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Bocelli to hold concerts in Hong Kong, Taipei
Photo Courtesy of the Management of New Arts
Italian famed tenor Andrea Bocelli will hold
two concerts in Hong Kong and Taipei in
May.
Italian famed tenor Andrea Bocelli is scheduled to hold two concerts in Hong Kong and Taipei in May and to perform in the opening concert of the 2010 World Expo, Shanghai on May 1st.
Well-known in the realms of classical and popular music, the blind vocalist received the 2,402nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on March 2. To raise funds for earthquake relief in Haiti, he and Mary J. Blige, a recipient...
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Top conductor Shao-chia Lu to conduct at National Concert Hall
Famous conductor Shao-chia Lu will conduct two completely different concerts at the National Concert Hall in Taipei on March 13 with pianist Kun Woo Paik and on March 19 with percussionist Martin Grubinger.
Lu is the new music director of Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra. He won first prize at three major competitions of conducting, Besan?on, Trento and the Kondrashin Young Conductors Competition in Amsterdam. He also served as General Music Director of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonic Koblenz and the Koblenz Theater, and later of the Staatsoper Hannover.
On March 13, he will first conduct Spirits on the Tip of Toes...
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Zhongshan MRT Station enlivened with art installations
Photo courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art
A band performs in front of the BIGPOW
music player installation in the linear park of
Zhongshan MRT Station
Passersby hurrying through Taipei's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system may slow down a bit when they encounter the fascinating artworks newly installed in the linear park which runs on the ground level around Zhongshan Station.
Datong District is a place where you find a harmonious mixture of historic buildings and modern art,” said Hsieh Hsiao-yun, the newly-appointed Commissioner of Department of Cultural Affairs for Taipei City, in an unveiling ceremony held March 7....
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Kuo Wei-fan is the new NTCH chairperson
Photo courtesy of National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural
Center
Kuo Wei-fan, right, the new NTCH
chairperson, with Tchen Yu-chiou, left, the
outgoing chair, and Cheng Tseng-ming, the
Vice Minister of Education, in a ceremony
held in Taipei yesterday.
Kuo promises to continue to respect the system in NTCH
Kuo Wei-fan, former Minister of Education, took the oath as the new chairperson for the National Theatre and Concert Hall yesterday.
Kuo said he considered himself a stable reformer when he served as Minister of Education from 1993 to 1996. Before that, he was the minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs...
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Violinist Mutter to hold a master class in Taiwan on April 13
Photo courtesy of The Management of New Arts
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter plans to hold
the first master class in Taiwan on April 14.
World-renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is scheduled to hold four concerts in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung April 9-14 and to have a master class in Taiwan for the first time to discover potential music talent.
Mutter will select eight finalists before her classical music festival organized by the Management of New Arts (MNA) and sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Taiwan, and then give them one-on-one instruction in the class on April 13.
This is a great opportunity for Taiwan's young...
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