him to become 20 (skillful) in playing other musical instruments.