Young musicians perform at the Poly Theater on Monday as part of the Beijing Music Festival's series marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Photo: Courtesy of BMF

 Development and inheritance are two important themes for the 24th Beijing Music Festival, with a group of young talented musicians playing a significant role on the stage during the festival, revealing the power of the classical music for a younger audience.

Jin Yukuang, a Chinese conductor who established a neoclassical chamber music band, brought performances with other musicians, including guitarist Yang Xuefei and pianist Xu Gengyan, in Beijing on Sunday and Monday.

The young members of the chamber orchestra used language and music to take the audience to the heart of folk and German-Austrian music during Sunday's concert. They began with Serenade by Kodaly Zoltan and ended the performance with The Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

The concert highlighted the new generation of Chinese classical music youth to pay tribute to the classics. Some delicate or magnificent music at the fingertips of the new chamber orchestra burst out new vitality, so that the audiences at the scene and those at the other end of the radio wave can appreciate the unique string music and the immortal charm of masterpieces, music critics commented.

On Monday, Jin and his band performed a symphony created by Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, which has been the first time that the symphony is played in China.

The orchestra was established in 2020 when the COVID-19 epidemic was still at its peak and the whole music and performing industry was facing a challenging period.

The group of young musicians, some of whom were born after 2000, gathered together to combat the virus.

They pursued the sound of chamber music, preserving the personality of each musician as much as possible. They made bold innovations in the interpretation of music, and showed the courage to go deep into the vast history of music, and bring new vitality to these time-honored classics.