Organised by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council since 2014, the “Global Concert of Chinese Artists” is a significant cultural event of the overseas Chinese. It aims to unite Chinese from all over the world, the event invites prestigious Chinese musicians from China and abroad to perform every year. This year the concert, entitled “2016 Culture of China, Global Concert of Chinese Artists”, will be also held in Macao, organised by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao S.A.R. Government, co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, the Macao Association of Overseas Chinese and the University of Macau, sponsored by the Macao Foundation, on 24 September, at 3pm at the University Hall of the University of Macau, is the debut concert hosted in city out of Beijing.
The “Global Concert of Chinese Artists”, commemorating the 67th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, features works commemorating the 150th anniversary of Mr. Sun Yat-Sen. Lü Jia, a renowned Chinese conductor and opera director at the National Centre for the Performing Arts and music director of the Macao Orchestra will be the artistic director of the Macao concert. Under his baton, the “Overseas Chinese Orchestra” comprised of nearly 100 well-known musicians from 40 notable national or international orchestras, celebrated vocalists Yan Weiwen, Wang Xiufen and Yuanming Song as well as Zhongshan Second Choir from the hometown of Mr. Sun Yat-Sen will perform in Macao. The programme of the concert includes the works Cheers for Sunrise, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, excerpts from the opera Peony Pavilion, folk music Chinese Sights and Sounds for orchestra by Bao Yuankai, the 4th movement of Symphony No. 9 in E minor by Antonín Dvořák, the epic orchestral overture Our Sun Yat-sen, I Love You, China, Mother, the Toreador Song from the opera Carmen and the choral piece I Love Mountain Wuzhi and River Wanquan. The concert will be held in the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on the evening of 27 September after the Macao performance.
For more information about the “2016 Culture of China, Global Concert of Chinese Artists”, please call the Macau Association of Overseas Chinese through tel. no. 2856 8832, during office hours.