Zhao Taisheng, Sanxian Principal of the HKCO, will take the auditorium literally by storm with his three-stringed lute! Steeped in Chinese folk music, armed with consummate skills and endowed with imaginative musicianship, Zhao will ring in the new year with the Orchestra in a programme that covers traditional folksy tunes as well as a brand new work by local composer, Ng Cheuk-yin.