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For Chinese pianist An Tianxu, corona has one advantage: he can now spend Chinese New Year, which falls on February 1, at his parents’ home in the northern Chinese city of Baoding. “My mother is a very good cook,” says the 22-year-old pianist with a smile. Normally he studies in America at the famous Curtis Institute of Music in the American Philadelphia. “All classes there are now online, so I might as well follow them from China,” he says in the office of his impresario in Beijing. In 2019 An won the fourth prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in...
