by China West Midlands | Dec 7, 2020
A digital release “Our music cannot escape our lives, or the social and political environment we live in” says composer Huang Ruo. And in fact, A Dust in Time is a musical meditation on the current pandemic and how it has affected our...
by China West Midlands | Oct 18, 2020
Surge’s Artistic Director Sid Peacock explains: “In 2014 I travelled to China for a week’s residency with the Chongqing Chuanju Opera Troupe, supported by the British Council and PRSF. The experience was incredible and I longed to bring the Chuanju musicians to the...
by China West Midlands | Feb 28, 2018
Last night the Xiaoshuijing Farmers’ Chorus sang in Symphony Hall, accompanied either by accordions or piano. They were 50 farmers of the Miao ethnic minority based at their church in Yunnan province who have been passed through the generations the tradition of...
by China West Midlands | Jan 9, 2018
Di Xiao (肖荻), a classical piano soloist from China, has been named one of Birmingham City University’s Alumni of the Year. She will receive her award on Tuesday 9 January in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in the presence of hundreds of graduands and their families....
by China West Midlands | Jul 9, 2017
What began in 1985 as the Birmingham International Jazz Festival spread its wings last year to include one of the city’s neighbours, Solihull, and this year has added another, Sandwell. This has, of course, resulted in a boom number of events in what has always...
by China West Midlands | Jun 10, 2017
On 16th May, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra performed in Birmingham Symphony Hall in their first UK Tour as part of their 60th anniversary year. Birmingham and Guangzhou are sister cities and the Orchestra celebrated the growing connections between the cities with...
