On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary, the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association for the first time brought 19 original Chinese music works and folk music performers across the mountains and seas, on the evening of November 24, 2024, local time, at the Liszt Conservatory of Music in Budapest, Hungary The Concert Hall held the "National Rhythm Datong" concert of Huang Zhiqian's national style works.
Promote the "going abroad" of Chinese style music and let the world "understand" China
According to reports, this is a two-way concert that "uses friends as bridges, hearts to communicate, civilizations learn from each other, and people to connect." Huang Zhiqian, the composer and deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association, performed the game soundtrack works that he has accumulated for ten years, and communicated with the musicians of the Hungarian Budapest Film Symphony Orchestra on the same stage, using music to witness the everlasting friendship between China and Hungary. The concert was hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association and hosted by Guangzhou Dodecahedron Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. and the Budapest Film Symphony Orchestra. Sun Jie, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Hungary, and others attended the concert.
Huang Zhiqian, the composer of the "National Rhythm Datong" concert, is a senior musician who travels in the field of multi-media music. In 2014, he began to score many games and gradually found his own musical direction. His Chinese style game soundtracks have both the charm of traditional Chinese music and the characteristics of the times. He combines the musical narrative of Western symphonies with Chinese folk music to create a new style. A new national style creation path full of contemporary sense. Dong Lexian, the composer of the dance "Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara" and the dance drama "Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara", summed up the characteristics of Huang Zhiqian's musical works in one sentence, that is, "it has a strong national style, and is symphonic and contemporary."
In recent years, as one of the "Troika" of Chinese culture "going overseas", Huang Zhiqian's original Chinese style music has also become popular in the industry. At the 12th Hollywood Music Media Awards (hmma) in 2021, his game music "The Coast of the Land - Thirteen State Suites" was nominated for the best instrumental/orchestral work. This is the first time It is nominated for hmma with a local Chinese musician as the main creator. Leveraging the momentum of the game industry and using music to tell Chinese stories, it provides the industry with a new path to “going global” worth exploring.
Jin Xugeng, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association, said that the "National Rhythm Datong" concert is an important step for Guangdong musicians in the new era to shoulder the cultural mission of promoting national music to "go overseas" and allowing the world to "understand" China. Huang Zhiqian He is a hands-on practitioner and realizes that he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
"We are now working hard to explore and establish a new model and new understanding. We hope that through our efforts, we can promote more Chinese musicians to find international cooperation and have the opportunity to showcase their original works, so that they can bear the Chinese imprint , Chinese language music culture can also become a mainstream aesthetic," Huang Zhiqian said.
The elite Chinese music team met the famous symphony group that “knows Chinese music best”
The Chinese folk music performers who participated in this concert can be regarded as a strong and courageous Chinese music team. Zhang Fan, a famous young flute player and professor at Xinghai Conservatory of Music, has developed a unique understanding of repertoire with different contents and styles with his comprehensive and skillful playing skills, pure and gorgeous timbre, and rich artistic thinking in the art of bamboo flute playing. Colorful performance. There are also international percussionist Wang Yuyan who has served as the principal timpani and principal percussion section of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Australia, a world-class symphony orchestra, and has won multiple international percussion competition awards. She has also performed with the Guangdong Chinese Orchestra around the world and domestically. Zhou Yating, a young pipa player who has performed more than hundreds of performances, dulcimer player from Budapest (Fengya Chinese Orchestra) in Hungary, and percussionist Cai Yuping from Jiangsu Performing Arts Group, etc.
The Budapest Film Symphony Orchestra is the European orchestra most familiar to Chinese composers. Most of the well-known domestic composers have collaborated with it on film, television or stage recording works. Among them, Huang Zhiqian is the orchestra’s closest partner. He has collaborated on more than 200 recording and filming projects since 2018, and has received numerous international nominations and awards, opening up new ideas for national music innovation and external communication.Orchestra director balint sapszon, orchestra principal csonggor veer, soprano sapszon orsi. The conductor of this concert is peter illenyi.
Huang Zhiqian said: "I think they understand Chinese music best. They make about 200 recordings a year related to China. This is also a kind of cultural export, allowing foreign artists to understand China first, and then through them, gradually Let more people come into contact with and understand Chinese culture.”
(correspondent Lei Aixia and Wu Chunyan, all-media reporter of Guangming Daily). Chen Liang)
Source: Guangming Daily All-Media Reporter Lei Aixia Wu Chunyan Correspondent Chen Liang
Editor: Xing Yanyan
Editor: Wu Yaqi
