A world of music

The idea of launching the Global Chinese Youth Symphony Orchestra is an extension of another brainchild of Lyu's－the Global Chinese Orchestra－which he co-founded with the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council in 2015.Since then, Chinese musicians overseas have returned home every September to perform as the Global Chinese Orchestra alongside their domestically based peers.

As Lyu says, every year, the annual concert is like a reunion party. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, the annual event was canceled in 2020 and 2021.

"We want to build up the Global Chinese Youth Symphony Orchestra as a platform for young Chinese musicians to communicate and share music, just as we have achieved with the Global Chinese Orchestra," Lyu says, adding that musicians from the senior orchestra will also give master classes to members of the youth ensemble.