The prestigious occasion featured both pieces written for classical guitar and Dávid Pavlovits’ own compositions. The musician performed Luigi Legnani’s 4 Caprices and Francois de Fossa’s Divertissement Nr. 1, as well as his own compositions, such as Fantasy on a Chinese Folksong and Nostalgia and Flight.

The significance of the concert was that Pavlovits consciously built his program around the connection of Hungarian and Chinese musical motifs. The musician said: “I have performed here several times now, and since then I have had many professional contacts and friends in China. Many of my works are performed here, and I regularly receive invitations. (...) So I gave the program a frame: at the beginning there was a Hungarian folk song arrangement, and at the end there was a Chinese folk song arrangement called Molihua (or so called Jasmine),” he added.

When asked to what extent he had to adapt to the Chinese audience, Dávid Pavlovits replied:

“I performed the Chinese piece specifically for the local audience, and now, at the concert, it has reached its final form. However, on my previous tours, it happened that I had to perform a completely new repertoire because the audience in the inner Chinese cities was interested and open to a different type of music.”

Dávid Pavlovits is the founder of the Szeged International Guitar Festival and has been a significant figure in the Hungarian guitar life since 1999. As an associate professor at the Béla Bartók Faculty of Arts of the University of Szeged, he has been teaching generations for several decades, and his students are now among the most successful guitarists in the country. The artist has performed as a soloist in more than thirty countries on four continents, at famous venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, the Cairo Opera House, the Budapest Academy of Music, the Moscow Gnessin Academy of Music, and the Shanghai Conservatory. He received the Artisjus Award for his contemporary musical activities. His works are regularly featured in international competition programs and exam repertoires: his Stormbird sonata is a permanent piece at several prestigious international guitar competitions, while his Preludes are part of the mandatory exam program at Trinity College in London. His guitar concerto was performed by Grammy Award-winning William Kanengiser, and his orchestral works are frequently performed worldwide, from New Zealand to China or the United States. This concert was David Pavlovits' seventh appearance in China, confirming his international reputation and commitment to intercultural dialogue.