Yanni shows his adoption certificate in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province.

CHENGDU: Grammy-award winning composer and music director Yanni will perform at 8 pm today in the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

Chengdu will be the last stop of the Greek musician's four-city tour in China which started early this month.

Yanni performed at the Master Card Center of Beijing on Oct 1 and 2, Shanghai Grand Stage on Oct 4, Haixinsha Park of Guangzhou on Oct 7.

The tour marks his return to China 14 years after his concert in the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1997.

The concert in 1997, which was his first in China, won over Chinese audiences with The Nightingale, a piece especially composed for them.

Yanni, 57, whose compositions have been included in all Olympic Games television broadcasts since 1988, has performed live in front of more than 2 million people in more than 20 countries around the world. His albums have sold more than 20 million copies.

For the concert in the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium, Yanni, whose music is frequently described as "New Age" though he prefers the term "contemporary instrumental," will play his classics and works from his 2011 album Truth of Touch, according to Ma Hongding, general manager of the Sichuan Jinjing Advertising Co. Ltd.

His is the PR company of the Nanchong City Commercial Bank in Sichuan which is the sole sponsor of Yanni's concert in the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium.

Yanni (left) poses for a picture with a panda in the nursery of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province.

Yesterday afternoon, Yanni, who had never seen a real panda before, visited the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan to adopt a two-month old female panda together with the Nanchong City Commercial Bank.

He named the cub Santorini which means peace in Greek. Santorini, which is the name of one of the most beautiful islands in the world, is also the name of one of his songs, Yanni said.

Asked whether he will compose a song for pandas, he laughed and said: "Probably."