A key event

Pianist Chen Sa will give a recital of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 20 in G major, Piano Sonata No 21 in C major, Waldstein, and Piano Sonata No 25 in G major, among others. The Chongqing native won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition before beginning a professional performing career that has taken her all over the world. She has toured and played with many great musicians such, as Gidon Kremer and Natalie Gutman, and appeared at music festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Rurl Piano Festival and the Lockenhaus Music Festival.

7:30 pm, Aug 27. National Center for the Performing Arts. No 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6655-0000.