Music

Organised in partnership with several cultural organisations in Beijing, The Beijing Underground Summer Music Days 2018 aim at showing the diversity of music and culture in the Chinese capital.

Spread on many different days and events the Beijing Underground Summer Music Days involves several organizations and venues such as Loreli, Spittoon, BLKGEN, Sub Tropical, Rock against jams, School Bar, Yue Space, Temple Bar as well as many artists, musicians, and more.

Be sure not to miss these events and celebrate the beginning of the summer in a different way !

Night 1: Experimental night with Li Er Yang.

A "Schubertiade" - The Summer Concert of The German Kantorei Peking

Who doesn’t recognize Schubert’s capricious “Trout" or know of his “unfinished Symphony?” These two greatest hits of classical music serve to exemplify Schubert's popularity and at the same time reveal the great craftsmanship found in his work. In addition to an immense number of such upbeat songs and rhythmically, as well as melodically gorgeous instrumental compositions, we also are indebted to Shubert for many choral compositions and vocal quartets. In fact, his output was so diverse that already during his lifetime he organized concerts known as "Schubertiades" in the bourgeois salons of his time, in order to make his comprehensive opus known.

From such concerts The German Kantorei Peking takes its inspiration for this year's summer program and together with its soloists and the children's choir it will perform some cheerful, high spirited choral and quartet compositions by Schubert. Juxtaposed with these are works by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and two contemporary composers, Ola Gjieilo (* 1978) and Eriks Esenvalds (* 1977). More intimate musical moments will also not be missing, such as those found, for example, in Schubert's choral composition "Prayer" (D 815). We can guarantee an exciting and enjoyable evening with the chance to perhaps discover some new favourites.

Saturday, June 2, 2018, 3:00 pm: Dulwich College, Legend Garden Campus; Tickets: 100, - RMB (Family Concert)

Saturday, June 9, 2018, 5:00 pm: German Embassy School Beijing, Liangmaqiao Lu 49A; Tickets: 180, - RMB / 100, - RMB (Students)

Sunday, June 10, 2018, 5:00 pm: German Embassy School Beijing, Liangmaqiao Lu 49A; Tickets: 180, - RMB / 100, - RMB (Students)

Tickets are available in the library of the German Embassy School as well as via the QR code on the posters

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New Noise are very proud to present 4 shows for Mouse on the Keys, a band that with their unique sound stand at the forefront of the Japanese music scene. The band will present their brand new critically acclaimed album “tres”. Mouse on the keys is a blend of minimal phrased piano and dynamic drumming, the pursuit of a live experience composed of visual and audio expression performed by world class musicians. Formed in 2006, with elements of jazz, funk, post‐rock and electronic music, Mouse on the Keys fits into a genre of their own. The trio are well-known for blurring genres and their forthcoming release “tres" is no exception, traversing dark and avant-garde electronica, minimalist neo-classical, whilst also continuing to develop on their math-rock tendencies with rapid-fire time signature changes, angular rhythms and melodic yet frenetic piano work. tres features vocals from CHON's Mario Camarena, La Dispute's Jordan Dreyer & Canadian singer Dominique Fils-Aimé. On this China trip the band will be backed up by amazing visuals and give us a mad and explosive live performance!

Mouse on the keys 2018 China tour

8.29 Shenzhen B10 Live

8.30 Guangzhou MAO livehouse

8.31 Beijing Yugong Yishan

9.01 Shanghai MAO livehouse

tickets：newnoise.taobao.com

The first Syndicate party of 2018 brings California-based bass slinger Tsuruda to Dada Beijing. With his roots planted firmly in the Low End Theory sound, Tsuruda's wonky UK bass and halftime-influenced music has sprouted off in all kinds of weird and wonderful directions, reaching sonic tentacles into such illustrious labels as Noisia's Division, Ivy Lab's 20/20 and Alix Perez's 1985 Music.

For more information, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/O-t1u06CFv3HZP4WGDSAUA

Bianca Gismonti was born in a family of musicians. Since a very young age,she would attend her father's concerts, accompanied by her mother - actress Rejane Medeiros - and brother - guitarist Alexandre Gismonti.Her house was full of musical influences, being also a meeting point for dozens of important artists whom Bianca got to know. At age nine, she asked to start taking piano lessons. Already at fifteen, she launched her musical career as an accompanist to her father, on various stages around the world for many years.Her piano studies carried on at UFRJ University in Rio until 2005, when "Duo Gisbranco"(a piano duo with peer Claudia Castelo Branco)made its debut, having since recorded three albums and two DVDs,with allied musical partnerships with the likes of composer Chico César, cellist Jaques Morelembaum and singer Monica Salmaso.

See her live at Blue Note Beijing on June 3rd. For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/54559

60 Miles

The Swiss trio 60 Miles did not take its name from a decade surely very rich in jazz, neither from a certain trumpeter with an emblematic silhouette (among others). But…

But it’s certainly jazz that 60 Miles propose. In our day, does a jazz still exist that refers only to itself and is nourished only by its own tradition ?

60 Miles choose to create its own music, inspired as much by Parker, Jarrett or Cohen as Led Zeppelin, Radiohead or Beethoven. A music formed in the great tradition of the trio, but without the usual codes. A music where the rhythmic games take the principal place, between the fascination of the numeric abstraction and the enjoyable celebration of the ambiguity.

After publishing their first album « ...Ou à raison », (Altri Suoni / 2015) 60 Mileshave played in Switzerland, France, Germany, China (Beijing / Dalian / Xiamen / Changsha / Shenzhen / Guangzhou) and south America (Brazil / Argentina). At the moment the trio is presenting the new record:« Last Summer » 2018

But why 60 Miles ? A question of space, but finally also a question of time…

As was said by another celebrity (but without trumpet) « the world is fix, in balance in a space of dimension four ». And Switzerland is not so big.

Program

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden”
Intermission
Claude Debussy
String Quartet in G minor, op. 10

A brief introduction

Thanks to its noteworthy and exceptional scenic presence, the Hanson Quartet wins 2nd Prize atJ.Haydn Competition and three special Prizes (J.Haydn Prize, 20th century Prize and Audience Prize), in 2016 the 2nd Prize in Geneva International String Quartet Competition and in april 2015 the third Prize and Audience Prize at the 11th International Competition for String Quartet in Lyon. In 2014, he is also awarded of the European competition for music ensembles "FNAPEC" where he gets "Bourse de l'Académie des Beaux Arts". Since 2015 the four musicians are in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and they are supported by the « Fondation Banque Populaire ».

Graduated from the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, the french quartet receives regularly advices from Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl and Ebene Quartet. Thefour interprets of Hansons are particularly involved in research and understandingof the musical language. Thanks to its knowledge of the music repertoirefounding the string quartet, and especially Joseph Haydn, the Hanson Quartet builds up to itself a strong identity of discourse in which intelligence and a touch of humor get involved in the delicacy and the sensibility of its interpretation.

The quartet has performed in large halls as for exemple the Wigmore Hall, the Victoria Hall, the «Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio» in Paris, the « Opéra de Lyon », the« Salle Cortot » or the « Cité de la Musique ». The Hanson Quartet is regularly invited to play through over Europe (Germany, Norway, England, Austria, Italy, Swizerland, Portugal, Morocco…) and since september 2016 the Hanson Quartet is in residency at the French Radio (France Musique).

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cello Suite N° 3 in c major, BWV 1009 (Prelude)

Heinz Holliger Fantasiestück (2000-2001)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Allemande)
Luciano BerioLes mots sont allés (1978)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Courante)
Sofia GubaidulinaPrelude n°1- Staccato, Legato (1974)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Sarabande)
György Kurtág Az hit... (1998)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Bourrées I et II)
Witold LutoslawskiSacher Variation (1975)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Gigue)
György LigetiCapriccio (1952)

Estelle Revaz, Cellist

Born 1989 in Switzerland, Estelle Revaz studied the cello in Paris at the CRR with Xavier Gagnepain and subsequently at the Conservatoire with Jérôme Pernoo, as well as in Cologne with Maria Kliegel.
Her appearances as a soloist with orchestra and a repertoire ranging from Vivaldi to contemporary music have been highly acclaimed by reviewers and audiences in Europa, Asia, South Africa and South America. From the 2017/18 season onwards, Estelle will for three years be artist in residence with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève conducted by Arie van Beek.
At the same time, she loves to play chamber music with pianists such as Finghin Collins, Frank Dupree or Gérard Wyss and is a member of the Trio Colomba with Sergey Ostrovsky (violin) and Irina Chkourindina (piano) as well as the Trio Window with Damien Bachmann (clarinet) and Christian Chamorel (piano). In 2016 with the Trio Window she went on tour in China playing in 8 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Nanjing.