Blog Tag - Classical Music
The official Spring Festival holiday is over, and now is the perfect time to look forward to upcoming events in Beijing. I love the performing arts,...
[Update: As of Jun 18, the anniversary concert has been postponed until further notice]
As Beijingers know, Beijing offers some of the most...
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...
Our Events Watch series aims to highlight happenings that aren't focused on alcohol and drinking, but instead take a more educational or productive...
Beijing Conservatory of Music graduate Lang Lang will reunite with unlikely collaborators Metallica when the latter comes to liberate local music...
Irish violinist Gregory Harrington isn't your average classical music performer. This globe trotting musician teaches at the New York high school on...
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....
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...
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...
This weekend the illustrious Beijing International Music Competition begins and will feature cellist from across the globe. Beijing classical music...
Wu Promotion, a local performing arts promoter founded in 1991, has been active lately bringing European classical musicians to Beijing for special...
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...
Norway's venerable Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (TSO) is touring China for the first time in its 101-year history, with its opening show this...
The Belcea Quartet burst onto the musical scene in 1999 after winning first prize at two international string quartet competitions in Osaka and...