Recording for HSBC TV
Advert Music – Lanterns: December 2009Having recorded music for HSBC’s TV advertisement "Cormorant", the musicians have recently recorded for another TV advertisement HSBC – "Lanterns". It is currently showing on Channel 4.
As part of the extensive 22nd Europalia Festival on China, Cheng Yu has been invited to give a workshop on guqin music, and perform a concert on both the guqin zither and pipa lute – the two most celebrated Chinese classical instruments.
The 22nd Europalia festival offers a unique opportunity to discover the masterpieces of Chinese culture in the heart of Europe. From 8 October 2009 to 14 February 2010, 50 exhibitions and 450 shows take place in 200 venues in Belgium and neighbouring countries.
Venue:
The Concert Hall
Musical Instrument Museum
The Belgian State Royal Museums of Arts and History
Jubelpark 10, 1000 Brussels
Time:
guqin music workshop: 10:30am – 12.30pm, 23 January 2010
guqin and pipa recital: 3:00 – 4:00pm, 23 January 2010
Contact:
+32 2.545.01.51
www.mim.be/activities-individual
Having worked on dozens of major film, TV and recording projects, the UKCE musicians have teamed up with one of Britain’s most influential film and TV composers, Matt Dunkley (http://www.mattdunkley.com/), who has scored and conducted for over 70 film and TV productions. They will work together to create and make music for the sensational BBC Chinese ‘Harry Potter’ style TV drama Series based on ancient Chinese legends and magic stories written by talented young British Chinese writer – Jo Ho (www.joho.com/). The TV drama will introduce viewers to the character of Bo, a young British Chinese girl, who, accompanied by her brother Timothy, gets transported to a magical spirit world.
The BBC TV film is expected to be broadcast in Spring 2010.
For details, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/19/bo.shtml
Invited by the ARC Music International Recording label, Cheng Yu is working on her 5th CD with ARC on the guqin with a special theme – Spiritual and contemplative guqin. It will comprise rarely heard pieces, some of which are of her own ‘dapu’ (interpretation of the ancient skeletal tablatures). This special compilation will focus on the guqin’s philosophical, meditative, devotional and spiritual aspects. The recording is expected to be completed in Autumn 2009 and will be published in Spring 2010.
Music Performance
Collaborates with China Arts Carnival Club Won Double Awards at Notting
Hill Carnival 2009Musicians of our UKCE ensemble and the SOAS Sizhu group formed an exciting Chinese wind-and-percussion band to accompany the China Arts Carnival Club (CACC) procession at the Notting Hill Carnival 2009. The live music of the suona (Chinese shawm or trumpet), drums and bronze gongs and cymbals provided a bright sound and strong rhythm for the parade. The music played an important part in our winning the double award.
The UKCE
musicians have been collaborating with China Arts Carnival Club since
2006. We are delighted CACC won a £5,000
grant from Arts Council
England (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/)
to perform at London’s famous and spectacular Notting Hill Carnival in
2009. In 2008, we provided the Lady Warriors Drumming group, together
with members of CAAC, a total of 60 performers who fronted and opened
the entire Carnival under the theme of the Olympics. The theme of our
parade this year is “A Bridge of Magpies”. We are also proud that the Club has won 3rd Prize for Best Traditional Bands, awarded by the judges and the London Notting Hill Carnival Mas Bands Association. It is the first time a Chinese group has ever won a prize at London’s most significant Afro-Caribbean cultural festival. For details and images, see www.china-arts.co.uk/Notting_Hill_Carnival.php.
Following several successful performances in Spain in Seville (WOMEX 2006), Las Palmas (WOMAD 2007), Gran Canaria Tour 2007 and Valencia 2009, the Quartet was invited to perform again at the Bidasoa Folk Festival in the Basque Country, Guipúzcoa, Northern Spain.
This Festival celebrates the traditional music of the Basque country in which it makes its home. The Bidasoa Folk festival brings together the three villages in which its events take place through their common desire to support Basque culture. The traditional music of other countries and cultures is also performed.
Venue:
Hendaye - Irun - Hondarribia, Basque Country, Guipúzcoa, Spain
Bidasoa Folk
Almirante Alonso kalea, 8 - 1°
20280 Hondarribia (Gipuzkoa) Espagne
http://www.bidasoa-txingudi.com/bidasoafolk/
UKCE musicians were invited to perform solo and ensemble music at SOAS’s annual Graduation Ceremonies to show colourful world music to guests.
Venue:
Logan Hall
University of London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Time:
2:00 – 5:00pm, 22, 23 and 24 July 2009
http://www.soas.ac.uk/graduation/
Arts in Action – a truly interesting festival in beautiful Oxfordshire, which showcases hundreds of arts demonstrations from a wide range of disciplines including painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics and textiles and music, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year.
Chinese Instrumental - Silk Trio Ensemble
Silk
String Trio Ensemble comprising players Cheng Yu, Wang Xiao and Xiao
Ran, are from the Award Wining Silk String Quartet - an exciting
professional Chinese string group based in the UK. They have performed
at WOMEX and WOMAD festivals and widely in Europe (Holland, Germany,
France, Spain and Ireland), the Quartet’s UK appearances have included
such venues as London’s Royal Opera House, Southbank Centre and LSO’s
St Lukes, St George’s in Bristol and the Manchester, Brighton and
Guildford Festivals. The group’s debut CD (published by ARC Music) has
been highly acclaimed and was featured by BBC Radio 3. For this
occasion, the group will perform a selection of traditional and
contemporary pieces both solo and as a trio. The pieces will include:
Three and Six, Flute and Drum at Sunset, Jasmine Flower, Purple Bamboo
Melody, Dance of the Yao People, White Snow in Sunny Spring, The
Caprice of the Qin Opera theme, Horse Racing and more. Venue:
Waterperry House, Waterperry,
Near. Wheatley, Oxfordshire
OX33 1JZ
Time:
12:15-13:00, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th July
http://www.artinaction.org.uk/
Our musicians have been invited to record music for the world-wide popular Video Game as the recent series focuses on the Far East and China. The musicians will work with composoer Knut Avenstroup Haugen (www.knutavenstrouphaugen.com/) and producer Alan Willson.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a fantasy-themed Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) developed by the Norwegian computer video game development company Funcom For PCs. The game was full release for North America was May 20 2008. Hyborian Adventures is the first instalment in the planned Age of Conan series. Age of Conan itself takes place within the continent of the Hyborian Kingdoms, a year after the events depicted in Robert E. Howard's Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon.] Hyborian Adventures' release celebrated the 76th anniversary of the Conan franchise.
www.ageofconan.com/
UKCE Musicians with artists from China Arts (www.china-arts.co.uk) carried out fruitful music and calligraphy/brush painting workshops at Cawbridge Comprehensive school in Wales. It was part of the schools cultural exchanged programme with Chongqing City in Sichuan, China. The pupils experienced Chinese instrumental music, singing in Chinese as well as using their available instruments to try out Chinese percussion and instrumental music. They also learnt how to using an ink-brush to write and paint Chinese characters, names and simple objects and pictures.
Contact us for workshops on Chinese music (singing, percussion and instrumental), dance, calligraphy and ink-painting, origami, story telling with music, lion and dragon dances and Kungfu (martial arts).
Yin-Yang
(China-West) Mixed Ensemble performance, Drapers Hall, London – Launch
of China
Construction Bank (UK): 1 June 2009 
Following
our highly acclaimed concert at St Marlybone Church in December 2008,
the unique Yin-Yang Collective Ensemble was invited to perform at
the grand celebration of the inauguration of the China Construction
Bank (UK), in the City of London. Over 300 honourable guests were
present including the Chinese Ambassador Madam Fu Ying and Marcus
Agius, Chairman of Barclays Bank, Sir Victor Bank, Chairman of Lloyds
Banking group and Stephen Green, Group Chairman of HSBC Holding Plc. The musicians presented classical and popular pieces from both Chinese and Western cultures and were well received by the guests. The ensemble included Chinese pipa lute, erhu fiddle, yangqin dulcimer and Western piano, cello and flute.
After the sensational concert by The Silk String Quartet and piano superstar Lang Lang in late April at LSO’s St Lukes, both Lang Lang and the Quartet were invited to work on the music recording for the Hollywood movie "Shanghai" in May. This is the third Hollywood film linked with Shanghai that the UK Chinese Ensemble musicians have worked on, the others being "Shanghai Noon" and "Shanghai Knights".
"Shanghai" stars America's John Cusack, China's Gong Li, Japan's Ken Watanabe and Hong Kong's Chow Yun-Fat.
The musicians worked with British composer Alex Heffes. His film scores include the Last BAFTA-winning film "Touching the Void", and Oscar-winning movies "One Day in September" and "Last King of Scotland". See Projects Page for further details.
While working on the music for the Hollywood big film Shanghai this month, our Ensemble’s musicians also recorded the music for an HSBC advertisement – It was filmed in beautiful Guilin, southwest China. This witty advertisement with the music cleverly showed how local knowledge is crucial for business. Currently, the TV advertisement can be seen on ITV.
LSO
St. Luke's, London – The Silk String Quartet and Lang
Lang: 23 April 2009Hauntingly beautiful, contemplative music as well as lively new pieces played on piano, pipa, guzheng, erhu and yangqin. A new collaboration between classical virtuoso Lang Lang, the London-based Chinese quartet Silk Strings and jazz pianist and composer Raymond Yiu, mixing traditional Chinese music with their own ravishing, contemporary interpretations – including such evocative titles as ‘Spring Flowers on a Moonlit Night on the River’ and ‘At Night on the Lake Beneath the Maple Bridge’. Following The Silk String Quartet and cellist Matthew Barley’s successful concert at the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room In November 2008, the Quartet collaborated with the sensational piano star Lang Lang for the UBS Soundscapes: Eclectica series project. It brings to audiences an appealing mixture of international musicians presenting a diverse range of musical styles, in the unique ambience of LSO St Luke’s.
Lang Lang: piano
Cheng Yu: pipa lute
Sun Zhuo: guzheng zither
Wang Xiao: erhu fiddle
Zhou Jinyan: yangqin dulcimer
Venue: LSO St Luke’s
UBS and St Luke’s Education Centre
161 Old Street
London EC1V 9NG
Time:
8:00 pm, Thursday, 23 April, 2009
For more informationand photos and DVD films of the project visit:
www.lsospace.co.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonsymphonyorchestra/3470853050/in/photostream/
lso.co.uk/langlang
While working on the music for the Hollywood big film Shanghai this month, our Ensemble’s musicians also recorded the music for an HSBC advertisement – It was filmed in beautiful Guilin, southwest China. This witty advertisement with the music cleverly showed how local knowledge is crucial for business. Currently, the TV advertisement can be seen on ITV.
The UK-based award wining Chinese Silk String Quartet performed traditional and new pieces at the concert. They were involved in a series of workshops to train Chinese music tutors in Essex in Autumn 2009. The Essex-Jiangsu Festival, celebrating 20 years of friendship between Essex and Jiangsu Province in China, has been a tremendous success, exceeding all expectations. Over 150,000 people attended a Festival event, ranging from traditional puppetry to master craft demonstrations and classical opera.
A taste of China was brought to people across Essex and to celebrate the culmination of the Festival in style, a grand concert finale took place at the Harlow Sports centre.
A must-see music event to mark the closing of the Essex-Jiangsu Festival.
Venue:
Harlow Sports centre
Hammarskjold Road
Harlow
Essex CM20 2JF
Time:
Sunday 22 March 2009: 7:00pm (please note the updated time).
Concert
at Sonidos
Biodiversidad Festival, Spain – The Silk String
Quartet: 6 and 7 March,
2009 Following several successful performances in Spain in Seville (WOMEX 2006), Las Palmas (WOMAD 2007) and Gran Canaria tour 20087, the Quartet was invited again to perform at the Sonidos Biodiversidad Festival.
Venue:
Bancaja Auditorium,
Castellon,
Valencia – Espana
Time:
8:00 pm, 6th and 7th March, 2009
The Silk and Bamboo Ensemble and Dance troupe was invited by the University College of Dublin Confucius Institute, Dublin City Council and other Institutes in Ireland to give a special performance tour celebrating Chinese New Year – The Year of the Ox.
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Hayward Gallery |
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Monday 26 January 2009 |
5 pm |
UCD O’Reilly Hall ( |
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Tuesday 27 January 2009 |
7pm |
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Wednesday 28 January 2009 |
7.30 pm |
UCC Confucius Institute, |
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7 pm |
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Friday 30 January 2009 |
11 pm |
Ballsbridge Inn ( |
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Enter the enchanting world of Chinese music and dance and help celebrate Chinese New Year with these fantastic musicians. See traditional Chinese instruments and discover the magical sounds they make - they're completely different from any you've seen or heard before! There will be beautiful fan and ribbon dances too - the most popular dances in China. And, if you take part in one of the workshops earlier in the day you can even join in the performance!
Make Chinese Music
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Learn Chinese songs and rhythms and perform them as part of the concert! (if you can play a violin, guitar, flute, recorder or clarinet, bring it along. If not, use the percussion instruments provided, or sing!)
Learn ribbon and fan dances
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Great fun to learn - then perform them onstage at the concert!
Family concert
3:00 pm
With an interval - ends approximately 4:40 pm
Great for adults and children aged 7+
Enjoy simple and delicious Chinese food, on sale from 1:30 pm.
Venue:
Wiltshire Music Centre
Ashley Road
Bradford on Avon
BA15 1DZ
Date: Saturday 24 January, 2009
Cheng Yu was invited to perform a concert on both the pipa lute and the guqin zither – the two most celebrated Chinese classical instruments – at Chinese New Year.
Venue:
Bristol Cathedral
College Green
Bristol, BS1
Time: Tuesday, 1:00–2:00 pm, 13 January, 2009
www.bristol-cathedral.co.uk
Admission free
"Beautiful building with an outstanding nave and impressive acoustics..."
A festival day to celebrate Chinese music: unlocking the secrets of one of the longest musical histories of the world.
Programme:
11:00 am Interactive exhibition of bowed string instruments from China and medieval Europe
6:00 pm Concert of traditional Chinese music by the Silk String Quartet
7:45 pm Concert of new Chinese music by the Yin Yang Collective
Hesperides (Basil
Athanasiadis) for Chinese ensemble
Mountains and Hills (Kim Ho Ip) for mixed ensemble
Invisible Landscapes (Chen Xiaoyong) for zheng and ensemble
Ghost Opera (Tan Dun) for mixed ensemble
Mountains and Hills (Kim Ho Ip) for mixed ensemble
Invisible Landscapes (Chen Xiaoyong) for zheng and ensemble
Ghost Opera (Tan Dun) for mixed ensemble
9:00 pm Chinese performance of a western new music classic by the Yin Yang Collective
The
consolations of Scholarship (Judith Weir) for mixed ensemble
The Yin Yang Collective comprises the Silk String Quartet and the Chamber Music Company.
Venue:
St Marylebone Church
Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LT
(Baker St/Regents Park Tube station)
Time:
Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 11:00am, 6:00 – 9:30pm
- Film screenings of Chinese cinema masterpieces
- Live guqin performance by Cheng Yu
Louise Blouin Institute
3 Olaf Street
London W11
Time:
6:00 – 9:00 pm, Thursday 4, 11 and 18 December 2008
Masters Gong Yi and Dai Shuhong from the Jinyu Qin Society, Shanghai and guqin players of the London Youlan Qin Society.
The guqin or qin (7-stringed zither) is China’s most celebrated traditional instrument, with an unbroken history of over 2000 years. This was a rare chance to hear the two most acclaimed Southern China Masters on the guqin and xiao (vertical bamboo flute) at SOAS. For this London trip, the masters performed only for a private event in Clarence House and at SOAS with members of the London Youlan Qin Society. Master Gong Yi is one of China's most prominent qin players. Dai Shuhong is a master of the xiao. They performed pieces from the refined and introspective repertoire for the qin. An informal yaji (“elegant gathering”) followed the performance.
Venue:
Room G3
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Streets
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Time:
7:30pm – 9pm on Wednesday 26th November 2008
Hosted by The London Youlan Qin Society (www.ukchinesemusic.com/londonyoulanqin) and the Prince’s Charities Foundation (China)
Cheng Yu on pipa with the Emperor Quartet.
This special concert was organised by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (www.asmf.org) as part of the Essex and Jiangsu (China) Festival. It presented the awarding winning musical creation Ghost Opera, by one of the most highly acclaimed Chinese contemporary composers, Composer Tan Dan (Oscar winner for his film music for "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"). Cheng Yu was invited to play the pipa for this work with the well-known UK based Emperor Quartet http://www.emperorquartet.com.
Ghost Opera is a five-movement work for string quartet and pipa with water, metal, stones, and paper. The composer describes this work as a reflection on human spirituality, which is too often buried in the bombardment of urban culture and the rapid advances of technology. It is a cross-temporal, cross-cultural, and cross-media dialogue that touches on the past, present, future, and the eternal; it employs elements from Chinese, Tibetan, English, and American cultures, and combines performance traditions of the European classical concert, Chinese shadow puppet theatre, visual art installations, folk music, dramatic theatre, and shamanistic ritual.
Venue:
St Botolph's Church
14 Roman Road
Colchester CO1 1UR
Tel:01206 577905
Time:
7:30 pm, 16 November, 2008
A night of composition and China-West collaboration
This was an exciting, challenging and interesting music adventure between the Quartet and Matthew Barley (www.matthewbarley.com) “one of the most talented young cellists” (Leonard Bernstein, 1986). Having won the PRS Performance Groups 2007 award, the Quartet was invited by Asian Music Circuit to work with Matthew Barley to present a concert of primarily new China-West fusion music works.
This high-profile music project premièred some specially commissioned works written by well-known composer Professor Peter Weigold (www.wiegold.co.uk) – creator of Armoured Without at the BBC 2007 Proms, Barnaby Taylor (www.barnabytaylor.com) – Composer of Wild China, Recent BBC documentary and Basil Athanasiadis – a talented young composer. This was a rare opportunity to see this unique music collaboration.
Click here for poster (pdf file, 663 kB)
Venue:
Purcell Room
at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Southbank Centre
London
Time: 7.30pm Thursday, 13 November 2008
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The Silk and Bamboo Ensemble – Tate Britain Gallery: 12 November, 2008
Venue:Milbank
London SW1P 4RG
Time: 7:00pm
(private event)
Members of the UK Chinese Music Ensemble performed once again with this popular multimedia spectacular show. Following a summer of Monkey during the 2008 Olympics and a sold-out season at London’s Royal Opera House in July, Monkey: Journey to the West moved to a new home in November. The opera was performed at Monkey’s World, a specially designed theatre built exclusively to host the opera at the O2. The story is based on one of the best-known 16th century Chinese classic novels, by Wu Cheng’en. It is directed by Chen Shizheng, the music is by Damon Albarn (Blur front singer) and the digital arts are by Jamie Hewlett. Albarn and Hewlett are the artists behind the award-winning animated band Gorillaz. For details see http://www.monkeyjourneytothewest.com.
Click here for poster (.jpg file, 697 KB)
Venue:
The O2
Peninsula Square
London SE10 0DX
Dates:
8 November 2008 – 4 January, 2009 (8 shows a week)
In
conjunction with the opera "Monkey: Journey to the West", the musicians
of our Ensemble had been working with Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz
front singer and composer) and a wide range of musicians on this
interesting East-West fusion music creation. It involved instruments
and musicians from tradition Chinese, classical Western strings and
brass, Pop and electric, a choir as well as specialised instruments
including a musical saw, ondes Martenot, cristal Baschet and glass
harmonica. This Gatefold CD has 22 tracks and is accompanying by a
twelve-page booklet containing lyrics and illustrations. For more information visit: http://www.monkeyjourneytothewest.com/the-album/formats/
Following
the successful release last year of our Silk String Quartet CD
(now in the Top 3 of the ARC 2007-8 list), the UK Chinese Music Ensemble published
its Silk and Bamboo Ensemble CD in Autumn 2008,
with a selection of well-known traditional music from different regions
of China. Unlike our Silk String Quartet CD, which features
contemporary
music, this CD presents a typical, traditional string and wind ensemble
– Silk represents strings and bamboo refers to wind instruments.
The stringed instruments on this CD are erhu, gaohu, pipa, yangqin, guzheng
and guqin (solo); wind
instruments are dizi, xiao,
sheng, guanzi (solo) and hulusi.
The CD presents traditional silk and bamboo music, some popular folk
music of the Ensemble’s own interpretations and solo pieces. The CD is published by ARC Music International, catalogue number EUCD 2177.
The CD is now available from in the World Music section of major record shops in the UK and Europe, and from the ARC Music International web site www.arcmusic.co.uk.
Cheng Yu was invited to perform a concert of devotional music on both the pipa lute and the guqin zither – the two most celebrated Chinese classical instruments.
Venue: Brighton Unitarian Church
2pm, 18 October 2008
Web site: www.worldsacredmusic.org
The Shanghai City God Monastery Daoist Music Ensemble
Venue:
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, ,
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG
Time: 7:00pm–9:00pm
China has 56 different minorities, each with its own unique culture. For the 2008 Notting Hill Carnival, China Arts invited 10 pairs of brides and grooms from China, who wore the beautiful traditional wedding costumes specific to their particular Chinese minority. As part of the carnival parade, the couples skilfully performed different dances to express the great variety of Chinese culture. The performances were accompanied by live traditional wedding music.
Venue: Notting Hill
Time: 10:00am–6:00pm
Ticket Information: Free
Venue:
Gwyl Pontardawe Festival
Parc Ynysderw
Pontardawe Leisure Centre
Ffordd Parc Ynysderw
Pontardawe
Swansea SA8 4EG
Time: 9:00am–10:00pm
Website: www.pontardawefestival.com
See the video "Olympic Revolution" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/01/olympic_handover_video_feature.shtml
The Chinese Music Summer School has been running successfully since 2003, organised by Asian Music Circuit with musicians from the UK Chinese Music Ensemble. This year’s Chinese Music Summer School gave five full days of expert tuition on Chinese instrumental music. It included master classes on the guqin (Chinese 7-string zither) with guqin master Professor Zeng Chengwei (Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China), pipa (Chinese lute) with pipa virtuoso Dr Cheng Yu, and erhu (Chinese fiddle) with erhu soloist Hu Bin. It was a rare opportunity to learn and explore Chinese music in the UK. Classes were open to all takers, beginners and advanced.
Invited by The National Trust, the Silk and Bamboo Ensemble performed two concerts in the natural beauty of Stourheard Garden.
Venue:
The Pantheon Temple, Stourhead Garden
The National Trust, Stourhead Estate Office, Stourhead
Near Warminster
Wilshire, BA12 6QD
Time: 25 and 26 July, 7.30pm
Details: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Venue:
Buxton Festival
3, The Square
Buxton
Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
Time: 10:00pm
Following the successful sell-out tours in Manchester, Paris and the USA, this show came to London’s Opera House for the first time since its launch in 2007. This multimedia production was directed by Mr Chen Shizheng, the music was by Damon Albarn (Blur front singer) and the digital arts were by Jamie Hewlett. Albarn and Hewlett were the artists behind the award-winning animated band Gorillaz.
Venue:
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
London, WC2E 9DD
020 73044000
Times:
Wed 23 July: 7.30pm
Thurs July 24: 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Fri 25 July: 2.30 and 7.30
Sat 26 July: 2.30 and 7.30pm
www.royalopera.org
The Quartet was been by the Swedish Chamber Music Festival to give concerts as well as workshops.
Lycka Kammarmusik Festival
Billa Solgården
S-360 43 Åryd
Sweden
Details: www.lyckafestival.com
Organised by Asian Music Circuit, there will be China Day classes on music, story telling and calligraphy to pupils of various ages.
Sydenham School
Dartmouth Road
London SE26 4RD
Venue: Lancaster City Hall
Time: 1:00–2:00pm
Website: www.lancaster.gov.uk/artsdevelopment
Essex Jiangsu Festival 2008-2009 Launch
House of Commons (invited guests)
Palace of Westminster
Time: 4:00-6:00pm 23 June
Venue:
Kingsford Community School and Language College
Kingsford Way
Beckton
London E6 5JG
Tel: 020 7476 4700
Time: 10:00-11:00am, 21 June 2008
Our Chinese musicians collaborated with Grand Union to present performances combining Eastern and Western musical elements.
Venue:
Christ Church,
Commercial Street
London E1 6LY
Spitalfields Festival: 020 7377 1365
Time: 7.30pm, 18 June, 2008
Venue:
St Mary’s Church
Ashford, Kent
TN30 6TJ
Time: 7:00pm
Venues:
WORKSHOP
Brady Arts and Community Centre
192-196 Hanbury Street, London E1 5HU
Time: 11am–12pm
CONCERT
Wilton’s Music Hall
Grace’s Alley
Wellclose Square
London E1 8JB
Pre-concert Chinese Tea Ceremony: 6-6.30pm
Concert: 6:45–7:45 pm
Website: www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
Venue:
Van Emden Theatre (HUMSS)
The University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading
Berkshire RG6 6AA
Website http://www.rdg.ac.uk/music
Venue:
Horniman Museum
100 London Road
Forest Hill
London SE23 IPQ
Times:
Performance 1: Gallery Square, contemporary music, 12–2pm
Performance 2: The Conservatory (concert) 2:00–4.30pm
Website www.horniman.ac.uk
Cheng Yu was invited to give a pipa recital for the exhibition "Heaven on Earth: Missionaries and the Mathematical Arts in 17th century Beijing"
Venue:
Museum of the History of Science
University of Oxford
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3AZ
Time: 6:00–8:00pm
The musicians from the UK Chinese Ensemble worked once again with US composer Randy Edelman on another major Hollywood film – The Mummy. This is the fourth film music project on which our musicians have worked with the same composer. The music is significant in the film and “is longer then the actual film, with over 140 minutes music" said Randy. This Hollywood major blockbuster action film was released on 1 August to coincide the 2008 China Olympics.
Starring: Jet Li, Maria Bello, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Russell Wong, Luke Ford, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Isabella Leong, Tian Liang
See the Music recorded for films and TV for more information.
Cheng Yu and the UK Chinese Ensemble musicians worked with composer Barnaby Taylor to create music for this 6 part TV documentary for BBC 2. was shown on Sunday evenings on BBC2.
11th
May –
Episode
1: Heart of the Dragon18th May – Episode 2: Shangri-La
25th May – Episode 3: Tibet
1st June – Episode 4: Beyond the Great Wall
8th June – Episode 5: Land of the Panda
15th June – Episode 6: Tides of Change
See the Projects page for more information.
Venue:
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Venue:
The Sage Gateshead
St Mary's Square
Gateshead Quays
Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Venue: Younger Hall, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL
Time: Friday, March 14th, 7:30 pm
Free Lecture-demonstration on Chinese Music
Speakers
Maestro Yan Huichang (Artistic Director, Principle Conductor of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra) with
Dr Cheng Yu (Artistic Director, UK Chinese Music Ensemble, SOAS pipa and guqin teacher)
Guest Musicians: Wong Ching (pipa) ,and Feng Siusin (vocal)
Content
A study of the heritage and evolution of traditional Chinese instrumental music through a comparison between traditional Chinese music ensembles and the full-sized modern Chinese orchestra. (Recordings and video will be shown)
Venue: Room G52, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H
Time: Wednesday 12 March 2008, 2-4pm
Venue:
The Great Court
British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Time: 6:30am–9:00pm
Web site: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Venue:
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Time: 6.30pm–9:00pm
Web site: www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Venue:
The Great Court
British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Time: 6:30-9:00pm
Bai Ling
Shadow Puppet Show Chinese New Year UK Tour, February 2008Invited by China Arts (UK), here was a rare opportunity to see the Bai Ling Shadow Box Show Troupe as they tour the UK for the first time during Chinese New Year February 2008. This is one of the finest Shadow groups in China. They had already performed in France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the United States, and Japan to a rapturous reception, and achieved extraordinary popularity there.
Shadow puppet box shows first appeared in Beijing around the 15th century during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is a popular traditional theatre genre that combines singing, acting and dramatic movement performed by characters exquisitely carved out of leather. All the characters are operated by highly skilled artists behind a screen with live musical accompaniment, which gives a colourful and vivid silhouette effect. The troupe brought a specially designed programme for both children and adults. It was great fun to watch and a privilege to be able to appreciate an authentic Chinese art.
Dates:
3rd February: Harrow, London
8th February: South Bank International School: 13:00-13:30, 14:15-14:45
9th February: British Museum: 16:00-17:00, 20:00-21:00 (free)
9th February: Marylebone Theatre
10th February: Victoria and Albert Museum (daytime, free)
15th February: Ann Bernhardt Nursery School: 13:30-14:30
17th February: Tower Hendon (East London)
19th February: Foreign & Commonwealth Office: 19:00-20:00
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Venue:
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Hope St.