Yuanfan's new piece for two pianos Spring Blossoms on a Moonlit River （春江花月夜） will be premiered by pianists Xinning Zhang and Bing Bing Li at the Stoller Hall, Chetham's School of Music, Manchester, UK as part of the Chetham's International Piano Summer School & Festival.

'Spring Blossoms on a Moonlit River'
- this piece is arranged from a well-known classical Chinese music composition for the pipa (a Chinese guitar), which includes only notes from the pentatonic scale. The original piece is generally very relaxed, portraying a sense of calmness, serenity and beauty. In my adaptation, this still remains the primary goal, but the experimentation with my harmonic language, styles, textures and the use of instrumentation allowed me to make a musical expansion into something more substantial, which was the aesthetic goal for me, rather than just providing a simple transcription. The original piece consists of ten sections, of which the holistic style from the beginning to the end is consistently unvarying. I also use ten sections in my piece, but each section is of a slightly different musical character and stylistic colour.

(Yuanfan Yang, April 2017)

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