Bilingual Family Concert featuring Wei Sun, Guzheng
Presented by Ya Ya Mandarin Seeds and NACMS
 
Location: Ya Ya Preschool
Time: Sunday, March 1 at 4 to 5 p.m.
Ticket: $20 per family. (max 2 adults + 2 children)
Age: 0-9y
 
Join us for a fun-loaded Lunar New Year family concert and story time!
During this event, your family will:
 
Enjoy the beautiful sound of the Gucheng, performed by a professional musician from New Asian Chamber Music Society.
Immerse in an original Year of the Horse story written by Ya Ya Mandarin Seeds in Mandarin and English.
Gather as a community to sing, move around, and laugh!
 
Wei Sun Bio
A young guzheng artist from China, was born into a family of musicians and started her guzheng journey at the age of 6, She is a certified senior teacher of guzheng, a member of the China National Instrumental Association and the International Guzheng Association. In 2016, she came to the United States as a guzheng performer and teacher at the CBA Cultural and Arts Center.
 
Wei is the principal performer of Guzheng of the Chinese National Orchestra in New
York, she has been invited to perform at the Lincoln Center, United Nations, Pace
University, Columbia University, Merkin Concert Hall, Flushing Town hall, Queens College Art Center.
 
She is one of the co-founders of the trio bands- StringsW and Miss. In October
2017, StringsW held a successful concert in Carnegie Hall. This concert combined
Western and Chinese instruments together to rearrange Chinese folk music. Since
March 2022, Wei has performed in the Broadway musical show 《Noble Family》.
 
New Asian Music Chamber Society (NACMS) 新亞室內樂協會
The New Asia Chamber Music Society (NACMS), the recipient of the 2016 Huang-Yu-Ting Memorial Award and New Music USA’s project grant, was founded in 2010 by an entrepreneurial group of young Asian-American virtuosi. Propelled by a shared passion for classical chamber music performance, the members of NACMS are prize winners of world-renowned international competitions, graduates from America’s most prestigious music schools, including The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute, and appear regularly on major stages across the globe.