2013 Golden Tripod Award
First Chair Cellist brings together two award-winning storytellers, writer Wang Wen-Hua and illustrator Amann Wang, through their mutual love of music.
First Chair Cellist tells the story of a temperamental and demanding musician who is forced to walk home after his limo fails to pick him up after the concert. But the encounters he has along the way end up changing him forever…
In the second story, Mr Blowfish’s Violin, we meet a violin maker with an unusual passion for music. When the rich Mr Octave comes to buy Mr Blowfish’s best violin, Mr Blowfish refuses to sell it to him, preferring instead to give his most precious creation away to the person who deserves it the most. That is, until one day the violin disappears…
