East-West Arts Initiative summer music festival 2018
East-West Arts Initiative Summer Music Festival at St Jame’s Piccadilly 2018
East-West Arts Initiative Gala Concert at St John’s Smith Square
The East-West Arts Initiative presents a programme of orchestral music and operatic highlights, featuring emerging Chinese and European artists. The programme, whichjuxtaposes favourite western classical music and with works by Chinese composers, celebrates the 45th anniversary of full diplomatic relations between China and the UK.
East-West Arts Initiative Gala Concert
London International Sinfonia
UK Chinese Choir
Beibei Wang SOPRANO
Stephanie Lewis MEZZO SOPRANO
Alberto Sousa TENOR
Ke Ma PIANO
Orpheus Papafilippou CONCERT MASTER
Peter Knapp CONDUCTOR
Rossini Overture La Gazza Ladra
Xinghai Yellow River Piano Concerto
Rossini Aria: ‘Cruda sorte’ from L’Italiana in Algeri
Donizetti Aria: ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ from L’elisir d’amore
Verdi Aria: ‘Tacea la notte’ from Il Trovatore
Verdi Chorus: Va pensiero’ & Nabucco
Zhi Liu My Motherland
Elgar Overture: In The South
Bizet Overture, Seguidilla, Chanson Bohème from Carmen
Delibes. ‘Flower Duet’ from Lakme
Catalani ‘Ebben? Ne andro lontana’ from La Wally
Puccini ‘Vogliatemi bene’ from Madama Butterfly
The Yellow River Praise – Chinese Moon Festival Gala
London Cadogan Hall on 20th Sep 2015
The East-West Arts Initiative was set up to encourage cultural exchange between UK, Europe and China and to promote the collaboration between emerging classical musicians from China, Europe and the UK, bringing together international musicians committed to introducing classical music to a wider audience.
Sunday 20 September 2015, 7.00pm
Cadogan Hall
The Yellow River Praise – Chinese Moon Festival Gala
Xian Xing Hai Yellow River Cantata (vocal & piano extracts)Operatic arias including Rusalka’s Song to the Moon and La donna è mobile
Beibei Wang soprano \John Hudson tenor \Julian Jacobson piano
Peter Knapp conductor \ Connie Alexander event director
UK Chinese Choir
London-Chinese Dance School
London International Sinfonia
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2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Sino-Japanese War, both of which strengthened the world’s front against fascism. 2015 is also the year of the UK-China Cultural Exchange and to celebrate the UK Chinese Dance and Culture Association presents a concert of Chinese and Western Music which includes vocal and piano solo extracts from Xian Xing Hai’s Yellow River Cantata.
Chinese New Year Gala
3rd February 2016
O2 London
3rd February 2016
O2 London
Chinese New Year Gala
Soprano Beibei Wang
London International Sinfonia
Performed classical western and Chinese traditional orchestral music for Chinese New Year Gala at O2 London.
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