{"id":25282,"date":"2018-02-12T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25282"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:32:53","slug":"happy-new-year-xin-nian-hao-maura-walsh-chats-to-aidan-chan-and-yu-yue-ahead-of-the-performance-on-march-4th-2018-at-dublin-city-gallery-the-hugh-lane-dublin-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=25282","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year &#8211; Xin Nian Hao! Maura Walsh chats to Aidan Chan and Yu Yue ahead of the performance on March 4th 2018 at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Aidan is second generation Chinese pianist born and raised in Kildare.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At nineteen he has already achieved international recognition and recieved numerous awards. Yu Yue is Director of the Irish\/Chinese Youth Concerts Organisation and she chatted to me about the new year celebrations and chinese culture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aidan selected two pieces of his works for the show one chinese theme and the other european. He has been described in masterclasses and competitions as &#8220;talented, brave, fearless and uncompromising&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This lunar New Year begins on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1040175226\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 16th<\/span><\/span>\u00a0is the Year of the Earth Dog and the celebrations run until\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1040175227\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 4th<\/span><\/span>. The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival showcases ethnic and cultural diversity with a wide variety of events happening across the city.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan is second generation Chinese pianist born and raised in Kildare. At nineteen he has already achieved international recognition and recieved numerous awards. Yu Yue is Director of the Irish\/Chinese Youth Concerts Organisation and she chatted to me about the new year celebrations and chinese culture. Aidan selected two pieces of his works for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21,68],"tags":[9483,9488,9487,9485,9486,5054,2152,2980,9484],"class_list":["post-25282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","category-general","category-the-arts-show-arts-2","tag-aidan-chan","tag-dublinchinesenewyear-com","tag-ireland-huarenzhi-new-media","tag-irish-chinese-youth-concerts-organisation","tag-james-zhao","tag-maura-walsh","tag-nearfm-2","tag-the-arts-show","tag-yue-yu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25298,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25282\/revisions\/25298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}