Podcasts about beijing music festival

South Africa's choral music resonates at China's 600-year-old Temple of Heaven. Making its debut at the 2024 Beijing Music Festival, Cape Town Opera captivated Chinese audiences with rich harmonies and vibrant expressions of South African music and culture.

①China's large, twin-engine unmanned transport aircraft completes maiden flight②Shanghai to fully switch to new energy buses, taxis by 2027③Scientific expedition team sets sail to explore Western Pacific Ocean④Well-preserved giant panda fossil discovered in China's Shaanxi⑤Beijing Music Festival to open in October⑥Chinese hit the slopes to escape brutal summer heat⑦A Thousand Whys: An age-old winter tale in China's Altay

This week Dan speaks with the outstandingly talented, Shuang Zou. Born in Wuhan, she spent her formative career years in England before joining the Beijing Music Festival as Associate Program Director in 2016. She has initiated the New Wave Program with immersive, site-specific opera and music-theatre productions.  She has been instrumental in building collaborations between China and the West in recent years. Shuang Zou is classically trained and has a keen interest in all aspects of the arts, having delved into film and music. Her career accomplishments are extensive having worked in numerous countries and bringing that collaboration of cultures together in her work with Beijing Music Festival. Dan talks to Shuang about the synergy that music brings into communities and her excitement about the future prospects of the industry This incredibly engaging conversation is certainly not to be missed. Apple Podcasts: https://t.ly/212Podcast Spotify: https://t.ly/212PodcastSpotify   www.212musicgroup.com/the212podcast

****nOMad Healer Feature series*** Episode 93 Meet Abigail Elizabeth Fischer; a Sound Healing artist. Join The Space in Between podcast this week to hear from Sound Healer and opera singer, Abigail Elizabeth Fischer. After living the life of a classical music artist, Abigail began to listen and lean into the constant message the universe kept telling her “Inside, out.” She felt deeply this was a call to recognize that she needed to find strength and comfort within herself to be able to do the work she loves and find her purpose on the outside. Abigail is a sound meditation practitioner, mindful artmaker, singer and founder of ABigAUM: going deeper to heal through Music, Sound and Vibration. Abigail has performed as an opera singer from Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall to Beijing Music Festival, and creates her own soul-centered multi-media projects with her husband as belhaven. During the pandemic AbigAUM with Abigail is live-streaming sound meditation and other wholistic programs and teachings from her home in the Hudson Valley so others can experience these holistic healings from the comfort of their own homes. To join into Abigail's sound healing experiences, check out her Facebook page: aBigAUM Instagram: @aBigAUM And to hear her opera singing and performances, please visit her website at: www.Abigailfischer.com And over at her youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoC3As0_0wJ3YMMjoKD93ag ______________________________________ Check out our upcoming events in nOMadland: September 28th: Who Are We Becoming, 6-week online series: **A somatic movement and community exploration of what our individual and collective purposes are. October 7th: Mvt.109 Level One Facilitator training (online): **For facilitators, movement teachers, and healing leaders looking for somatic tools and movement therapies to add into your practices for clients, yoga/dance students, and healing communities.

Today's podcast is with Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, and currently based in New York City, works at the intersection of opera, orchestral, theatre, cabaret, musical, oral tradition, public performances, electronics, visual arts, and noise. Her body of work is championed by some of today’s finest performing groups and organizations around the world. Known for her “relentless originality and unflinching social conscience” (The New Yorker), Du Yun’s second opera, Angel’s Bone (libretto by Royce Vavrek), won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize; in 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow; and in 2019, she was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Classical Composition category for her work Air Glow. As an avid performer and bandleader (Ok Miss), her onstage persona has been described by the New York Times as “an indie pop diva with an avant-garde edge.” Du Yun is Professor of Composition at the Peabody Institute, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. A community champion, Du Yun was a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble; served as the Artistic Director of MATA Festival (2014-2018); conceived the Pan Asia Sounding Festival (National Sawdust); and founded FutureTradition, a global initiative that illuminates the provenance lineages of folk art and uses these structures to build cross-regional collaborations from the ground up. In 2018, Du Yun was named one of 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Foundation, and in 2019 the Beijing Music Festival named her “Artist of the Year.” Sweet Land is now available for on-demand streaming. Please consider watching so the company can honor their contracts to pay their cast, musicians and the crew, due to the cancellation of half of the run. Thank you! I hope we are all doing well. https://www.facebook.com/1059549730/posts/10219045691467428/?sfnsn=mo

durée : 00:05:27 - Classique info du lundi 28 octobre 2019 - par : Sofia Anastasio - Une double récompense pour l’ensemble Ouranos ; l’Opéra Comique et le Beijing Music Festival annoncent un partenariat d’une durée minimum de quatre ans ; Beethoven est à l’honneur ce matin dans Le Figaro ; Beethoven au Liban.

Episode 17 of the NüVoices Podcast is here! This week, Alice Xin Liu is joined by co-host Zhāng Líjīa 张丽佳. The two interviewed Zōu Shuǎng 邹爽, a director and playwright. As of 2018, she was made the artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, following in the footsteps of legendary conductor Maestro Yú Lóng 余隆. She was recently nominated at the 2019 International Opera Awards in London in the Newcomer category for her work as a director. Coming from a musical household, Shuǎng had always been interested in performance art. The three dive into her past - first as a student in London, and her introduction to the world of opera as a director’s assistant. After returning to Beijing, she tried her hand at the formidable task of adapting European works of musical theater for Chinese audiences, the younger crowd in particular. Nowadays, she spends divides her time between the U.K. and China, working across different mediums, genres and cultures. In the self-care and recommendations section, Alice recommends the band “New Pants”, or xīn kùzi 新裤子 and their song I Love You, Wǒ Aì Nǐ 我爱你. Líjīa recommends City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai. To end this episode, Shuǎng recommends Miracles of Life by J.G. Ballard and the album Sleep by Max Richter.

We’re featuring something a bit unusual for this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. Ball State University bass professor and International Society of Bassists president Hans Sturm has been featured several times on the podcast in video episodes, and this week we’re featuring Hans discussing the fundamentals of the Rabbath technique left hand positioning system.This dialogue was featured in some of our previous video episodes, but it was broken up into bite-sized chunks, so I think you’ll enjoy the opportunity to hear the entire segment uninterrupted!After the segment, we feature some bass news and listener feedback. Enjoy!  About Hans: Double bassist Hans Sturm has performed as soloist, chamber, orchestral, jazz and improvisational musician throughout Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the United States. Sturm received his doctorate from Northwestern University and is currently a Professor and Chair of the String Department at Ball State University.Sturm has appeared with a variety of artists across the spectrum of jazz music including Eddie Daniels, Phil Woods, Randy Brecker, Dick Hyman, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Eddie Higgins, David Baker, Stanley Jordan, Peter Erskine, Joe LaBarbera, Alan Dawson, Bela Fleck, Howard Levy and many others. A frequent performer of chamber music, Sturm has toured with ‘Fireflight’ (soprano, Japanese koto and bass koto, double bass, and percussion) and ‘Trinkle, Burkett, and Sturm’ (trumpet, marimba and double bass) for more than fifteen years. He has worked in the electronic medium with composers such as Cleveland Scott and Joan Wildman. As an orchestral bassist, he has served as principal bassist of numerous regional orchestras including the Muncie Symphony, Quad Cities Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Madison Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Dorian Opera, Rockford Symphony, and Racine Symphony and toured Europe as a member of the American Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra.Recently Hans Sturm has appeared at the Beijing Music Festival; the Association of Brazilian Contrabassists International Conventions in Goiania and Pirenopolus, Brazil; the Scottish Bass Trust’s International Convention and the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh Scotland; the College Music Society International Conference in Kyoto, Japan; Encontro de instrumentistas in Joao Pessoa and Belo Horizonte, Brazil; the Biennial International Symposium on Arts and Technology in New London, Connecticut; a State Department tour of Morocco; various International Society of Bassists Conventions in Bloomington, Houston, Indianapolis, Iowa City and Richmond; and jazz fest ivals in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Madison, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. Sturm has contributed performances and compositions to more than thirty recordings with artists including the Pro Arte String Quartet, soprano Mimmi Fulmer, vocalist Jackie Allen, synthesist/composer Joan Wildman, guitarists Scott Fields, Rolf Sturm, Dave Baney, Jeff Parker, and Jack Grassel, trumpeters Bob Levy and David Young, and pianists Jane Reynolds, and Marilyn Crispell. He has recorded for A440, Innova, Red Mark, Music and Arts, CRI, Big Chicago, and Cadence labels among others.Hans Sturm is currently the President-Elect of the International Society of Bassists and served as the New Music Editor for the organization’s journal ‘Bass World’ for six years. He is on the summer faculty of the National High School Music Institute at Northwestern University and his works for bass are published by Liben Music (U.S.) and Klaus Schruff (Europe). His major teachers have included Northwestern University Professor Jeff Bradetich, Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bass Emeritus Anthony Bianco, Philadelphia Orchestra bassist Ferdinand Maresh, and international soloist and pedagogue François Rabbath.