2021 China Bow String Art Festival & Beijing Chinese Music Festival Recording Scene Courtesy of China Academy of Performing Arts
Beijing, December 15 (Reporter Ma Haiyan) The 2021 China Bow String Art Festival and Beijing Chinese Music Festival, with the theme of "Times String Song and Dream Building Huazhang", will meet the audience online on the 16th. This year's Bowstring Festival features 4 concerts.
The four concerts are "Four Seas String Wind - Huqin Famous Artists Special Concert", "Colorful Bow Strings - New Works for Newcomers" Huqin Special Concert, "Drama Rhyme String Song - Huqin Special Concert of Excellent Teaching Achievements of China Academy of Opera" and "Huazhang String Singing - Erhu Famous Artists Concerto Concerto".
Among them, the "Four Seas String Wind" concert includes Gao Jipu, Liu Feng and Hu Shangang, the main strings of hebei zizi, Sichuan opera and Yue opera, as well as song fei, Niu Changhong and Wang Caiyun, famous huqin performers from the academy, and the Beijing Chinese Orchestra conducted by the famous conductor Jin Ye to perform a "dialogue" concert with rich huqin language and dazzling style. From the three composers Li Heng, Chen Zhe and Liu Zhuofu, the new works "Forbidden Danchen" (premiere), "Zi Zi Feng" (premiere) and "Streamer Rhyme" created by the three composers Li Heng, Chen Zhe and Liu Zhuofu combined with the fusion of opera music elements.
2021 China Bow String Art Festival & Beijing Chinese Music Festival Recording Scene Courtesy of China Academy of Performing Arts
The two Huqin concerts of "Colorful Bow Strings" and "Opera Rhyme String Songs" gathered a large number of outstanding young performers Yang Xue, Marco, Deng Chaolun, Cui Xuan, Huang Xiaoqing and outstanding students of the China Academy of Performing Arts, and launched a number of newly created huqin works, on the one hand, reflecting the solid reserve ability of the huqin art field in the field of talent training, on the other hand, showing the teaching system that involves a wide range of styles in the huqin teaching, and comprehensively showing the excellent teaching achievements of the huqin performing arts.
The last "Huazhang Strings" Concerto Concert of Famous Artists gathered four famous performing artists in the Huqin circle, Nameless Singers, Deng Jiandong, Zhou Wei and Ma Xianghua, and the famous conductor Xu Zhijun and the Beijing Chinese Orchestra jointly brought a concert of Huqin concerto works to everyone. Among them, in recent years, composers Wang Jianmin, Zhou Wei and Wang Danhong have composed the classic masterpieces "Taihu Caprice", "Xiaoxiang Caprice" and "My Motherland", and will also premiere two concertos of "Flying Dreams" and "Towel" created by composers Ruan Kunshen and Wang Yunfei.
The activities broadcast online also include special programs in front of and behind the scenes: "Times String Song , Double Festival Tonghui" of the Chinese Music Group Heroes Association, "Inheritance and Development of Huqin Production" of Chinese Music Afternoon Tea, and "Chasing Dreams and Loving Dreams and Building a Dream for the Future" of Guole Dream Factory, which lead the audience to appreciate the inheritance and development status of Huqin art from multiple levels.
Although this year's Bowstring Art Festival was affected by the epidemic and could not meet offline with audience friends who loved Huqin, the Bowstring Arts Festival still strives to add new vitality and impetus to traditional art and culture through series of concerts, experience teaching open classes and other activities. The festival's special lecture activities are expected to be held from March to April next year at the China Academy of Performing Arts.
This year's Bow String Art Festival is co-sponsored by the China Academy of Performing Arts and Beijing Performing Arts Group, and hosted by the Seinfeld Huqin Heritage and Communication Center and the Beijing Chinese Orchestra. (End)