{"id":95547,"date":"2026-10-25T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95547"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:05:58","slug":"the-belgian-musician-fusing-western-chinese-instruments-for-something-totally-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95547","title":{"rendered":"The Belgian musician fusing Western, Chinese instruments for \u2018something totally different\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/24\/0c05cb98-c91f-4a95-b2b1-7c222b41dde2_c383fabd.jpg?itok=2wROb1Ph&amp;v=1792855358\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Johan Famaey is considered the only professional <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">yangqin<\/em> player in Belgium. When he returned to Belgium from <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Qingdao<\/span>, China, in 2009, most people in his home country had never heard of the instrument and knew little about Chinese culture.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 47-year-old musician, who is primarily a pianist, performs with a <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">yangqin<\/em> in Belgium and beyond, showcasing both Western and Eastern music traditions in his compositions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s a piano, whether it\u2019s a <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">yangqin<\/em>, we all have this in common that we try to move the people, to touch their hearts with the instruments that we play,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Famaey will perform on the piano at PMQ in Hong Kong on November 14, as part of the 2026 Belgian Chocolate Festival. It will be his first visit to the city, and after that, he will perform in Macau. The concerts are part of the \u201cBelgian Days\u201d programme organised by the Consulate General of Belgium in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3371842\/belgian-musician-fusing-western-chinese-instruments-something-totally-different\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Famaey is considered the only professional yangqin player in Belgium. When he returned to Belgium from Qingdao, China, in 2009, most people in his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32131,107,32132,21622,17319,6602,98],"class_list":["post-95547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-belgian","tag-chinese","tag-fusing","tag-instruments","tag-musician","tag-totally","tag-western","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}