Sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and hosted by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Xinghai Concert Hall, the Youth Music Culture Guangdong (YMCG) has been praised by the industry as "turning a new page in Chinese symphony" since its birth in January 2017. From January 16 to 23, 2022, Guangzhou will once again appear as a "bridge" connecting the world and building cultural mutual trust - the 6th Guangdong International Youth Music Week will comprehensively promote the all-round integration of online and offline, realize the innovative dissemination of real-time linkage in multiple places around the world, tell the Chinese story to the world, show the spiritual outlook of Chinese literary and art workers in the new era, and show the achievements of the construction of the Humanistic Bay Area.
World-famous musician and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Music Director of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and famous conductor Long Yu, famous conductor Michael Stern, and the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet and other masters of today's classical music scene will "appear" YMCG to share classics with young students of Music Week and the general public, explore the current situation and future of musicians, and explore how literary and artistic workers can rejuvenate their passion from life and create excellent works that reflect the spirit of the times.
Long Yu, Music Director of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
The 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week is the first cultural event of great international significance in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area at the beginning of the New Year. At the same time, this music week will have greater breakthroughs in communication concepts and technologies, empower culture with science and technology, drive integration with innovation, tell the story of China and Guangdong, and do a good job in explaining the era of "Humanistic Bay Area".
With the support of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province, as the main founder of the Music Week and the chairman of the Art Committee, Long Yu, music director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and famous conductor, planned in advance to promote the 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week to be held in Guangzhou as scheduled. The music week was able to successfully implement the various activities and was also strongly supported by the Symphony Orchestra Alliance of the Chinese Musicians Association and Yu Long Studio.
Opening and closing concerts: Travel through the mountains and rivers and explore the stars
Affected by the epidemic, the 2021 Guangdong International Youth Music Week was held online in the form of a "special project". At that time, this new and successful attempt was one of the few international music events that could be held under the epidemic, and the 1.63 million online broadcasts at home and abroad left a strong mark in the history of YMCG.
Guangdong International Youth Music Week 2021 Special Project Live
In 2022, Guangdong International Youth Music Week will be presented to the world in an online, offline and all-media manner. From January 16th to 23rd, 8 concerts will be held in three different spaces of Xinghai Concert Hall for seven consecutive days, showing the vitality, innovation and inheritance of YMCG in different forms such as symphony, chamber music, and master classes for open audience recruitment. Among them, Yo-Yo Ma will participate in the performance in the form of video connection and "cloud ensemble". The ticket price of this Year's Guangdong International Youth Music Week is aimed at popularizing the people, and all five concerts use a uniform ticket price of 200 yuan, and the Xinghai Concert Hall student card enjoys a limited half-price discount.
Jing Huan, permanent conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
The opening concert on January 16 was performed at the Symphony Hall of the Xinghai Concert Hall, with Jing Huan, the permanent conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the music director of the Guangzhou Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducting the Canton Symphony and Youth Symphony, performing the fourth movement of the British composer Gustav Holst's Planetary Suite, "The God of Joy - Jupiter", the symphonic poem "Roman Pine Tree" by Italian composer Otorino Respichi, and the French composer Camille Saint-Saën's "Carnival of Animals".
For the selection of the opening concert, Chen Qing, director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, interpreted it like this: "The 'Jupiter' in the "Planet" suite means joy, the music is so full of enthusiasm and vitality, so that you will think of the young people who participated in the music week, which is a sincere greeting and welcome to them; "Roman Pine" was played in the first Guangdong International Youth Music Week in 2017, after several years, the world has changed, we keep the memory with the classic, polish the original heart; "Animal Carnival" is an interesting work. It commemorates the centenary of the death of the composer Camille Saint-Saën, and at the same time, the work implies a concern for nature and ecology, which is quite meaningful, and echoes Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" at the closing concert. ”
Music Week 2017 concerts
The closing concert will take place on the evening of January 23, and YMCG Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma will deliver a video link. The concert also invited young musicians who have participated in the past YMCG in China and three groups of young string quartets from the China Philharmonic Orchestra, shanghai symphony orchestra and Guangzhou symphony orchestra to form this year's YMCG symphony orchestra, and under the direction of Jing Huan, they will perform Beethoven's Sixth Symphony "Pastoral", bringing out the theme of man and nature; in addition to the video speech, Ma Youyou in Boston will also play the Antoning Symphony Orchestra on the stage of Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall in the form of a screen ensemble. Dvořák's "Ode to the Moon" uses music to connect the two separated by the epidemic with the artistic conception of "sending lovesickness in the bright moon". It can be said that this closing concert has no precedent in the history of Guangdong International Youth Music Week, it was born due to the epidemic barrier, but it shows that in the courage and creativity given by music, we can always reach each other's hearts.
Chamber music: The celestial group of the ensemble leads the "Music Saint" posthumous note
Chamber music learning and performance is one of the three traditions of Guangdong International Youth Music Week, and the four music weeks from 2017 to 2020 have world-class chamber music players teaching students during the music week. The instructor of this year's Chamber Music Project is the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet. Founded in 1983 at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Quartet has traveled the globe, holding nearly 3,000 concerts and recording 35 albums in 35 countries and regions. In 2020, the Shanghai Quartet began teaching at the Juilliard School in Tianjin.
Shanghai Quartet
During the 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week, the Shanghai Quartet will hold three master classes at xinghai concert hall on the afternoon of January 16, 18 and 19 with three groups of quartets composed of young musicians from the Three Top Chinese Orchestras, namely the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, with the Beethoven String Quartet as the medium, and three groups of young musicians from the three top Chinese orchestras as the media. On the evening of January 18th, 19th and 20th, the Shanghai Quartet will also hold three special concerts of The Beethoven String Quartet in the Chamber Hall of the Xinghai Concert Hall with the above three groups of young quartets from the Beijing-Shanghai-Canton Orchestra. The master classes will be broadcast live online at the same time, and a total of six performance activities will radiate to more young people and public welfare communities who love music as the center of Ersha Island, and inspire more inspiration and new ideas online and offline.
China Philharmonic Orchestra Youth String Quartet
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra Youth String Quartet
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Youth String Quartet
The works selected for this master class and concert are Beethoven's first, fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth string quartets, and seven works run through the early, middle and late creation period of Beethoven's string quartet, which is a reflection of his mental journey from a wild youth to an introspective old age. With the Shanghai Quartet, an art group with a long history and international influence, it also reflects the inheritance of the music and humanistic spirit of the Music Week, and truly reflects the contribution of the Music Week to the development of China's chamber music industry.
Entering the city: immersing yourself in the lives of real, realistic, and unpretentious people
At previous Guangdong International Youth Music Weeks, As the artistic director, Yo-Yo Ma once reminded students, "Play music and don't forget the way you came." Like the creation of all literary and artistic works, music comes from the lives of the masses of the people. The 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week will, as always, walk into the city, draw inspiration from the cultural roots of Guangzhou, and feed the city with humanistic feelings.
The 2020 Music Week enters Yongqingfang
At Music Week 2020, the music outreach activities led by Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma have visited the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum, Shamian Community, Yongqingfang, Canton Tower, Zhixin Middle School and Ersha Island Diamond Park to pay tribute to Guangzhou's profound history and culture. On January 17th, the Shanghai Quartet and Canton Symphony Orchestra will go deep into the community, enter the public's vision, and join the Xinghai Concert Hall public welfare project "Music Accompaniment Program" to interpret the young musicians' support for public welfare and their understanding of love and harmony in an innovative form.
With ersha Island Xinghai Concert Hall as the first stop, the YMCG outreach team will visit the Apu Painting Exhibition and play for the children at the exhibition site together with the "Music Companion Program" that participates in the public welfare art class; at the Guangzhou Children's Palace, musicians will play for the visually impaired children and invite the children of the "Rainbow Fusion Art Troupe after the Rain" to perform on the same stage; at Modisha Park, they will walk into the track tram grinding sand depot that is closely related to the public but full of mystery, play for the audience, and board the "Rainbow Fusion Art Troupe" to perform on the same stage; at Modisha Park, they will walk into the track of the tram grinding disc sand that is closely related to the public, play for the audience, and board the "Rainbow Fusion Art Troupe" The most beautiful 7.7 km" is known as the tram, "crossing" to Canton Tower Station...
Guangzhou-Hong Kong-New York-Boston: Four cities linked, "friends gathering" to talk about the future
Following the successful holding of the 2021 Music Week Online Special Project, Yo-Yo Ma will continue to achieve "face-to-face" online exchanges with Music Week students and fans through video linking at the 2022 Guangdong International Youth Music Week.
Yo-Yo Ma and Long Yu
In addition to the video link speech at the opening and closing concerts of the Music Week, from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. on January 21, Yo-Yo Ma in Boston, Michael Stern in New York, and Yu Long in Hong Kong will connect with the Shanghai Quartet in Guangzhou, all members of the YMCG Orchestra, Chen Qing, director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Jing Huan in real time to hold a "Happy Gathering and Talking" event spanning the eastern and western hemispheres with the theme of "Music Without Boundaries: Musicians and Musical Life for the Present and the Future". Explore how musicians, especially young musicians, as literary and artistic workers, can be honest and innovative in the present and future where opportunities and challenges coexist, and refine lasting and inspiring works from the changes of the times, the progress of the country, and the call of the people, write the spirit of the times, and show the morality and responsibility of a new generation of musicians.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Zhang Suqin
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Liu Liqin