KLASSIKOM

20/01/2024

40 critics selected top ten concerts in Japan in 2023. Here're some of them.
https://klassikom.blogspot.com/2024/01/top-concerts-of-japan-in-2023-announced.html

21/12/2023

Sun Chengcheng: Waves Washing the Sand for solo piano
Yu Meina, piano
Opera Hall of the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing
December 15, 2023

Opening concert of the 7th Spring Awakening National Competition for Young Composers

20/12/2023

Flashback of the 7th Spring Awakening National Competition for Young Composers held in Beijing.
December, 2023

20/12/2023

Award ceremonyof the Seventh Spring Awakening National Competition for Young Composers.
In Mandarin
Beiijng, China
December 17, 2023

19/12/2023

Jury members of the final of the Spring Awakening National Competition for Young Composers, where each finalist is given 8 bars of music plus 3 minutes to prepare before improvising on the piano for 3 minutes, weigh in on the importance of improvisation in classical music and why it matters to young composers.
In Mandarin
Beiijng, China
December 17, 2023

19/12/2023

Final of the Spring Awakening National Competition for Young Composers, where each finalist is given 8 bars of music plus 3 minutes to prepare before improvising on the piano for 3 minutes.
In Mandarin
Beiijng, China
December 16, 2023

11/12/2023

Jaap van Zweden inaugurates music festival on a tropical island.

09/12/2023

With the jazz fusion recital, Prof Han Lei of CCOM and guanzi master hopes to make guanzi, an instrument introduced to Chinese midland in the 4th century, more accessible to the general public.
Shanghai Concert Hall
December 8, 2023

05/12/2023

Five-star review from Limelight for the China National Symphony Orchestra's concert in Sydney under the baton of Li Xincao.

Excellence across Chinese and European works in this timely offering from China’s premier orchestra.

02/12/2023

Statement from the Mariinsky Theatre.

27/11/2023

Since it's founded in 2010, Musicus Society has been the driving force forging the musical identity of Hong Kong by fostering Hong Kong born young musicians, and by promoting them at the world's stage.
Cellist and artistic director Trey Lee talks about the genesis of Musicus Society, and the expansion of Musicus Fest from a single week festival to a year-long initiative.
In Mandarin

25/11/2023

The Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu hosted the inaugural Chengdu Contemporary Music Festival in mid November for a week with one orchestral concert, four chamber music concerts, recitals and seminars.
Sichuan born composers are heavily featured throughout the event.

23/11/2023

Keynote speech by Rudolph Tang at the symposium Science and Art hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Conservatory and Guangming district of Shenzhen.
In Mandarin
November 20, 2023

22/11/2023

Embracing sensitive timing and navigating through tricky cultural crosswinds, Émigré, a joint commission by Maestro Long Yu, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, received its premiere last Friday.
It loosely follows a storyline on the life of Jews taking refuge in Shanghai in the late 1930s. The work remembers how the Jewish people had to struggle for survival at the dawn of WWII. The premiere came about a time when the Jewish people are again struggling for survival in an ongoing war.
https://klassikom.blogspot.com/2023/11/new-oratorio-remembers-survival-of-jews.html

21/11/2023

Guangming district of Shenzhen hosts the inaugural Guangming Chamber Music Festival under the theme "science and art" by exploring the boundary of science and art.
Its two concerts and two symposium are participated by leading scholars and young composers from around China.

03/11/2023

Thailand's second biggest city may have lost its only main concert venue, but the city's classical music festival is still holding tight. Report from Chiang Mai.

01/11/2023

Breaking: Israel Philharmonic and Lahav Shani's China tour scheduled for mid November is cancelled.

29/10/2023

Highlights from the 9th Yangtze River Piano Music Festival.
Yichang, China
September, 2023

19/10/2023

From the opening of the XII China-ASEAN Music Festival hosted by the Guangxi Arts University. Chino Toledo conducts the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra and GXAU Choir at Guangxi Culture & Arts Centre.
Here's a video impression.
October 18, 2023.

15/10/2023

Liederabend by tenor Sun Zhuohan in songs by Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, plus two Chinese encores as captured here.
Here's a video impression.
October 14, 2023

14/10/2023

Concert in which one can lie down, and relax with the help of fragrance and guidance from a yoga master.
Hunzhi Theatre of Shanghai

12/10/2023

One on One with Gong Huilin on Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1
As pianist Gong Huilin made her debut on September 13th with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the NCPA under the baton of XIA Xiaotang in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, she talks about her choice of the programme and her first encounter with the piece.
Mandarin with Chinese subtitles

10/10/2023

All out! Mariinsky launches largest tour to China, spanning 25 days and covering 9 cities with the first full run of Gergiev's re-imagined Ring cycle.
https://klassikom.blogspot.com/2023/10/all-out-mariinsky-launches-biggest-tour.html

09/10/2023

French accordion and bandoneon virtuoso Richard Galliano played at Blue Note Shanghai last night.
This is a video impression.

08/10/2023

Chan Wing-wah, deputy provost of HKCU's Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, long time head of C.A.S.H. and composer based in Hong Kong, talks about top music colleges in the world during a seminar held in Yichang during the 9th Yangtze River Piano Music Festival.
September, 2023