Hongyu Yao, female, born in 1995. She studied piano at the age of three. She started to learn electronic organ at the age of 11. At the age of 14, she studied electronic organ with Mr. Zhu Lei who director of the Department of Modern Music and Percussion at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During high school and college time, she studied pipe organ with Mr. Wu Dan. In 2008, she won the first prize in the children's group of the first "Yinfei" electronic organ competition. In 2011, he won the third prize in the young group of the second Beijing International Organ Competition. In 2012, she won "Yinfei"third place in the classical group of the International Organ Competition. Participated in the Dutch Organ Festival in 2014, and participated in organists in Leipzig, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark in 2016 and 2018, participate in courses of many internationally renowned organ masters, and won good feedback.
Story of “The Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto
Concerto for the violin Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, known outside China as the Butterfly Lovers, is programmatic music in one movement, based on the story of the love of a young man and a young girl. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is a beautiful, touching and moving love story.
During the DongJin Dynasty, there was a daughter of Yingtai, she is beautiful and intelligent. Her brother taught poetry to her since childhood. And she also wanted to receive a better education, dressing up as a man to go to Hangzhou to study (in the DongJin Dynasty, women could not go to school). On the way, she meets Liang Shanbo, who had studied together, she had a very deep relationship with Shanbo for three years during the study. Yingtai loves Shanbo deeply, but Shanbo does not know that she is a woman. They are especially sad when they finish their study. Before leaving, she gave him a lot of hints that she likes him. But Shan Bo is so honest, and doesn't understand the meaning. Therefore, she lied to tell him that there is a sister in her family. Her appearance and personality are similar to her. She is willing to introduce her to Shanbo. However, Liang Shanbo was poor and did not arrive on time. When ShanBo went to her family for proposing, Yingtai’s father has married his daughter to Ma Wencai, a vert rich person. Two people meet with tears, they know they are like the sun and moon, never be together. Before leaving, they set an oath: life can not be the same, but death must be the same hole! Shanbo was so depressed, which let him get ill, and soon died. Yingtai heard that he was dead and vowed to be buried together. After one month, Yingtai was forced to marry to Wencai, she went to his mausoleum to mourn, and at this time, the wind was overwhelming and pouring rain with thunderous. Suddenly the tomb burst, Yingtai jumped into the grave, after the tomb was combined, the wind and raining were stopped, and the rainbow hung, they both turn to butterflies, flying in the world.
The music draws on Shoxing opera tunes, so that it maintains an expressive device from the musical language of regional theaters. And the articulation of orchestral instrument is also closely related to folk theater and folk instrument playing.