2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week (youth music culture the greater bay area, referred to as "ymcg") will be held in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong from January 20 to February 1, 2024. Among them, the opening concert will be held at Xinghai Concert Hall on January 21, and the closing concert will be held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center on January 31.
This music week is hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and for the first time it is co-organized by the five internationally renowned music institutions in the Greater Bay Area - Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Macau Orchestra.
Mr. Long Yu, the lifelong honorary music director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the famous conductor, continues to serve as the chairman of the Art Committee of the Music Week. The famous conductor Daniel Harding takes over and the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma officially takes over as the music director of the Music Week. , leading performers from world-class orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to form a mentoring team, opening a new chapter for ymcg.
A new starting point for the Greater Bay Area, a new start to the world
The predecessor of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week is the Guangdong International Youth Music Week, which was founded in 2017 and is held regularly every year. The successful holding of the first music week was hailed by the industry as "turning a new page in Chinese symphony music." In 2023, it was upgraded to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week, and immediately won the "Promoting Power of Chinese Music and Art" award.
2024 The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week is a new attempt at cultural integration in the Greater Bay Area. The depth and breadth of cultural collaborative development exceeds any previous edition. From the organizational structure to the operation model, it reflects the three aspects of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The spirit of continuous cooperation.
(right) Then-artistic director Yo-Yo Ma and Arts Committee Chairman Long Yu delivered speeches at the 2018 ymcg opening concert.
Led by the "slash" master, the star-studded "Heaven Group"
2024 music week's instructor team will be led by music director and famous conductor Daniel Harding, and composed of several principal voices and senior performers of world-class orchestras.
British conductor Daniel Harding, who was born in 1975, has a legendary debut experience: when he was 17 years old, he recommended himself to his idol conductor Sir Simon Rattle and became his assistant conductor; when he was 19 years old, he was Another conductor, Claudio Abbado, was hired as an assistant conductor and worked with him in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; he conducted his first Berlin Philharmonic concert at the age of 21.
2024 Music Week Music Director and famous conductor: Daniel Harding
He conducted two concerts at the Proms in 1996, becoming the youngest conductor in the festival's century-old history. Harding also served as music director of the Orchester de Paris and principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. During the 2023 Music Week, Master Harding accepted the invitation from Yu Long, Chairman of the Music Week Art Committee and the organizer, to serve as the "Music Director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week" from 2024 for a five-year term ( 2024-2028). It is worth mentioning that Master Harding also holds a commercial pilot's license. His second career besides command is as a civil aviation pilot, and he has a veritable "slash life."
Harding expressed that he is full of expectations for this "music journey" in the Greater Bay Area: "Every musician in the Greater Bay Area is lucky. There are very outstanding musical talents and young talents here. I hope Everyone has gained more musical inspiration in the Greater Bay Area. Band members have different backgrounds and ideas, but by building team spirit in the band, they can further realize their own and collective values. Say I come to Music Week to 'guide' everyone in their studies, Not exactly, I came to study with a group of talented young people."The team of instructors of the
Music Week is star-studded, coming from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester de Paris, the Orchester National de Radio France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the National Academy of Arts of Santa Cecilia in Italy. A team of mentors composed of world-class performers from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will gather in the Greater Bay Area to lead the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Group, composed of young performers selected from home and abroad. Week orchestra, jointly embark on a journey of exploring the mysteries of music.
Orchestra connects friends with music, and cultural exchanges
Under the leadership of Daniel Harding, the young performers of this music week will explore the individual and the organism in the practice of band performance The fusion of destiny connection, cultural original intention and innovative spirit: "In the 2024 ymcg activities, we will deeply explore the connotation of playing in an orchestra and explore the key elements of forming a world-class symphony orchestra. To this end, we have developed a program that gives young music students the opportunity to participate in full symphony orchestra performance rehearsals, as well as part-part rehearsals. "Harding said.
In October 2023, Music Week held a three-day global audition in Shenzhen. After several rounds of rigorous screening, more than 80 young musicians under the age of 30 stood out and were selected as the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week Orchestra. This group of outstanding young musicians come from 70 well-known music academies from China, Russia, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, France and other countries and regions , comprehensive universities, and nearly 20 professional orchestras were selected from applicants. More than 50 of the orchestra members are from well-known music academies at home and abroad, and the remaining 20 or so are from 16 Chinese professional orchestras.
Art does not forget when it came Road, music warms the heart in winter
"When you play music, don't forget the way you came." This is the message of Yo-Yo Ma, the famous cellist and former artistic director of Music Week, to young musicians. Looking back on previous music weeks, young musicians I once walked into Yongqingfang, Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum, Canton Tower, Ersha Island... I played Bach's unaccompanied cello suite on the Cantonese opera stage, played Dvořák's "Remember Hometown" on the top of the city, and played the banyan tree in Zhixin Middle School Let’s talk about it. During the 2024 Music Week, Master Harding will bring his mentors and students to multiple cultural and tourism landmarks in the Greater Bay Area. From the traditional buildings of the "Pearl of Lingnan Art" to the historical neighborhoods that witness the modern changes of Guangdong, from museums to Guangzhou At the top of the mountain, the most beautiful songs of the new music force in the Greater Bay Area will be resounded. On the waterfront of Hong Kong, the "Pearl of the Orient", we will also witness the unforgettable musical footprints left by young people during the music week.
(Part 1) Young musicians Playing at Canton Tower 450 platform
(Part 2) Young musicians performing at the Cantonese Opera Art Museum
This music week will hold a number of concerts and related activities in central cities in the Greater Bay Area, including the opening at Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou Four concerts including the "Daniel Harding and the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week Orchestra Concert (First Stop)", as well as two concerts held at the Shenzhen Concert Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Center Concert Hall A concert with the same lineup and program.
The opening concert on January 21 will be conducted by young conductor Cui Linhan with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and musicians from the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Macau Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra will be invited to join in, with the theme of "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" "Festival Orchestra" will jointly open a new chapter for ymcg.
The opening concert will perform the orchestral string music "Metropolis" and Dvora's "Metropolis" commissioned by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. "Symphony No. 8 in G major" , and together with young violinist Lin Ruifeng, who won the gold medal at the 3rd Victor Tretyakov International Violin Competition, performed Brahms' "Violin Concerto in D major" .It is worth mentioning that Cui Linhan is also a young conductor who has moved from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to the world stage. She has won the runner-up in the Danish Marko International Conducting Competition and was selected for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's 2022/23 Dudamel Conducting Program. The conductor assistant to the artistic director of the orchestra, Dudamel, conducts concerts of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Young violinist Lin Ruifeng, who will be the soloist in this concert, has participated in previous music week orchestras several times. He has also passed the assessment and will serve as the concertmaster of the "2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week Orchestra".
htmlAt the concert on November 28, ymcg Music Director Daniel Harding will conduct the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week Orchestra for the first time at the Xinghai Concert Hall to perform three works: Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra Representative Music Week The organizing committee commissioned Hong Kong young composer Liang Haoyi to compose the symphonic overture "The Ambition of the Sky: The Great Bay Chapter" (world premiere) specially composed for this music week; it was composed by Norwegian violinist Wilde Furlong and Mozart's "Symphony Concerto for Violin and Viola in E flat major" with Amiha Grossz, principal viola section of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, as soloist, and Dvořák's "Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95" (from the New World)》.
2024 marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Dvořák, one of the most important composers in the world in the 19th century and a representative of the Czech national music school. There will be an upsurge in commemoration around the world. The symphony concerts of this music week will present two famous symphonies by the composer. The song shows that Guangdong takes the lead in sharing the same frequency with the world. The new work commissioned by Canton Communications by Liang Haoyi is the "topic" work of the music week: ""The Ambition of the Sky: The Great Bay Chapter" is a vibrant music work that shows the richness of the Greater Bay Area. The beauty, depth and cohesion brought by cultural traditions...The lyrical themes and rhythmic changes in the work celebrate the diversity of the Greater Bay Area and are deeply rooted in Chinese tradition."
After the concert at Xinghai Concert Hall, Daniel Harding will lead the music week team to move to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the other two core cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and perform at the Shenzhen Concert Hall and the Hong Kong Cultural Center. The performance in Hong Kong will also be the first in the 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area ( Guangdong) International Youth Music Week closing concert . At that time, the audience in the Greater Bay Area will hear the wonderful performances of the orchestra formed in Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening up, and become part of a large family full of vitality, making friends through music, and full of cultural collisions and exchanges.
In addition to the symphony concert, under the planning of Daniel Harding and a team of star mentors, young musicians will perform Mozart, Dvořák, Strauss, Lutoslawski, and Einstein in the form of an ensemble. Bell and Malcolm Arnold. In addition, Music Week will also hold a series of master classes, community music performances in the city, chamber music salons, special instructor workshops, public rehearsals, "Music Gathering and Talk" and other activities to enrich the cultural connotation of Music Week . On January 24th and 26th, at the two "Music and Talk" events held at the Xinghai Concert Hall, Yu Long, Chairman of the Music Week Art Committee, Daniel Harding, Music Director, and distinguished mentors will make a surprise appearance at the event , share the joy of music with the audience.
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The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" clearly states that "jointly build a humanistic Bay Area" to jointly shape and enrich the connotation of the Bay Area's humanistic spirit. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week, which will start anew in 2024, explains to the world that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is not only an economic community, but also a cultural community. The integrated development of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao is inseparable from culture. leadership and promotion.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) International Youth Music Week will continue to strengthen cultural confidence, uphold openness and inclusiveness, adhere to integrity and innovation, stimulate the endogenous power of cultural integration in the Bay Area, and promote the construction of a humanistic Bay Area.
