Blog Tag - Classical Music

Maria Nauen Talks Life as a Conductor, Author and Educator Ahead of BICO Anniversarry Concert
[Update: As of Jun 18, the anniversary concert has been postponed until further notice] As Beijingers know, Beijing offers some of the most...
Beijing Music Festival Kicks Off With 8-Hour Great Wall Concert
The 22nd Beijing International Music Festival got off to an unusual start at the weekend, with an eight-hour concert at the Great Wall, where the...
Beijing's Best Events That Won't Leave You Hungover, Aug 14-20
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
Lang Lang to Join Metallica for Beijing Show; Reprise of Grammy Performance?
Beijing Conservatory of Music graduate Lang Lang will reunite with unlikely collaborators Metallica when the latter comes to liberate local music...
A Delicate Touch: Hip Violinist to Bring Adele's Sounds to NCPA
Irish violinist Gregory Harrington isn't your average classical music performer. This globe trotting musician teaches at the New York high school on...
Wicked Game: Win Tickets To See Il Divo
What do you get when Simon Cowell combines the sound of the Three Tenors with the look of Armani models? Luckily for us Beijingers, it’s Il Divo....
Win Tickets To See Karl Jenkins In Concert!
The International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS) music festival is coming to Beijing and we've got two pairs of VIP tickets to give away to...
The Impossible Black Tulip: Celebrating One of Beijing’s Earliest Expats
Among mapmakers, the “Impossible Black Tulip” is the name given to the rare and exotic world map created by Matteo Ricci in 1602 – one of the first...
Beijing International Music Competition
This weekend the illustrious Beijing International Music Competition begins and will feature cellist from across the globe. Beijing classical music...
Award-winning piano-violin duo coming to Beijing
Wu Promotion, a local performing arts promoter founded in 1991, has been active lately bringing European classical musicians to Beijing for special...
The Power of Seven Steinways: Not Your Typical Piano Recital
François Lindemann, founder and member of the Swiss Piano Seven, likes to say the sound of seven pianos is "not seven times the power of one piano...
Win Tickets to Trondheim Symphony Orchestra's China Debut
Norway's venerable Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is touring China for the first time in its 101-year history, with its opening show this...
Virtuosic Passion – the Belcea Quartet in Beijing
The Belcea Quartet burst onto the musical scene in 1999 after winning first prize at two international string quartet competitions in Osaka and...