Canton Asian Music Festival Press Kit

The first-ever Canton Asian Music Festival, nine concerts in twelve days by a who's-who of Asian musicians, will take place November 5-17, 2010. Produced by CAMI Music, LLC, the event takes place in Guangzhou (Canton), the host city of the XVI Asian Games, the second largest sporting event in the world next to the Olympics. The festival, created under the artistic directorship of Maestro Long Yu, will become the first high-profile showcase for world-renowned Asian artists in Asia. This extraordinary musical celebration features a constellation of star soloists such as Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Tan Dun, Midori, Ray Chen, Sarah Chang, and others; internationally acclaimed guest ensembles Seoul Philharmonic under the direction of Maestro Myung-Whun Chung and Philharmonia Taiwan; as well as China's own top orchestras Guangzhou Symphony, Shanghai Symphony and China Philharmonic. All festival concerts will take place at Xinghai Hall (33 Qingbo Lu, Er Sha Dao, Guangzhou).

PROGRAM

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Friday, November 5
Opening Concert of 2010 Canton Asian Music Festival - Midori & GSO

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in e minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”

Lin Daye, conductor
Midori, violin
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, November 6
Yang Yang, Jian Wang & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Dmitry Shostakovich Festival Overture, Op. 96
Dmitry Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Op. 107
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 in e minor, Op.27

Yang Yang, conductor
Jian Wang, cello
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, November 7
Tan Dun, Cho-Liang Lin & China Philharmonic Orchestra

Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
Tan Dun Violin Concerto “The Love”
Sergey Prokofiev Excerpts from “Romeo & Juliet”
Tan Dun Internet Symphony “Eroica”

Tan Dun, conductor
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
China Philharmonic Orchestra

Tuesday, November 9
Sarah Chang & “Song of the Earth” from Ye Xiaogang

Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night‘s Dream Overture, Op. 21
Max Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in g minor, Op. 26
Ye Xiaogang The Song of the Earth, for soprano, baritone and orchestra, Op. 47

Lin Daye, conductor
Sarah Chang, violin
Xu Xiaoying, soprano
Yuan Chenye, baritone
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, November 10
Myung-Whun Chung & Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.1 in D Major

Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Ray Chen, violin
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday, November 13
Taiwan JU Percussion Group

Gerard Lecointe 3 Epilogues
Lu Huanwei In Between
Nebojsa J. Zivkovic To the God of Rhythm
Chang, Chiung-Ying Solar Myth
Koji Sakurai Izanagi
Yu-Yun Liu Zhong Kui Marrying His Sister Off
Honh-Chi Ho Drumming Fest

Sunday, November 14
Lang Lang & Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

Guo Wenjing Overture “Riding on the wind”, Op.27
Yin Chengzong Chu Wanghua Piano Concerto “Yellow River”
Sheng Lihong Liu Zhuang (Based on Yellow River Cantata by Xian Xinghai)
Leonard Bernstein Overture to Candide
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and orchestra

Lin Daye, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday, November 16
Shao-Chia Lu and Philharmonia Taiwan

I-Uen Wang Hwang Diptych of Taiwan
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.5 in c-sharp minor

Shao-Chia Lu, conductor
Ming-Yu Wang, erhu
Yeh jiuan-Reng, guzheng
Philharmonia Taiwan

Wednesday, November 17
Closing Gala - Magic of Cello with Yo-Yo Ma

Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Antonin Dvorak Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104

Long Yu, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra

VENUE

All festival concerts will take place at Xinghai Hall (33 Qingbo Lu, Er Sha Dao, Guangzhou)

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CONTACTS

Publicity: Brett Oberman at Keith Sherman & Associates; +1 212-764-7900, brett@ksa-pr.com

Presenter: CAMI Music LLC
President: Jean-Jacques Cesbron
Executive Producer: Anastasia Boudanoque
Production Associates: Anna Berk, Emma Yu