Famous Chinese violinist Lv Siqing undoubtedly closely associated with the famous music piece the Butterfly Lovers or China’s Romeo and Juliet. He is widely recognized as the perfect performer of the Butterfly Lovers. Lv staged a thrilling concert Sunday evening in Nanjing to entertain the audience with a 1699 Stradivari violin.
Lv Siqing played a violin made by Stradivari in 1699. The famous violinist and the 319-year-old violin was accompanied by famous conductor Sir Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, intoxicating the audience.
After the concert, Lv Siqing had an exclusive interview with JSBC. He said it was in 1987 when his father gave him a copy of the Violin Concerto – the Butterfly Lovers, a most famous and popular Chinese violin concerto.
Lv adapted the concerto to come up with his version of the Butterfly Lovers. Lv's interpretation of the piece has been widely considered the best among more than 30 available recordings of the work.
Many people think that classical music is serious, cold, and unintelligible. Lv Siqing believes that classical music can best convey emotions. Even if the audience does not understand it, they can enjoy it.
Born in 1969 in Qingdao, in East China's Shandong Province, Lv began studying the violin with his father, a music lover, at the age of four.
By age eight, he had been admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as the youngest student ever accepted, where he studied with Professor Wang Zhenshan.
Three years later, Lord Yehudi Menuhin chose Lv to study at his school in London. In 1989, he went to the Juilliard School and studied with renowned violinist Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang.
Since winning the Pagnini Golden Prize, he has performed with acclaim in more than 30 countries throughout Asia, Europe, South and North Americas.
In June 1996, Lv became the first Chinese musician to present a personal music week, Lv Siqing Week in Beijing, during which he performed seven concertos and several virtuoso pieces in four separate concerts.
As one of the best Chinese violinists of his time, Lv has a fantastically smooth and controlled bow arm and his tone is rich and lyrical.
But his ambition is not just to be a fantastic performer but "a bridge between Chinese and Western music."
(Source: Jiangsu International Channel)
