Magic wind

Daniel Shao's talent has roots in his family tree, Chen Nan reports.

On a recent chilly night, the German Radio Orchestra gave a concert under the baton of conductor Martin Fischer-Dieskau. After the first piece, Wagner's prelude to Lohengrin, a young British man walked onto the stage and greeted the audiences with "da jia hao" (hello everyone). While the audiences cheered for his fluent Mandarin, he put his fingers on his flute and started playing Mozart's Flute Concerto No 1 along with the orchestra.

The young man is Daniel Shao, a 20-year-old musician born to a Chinese father and British mother. Shao has toured with the German Radio Orchestra, performing in Guangzhou, Qingdao and Weifang of Shandong province before the concert in Beijing.