Art beat in April

Young musicians' concert

The China Youth Symphony Orchestra from the Central Conservatory of Music will give a concert featuring pianist Tan Xiaotang, clarinet player Yuan Yuan and violinist Chai Liang. Under the baton of Lin Tao, the concert will perform Piano Concerto No 1 and Violin Concerto in D major by Tchaikovsky, and Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 2.

7:30 pm, April 22. Central Conservatory of Music Concert Hall, 43 Baojia Jie (Street), Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6642-5746.

World of pure imagination

Fan Zhou's solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China displays his playful experimentation with ink lines. With his distinctive brush strokes, Fan creates a world of illusions in which mountains, springs, smoke and rocks look unreal. His mountain-and-water paintings depart from conventional scenes of detached tranquility. Rather, he has used intricate lines to indicate anxiety and depression in modern people. Most works on show were created during his time spent in the Zhongnan Mountains in Shaanxi province.

9 am-5 pm, until April 22. National Art Museum of China, 1 Wusi Dajie (Street), Dongcheng district, Beijing. 010-6400-1476.

-Lin Qi

Macbeth gets a second act

In commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company have co-produced Dunsinane. A sequel to the classic Macbeth, the exhilarating play is the vision of one man's attempt to restore peace in a country ravaged by war. After Macbeth's death, an English army has swept through the landscape, killed the tyrant and taken the seat of power. Attempting to restore peace and put in place a new ruler, Siward, the commanding officer, is beset by a brutal guerrilla uprising. Increasingly isolated from his own men and Scottish allies alike, his efforts to restore order appear futile as the situation spins out of control.

7:30 pm, April 22-23. National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6655-0000.

-Han Bingbin

Society and the self

Ding Fang's solo exhibition at his alma mater, Nanjing University of the Art's, museum, reflects upon the relationship between society and individuals, cultural renaissance and social transformation, through a display of his recent 160 paintings under the theme of One Person's "Renaissance". Ding recreates scenes and motifs of Renaissance art classics, by which he debates to what extent the current cultural movements help revive the true spirits of cultural traditions and humanitarianism.

9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays, until April 23. Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Art, 15 Huju Bei Lu (Road), Nanjing, Jiangsu province. 025-8349-8761/4.