In late November 2025, as the ancient Elbe River lay quietly beside Hamburg, Germany, where countless maestros of Western classical music once left their footprints, a warm current of music from China arrived amid the thaw of the season’s first snow.On November 27, 2025, local time, Professor Yu Hongmei, President of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), led a delegation to Germany for a s...
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On the evening of November 30, 2025 (local time), the 2025 International Competition for Young Composers (ICYC) concluded successfully at the MuTh Concert Hall in Vienna. The event was jointly organized by the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Universal Edition (UE), and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (the mdw).Initiated and hosted by CCOM, the competition is open to you...
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A New York audience enjoyed a delightful blend of modern and contemporary music by an orchestra and four soloists who played the traditional Chinese instruments erhu, pipa and sheng at a concert at Lincoln Center on Sunday. The annual The Sound of Spring concert, now in its sixth year, took place over two days (Jan 25-26) at the Fisher Center at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, to commemorate the Chinese New Year.
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The Oceania premiere of the symphony Kukai is held at Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand on Jan 24, 2025. This extraordinary rendition was led by British conductor Derrick Morgan, in collaboration with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Central Conservatory of Music Choir (China), and the Auckland Music Association.
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A symphonic concert, Hearing Contemporary China, featuring new works by Chinese composers from the Central Conservatory of Music, was held in Vienna on Sunday. The Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chen Lin, presented a wonderful auditory feast for over 1,000 attendees, at the stunning Vienna Concert Hall. The concert premiered six recent orchestral works composed by faculty members from the conservatory including Jia Guoping's Viewing the Vast Sea, Ye Xiaogang's Five-Color Loquat, and Guo Wenjing's Spring Hope for guzheng and orchestra.
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As the conductor guided the orchestra's musicians with precision, he suddenly reached for a laptop computer, tapping commands that synched the digital with the symphonic. That nuance stood out as Orchestra Now from Bard College in New York state performed at the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall on Saturday to open the seventh annual China Now Music Festival in New York City with the theme Composing the Future.
Read moreThe Beijing Traditional Music Festival will be held in the capital from September to November, according to a recent announcement by the China Conservatory of Music, the event's organizer. It features 10 categories of Chinese instruments, including the erhu (two-stringed fiddle), the pipa (four-stringed lute), the zhongruan (a plucked-string instrument), the bamboo flute and percussion, and is open to all music academies, arts schools, and universities in the country.
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