East meets West

Pianist Gu Jieting's musical aims to connect French composer Claude Debussy and Chinese opera. Chen Nan reports.

Gu Jieting started taking piano lessons at a very early age and was enrolled in the primary school and middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

But she says in her childhood she dreamed of becoming a photographer or an independent publisher. "Being a pianist was not my first option," Gu says.