A church in Fujian Province on China’s southeast coast held an organ concert.
Fuzhou Huaxiang Church held an organ concert on the evening of March 15, which was hosted by Pastor Chen Ming.
Fuzhou Huaxiang Church installed the pipe organ, which is the oldest, largest, most complex, and most unique musical instrument, at a cost of 12 million RMB in 2017. The largest pipe organ in a Chinese church was officially performed in November 2018. Since then, the church has held organ performances during Sunday services, evangelistic rallies, and celebration services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Chang Xiaoting, the organist for the Huaxiang Church concert, is the first Chinese organ performance doctor at the Royal Academy of Music. She received the honor at the age of 23 and became the youngest doctor in that area in the world.
In recent years, Dr. Chang has conducted organ concerts in Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Singapore, the United Kingdom, France, and other places in Europe and has won many awards in major art competitions in China and abroad.
During the one-hour organ concert, Dr. Chang performed famous pieces composed by worldly-known composers such as Bach, Tchaikovsky, Pachelbel, Weber, and Elgar, as well as the hymn “Amazing Grace,” which is full of confession, gratitude, redemption, and rebirth. Prof. Ding Chaobin, director of the Fujian Symphony Orchestra, played the flute and Dr. Chang's organ together at the concert.
- Translated by Kristina Ran
