UC Professor, Grad Student to Join In on Benefit Chinese Folk Performance

The University of Cincinnati will host a performance of the Sound of Joy Chinese Folk Music Ensemble on Saturday, April 19, to benefit the 2008 Fine Arts Fund Campaign. UC Biomedical Engineering Professor Peixuan Guo and College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) graduate student Aik Khai Pung, will join internationally renowned musicians Zhengang Xie, Mei Hu, and Ming Ke, along with a group of talented performers, in an evening musical concert.

Guo is an amateur Chinese flute player, while Pung is a prize-winning vocalist and an accomplished soloist on the Chinese dulcimer and Er Hu, a bowed two-string instrument.

The concert starts at 8 p.m. in CCM’s Corbett Auditorium. Admission is $10 (suggested donation) at the door. Students can attend for free.

The Fine Arts Fund supports over 95 organizations, enabling Cincinnati’s arts organizations to provide thousands of local children with educational outreach programs and produce world-class performances and programming in neighborhoods throughout the city. The fund also makes a major economic impact on the Tristate.

For more information on the concert or to donate to the fund, visit www.fineartsfund.org/epledge or e-mail robin.dreisigacker@uc.edu.