Fusion music for Mid-Autumn Festival

FUSICIANZ during a concert. Photos courtesy of Shenzhen Concert Hall

On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, FUSICIANZ from Hong Kong will present a unique program blending Chinese folk music, classical, electronic, and rock.

The band consists of traditional Chinese and Western instrumentalists, jazz musicians, hip-hop singer-songwriters, pop music producers, and electronic musicians.

Audience members will hear a medley of Bach’s “Air on the G String,” the Cantonese nursery rhyme “Bright Moonlight,” and the folk tune “Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon”; another medley blending “Fleeting Years,” Pachelbel’s “Canon in D,” and “Memory”; the joyous and exotic “Dance of the Yao People”; and “Celtic Tempest.”

Time: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 24

Tickets: 80–280 yuan

Venue: 5/F, Chamber Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall

Kirill Gerstein piano recital

Kirill Gerstein.

Pianist Kirill Gerstein will make his Shenzhen debut, interpreting Liszt’s romance and grandeur. One of today’s most captivating musicians, Gerstein was named one of Gramophone magazine’s “50 Greatest Pianists of All Time.” He won first prize at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv and subsequently received the Gilmore Artist Award and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Fans will hear the poetic “Three Petrarch Sonnets,” the passionate and dramatic “Dante Sonata,” the brisk “Hungarian Quick March,” the elegant “Polonaise No. 2 in E Major,” and the “Piano Sonata in B Minor,” widely regarded as a pinnacle of piano literature for its grand structure, emotional depth, and daunting technique.

Time: 8 p.m., Sept. 26

Tickets: 80–480 yuan, with discounted packages for two and three

Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall