A concert featuring veteran Chinese musician He Zhanhao’s works will be held Saturday at Shenzhen Concert Hall. He himself will be the conductor.

He Zhanhao

He’s works are mainly traditional Chinese folk music. Born in 1933, He is a professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

He is renowned for composing “The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto” with Chen Gang in 1959, while they were students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Written for a Western style orchestra, it features a solo violin played using Chinese techniques.

This concerto is often performed with Chinese instruments playing the violin part, the most common being the erhu, pipa and liuqin.

The 1959 premiere of “The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto” featured 18-year-old violinist Yu Lina and took place in Shanghai as part of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

At the Saturday concert, Chinese huqin player Huang Anyuan and guzheng player Yuan Sha will also perform. Huqin is a family of bowed string instruments, more specifically, a spike fiddle popularly used in Chinese music.

The most common type of huqin is the erhu, which is to be tuned to a middle range; zhonghu, which is tuned to a lower register, and gaohu, which is tuned to the highest pitch. Over 30 types of huqin instruments have been documented.

The traditional guzheng is a plucked zither which has 18 or more strings and movable bridges, while the modern guzheng usually has 21 strings and bridges.

Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 9

Tickets: 100-680 yuan

Reservations: 400-610-3721

Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, intersection of Hongli Road and Yitian Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路和益田路交汇处深圳音乐厅)

Metro: Longhua or Longgang Line, Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit C or D