2019
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Monday, March 11, 2019 – Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Bitó Conservatory Building The US-China Music Institute of the Bard Conservatory presents a two-day conference on teaching traditional Chinese instruments. The program will include recitals and a master class. For more information and the full schedule visit barduschinamusic.org/events.
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Monday, March 11, 2019
Bitó Conservatory Building 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
World-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man offers an exciting evening of music combining traditional Chinese instrumentation with world music and Western jazz inflected elements. Performing with her will be Han Mei on zheng. Edward Perez on bass, and Kaoru Watanabe on Japanese flute and drum.
Free and open to the public. This event is being held in conjunction with our conference Tradition and Discovery: Teaching Chinese Music in the West.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Pipa virtuoso, Wu Man, performs a recital and offers a public master class.
Bitó Conservatory Building 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This recital amd master class follows Wu Man's recent performances of new concerto repertoire for pipa, including works written especially for her appearances with the New York Philharmonic. She and Yo-Yo Ma performed the U.S. premiere of Chinese composer Zhao Lin’s Concerto for Pipa and Cello in March 2019, following their world premiere performances in China earlier in the season.
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Sunday, April 21, 2019
Works for erhu, guzheng, and piano by 20th-century Chinese composers.
Bitó Conservatory Building 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
空山鸟语 刘天华
Bird Chirping on the Tranquil Mountain LIU Tianhua (1895-1932)
LIU Chang, erhu
溟山 王中山
Ming Mountain WANG Zhongshan (b. 1969)
WANG Yixin, guzheng
良宵 刘天华
A Beautiful Night (The tune for New Year’s Eve) LIU Tianhua (1895-1932)
LIU Beitong, erhu
LIU Chang, erhu
狮子戏球 杨秀明改編
Chaozhou folk song: The Lion Plays With a Ball arr. YANG Xiuming (b. 1935)
WANG Sibei, guzheng
三门峡畅想曲 刘文金
Capriccio of Sanmenxia Dam LIU Wenjin (1937-2013)
LIU Beitong, erhu
Ivy Wu, piano
恋春风 刘乐
Romantic Breeze of Spring LIU Le (b. 1985)
WANG Yixin, guzheng
Ivy Wu, piano
Intermission
東北民歌：江河水 黄海怀改编
Northeastern folk song: Tears of the River arr. HUANG Haihuai (1935-1967)
LIU Beitong, erhu
茉莉芬芳 何占豪
Fragrance of Jasmine Blossoms HE Zhanhao (b. 1933)
WANG Sibei, guzheng
长城随想 － 遥望篇 刘文金
The Great Wall Capriccio LIU Wenjin (1937-2013)
Movement IV Looking Into the Distance
LIU Chang, erhu
Chung-Yang (Francis) Huang, piano
化蝶 何占豪，陈刚
王天一，王居野改编
Butterfly Lovers HE Zhanhao (b. 1933) and CHEN Gang (b. 1935)
arr. WANG Tianyi and WANG Juye
WANG Sibei, guzheng
WANG Yixin, guzheng
二泉映月 华彦钧
黄晓飞改编
Moon reflected on Second Spring HUA Yanjun (1893-1950)
arr. HUANG Xiaofei
LIU Beitong, erhu
LIU Chang, zhonghu
WANG Sibei, guzheng
WANG Yixin, guzheng
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Saturday, May 11, 2019
Chapel of the Holy Innocents 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The erhu is a traditional Chinese instrument dating back 2,000 years. Li Cangxiao will be joined by Bard Conservatory faculty members and graduate students performing works by contemporary Chinese composers.
“She has a special keen and accurate grasp for music. Her performance is rich in timbre and full of dramatic presentation.” —Music Weekly
Li Cangxiao is a talented young erhu musician widely recognized in China. She is currently a second-year postgraduate student at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing. Li Cangxiao has been awarded the “BoB (Best of the Best) Top-Notch Innovative Talent” by the Ministry of Education of China. As the concertmaster of the Chinese Chamber Orchestra of CCOM, she studies with professor YU Hongmei, vice president of CCOM. In spring 2019, Li Cangxiao was appointed by CCOM as the graduate assistant for erhu teaching at the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music for a semester.
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Saturday, September 28, 2019
China Now Music Festival 2019: China and America—Unity in Music
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Film preview of the upcoming documentary Counter Point followed by a discussion on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s history-making tour of China in 1973, marking the beginning of an explosion of interest in Western classical music that continues there to this day. With filmmaker Jennifer Lin, US-China Music Institute Director Jindong Cai, and special guests. A receptions follows.
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Sunday, September 29, 2019
China Now Music Festival 2019: China and America—Unity in Music
Bitó Conservatory Building 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Susan Chan performs piano music inspired by Chinese musical traditions, including works by Tan Dun, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Alexander Tcherepnin, Doming Lam, Alexina Louie, and Zhang Zhao.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
A talk by Dr. Mingmei Yip
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building, Room 210 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Confucianism and Daoism, the two seemingly opposite but complementary Chinese philosophies, have molded Chinese music for more than two millennia. This lecture will explain how Confucian and Daoist metaphysics are the essence of Chinese literati music.
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Sunday, November 24, 2019
Concert featuring Chinese traditional instruments including guzheng, pipa, erhu, daruan, and zhongruan.
Bitó Conservatory Building 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
