A charity concert was staged at Guangzhou's Xinghai Concert Hall on March 2. 

Sitting before the grand piano, the Chinese pianist Wu Muye performed several famous music pieces for the audience, including Frédéric Chopin's 12 Etudes, as well as eight of his own piano arrangements for works such as My Motherland, and Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake.

Chinese pianist Wu Muye throws himself in the charity concert held at Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou, Guangdong province on March 2. [Photo/ gzffdp.com]

Wu also performed the Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, which he performed before international dignitaries at the G20 summit gala hosted last year in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

Wu won first prize in the Hong Kong Piano Competition at nine years old. Three years later he was voted "the best young Chinese musician", before being admitted to study at the Paris Conservatory under French pianist Jacques Rouvier at age 15. 

In addition to music lovers in attendance at the performance, more than 20 special groups of blind children were invited to join the audience and immerse themselves in the beautiful melodies that filled the concert hall. 

The concert reached a climax when Wang Guangbin, a blind 15-year-old boy, joined Wu onstage to perform Franz Liszt's Liebestraum.

Chinese pianist Wu Muye and a blind boy Wang Guangbin are well-prepared for their performance at the charity concert in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province on March 2. [Photo/ gzffdp.com]

Wang, despite losing his eye sight when he was only seven months old, began practicing piano at three. Born into a musical family, Wang showed great interest in music at a young age, and was able to quickly play back music he heard from memory when he was little, said his father Wang Hanlin, a primary school music teacher. 

Wang also performed an originally composed jazz piece for the audience on the night. 

Chinese pianist Wu Muye and Wang Guangbin co-played Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (German for Dreams of Love) for the charity concert in Guangzhou. [Photo/ gzffdp.com]

Tickets for the charity event were sold through various channels, including JD Finance, a finance unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, and crowd funding projects, according to the concert organizing committee. The proceeds are to be donated to the Guangzhou Foundation for Disabled Persons.                     

"It's a good thing, combining charity with music," said Yang Weihua, board secretary of the Guangzhou Pearl River Piano Group Co Ltd, one of the concert sponsors.

To raise awareness and financial support for the disabled, similar charity events will also be held throughout China this year, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Hong Kong, according to Yang.