China Magic Finger Pianist Team was invited to perform at UCCA's Video Art Exchange - Poetry Adventure

■On June 12, 2022, UCCA, together with Youku Kids, the Beijing Ullens Foundation for the Arts, and the Chinese Red Cross Foundation, brought a fun "Poetry Adventure" themed event to children. China's Magic Finger Wizard was among the invited guests, and was the guest performer.

Fan Xiaohe, the Chinese Magic Finger Wizard, performed one of Chopin's most famous ballades, the Ballade in D-flat Major (also known as the Puppy Ballade), and Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata, a perfect example of the music he recorded when he was 28 years old.

Next came 7-year-old Li Muzheng, who played "The Dance of the Wild Bees" by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; 6-year-old Yang Junxi, who played Mozart's famously innocent "Mozart Sonata in C Major K545"; and then Li Muzheng and Yang Junxi, who played Schubert's famous "March of the Troops" with four hands, with a perfect understanding of each other.

Finally, Zhou Xinnuo played Karl Böhm's Fountain and Mendelssohn's Venetian Boat Song.

The piano performance of the Chinese Magic Finger Wizard was not only exquisite, but also courteous and elegant, presenting a wonderful feast for the senses, with the audience applauding and marveling.

China Finger Wizard / Fan Xiaohe

Puppy Dance & Sonata Pathétique

China's Magic Finger Wizard / Li Muzheng
The Dance of the Wild Bees

China Finger Wizard / Yang Junxi

Mozart's Sonata in C Major K545.

China's Magic Finger Wizard / Li Muzheng Yang Junxi
The Army March

Chinese Finger Wizard / Zhou Xinnuo
Fountain & Venetian Boat Song

After the beautiful piano performance, children at the scene were led by Dr. Liu Liduo from the Chinese Department of Peking University in the "Romantic Poetry Garden" Poetry Encounter Workshop to feel the charm of poetry, stimulate their imagination of words, and encourage them to create their own unique poems. On the screen, they will feel the poetry in the animation of the French Symbolist poets; off the screen, they will use poetry to depict their dreams, and use the piano to express their love and emotion.

This "Poetry Adventure" theme activity aims to send love and care to migrant children by means of art and provide positive psychological comfort. For the children, this is a wonderful feast of poetry and images, a marvelous journey of encountering art and music, and an exceptionally precious parent-child interaction.

The China Magic Fingers Elf Junior Pianist Team, together with UCCA, looks forward to continuing to brighten the lives of children and brighten their lives through art.

May your life, and ours, be as clear and fearless as a child.

About UCCA

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, photo by Sun Shi.

UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is China's leading contemporary art institution.UCCA upholds the idea that art can penetrate into life and improve it, bringing a wealth of art exhibitions, public projects and research programs to an audience of over one million people each year.UCCA currently has three venues: the UCCA Beijing Main Gallery, which is located in the heart of the 798 Art District, occupies an area of approximately 10,000 square meters, and is located in a former The UCCA Beijing Main Venue is located in the heart of the 798 Art District on a 10,000-square-meter site in a historic factory building built in 1957, and completed a renovation of the venue in 2019 under the auspices of Metropolitan Architects of the Netherlands (OMA); UCCA Dune Gallery, designed by OPEN Architects, is located in the Anaya neighborhood on the Bohai Coast of Beidaihe; UCCA Edge, designed by New York's SO-IL Architecture, opened in May 2021 in Shanghai's Jinghua District. May 2021 in Jing'an District, Shanghai.