Following in the footsteps of his father, Wong On-yuen, Wong Sun-tat has excelled as a musician. At the age of 29, he's the gaohu associate principal with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. (The gaohu is a Chinese bowed-string instrument similar to the erhu, but with a higher pitch - both are from the huqin family.)

You can catch father and son tomorrow and Saturday when they team up to perform The Huqin World of Wong On-yuen IV with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

This Chinese classical music series began in 1984, winning the Gold Tripod Award for best performance in Taiwan that year. The programme also won Wong On-yuen the 1984 Hong Kong Artists' Guild's performer of the year prize.

At the age of eight, Wong Sun-tat was already the erhu soloist with the Hong Kong Children's Choir. A year later he became ehru champion at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. He attended a secondary school affiliated to Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, later entering the conservatory itself.

Under the baton of conductor Yan Huichang, the father and son orchestral programme will feature new and classical works for the Chinese Orchestra. The highlight will be The Butterfly Lovers - a double concerto for gaohu and erhu. Composed in 1959, the violin concerto by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang has many instrumental versions, as it has been interpreted often.

For this concert, the Wongs will take a new approach by playing both erhu and gaohu, to represent the two protagonists in this much-loved Chinese opera.

The two huqins will become the 'voices' of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, who turn into butterflies after their tragic deaths.

Also on the programme are the newly arranged Cantonese Music Medley, Liquormania and In the Deep of the Night, a set tune from Peking opera, performed with the junghu, drum and jingerhu.

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