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China Now Music Festival Concerts
China Now 2019: China and America — Unity in Music
The Orchestra Now and soloists perform Zhou Long’s Men of Iron and the Golden Spike at Stanford University, Bing Concert Hall, 10.06.2019
Wellington Koo: A Life in Song performed at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 9.2. 2019
Student Performances
Bard Music Connects: Music in the Time of Social Distancing
Yixin Wang of Bard's US-China Music Institute performs Eternal Sorrow of Lin'an on guzheng from her home.
Guzheng Student Sibei Wang practices at Bard in late winter 2020.
Jinou plays the pipa.
Beitong plays the erhu.
Yuling plays the ruan.
Bard Chinese Ensemble WINTER CONCERT, December 2019
Dunhuang performed by Bard US-China Music Institute students and teachers
Plum Blossoms played by guzheng students at the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Student demo and performance at Bard’s Olin Hall, May 2019
Moon Reflected on Second Spring Performed by Students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Bird Chirping on The Tranquil Mountain and Northern Folk Song: Tears of the River
Community Engagement: Concerts, Classes, and Lectures
Professor Jindong Cai talks about Chinese music, with performances on Pipa (琵琶) and Ruan (阮) by musicians from the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Beginner guqin students at China Institute discuss their experience learning to play this ancient instrument. Music at China Institute 华美音乐 is a collaborative program with Bard College’s US-China Music Institute
Music at China Institute 华美音乐 master guqin teacher Dr. Mingmei Yip talks about her beginning guqin class.
Annual Conferences: Talks and Performances
A quqin concert at the US-China Music Institute conference, “Harmony and Power Conference: The Role of Music in the Cultivation of the Literati in Ancient China" held at Bard College in March 2018.
Recital at the conference "Harmony and Power: The Role of Music in the Cultivation of the Literati in Ancient China" held at Bard College in March 2018.
US-China Music Institute in the Press
The U.S.-China Music Institute of the Bard College-Conservatory of Music in New York hosts an annual event meant to introduce contemporary music of China
More than 50 Chinese students made their debut as the Bard Youth Chinese Orchestra (BYCO) at Bard College in New York's Upper Hudson Valley
In partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China) the U.S.-China Music Institute presents a concert at Bard College