A Chinese music festival will be held at the Chicago Symphony Center in downtown Chicago on September 22.

More than 1,000 performers from China and the US, including top tenors and sopranos, choirs and dancers in traditional Chinese attire, will perform at the more than 110-year-old center, according to the event's organizers.

Chinese tenor Fan Jingma will for the first time come to Chicago to present some classic music at the festival. 

Chinese-American tenor Tong Tao and his wife Liao Dan, a soprano, will sing together for the first time at the symphony center.

Los Angeles-based soprano Julia Metzler will also perform at the festival. In 2017, she was invited to sing on CCTV for China's Spring Festival Gala - the most widely watched television broadcast in the world.

The Chinese music festival this year will follow the same theme as in 2018, "Understanding, Communication, Friendship," to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China-US diplomatic ties.

This will be the third time the Chinese community has held a Chinese music festival in Chicago.

On September 16, 2018, more than 30 theater troupes and 1,000 performers from the US Midwest and China staged a Chinese concert at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago. More than 10,000 people, including Chinese nationals and Americans, attended.