Lai Chi Kok Park | Community Cultural Ambassador 2025: First Met Music "Huqin Meets Jazz: A Musical Dialogue" "Huqin X Jazz Music" Community Tours

Description

"Huqin Meets Jazz: A Musical Dialogue" is a music project centred on the traditional Chinese huqin, showcasing its distinctive timbre and rich cultural diversity. The huqin plays a vital role in Chinese regional music, evolving into various unique styles across different regions, including instruments like the erhu and gaohu. This project uses the huqin as a starting point to reimagine Chinese traditional music, popular music, and jazz standards through jazz-inspired arrangements. By blending the traditional with the modern, it explores the possibilities of integrating the huqin with Western musical genres. The project brings together musicians from diverse backgrounds to create a fresh musical language, inviting audiences on an auditory journey that transcends cultures and eras. The project is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture.

The programme time is approximately 1 hour.