2021, the National Grand Theater created a brand new performance brand "Taihu Jazz Festival", continuing the freedom and leisure of jazz in the sub-center of the city. In 5 days, 19 bands and 108 musicians brought more than 100 new and old works, presenting a diversified jazz feast to nearly 2,000 audiences. The jazz special forum held at the same time, many experts from the academic and industry gathered together to discuss topics such as jazz education, performance, development, and promotion, which received strong responses and praise in the industry.
This year's Taihu Jazz Festival continues to invite top jazz musicians at home and abroad. While continuing theme planning, enriching form and relaxing atmosphere, it has innovated and upgraded in performance planning and event form levels, focusing on original jazz works with Chinese national cultural characteristics, showing the collision and integration of Eastern and Western jazz music cultures. Create a more appealing jazz music feast for the audience.
According to the overall arrangement of the music festival, on August 26, the China-Europe Jazz Orchestra will perform folk songs from China, Italy, Poland , France and other countries, deeply combining national folk music with jazz; on August 27, the Jinfo Jazz Orchestra will perform "Silk Road" and "Western Region Rhapsody", bringing the Silk Road theme into the field of jazz. Li Xiaochuan, Qin Sifeng Jazz Band and Luoning quartet will present the audience with original jazz works such as "Harvest" and "Oriental Sketch" with Chinese national cultural characteristics; on August 28, the CMA Band of Beijing Modern Conservatory will bring the distance between the audience and jazz through popular melodies such as "Nanping Night Bell", "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", and "Night Comes Fragrance". On August 29, the "Jazz Music Famous Teacher Lecture Hall" will be held, inviting industry experts and music enthusiasts to share and exchange topics such as the emergence, development of jazz and the appreciation of classic works.
In order to create a lifestyle experience that blends with jazz, this music festival is presented in the form of "offline performance + online live broadcast + casual experience + famous teacher lecture", bringing the audience an immersive jazz experience journey. In addition, the performance venue also specially planned a comprehensive music festival experience area, including immersive instrumental performance, food, cultural and creative, movies, records, markets and other colorful experience content.
Li Jin, leader of the National Grand Theater and director of the Art Creation Center, said, "The 2022 Taihu Jazz Festival will display the development achievements of Chinese jazz in a full perspective, full dimension and three-dimensional manner, and exchange jazz performance experience. I hope that through our continuous exploration and creation, we will seek larger concentric circles and more good voices in the internationalization of Chinese culture and the sinicization of international culture. In the future, the new pattern of the National Grand Theater "one theater and three sites" will provide artists and audiences with a broader Stage, more diverse platforms, and more exciting future. "
Jazz trumpet performer Li Xiaochuan said, "In this year's music festival, I will bring many works adapted from traditional Chinese repertoire, many of which are the first performances. Thanks to the National Grand Theater for providing such a platform that allows more musicians to perform Chinese contemporary jazz music works that are original. This is a very rare opportunity!"
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
edit/Qiao Ying
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