Bin Hu, guitar & Jing Xia, guzheng
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
7:00 PM
Enrique Granados
Spanish Dance No. 2, “Oriental”
Isaac Albéniz
Sevilla
Chenyu Huang/Wang Zhou
Western China Fantasy
Manuel de Falla
Dances from “El amor brujo"
Yuguo Zhou
Nostalgia
Francisco Tárrega
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Sérgio Assad
Farewell; Tahhiyya li ossoulina
Here is a rare pairing of the acoustic Spanish guitar with China’s guzheng, a zither-like instrument with a 2,500-year history. Jing Xia, trained at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, is an instructor at the University of Arizona Confucius Institute. Chinese-born guitarist Bin Hu holds a master’s degree from the Salzburg Conservatory, and won the 2016 David Russell Bach Prize.
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