MAY 2015
New Music in Bryant Park Concert Series
Monday, June 8, 2015
5:30 pm
Upper Terrace Steps /
Bryant Park in New York City
New Music in Bryant Park presents award-winning classical and jazz ensembles performing back to back each week, showcasing works commissioned by Chamber Music America. Music From China will perform an eclectic mix of traditional Chinese and contemporary classical music, with Chen Yi's CMA commissioned work "Three Dances from China South" and works by other illustrious composers.
Admission is free.
Program
TRADITIONAL: Birds in the Forest
TRADITIONAL: Mongolian Horse Race
TRADITIONAL: Ambush on Ten Sides
YANG YONG: River Songs
ZHOU LONG: Taiping Gu
CHEN YI: Three Dances From China South
ZHOU LONG: Mount a Long Wind
Artists
Wang Guowei, erhu
Sun Li, pipa
Zhou Jing, zheng
Susan Cheng, daruan
Anna Urrey, flute
Sophie Shao, cello
Frank Cassara, percussion
Bryant Park is situated behind the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan, between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Take the B, D, F or M train to 42nd Street/Bryant Park
Take the 7 to 5th Avenue |
|
|
|
Music From China Youth Orchestra
"Music Rainbow VIII" Concert
Sunday, May 31
3 PM
The Concert Hall at Drew University
Dorothy Young Center for the Arts
36 Madison Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
Under the baton of Wang Guowei, the orchestra's latest concert presents music rich with regional colors, from caravan bells on the Silk Road across the Gobi Desert, to tea picking dance tunes from Zhejiang and the ethnic melodies of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.
Tickets: $25, $12 students/seniors
Reservations: 212-941-8733
Email: events@musicfromchina.org
Purchase at the door
|
|
Wang Guowei, guest erhu soloist,
Bowdoin International
Music Festival
Wednesday, July 8
7:30 PM
Studzinski Recital Hall
12 So. Campus Drive
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME 04011
Program:
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 115
CHEN YI
Fiddle Suite
Huqin & string quartet
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor, Op. 115
|
|
Music From China Youth Orchestra Summer Program
June 13-14, 20-21,
27-28
3 Saturdays & Sundays, 1:30 - 5 PM
Willow Grove Presbyterian Church
1961 Raritan Road
Scotch Plains, NJ
Group lessons on Chinese instruments and ensemble playing: erhu, yangqin, liuqin, ruan, zheng, hulusi
Tuition: $350
$20 registration fee
To register: 212-941-8733
events@musicfromchina.org |
|
|
