Pianist yundi li says anyone can enjoy classical music as long as you give it a fair chance. Yundi opened the festivals evening session by play. With all the yundi li 2020 tour dates being announced every year it is no wonder that. This is yundi li on china television playing an acrobatic version of rimskykorsakovs flight of the bumblebee. Provided to youtube by independent digital licensing agency inc colourful clouds chasing the moon canadian brass great wall of china. Shun hing group shows its continuous support to the local arts scene by sponsoring the hong kong arts festival for 24 consecutive years. The departments leisure link system enables members of the public to book. This was after an intermission of 15 years, as no first prize was awarded in 1990 and 1995. Zhongguo gang qin shen hua li yundi li yun di by yin li. The west needs to apply more common sense, abandon its condescending attitude, and let fair play apply, he said.
Pianist yundi li defends why classical music isnt boring young post. This sonically inyourface recording is a bit heavyhanded and leadfooted, particularly in the liszt. Pianist yundi li defends why classical music isnt boring. Meet the family behind ermenegildo zegna south china. Opened in april 2014, the hong kong velodrome provides a 250metre. To mark the 60th anniversary of the shun hing group and the 50th anniversary of the chinese university of hong kong cuhk in 20, the shun hing lecture series in arts and humanities has been established with a generous donation from the shun hing group.
Li yundi tour dates 2020 li yundi concert tickets 2020. To be fair to yundi, i think the conductor david robertson should come here to clarify himself in an honest way instead of sending andrew haveron here to distort the fact that shame yundi. Lohengrin, and recitals by renee fleming, kyungwha chung and yundi. On autumn 2014, the fryderyk chopin institute, as the organiser of the international fryderyk chopin piano competition has invited yundi to be one of the jury of the 17th international fryderyk chopin piano competition in 2015, who is also the youngest juror of the competition. Following the sponsorship of yundi s performance a year ago, the shun hing group once again sponsored the yundi li in recital organized by the hong kong philharmonic orchestra. Hkb high flyers 2015 by charlton media group issuu. For millions of fans, summer means one thing mlb baseball. The host gave the audiences, the charming, youngest international frederic chopin piano competition winning as well as multiinternationalawards winning pianist, yundi li, came out surrounded by a house of applauses.
Invitation to writers, publishers, agents, editors meetings with. This years panasonic cup race day has come to a successful end today at the sha tin racecourse. Li is the subject of a 2008 featurelength documentary, the young romantic. Kung fu corner and the arts fun fair, held on sundays andor public holidays. Piano cantatas, secular charityschools china chinahong kong concertos piano concertos piano. Book fair retrospective hktdc hong kong book fair 2020. Hosted by china musicians association and yichang municipal peoples government, organized by parsons music corporation and other parties, the 3 rd yichang, china yantze river piano music festival closed successfully on 21 st september, 20 as the major organizer, advocator and investor of china yantze river piano music festival, parsons music has vigorously promoted the development of. Please tick here if you object to our use of your personal data for direct marketing.
The liszt competition regularly organises international piano. The disappearance of hong kong in comics, advertising and. Two of the worlds most famous classical pianists, lang lang and yundi li, are set to perform separate concerts in hong kong next month. Chinese pianist li yundi performed in the national philharmonic hall of lithuania on thursday, marking his debut in the baltic country. Chinese pianist li yundi debuts in lithuania culture. Yundi li beethoven appassionata sonata hong kong youtube may the 2014 hong kong youth music festival was held along the citys landmark victoria harbor. Previous winners include enrico pace 1989, igor roma 1996, yundi li 1999, yingdi sun 2005, vitaly pisarenko 2008, nino gvetadze 2008, mariam batsashvili 2014 and alexander ullman 2017. We will not send you any promotional and other materials upon receiving your request with no charge. Launched in 2002, the leisure link system enables the public to book. Apart from these, the university of hong kong, hong kong university of science and technology, hong kong baptist university and the hong kong polytechnic university have displayed to the public the contributions and achievements of the projects sponsored by shun hing education and charity fund in respect of technological research. See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. The idea is that this fair will primarily aimed at allowing widespread meeting.
In addition to tickets to all of the regular season games, weve got tickets to the all star game in july, and well have playoffs and world series tickets soon. Wolfgang amadeus mozart piano concerto in a major kv 488 richard strauss sinfonia domestica op. Li liuyi theatres spring in a small town was staged with a cast from the beijing. It is my hope that this book will contribute to the newly emerging field of hong kong. Hkfo was initially established in response to the boom of. The company was acquired by warner music group in april 2014. The hall of yichang theatre was full house at the night. York premiere from austrian composer hk gruber, fittingly inspired by manhattan. Hong kong sinfonietta the creation of the world sa chen piano, colleen lee kaling piano, aenon loo composer hong kong chinese orchestra the magic notes of zhao jiping sun yangzhi shakuhahachi, guo yazhi guanzi muzsikas and marta sebestyen. The coupling of the two concerti for this recording is a. Australia, russia and hong kong, 8 publishing houses, 12 book stores and.
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, city contemporary dance company has invited choreographers and dancers from taiwan, the mainland and hong kong to stage a series of shows. Kentridges winterreise was a highlight of the 2014 white light festival. Fresh and insightful pianist jeremy denk new york times presents book i of. Li has recorded exclusively for deutsche grammophon. Founded in 2009 by sean li, hkfo is now one of the largest youth orchestra groups in hong kong with over 300 instrumentalists and choristers and five conductors of different backgrounds and experiences. This is a particularly fine recital caught at white heat. So far, he has mainly recorded works by chopin and liszt. Yundi li, the international piano maestro, supported. Ermenegildo was a pretty visionary man with an incredible vision and with a unique burning spirit and he knew what he wanted, gildo said.
The sponsored programme this year was lucerne festival strings, which was presented at the hong kong city hall concert hall tonight. Gold label was founded in 2003 in hong kong, launched with the support of. The annual exhibition at the city hall organised by the hong kong publishing federation could be regarded as the predecessor of the hong kong book fair. Shanghainese artists like zhou lianbi and luo yundi started a. Shun hing sponsors hong kong arts festival for the 24th. The chopin fairs well with li and we have heard other performances of his interpretation of the work. Then search no further because you have discovered find tickets,llc.
All visitors are requested to note the emergency measures under the following situations. Annual report 20 melco crown entertainment limited. In the international chopin competition in warsaw 2000, the chinese pianist yundi li 1982 won the first prize, at the age of 18. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Yundi li or, as the chinese order his names, li yundi was born on october 7, 1982. Many elite representatives from education and business sectors in mainland china and hong kong attended this momentous event. The stock exchange of hong kong limited in relation to preliminary. Promotion via participation in trade fairs is an effective way for hong. Download pdf file format form leisure and cultural services. The 3rd yichang, china yantze river piano music festival. There is no doubt that yundi li is the real thing a terrific virtuoso who can cool his tone down for quieter moments while keeping acres of strength in reserve for the showy, fast passages but something goes wrong here and these performances are not particularly enjoyable. He is also popularly known as yundi and formerly yundi li. There are bonuses from earlier in li s career in the form of the last movement from his winning chopin concerto1 at warsaw in 2000 plus a couple of promotion videos.
Elva hsiao, bibi zhou, yundi, xu wei, li jian, ronald cheng, the flowerszhang wei, rubberband, michael learns. At age four he was playing the accordion and by seven was taking piano lessons. Gold typhoon group is a chinese entertainment company. Yundi li simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The publishing of xis new book represents a positive attempt to change the status. This concert however only goes to show how much further yundi li has travelled in the intervening 4 years. Year fair, the hong kong flower show, and the urban midautumn lantern carnival.