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China Daily USA | Updated: 2014-03-21 14:23

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MUSICAL CELEBRATION

Haochen Zhang(left), Chinese pianist from Shanghai poses with Ludovic Morlot, music director of the Seattle Symphony at a party hosted by The Seattle Symphony at Mercer Island in Seattle on Wednesday.

Zhang, a Van Cliburn winner at 19 and Shanghai Symphony Artist-in-Residence for the 13-14 season, will play The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, composed by Edvard Grieg (1843–1907) at the Celebrate Asia concert in Seattle on Friday, March 19.

Celebrate Asia is presented as part of the Seattle Symphony's New Music WORKS initiative, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. it explores the diverse musical traditions of Asia in a spectacular East-meets-West event. This year's program features the cultures of China, Vietnam and Japan.

Composer, conductor and pianist from China Shuying Li, has been named the winner for the Seattle Symphony's Celebrate Asia Composition Competition. Her Overture to "The Siege" will be premiered by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra at the Celebrate Asia concert on March 21, 2014. Mercer Island, WA, Photo by Deng Yu / China Daily

LOVE FOR CHINA

Liu Meiru, director of the Confucius Institute at Portland State University introduced the film An Old American's Chinese Dream at the premier screening event at the campus of Portland State University on March 14. The films tells the Chinese adventure of Eunice Moe Brock, who sold all her US belongings when she was 82 years old and relocated to a small village in Shandong, China. Portland, OR, Liu Rremei / for China Daily

CULTURAL IMMERSION

Teacher from the Confucius Institute at University of Portland State University Gao Qi performs traditional Chinese tea ceremony to visitors to the Lan-Su Chinese Garden at Portland on March 14. The Chinese Corner at Lan-Su Chinese Garden, which was focused on Chinese tea culture and Chinese langugae, was organized by the Confucius Institute at University of Portland State University. Portland, OR, Tian Yu / for China Daily

(China Daily USA 03/21/2014 page9)