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Best Concerts in Shanghai for 2008-09 Season Honoured
The invulnerable conductor legend Bernard Haitink champions the concert stage in Shanghai for the past season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Together they toured China in early February this year covering both Shanghai and Beijing to critical acclaim. This is also the third major orchestra from US toured in China in the last four years after San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and New York Philharmonic with Lorin Maazel.
The CSO concert in Shanghai including Haydn's Symphony No. 101 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 scores Concert of the Year awarded by Classical Elites Shanghai (CESH) 2008-09. Maestro Haitink also has Conductor of the Year under his credit while CSO wins Orchestra of the Year. Panel member Dr. WANG Shu, faculty from the composition department of Shanghai Music Conversatory, is tremendously impressed by the CSO concert: "The musicianship of both the Maestro and the orchestra were put at test in the revelatory programme of great range in style and period, which they impressed and excelled."
Symphony Concert of the Year is awarded to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Dvorak Eighth, Ravel La valse and Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels conducted by Mariss Jansons, who was in China four years ago with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2005. Panel member Elman Lee, a record producer and prominent music critic, likes the "versatility of Concertgebouw where they deliver rich sound and elegant nuance held in awe by the audience."
Portuguese-Chinese cellist WANG Jian wins Instrumental for his Haydn Concerto with Shanghai Sinfonietta, the orchestra-in-residence of the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, under the baton of pianist turned conductor XU Zhong. Sony-BMG exclusive artist Murray Perahia wins Piano Recital against fellow pianists Maurizio Pollini and Yuja Wang, both nominated and exclusive artists of Deutsche Grammophon. Panel member Ms. LI Changying, pianist trained producer from Music Radio Shanghai, thinks Mr Perahia "focuses his robust body, mentality and intelligence on a tiny point and burst into an effect like the Big Bang."
Fourteen winners are announced in fourteen categories with all genres of classical music and opera celebrated, including Opera Production, Piano Recital, Concerto, Instrumental, Chamber and Choral Concerts, all staged in the 2008-09 season in Shanghai. Some categories were created this year specifically to honour variety and creativity of local talents in concert programming.
Educational Concert goes to the Weekly Broadcasting Concert of the amateur ensemble Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra founded in 2004 and conducted by CAO Peng, former Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and longtime promoter of classical music after he stepped down from SSO. The emerging star-pianist Yuja Wang wins Young Musician of the Year by her recital at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Innovative Concert is awarded to Chanticleer with the Shanghai String Quartet in a pairing of From the Path of Beauty by Chinese-American composer CHEN Yi and songs by Steven Foster as well as string quartets by Beethoven.
The year of 2009 also marks the 50th anniversary of Butterfly Lovers violin concerto composed by CHEN Gang and HE Zhanhao in 1959. A Special Commemorative Award is created for a series of events including concerts, masterclasses, lectures and shows related to this all-time classic with the story of "Chinese Romeo and Juliet."
Mr FAN Yu, panel member and executive editor of Music Lover magazine published by Shanghai Music Publishing House which co-presents CESH 2008-09, said in a statement: "We aim to comb through all the concerts of the past season and find out the most memorable moments. With this we are offering a compass for the performing arts industry and also a concert guidance for the general public. The Classical Elites Award has been created in Shanghai and Beijing with a yet growing outreach into other cities in my expectation."
Rudolph Tang, a former executive editor of Gramophone China who initiated Classical Elites in 2006 and Director of KLASSIKOM Music Info Service which co-presents CE in Shanghai and Beijing, is delighted by this year's outcome: "The list provides a rare insight into the variety and creativity of concert stages in Shanghai not only for the past season, but also as a beacon for the upcoming years. The third CESH is a standing testimony of the booming creative industry in China against the global recession."
A vicinity of 200 classical music stage works has been listed for CESH 2008-09, out of which 23 nominated including 14 awarded. Major artists or their proxies as well as representatives from concert presenters, theatres, recording companies, artist agencies and members of the media participated into the press conference and award ceremony held at the baroque style Ball Room at the Shanghai Concert Hall on the afternoon of December 11th 2009 hosted by Dr WANG Yong, a celebrated TV host and musicologist on the town. Award certificates were presented to organizers and artists with no prize given as CE campaign is still short-funded.
Past winners of CESH include Lorin Maazel with New York Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann with Munich Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Renee Fleming.
2008-2009 Classical Elites Shanghai
Winners and Nominees
Concert of the Year
February 10, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre
Bernard Haitink, conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101; Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Opera Production of the Year
March 28, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by ZHOU Xiaoyan Opera Center
Verdi: Don Carlo
Director: Kingman Lo, Conductor: Marco Boemi, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra and Chorus Warren Mok - Don Carlo LIAO Changyong - Rodrigo LI Xiuying - Elisabeth YANG Guang - Princess Eboli GONG Dongjian - Philip II ZHOU Zheng - The Grand Inquisitor
Symphony Concert of the Year
November 8, 2008 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Mariss Jansons, conductor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Dvorak: Eighth Symphony, Ravel: La valse, Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Nominees
November 18, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; WANG Zhijiong, violin St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Concert for violin, Symphony No. 4
October 10, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Beethoven Egmont Overture op. 84, Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 47, Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73
May 6, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Fabio Luisi, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano Staatskapelle Dresden
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, TrV 171 op.28, Burleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, TrV 145, Also sprach Zarathustra, TrV 176, op.30
Concerto of the Year
October 10, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Beethoven Egmont Overture op. 84, Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 47, Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73
Nominees
October 19, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Jeffery Ryan: The Linearity of Light; Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
March 20, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
XU Zhong, conductor; WANG Jian, cello Shanghai Sinfonietta
Haydn: Cello Concerti
Instrumental Concert of the Year
March 20, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
WANG Jian, cello
Haydn: Cello Concerti
Piano Recital of the Year
October 18, 2008 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
Murray Perahia, piano
Bach; Mozart; Beethoven; Chopin
Nominees
April 19, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Schumann; Schoenberg; Webern; Debussy
June 6, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre
Yuja Wang, piano
SCARLATTI: Sonata for Piano; BRAHMS: 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini in a minor, Op. 35; STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka
Chamber Concert of the Year
September 12, 2008 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
The Romeros
Spanish music
Nominees
October 25, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Concerto Koln
Bach, Handel, Sammartini etc
May 8, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Six Cellist from Wiener Philharmoniker
Georg Philipp Telemann etc.
Choral Concert of the Year
May 3, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SCEA, Shanghai Concert Hall, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Chanticleer
American and Mexican songs
Educational Concert of the Year
May 30, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SMG, presented Shanghai Concert Hall
CAO Peng, conductor Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra - A Weekly Broadcasting Concert series
Johann Strauss, Mozart, Gershwin
Innovative Concert of the Year
May 2, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SCEA , Shanghai Concert Hall, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Chanticleer and Shanghai String Quartet
CHEN Yi: From the Path of Beauty; Songs by Steven Foster; Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor
Young Musician of the Year
Yuja Wang, pianist
Conductor of the Year
Bernard Haitink
Orchestra of the Year
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Special Commemorative Award
50th Anniversary of the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Appendix
Panel Members
Mr SHEN Cinong, long time senior editor of Xinmin Evening News and editor of Music & Dance coverage, deputy editor of Shanghai Grand Theatre journal, music critic
Mr REN Haijie, regular contributor to magazines such as Music Lover, Opera Arts and Music Weekly as well as to several newspaper, music critic and journalist
Mr WANG Shu, music composition teacher at Shanghai Music Conservatory
Mr Elman LEE, veteran music critic, hosts programmes at Music Radio Shanghai and gives speech around China
Mrs LI Changying, producer of classical music programmes at Music Radio Shanghai as well as Weekly Broadcasting Concert
Mr FAN Yu, executive editor of Music Lover magazine
Shanghai Music Publishing House
Shanghai Music Publishing House was established in 1956. After several rounds of restructure and reform it settled down as a subordinate body under the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group.
The house boasts of more than 1200 titles of books with a annual turnover over 80 million RMB. From its begining it has sold more than 200 million copies of textbooks for colleges and high schools covering music and dance.
Music Lover
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Music Lover has been a favourite amongst classical music fans for three decades. Music being a soul mate and indispensable part of daily life, Music Lover structure itself around music appreciation with major musical events reflected. It is an experience of knowing and enjoyment while reading it.
Integrated into the magazine are up-to-date music news happening around the world, oversea magazine round-up, new recordings and article of unique wisdom and knowledge as well as fun. Each issue comes with a complimentary CD with full length music. A real treat and collection for all music aficionados.
KLASSIKOM Music Info Service
Founded and run by Rudolph Tang in 1999 as a webpage and now based on www.klassikom.com, KLASSIKOM Music Info Service is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009. Today it is a specialised and specific non-benefit free press in mainland China with a premiere aim to reach the general public classical music news happening around the globe. It exclusively translates and channels thousands of pieces of classical music news via virtually all the publications in China, mass medium and music journals regardless. For the past decade KLASSIKOM is among the first to introduce to China voluntarily and almost single-handedly updated major musical events including but not limited to ECHO Klassik Awards, Juno Awards, Gramophone Awards, MIDEM Classical Awards, BBC Music Magazine Awards, Opera News Awards, NEA Opera Honors, Laurence Olivier Awards, Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Helpmann Awards, Sonning Prize, Polar Music Prize, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, BBC Master Prize, Classical Brit Awards, Musical America Awards, Birgit Nilsson Prize, Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, Akutagawa Award for Musical Composition, Kyoto Prizes, Praemium Imperiale, MacArthur Foundation's Genius Award, Operalia as well as all the key European, British and American music festivals and competitions.
In recent years KLASSIKOM, assuming advisory function, has been actively involved in the season programming of Xinghai Concert Hall, NCPA, Shanghai Concert Hall, Xiamen Philharmonic etc.
Press office: Mr Rudolph Tang / 86 13917699679 / klassikom@gmail.com
The CSO concert in Shanghai including Haydn's Symphony No. 101 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 scores Concert of the Year awarded by Classical Elites Shanghai (CESH) 2008-09. Maestro Haitink also has Conductor of the Year under his credit while CSO wins Orchestra of the Year. Panel member Dr. WANG Shu, faculty from the composition department of Shanghai Music Conversatory, is tremendously impressed by the CSO concert: "The musicianship of both the Maestro and the orchestra were put at test in the revelatory programme of great range in style and period, which they impressed and excelled."
Symphony Concert of the Year is awarded to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Dvorak Eighth, Ravel La valse and Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels conducted by Mariss Jansons, who was in China four years ago with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2005. Panel member Elman Lee, a record producer and prominent music critic, likes the "versatility of Concertgebouw where they deliver rich sound and elegant nuance held in awe by the audience."
Portuguese-Chinese cellist WANG Jian wins Instrumental for his Haydn Concerto with Shanghai Sinfonietta, the orchestra-in-residence of the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, under the baton of pianist turned conductor XU Zhong. Sony-BMG exclusive artist Murray Perahia wins Piano Recital against fellow pianists Maurizio Pollini and Yuja Wang, both nominated and exclusive artists of Deutsche Grammophon. Panel member Ms. LI Changying, pianist trained producer from Music Radio Shanghai, thinks Mr Perahia "focuses his robust body, mentality and intelligence on a tiny point and burst into an effect like the Big Bang."
Fourteen winners are announced in fourteen categories with all genres of classical music and opera celebrated, including Opera Production, Piano Recital, Concerto, Instrumental, Chamber and Choral Concerts, all staged in the 2008-09 season in Shanghai. Some categories were created this year specifically to honour variety and creativity of local talents in concert programming.
Educational Concert goes to the Weekly Broadcasting Concert of the amateur ensemble Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra founded in 2004 and conducted by CAO Peng, former Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and longtime promoter of classical music after he stepped down from SSO. The emerging star-pianist Yuja Wang wins Young Musician of the Year by her recital at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Innovative Concert is awarded to Chanticleer with the Shanghai String Quartet in a pairing of From the Path of Beauty by Chinese-American composer CHEN Yi and songs by Steven Foster as well as string quartets by Beethoven.
The year of 2009 also marks the 50th anniversary of Butterfly Lovers violin concerto composed by CHEN Gang and HE Zhanhao in 1959. A Special Commemorative Award is created for a series of events including concerts, masterclasses, lectures and shows related to this all-time classic with the story of "Chinese Romeo and Juliet."
Mr FAN Yu, panel member and executive editor of Music Lover magazine published by Shanghai Music Publishing House which co-presents CESH 2008-09, said in a statement: "We aim to comb through all the concerts of the past season and find out the most memorable moments. With this we are offering a compass for the performing arts industry and also a concert guidance for the general public. The Classical Elites Award has been created in Shanghai and Beijing with a yet growing outreach into other cities in my expectation."
Rudolph Tang, a former executive editor of Gramophone China who initiated Classical Elites in 2006 and Director of KLASSIKOM Music Info Service which co-presents CE in Shanghai and Beijing, is delighted by this year's outcome: "The list provides a rare insight into the variety and creativity of concert stages in Shanghai not only for the past season, but also as a beacon for the upcoming years. The third CESH is a standing testimony of the booming creative industry in China against the global recession."
A vicinity of 200 classical music stage works has been listed for CESH 2008-09, out of which 23 nominated including 14 awarded. Major artists or their proxies as well as representatives from concert presenters, theatres, recording companies, artist agencies and members of the media participated into the press conference and award ceremony held at the baroque style Ball Room at the Shanghai Concert Hall on the afternoon of December 11th 2009 hosted by Dr WANG Yong, a celebrated TV host and musicologist on the town. Award certificates were presented to organizers and artists with no prize given as CE campaign is still short-funded.
Past winners of CESH include Lorin Maazel with New York Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann with Munich Philharmonic, Kronos Quartet and Renee Fleming.
2008-2009 Classical Elites Shanghai
Winners and Nominees
Concert of the Year
February 10, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre
Bernard Haitink, conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101; Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Opera Production of the Year
March 28, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by ZHOU Xiaoyan Opera Center
Verdi: Don Carlo
Director: Kingman Lo, Conductor: Marco Boemi, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra and Chorus Warren Mok - Don Carlo LIAO Changyong - Rodrigo LI Xiuying - Elisabeth YANG Guang - Princess Eboli GONG Dongjian - Philip II ZHOU Zheng - The Grand Inquisitor
Symphony Concert of the Year
November 8, 2008 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Mariss Jansons, conductor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Dvorak: Eighth Symphony, Ravel: La valse, Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Nominees
November 18, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; WANG Zhijiong, violin St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Concert for violin, Symphony No. 4
October 10, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Beethoven Egmont Overture op. 84, Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 47, Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73
May 6, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Fabio Luisi, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano Staatskapelle Dresden
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, TrV 171 op.28, Burleske in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, TrV 145, Also sprach Zarathustra, TrV 176, op.30
Concerto of the Year
October 10, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor; Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg
Beethoven Egmont Overture op. 84, Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d minor, op. 47, Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73
Nominees
October 19, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Jeffery Ryan: The Linearity of Light; Peter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
March 20, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
XU Zhong, conductor; WANG Jian, cello Shanghai Sinfonietta
Haydn: Cello Concerti
Instrumental Concert of the Year
March 20, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
WANG Jian, cello
Haydn: Cello Concerti
Piano Recital of the Year
October 18, 2008 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
Murray Perahia, piano
Bach; Mozart; Beethoven; Chopin
Nominees
April 19, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Schumann; Schoenberg; Webern; Debussy
June 6, 2009 at Shanghai Grand Theatre
Produced by Shanghai Grand Theatre
Yuja Wang, piano
SCARLATTI: Sonata for Piano; BRAHMS: 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini in a minor, Op. 35; STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka
Chamber Concert of the Year
September 12, 2008 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by Shanghai Concert Hall
The Romeros
Spanish music
Nominees
October 25, 2008 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center, presented by Shanghai International Arts Festival
Concerto Koln
Bach, Handel, Sammartini etc
May 8, 2009 at Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Produced by Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Six Cellist from Wiener Philharmoniker
Georg Philipp Telemann etc.
Choral Concert of the Year
May 3, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SCEA, Shanghai Concert Hall, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Chanticleer
American and Mexican songs
Educational Concert of the Year
May 30, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SMG, presented Shanghai Concert Hall
CAO Peng, conductor Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra - A Weekly Broadcasting Concert series
Johann Strauss, Mozart, Gershwin
Innovative Concert of the Year
May 2, 2009 at Shanghai Concert Hall
Produced by SCEA , Shanghai Concert Hall, presented by Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Chanticleer and Shanghai String Quartet
CHEN Yi: From the Path of Beauty; Songs by Steven Foster; Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor
Young Musician of the Year
Yuja Wang, pianist
Conductor of the Year
Bernard Haitink
Orchestra of the Year
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Special Commemorative Award
50th Anniversary of the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Appendix
Panel Members
Mr SHEN Cinong, long time senior editor of Xinmin Evening News and editor of Music & Dance coverage, deputy editor of Shanghai Grand Theatre journal, music critic
Mr REN Haijie, regular contributor to magazines such as Music Lover, Opera Arts and Music Weekly as well as to several newspaper, music critic and journalist
Mr WANG Shu, music composition teacher at Shanghai Music Conservatory
Mr Elman LEE, veteran music critic, hosts programmes at Music Radio Shanghai and gives speech around China
Mrs LI Changying, producer of classical music programmes at Music Radio Shanghai as well as Weekly Broadcasting Concert
Mr FAN Yu, executive editor of Music Lover magazine
Shanghai Music Publishing House
Shanghai Music Publishing House was established in 1956. After several rounds of restructure and reform it settled down as a subordinate body under the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group.
The house boasts of more than 1200 titles of books with a annual turnover over 80 million RMB. From its begining it has sold more than 200 million copies of textbooks for colleges and high schools covering music and dance.
Music Lover
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Music Lover has been a favourite amongst classical music fans for three decades. Music being a soul mate and indispensable part of daily life, Music Lover structure itself around music appreciation with major musical events reflected. It is an experience of knowing and enjoyment while reading it.
Integrated into the magazine are up-to-date music news happening around the world, oversea magazine round-up, new recordings and article of unique wisdom and knowledge as well as fun. Each issue comes with a complimentary CD with full length music. A real treat and collection for all music aficionados.
KLASSIKOM Music Info Service
Founded and run by Rudolph Tang in 1999 as a webpage and now based on www.klassikom.com, KLASSIKOM Music Info Service is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009. Today it is a specialised and specific non-benefit free press in mainland China with a premiere aim to reach the general public classical music news happening around the globe. It exclusively translates and channels thousands of pieces of classical music news via virtually all the publications in China, mass medium and music journals regardless. For the past decade KLASSIKOM is among the first to introduce to China voluntarily and almost single-handedly updated major musical events including but not limited to ECHO Klassik Awards, Juno Awards, Gramophone Awards, MIDEM Classical Awards, BBC Music Magazine Awards, Opera News Awards, NEA Opera Honors, Laurence Olivier Awards, Kathleen Ferrier Awards, Helpmann Awards, Sonning Prize, Polar Music Prize, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, BBC Master Prize, Classical Brit Awards, Musical America Awards, Birgit Nilsson Prize, Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, Akutagawa Award for Musical Composition, Kyoto Prizes, Praemium Imperiale, MacArthur Foundation's Genius Award, Operalia as well as all the key European, British and American music festivals and competitions.
In recent years KLASSIKOM, assuming advisory function, has been actively involved in the season programming of Xinghai Concert Hall, NCPA, Shanghai Concert Hall, Xiamen Philharmonic etc.
Press office: Mr Rudolph Tang / 86 13917699679 / klassikom@gmail.com
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