The Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra will give a concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) this weekend to celebrate the second anniversary of the venue. Chen Zuohuang, music director of NCPA, will take the baton.

The concert will start with Dvorak's Carnival Overture, with the second half devoted to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4. It will also feature award-winning Chinese violinist Li Chuanyun who will play Chinese composer Huang Anlun's Violin Concerto in B minor.

The 29-year-old Li first picked up the violin when he was 3 and two years later won his first prize at a competition for kids in Beijing. He then came under the tutelage of the late renowned violinist Lin Yaoji. In 1991, at 11, he was unanimously voted the winner by 20 judges from 11 countries at the Fifth Wieniawski International Youth Violin Competition, making him the youngest to be so honored.

Soon after, the Juilliard School of Music awarded him a full scholarship to attend the school's pre-college division. From there, Li went to the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where he studied with Dorothy Delay.

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