LANXESS Young Euro Classic China Concerts 2011

From the very beginning LANXESS Young Euro Classic has been a tremendous success in China. Besides annual concert tours, the cooperation of Young Euro Classic and LANXESS generated such outstanding events as the festive concert on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Germany in the presence of the Chinese President Wen Jiabao and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2007) and the only German-Chinese contribution to the official cultural programme surrounding the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.

2011 marks the fifth anniversary of LANXESS Young Euro China Concerts with two concert tours. In July the Young Euro Classic Orchestra China-Germany gave concerts in Changzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and Qingdao. In December another exciting project gets underway: musicians of the Villa Musica and the Central Conservatory in Beijing will get together for a rehearsal and concert period, featuring works by Mozart, Gounod, Debussy and Minoru Miki. The improvisation by the percussionist Wang Bei Bei and a German clarinettist promises a thrilling dialogue between both musical cultures.