{"id":67063,"date":"2025-06-11T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=67063"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:49:38","slug":"xuefei-yang","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/xuefei-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Xuefei Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">Emerging from the twilight of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution, a period where\u00a0Western\u00a0musical instruments and music were\u00a0banned,\u00a0<strong>Xuefei Yang<\/strong>\u00a0was the\u00a0first guitarist\u00a0ever admitted to a Chinese conservatoire. At ten, her debut recital won her a concert guitar from the Spanish Ambassador; at fourteen,\u00a0Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo\u00a0attended her Madrid concert, and\u00a0Sir John Williams\u00a0gifted two of his own instruments to Beijing\u2019s Central Conservatoire for her studies.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">She has since\u00a0captivated audiences\u00a0in over fifty countries\u2014 including appearances at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms \u2014and has collaborated with Ian Bostridge, Roberto Alagna, Sir James Galway, and major orchestras worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">Classic FM named her one of the\u00a0100 Top Classical Musicians of Our Time, and BBC Music Magazine ranks her among the\u00a0Top Six Guitarists of the Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">Emerging from the twilight of China\u2019s Cultural Revolution, a period where\u00a0Western\u00a0musical instruments and music were\u00a0banned,\u00a0<strong>Xuefei Yang<\/strong>\u00a0was the\u00a0first guitarist\u00a0ever admitted to a Chinese conservatoire. At ten, her debut recital won her a concert guitar from the Spanish Ambassador; at fourteen,\u00a0Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo\u00a0attended her Madrid concert, and\u00a0Sir John Williams\u00a0gifted two of his own instruments to Beijing\u2019s Central Conservatoire for her studies.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">She has since\u00a0captivated audiences\u00a0in over fifty countries\u2014 including appearances at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms \u2014and has collaborated with Ian Bostridge, Roberto Alagna, Sir James Galway, and major orchestras worldwide.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"3727:780;a\">Classic FM named her one of the\u00a0100 Top Classical Musicians of Our Time, and BBC Music Magazine ranks her among the\u00a0Top Six Guitarists of the Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67064,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-67063","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-rental-partner-events","cat_rental-partner-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67063"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=67063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}