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( China Daily ) Updated: 2016-04-23 08:56:23

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Christian Blackshaw 2016 Shanghai Concert

Date: April 29 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall

Price: 80-480 yuan

He was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield. In his teens he played oboe (as well as piano) in the Stockport Youth Orchestra in Greater Manchester. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Gordon Green. He then studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Moisei Halfin. He was later tutored in London by Clifford Curzon. Blackshaw lives between London and Suffolk, and has three daughters. After the death of his wife of cancer, Blackshaw quit the concert hall for many years and returned to play in public in 2011-2012 performing a series of concerts of the complete Sonatas by Mozart.

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