Mengla Huang & Friends Winter Concert

Violinist Huang Mengla's Mengla Huang & Friends winter concert is at the Oriental Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, on 30 December 2026 (Wednesday) at 19:30. The series began in 2017; this is its ninth season. Jin Yukuang conducts the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra. The soloists are Huang Mengla, violin, Sun Yingdi, piano, and Xia Xin, pipa. The first half is two Chinese works: Wang Danhong's pipa concerto 云想花想, after Li Bai's Qing Ping Diao, and Chen Gang's concerto for violin and pipa, 王昭君. The second half is Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, "Turkish" (K. 219), and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The programme is subject to change. Huang Mengla won gold at the 49th Paganini International Violin Competition and is a professor in the orchestral department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Sun Yingdi won gold in 2005 at the 7th Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and is a professor in the piano department at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Jin Yukuang has been principal conductor of the Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2024/2025 season and was one of six winners of the Rotterdam International Conducting Competition in 2025. Xia Xin graduated from the China Conservatory of Music with a master's degree in pipa.

Violin

Mengla Huang

Conductor

Jin Yukuang

Orchestra

Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra

The Shanghai Oriental Art Center's ticketing system shows sales opened at 10:49 on 12 November 2026, and the centre published its sale announcement on 13 November. Seven prices: 680, 580, 480, 380, 280, 180 and 80 yuan. Tickets are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged once sold.

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