About this Event
The Silk Concert: Based in London, The Silk Concerts is a classical concert series which features ‘East-West fusion’at its core, promoting cross-cultural communication through music. In the name of ‘The Silk Road’- where the earliest music and cultural transmission from the East to the West was accomplished, contemporary musicians have explored the new energy of classical music through cross-cultural fusion.
Over the past three years, Silk Concerts has presented a series of performances in London's historic churches and notable music venues with local and internationally acclaimed musicians.
Programme:
●By the Waterside 在水一方
Lyric: Yao Qiong
Music: Jiaqin Lin
[Chinese Art Song]
●Chrysanthemum Terrace 菊花台
Lyric: Vincent Fang
Music: Jay Chou
Arrangement: Shengzhao Jiang
[Adapted Chinese Popular Music]
●Ode to the Pear Blossom 梨花又开放
Lyric: Feng Zhou
Music: Xiaoqi Ding
Arrangement: Shengzhao Jiang
[Adapted Chinese Popular Music]
●Pusaman·The one 菩萨蛮·小山重叠金明灭
Lyric: Tingyun Wen
Music: Huan Liu
Arrangement: Shengzhao Jiang
[Adapted Chinese Popular Music]
●Autumn Moon on the Calm Lake 平湖秋月
By Wencheng Lu
[Piano Solo]
●Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor(The Maiden and the Nightingale )
from Goyescas suites No.4
By Enrique Granados, 1910
[Piano Solo]
●Art is calling for me from ‘The Enchantress’
by Victor Herbert, 1911
[English Aria]
●Glitter and be Gay from 'Candid'
by Leonard Bernstein, 1956
[English Aria]
●Care Compagne from ‘La Sonnambula’
[Italian Aria]
by Vincenzo Bellini, 1831
●Villanelle
By Eva Dell’Aqua, 1893
[French Art Song]
●Qingyu'an · The night of the Lantern Festival 青玉案·元夕
Lyric: Qiyi Xin
Music: Yan Li
[Chinese Art Song]
Performers:
Soprano: Shengzhao Jiang 江圣昭
ShengzhaoJiang, award-winning coloratura soprano, founder of Silk Concerts and a holder of UK Global Talent Visa. She studied at the University of Sheffield for her Master’s degree and received offer for second master’s degree at the Royal College of Music. She studies with “a Laureate of the Tchaikovsky International Competition” - Russian America Soprano Svetlana Strezeva and acted as her teaching assistant.
Shengzhao has won multiple international prizes, performed at the BRICS Xiamen International Summit, given concerts in China and the UK, her East-West fusion Concert has been supported by the Chinese Embassy in the UK and has been featured on New York Weekly and Artists Weekly.
Piano: Blake Huang 黄家燚
Blake Huang started learning piano since the age of five. He studied at the University of Melbourne under Coady Green and Kenji Fujimura for Bachelor's degree, and completed his postgraduate education at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama under Graham Caskie and MeiYi Foo.
Blake shares a particular passion for Franz Liszt and Alexander Scriabin's music, and is now focusing more on music from the post-romantic era, he’s performance on the Liszt repertoire was highly complimented by Leslie Howard. Recent awards including The Gilbert Prize for Best Piano Performance of the year 2024,Ida Phillips Scholarship Awards 2022-2024,First Prize of Liszt Youth Piano Competition of Yunnan district in 2020.
Piano: Michael Xu 徐浩洲
Michael Xu started learning the piano at the age of three under the tutelage of Yifan Liu, who was the first Chinese national to win the Chopin Competition after the cultural revolution. Michael studied under Christine Stevenson within the Royal College of Music’s junior department after moving to the UK, he graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied under Prof Frank Wibaut.
Michael enjoyed various success in local and national competitions and music festivals, with solo performances in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, Sussex Gardens, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
