The Confucius Institute, Venice,\u00a0in collaboration with Ca\u2019 Foscari University, Venice, and \u00a0the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, organizes two concerts by the Chinese artist Liu Fang:<\/p>\n
Monday 8 October 2012, 21.00
\nTeatro Ca\u2019 Foscari \u2013 Santa Marta<\/p>\n
Tuesday 9 October 2012, 21.00
\nAuditorium Santa Margherita<\/p>\n
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Liu Fang began playing the pipa when only six years old; she gave her \ufb01 rst solo performance at the age of nine and performed for Queen Elisabeth during the sovereign\u2019s of\ufb01cial visit to China. Liu Fang completed her music studies at the Shanghai music school, where in addition to the pipa, she also studied the zheng (guzheng), a large antique 21-string zither. After acquiring a considerable reputation and having won many national prizes,
\nin 1996 Liu Fang moved to Montreal and since the 1990s she has also been greatly acclaimed in the West thanks to her considerable stature as an artist, her remarkable technique and the intensity of her performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23705,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1597],"cini_tax_institutes":[],"cini_tax_event_locations":[],"class_list":["post-23907","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-concerti-e-spettacoli-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n