Maestro brings ancient Chinese sounds to London

During the afternoon of the second Saturday of every second month the musician Cheng Yu dresses in traditional Chinese attire and takes a guqin and pipa to a special gathering she started in London 20 years ago.

Cheng is a virtuoso of the two instruments who trained at Xi'an Conservatory of Music in the 1980s before playing the pipa with the China National Traditional Orchestra. She later studied for master's and doctoral degrees in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in the 1990s.

She has been active ever since in educating people and performing Chinese music in the United Kingdom.