Bilingual Family Concert featuring 
Presented by Ya Ya Mandarin Seeds and NACMS
 
Location: Ya Ya Preschool, 291 Broadway Level B, New York NY
Time: Sunday, Jun 8 at 4:00 - 4:45 pm
Ticket: $20 per family.  (max 2 adults + 2 children)
Age: 0-9y
 
Join us for a special bilingual family concert and story time to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival!
 
During this event, your family will:
 
Enjoy the beautiful sound of the Guzheng, performed by a professional musician from the New Asian Chamber Music Society.
Immerse in an original story in Mandarin and English to learn about the Dragon Boat Festival traditions.
Gather as a community to sing, move around, and laugh!
 
Musician: Wei Sun, Guzheng
Wei Sun, 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…highly praised.
 
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.