Music

The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande appears at the NCPA, conducted by Cambridge and Royal Northern College of Music-educated Jonathan Nott, formerly Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony, Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Bamberg Symphony. The Orchestre, a major performer of works by contemporary composers, appears with pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger to play Schumann’s Piano Concerto No 1, and Mahler’s Symphony No 6.

For more information or tickets, visit: http://en.chncpa.org/whatson/zdyc/201902/t20190211_197445.shtml

The current 22-year-old Chinese-Canadian pianist was born in Nanjing and started playing the piano at the age of five. Zhang Haotian has studied the piano under world-renowned Canadian pianist Sasha Starcevich since he was ten, and was later admitted to the Mannes College of Music in New York following the guidance of Professor Pavilina Dokoska and Vladimir Valjarvic.

Mr. Zhang, at the age of 12, received the highest score in the Canadian Music Competition and was dubbed as a musical prodigy by the media. He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in the U.K. when he was just 20, and was named a Steinway Artist after receiving a dozen of national and international competition awards. He was also the cultural ambassador for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

For more information or for tickets, visit: http://en.chncpa.org/whatson/zdyc/201901/t20190125_197212.shtml

The Cleveland Orchestra is one of America’s “Big Five” Orchestras, along with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The orchestra boasts a long history of eminent musicianship as well as a deep catalogue of recordings. Today, they are acknowledged among the world’s best orchestras.

For more information or for tickets, visit: http://en.chncpa.org/whatson/zdyc/201902/t20190214_197549.shtml

Eeg was raised in the Danish countryside by a very musical family. She began playing music at the age of four and decided to make music her career when she was still a teenager. After many years of serious study, she was accepted to the prestigious the Danish National Academy of Music. She attended the Academy for six years, studying classical piano and jazz vocals. Coursework at the Academy is very rigorous and gave her the deep understanding of music and superb harmonic and rhythmic techniques that shape her stellar performances today. She is influenced by Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, but adds her own personal touch of soft darkness influenced by Scandinavian melancholy.

See her at Blue Note on March 28th and 29th. For tickets, visit: http://www.bluenotebeijing.com/ticketdetail/7dfc4843-bbb5-49d1-8fef-5ab88634f628

Harriet Tubman formed in 1998 when drummer J.T. Lewis, guitarist Brandon Ross and bassist Melvin Gibbs came together to start a band.

Harriet Tubman is named after the heroic African-American slave who risked her life to escape from slavery and helped more than 300 others to do the same. Deeply inspired by the ideals of freedom, Harriet Tubman's music plumbs the soul's depths for liberated musical expression.

Harriet Tubman's music is an continuation of the process of contextual and musical innovation exhibited by such diverse artists as Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix, Derrick May, Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Parliment-Funkadelic Recontextualizing musical technology and creating innovative compostional and cultural spaces are African-American cultural traditions. Harriet Tubman is Lewis’ Ross’ & Gibbs’ collective contribution to those traditions.

For more information or to buy tickets to their show at Blue Note on March 23rd and 24th, visit: http://www.bluenotebeijing.com/ticketdetail/966af5f5-d9bd-49c9-adbf-fa3102af708d

Composer, songwriter and instrumental artist Michael Landau was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is also a prolific session guitarist who has played on hundreds of records since the 1980’s. Some session highlights over the years include: Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Michael Jackson and Rod Stewart to name a few. In 1993 he won the readers poll for Best Studio Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine.

In 2016, Michael received a Grammy nomination as a member of the The Steve Gadd Band, and has been involved with several band projects over the years: Renegade Creation (with Robben Ford), The Ringers (with Jimmy Herring and Wayne Krantz), The Raging Honkies, Burning Water and his own project The Michael Landau Group. With several releases under his own name, the latest being the critically acclaimed ‘Organic Instrumentals’, his music continues to flow intensely.

See him at Blue Note on March 21st and 22nd. For more information or for tickets, visit: http://www.bluenotebeijing.com/ticketdetail/a846b593-b26f-43bb-b5f3-9762d82b3684

“DJ Boring has been hibernating, crafting some choice remixes and deep house cuts for Adeen Records as well as continuous solo material, but now he is back to get on the decks and spin some bangers. DJ’ing internationally since 2011, Lloyd Handy (DJ Boring) started as a radio DJ in the USA with a wide range of tastes and a non-stop music disposition. Making beats all along the way, he has continued to release albums of increasingly focused solo electronic music, and is still DJ’ing clubs and parties ranging from pop classics and modern rock, hip-hop, dance-punk to Space Disco, German Techno, club and house music.”

3 mosquitoes:

best funk rock groovy band from mars. Playing a set list filled with both covers and original songs. On a looping never ending parallel universal cosmic tour on planet earth. God save the doggo.

DJ Funkylicous:

will spin all the classic funk rock/disco tunes in the history of music

Lithuanian electro dream-pop artist Jurga appears at DDC on Sunday, March 10th. The artist released her breakthrough solo album Aukso Pieva after performing as a backing vocalist in various bands and even fronting a female punk-rock band. Since then she’s won numerous awards at home and in Europe, and toured around the world.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/feteLYFk-TLLEF7F5-KOrg

English singer-songwriter Emily Burns appears at DDC on Thursday, April 4th. The artist, best known for her single Damn Good Liar, has released one EP, Seven Scenes from the Same Summer, and is often compared to artists like Tove Lo, Kehlani Sigrid and Banks.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VLtwA5JDUJbJvCXAQZykGA