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  • I'm here on stage at the Royal albert hall with the musical superstar, Lang Lang, who

  • has just played a concert and masterclass for over 5,000 mostly children, featuring

  • his two proteges from the foundation.

  • Lang Lang thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you it's such a pleasure

  • We just heard the concert which was incredible, mostly children out there, was it different

  • for you to play to such a different audience?

  • Today our aim is to inspire the next generation of music lovers and musicians and we were

  • so happy to have this Sunday matinee and we can have this incredible stage and to do it

  • together with two of the most incredible students from our foundation.

  • He's a brilliant pianist and he's taught me a lot of things on the piano and it really

  • helps me with my playing.

  • I think performing in front of so many people is really really a lot of fun and the duet

  • with Lang Lang was really really amazing.

  • No matter whether your professional or

  • not professional, music needs to give us the positive love and the positive soul and positive

  • emotion first and this is something that will make a huge difference when they start practice

  • they have a hope, they have a dream, they have love. Rather than depressed, bored & disappointed.

  • How difficult was it for you, coming from China, mastering the European composers?

  • For me learning music is like learning a culture and language. And the earlier you start you

  • are more used to this culture and for me, I started to play piano before I can actually

  • talk and so in a way I hear mozart the same time as listening to chinese music. And I

  • start to know Listz the same time as when Im watching Tom and Jerry and Transformers

  • and monkey king cartoons and so in a way this culture for me is also a part of me, inside

  • of my heart, so I never really felt difficult.

I'm here on stage at the Royal albert hall with the musical superstar, Lang Lang, who

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