"The city's public cultural space is a measure of the spiritual world of a city, in addition to regular music performances, we hope to enrich the daily life of citizens and tourists through a series of measures integrating culture and tourism; on the other hand, further tap the potential of local young artists, and give them more creative support to promote the continuous growth of high-quality original music works." Fang Liang, general manager of Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, said that the 92-year-old concert hall will make every effort to create a city concert living room with the same frequency of the times and resonate with the people, and help the performing arts world to build a core demonstration area of The Asian Performing Arts Capital.
"City growth, music and coexistence." With this as the theme, the Shanghai Concert Hall today announced the performance activities of the 2022 music season from January to August. In the six sections of "Special Presentation", "Classical", "Chinese Music", "Pluralism", "Parent-child" and "Art Education", the phenomenon-level cultural tourism project "Maritime Folk Music" resident performance + immersive art special exhibition will meet the audience again next year; violinist Ning Feng and young conductor Jin Yumin led by the new classical chamber orchestra for three consecutive days, the mini music festival "Bach Project" will bring a pure Bach feast to classical music fans; Chinese artists in classical, Chinese music, pop and other fields will take the stage to perform, unlocking the endless possibilities of music The original production project of Shanghai Concert Hall, the musical "Four Two Youths" and the family music "Detective Paganini Case", will tour to Beijing, Jiangsu and other places to show the vigorous vitality of "Shanghai Production".
In the new year, the Shanghai Concert Hall will further open its doors - theater exhibition visits, "Sea Blue" afternoon tea, "Music Afternoon Tea", art special exhibitions and other projects throughout the day, so that the audience can feel the charm of art in the concert hall from morning to night; "Music ∞ (Fun Infinite)" series of concert mechanism upgrades - the performance venue is moved from the original hall to the new art space of "Music ∞ (Fun Infinite)" on the fourth floor, helping young musicians to display their creativity and talents from the "small stage" first, and gradually polish their strength to board the "big stage" works.
The cultural tourism project "Sea Folk Music" will be re-dated next year, and two "Shanghai Productions" will begin to tour
This year, under the guidance of the Shanghai Grand Theatre Art Center, co-produced by Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall and Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, and co-produced by Xianwei Digital, the cultural tourism project "Sea Folk Music" has become a "hot event in the city" as soon as it was launched. The resident performance of "Folk Music on the Sea" on the scene of Guofeng Music, the large-scale 3DMapping wall show of "Guangyin Story", and the "How to Be in the Human World - New Chinese Music Immersion Art Special Exhibition" are trinity, and architecture, light and shadow, and music are highly integrated, and the first round of word-of-mouth reputation of the project continues to ferment. In March next year, the Guofeng Music Scene "Maritime Folk Music", which helps the promotion of Chinese music and promotes the Culture of The Shanghai School, will return to the concert hall to bring shocking audio-visual experience to the audience together with the special exhibition of immersive art.
In recent years, from the "wharf" to the "source", Shanghai Concert Hall has continuously explored and made breakthroughs on the road of originality. Starting from April next year, "Four Two Youths" (formerly: "Flowers and Flowers of Youth"), produced by Shanghai Concert Hall Management Co., Ltd., will start a tour in Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing. The musical, which invited the top domestic creative teams and Korean choreographers and stage video designers to jointly create a large-scale original musical, premiered in Shanghai in December 2017 and won high praise from the audience and industry insiders. In December 2018, the play landed on the stage of the Shanghai Grand Theatre with a new look, and the production was upgraded. In 2019, he was invited by the Daegu International Musical Theatre Festival in South Korea to perform in Korea and won the "Best International Musical" award.
In addition, the original play "Paganini Detective Case" of the Shanghai Concert Hall parent-child brand "Family Concert" will come to Suzhou Jinji Lake Concert Hall on June 4. Different from the classical concerts that are usually sitting on the edge, this play allows children to understand classical music in edutainment. The performance at the Jinji Lake Concert Hall in Jiangsu will allow more Yangtze River Delta families to feel the charm of the "Shanghai-made" parent-child brand that sounds good and fun.
The mini music festival focuses on the "Bach Project", and the "Classical" section adheres to the pure and original taste
Mini Music Festival is a classical music festival planned and launched by Shanghai Concert Hall since 2013, and has been held for seven consecutive years. Different from other classical music festivals in Shanghai, since its inception, the mini music festival has established the characteristics of "theme", holding three concerts and three lectures in a row with one theme every year, so that Shencheng music fans can form a more complete understanding of a certain music theme. It is also the first music festival in Shanghai's theatre industry to combine academics and arts.
From August 12th to 14th next year, the mini music festival plans to invite the world-renowned violinist Ning Feng and the neoclassical chamber orchestra led by young conductor Jin Yukuang to cooperate with the new classical chamber orchestra led by young conductor Jin Yukuang, bringing two Bach "Violin Concertos" concerts and a Bach "Sonatas and Suites for Solo Violin" concert, the mainstay of Chinese classical music and the future rising stars to provide the audience with a pure Bach feast.
In the "Classical" section, the Shanghai Concert Hall and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra jointly planned to provide audiences with four chamber music ensemble concerts with different styles. The duet composed of young pianist Luo Wei and young cellist Pan Chang, erhu player Lu Yiwen and the East Coast Quartet, "Sea" woodwind quintet, amber quartet, violinist Huang Mengla and classical guitarist Yang Xuefei will also bring different styles of chamber music performances. In terms of instrumental solo and vocal solo singing, pianist Wu Muye, baritone singer Wang Yunpeng, pianist Xue Yingjia, young pianist Wan Jieyi and other Chinese artists active in the stage at home and abroad will provide superb performances for Shanghai audiences.
From "Music ∞ ( Music Infinity) " to "Music Wave", unlock the endless possibilities of music
The fifth season of "Music ∞ (Music Infinity)" presents four different types of concerts: "Jazz 'Dawn' Mirror Changing Space Concert" - led by the well-known jazz drummer Xu Zhiyao, electronic musician/visual artist Han Han participated in the design of multimedia visual effects and electronic art, JZMusic jazz trumpet player Li Xiaochuan, jazz pianist Huang Jianyi, jazz bass player Tian Xin joined, Using digital technology to explore the endless possibilities of jazz, the "Frankfurt Helmet Band Concert" – the electronic combination Frankfurt Helmet will use avant-garde musical forms, using modular synthesizers, to try to break through the sound itself and present a variety of distinctive percussion sounds.
The 2021 season's critically acclaimed Lucid Dreaming And Sleep Party Atmosphere Concert will return for the 2022 season with five concerts at the Music Cube at different times. Four groups of different types of musicians bring harmony and different integration; "Bamboo Seasons - Bamboo Flute/Shakuhachi, Cello, Piano Trio Concert", young bamboo flute player Zhang Weiben will use music as a connection to guide the audience to think about the color of music.
The 2022 music season "Music And Sound Wave" five concerts gathered energetic and creative musicians in China. He Liangchen, a young Italian baritone who has achieved outstanding results in the second season of "Sound into People's Hearts", and Xu Junshuo, a musical theater actor and original musician, will hold solo concerts respectively. Hu Chenyun, a performer, will bring "Music And Movement Wave Series - Wild Ride 2022 - Hu Chenyun 'Full Open Wheat' Concert". Fluke Shou FlortShow will reunite with fans at the Shanghai Concert Hall, where they will perform two concerts in a row to showcase their classical expertise and bring creative works that are different from the pop music festival. In addition, the "Improvisational Space-time Chamber Music Concert", jazz musician Huang Ye will perform with the theme of "the greatest improvist and their source of inspiration" and "linking historical time and space with improvisation".
Brands such as Chinese music, parent-child, and art education have "broken the circle" and "music afternoon tea" to broaden the audience
In the Chinese music section, folk music masters will successively appear in the concert hall to interpret classics. "String Pipe Qingyang - Dai Xiaolian and Zhan Yongming Guqin Flute Concert", the famous guqin player Dai Xiaolian and the famous flute player Zhan Yongming cooperated to bring "Pingsha Falling Goose" and "Chaoyuan Song" and other famous flute songs. Wu Yuxia, a famous pipa player and music educator, will join hands with famous performers Zhu Jianping, Wu Lin, Liu Lei and Chen Shuying to cooperate with instruments such as hand discs, Zhenbei drums, box drums, zhenzheng, erhu and piano respectively, to bring a cross-border fusion concert of Chinese music with pipa art as the main body.
The fifth season of "Linglong Chinese Music Series" is titled "Vientiane", and continues to unlock the multi-replay of Chinese music with "Fine Folk Music". "The Old Look and New Look of Jiangnan Silk Bamboo", "Flute New Era", "Yangqin Courtesy to Things", "Immersion , 21 Guzheng", "Leather Drum Bang - Percussion Special", "World Difference", "Circle Out Chinese Music / Remix" Theme Concert, will bring chinese music listening and enjoyment with a more national atmosphere for folk music lovers. The new season of "Linglong Chinese Music" will also continue the post-performance talks, and launch a series of activities such as national style appreciation.
In the parent-child and art education section, Shanghai Concert Hall will launch a series of parent-child concerts that are loved by children and large children. The Shanghai Concert Hall's art education brand project "Family Concert" will launch "The Ugly Duckling" in February next year and "Animal Adventure City" in April. This year's original play "Delicious Music", which is suitable for children aged 1-5, will also return in May next year.
Other music brands and related events targeting different audiences and groups also continue to arrive. The first "Master Charity" at the Shanghai Concert Hall next year will welcome Ye Dengmin, a classical guitarist with great international influence. He will work with guzheng player Su Chang to show the similarities and uniqueness of different musical cultures with "guitar" and "kite". As the first music salon in China, the public welfare project "Music Afternoon Tea" will usher in its 10th anniversary next year, and continue to face the general public with the people-friendly positioning of "low threshold and high quality". "Eight-Tone Classroom" is a series of art education activities of the family concert brand, co-produced with the innovative aesthetic music course "Dolphin Music VipSing" that is in line with international music teaching methods, and works together to create a monthly series of parent-child music lessons.
Courtesy of Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall
Author: Jiang Fang
Editor: Xu Luming