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Newswire | Canadian Bryan Cheng Makes Finals of 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Cello 

Brussels, Belgium (May 22, 2022) – The final of the Cello Competition: Monday 30 May to Saturday 4 June, 8 pm (Brussels Centre for Fine Arts). Presenting the twelve finalists : Yibai Chen Bryan Cheng Hayoung Choi Jeremias Fliedl Stéphanie Huang Woochan Jeong Marcel Johannes Kits Taeguk Mun Samuel Niederhauser Petar Pejčić Oleksiy Shadrin Sul Yoon [...]

Newswire | Canadian Bryan Cheng Makes Semi-Finals of 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Cello 

2022 Cello Competition : the semi-final Studio 4, Flagey From Monday 16 to Saturday 21 May, sessions at 3pm and 8pm And the 24 semi-finalists are : Riana Anthony, James Baik, Yibai Chen, Bryan Cheng, Hayoung Choi, Jeremias Fliedl, Anouchka  Hack, Constantin Heise, Stéphanie Huang, Woochan Jeong, Min Ji Kim, Marcel Johannes  Kits, Keisuke Morita, [...]

WNO Youth Opera in Brundibár in 2019 (Photo Johan Persson) Welsh National Opera has a busy Summer planned for members of the company's Youth Opera, with two new productions, and participation in one of WNO's main stage productions.WNO Youth Opera (10-18 years) will perform the creepy, comic opera, The Black Spider, written by composer Judith Weir, at the Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre. The production will be performed by a company of 50 singers aged 10 to 18, reuniting for their first live production since Brundibár in 2019. Based on Jeremias Gotthelf’s dark medieval tale Die Schwarze Spinn. Judith Weir created The Black Spider specifically for young people, combining, history, horror and comedy and the production will be directed by Rhian Hutchings and conducted by Dan Perkin. WNO Youth Opera (18-25 years) will be presenting a new production of Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki, on the main stage of the Donald Gordon Theatre as part […]

Dai Fujikura Glorious Clouds; Minabel Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From microorganisms to the philosophy of Kierkegaard, from a concerto for a traditional Japanese instrument to a contrabass clarinet solo, the inspirations of Japanese-born, UK-based composer Dai Fujikura are fascinating and dazzlingDai Fujikura's latest album, Glorious Clouds might almost have the subtitle, 'recycle, re-use, re-think', as many of the works on the disc seem to evolve from Fujikura's other pieces. The disc also represents the composer's continuing engagement with Japanese traditional instruments, instruments that he didn't really listen to or know much about when growing up in Japan. Glorious Clouds from Minabel / New Focus Recordings features Fujikura's Shamisen Concerto from Hidejiro Honjoh (shamisen), Ensemble Nomad, Norio Sato, new orchestral pieces from Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, and Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuko Tanaka, as well as solo and chamber pieces for a wide […]