Chen Yi’s Olympic Fire was commissioned by the KT Wong Foundation and the BBC to celebrate the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Premiering at the Royal Albert Hall for the world famous BBC Proms, this unique piece integrated contemporary Western styles with Chinese folk song. A 15-minute piece charged with energy, Olympic Fire fuses intonations of Chinese [...]
Read moreIn 2011 the KT Wong Foundation supported a series of performances in Beijing and Shanghai by the world-renowned Academy of Ancient Music. The orchestra performed the Brandenburg Concertos at Shanghai’s Music Hall and featured acclaimed soprano Sumi Jo at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. The warm response reinforced the Foundation’s goal to encourage [...]
Read moreIn 2011 the KT Wong Foundation initiated its Theatre and Performing Arts Management programme. Giving a unique opportunity for candidates to work with the Foundation on one of its projects, the Programme offers applicants real life experience working with leading talent from across the arts and cultural industries. Working directly with the Foundation’s core team, candidates [...]
Read moreIn 2012, the Foundation in collaboration with the Beijing Music Festival invited one of the most dynamic young British conductors, Nicholas Chalmers to lead a masterclass at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with young conductors and musicians. Enabling young conductors and musicians the opportunity to work and study with leading talent from across [...]
Read moreTo commemorate the historic exhibition ‘Passion For Porcelain: Masterpieces of Ceramics’ in Beijing, the KT Wong Foundation commissioned world-renowned Ceramic Designer, Peter Ting, to create a remarkable series of Chargers. Inspired by early 19th century Cantonese botanical drawings from the Natural History Museum’s Reeves Collection,Ting created Chrysanthemum and Peony Chargers that offer a symbolic gesture to match the historical grandeur [...]
Read moreThe KT Wong Foundation is proud to announce In Conversation, a new and dynamic platform initiating critical, cross-cultural dialogue with leading figures from the international arts and cultural industries. The Foundation will host In Conversation exclusively, here at ktwong.org. You can view exclusive interviews with Martin Roth, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, [...]
Read moreFollowing the success of the KT Wong Foundation’s 2008 summit at Ditchley Park, in 2010 the Foundation co-chaired its second international summit with Phoenix Television and the China Arts Foundation. This coincided with the 13th Beijing Music Festival. While in 2008 the debate centred on the need for increased mutual understanding between China and the [...]
Read moreIn November 2008, the KT Wong Foundation participated in the inaugural Sino-European Cultural Summit at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire. The summit was supported by one of China’s leading broadcasters, Phoenix Television, and was devised as a high-level, confidential forum for leaders of the most prestigious arts and cultural institutions in China, the UK and the EU. [...]
Read moreThe Red Star Baroque Circle was established in 2009 to give form to the KT Wong Foundation’s vision that the introduction, and flourishing, of baroque music in China will be an experience that the Chinese can call their own. Through the Red Star Baroque Circle, talented and promising music graduates from China are benefiting from interacting with some [...]
Read moreOn the 27th August 2012 the KT Wong Foundation presented Ole Scheeren's Archipelago Cinema - a floating auditorium that formed part of the official selection of collateral projects in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition. An evocative outdoor theatre located within the old harbour basin Darsena Grande of the Arsenale, Venice’s historic shipyard, Scheeren's Archipelago Cinema was opened [...]
Read moreShao Fan’s eloquent transformation of the space at Chelsea resonates with the core aims of the KT Wong Foundation: projecting China’s rich, historically informed culture through the lens of modernity. The garden offers a platform for Western audiences to engage with Chinese culture. In I Dream, I Seek My Garden, the resurgence of Chinese culture is [...]
Read moreLady Davies hosted an evening in honour of Lang Lang’s performance with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican Centre. To celebrate both the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s residency at the Barbican this February, and its concert accompanying Lang Lang, Lady Davies and Barbican Director Nicholas Kenyon co-hosted an evening of festivities. As a board member of the Lang Lang International Music […]
Read moreAn evening in honour of Robert Wilson to celebrateEinstein on the Beach at the Barbican Centre. In May, the Barbican Centre in London presented the seminal production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. To commemorate this remarkable occasion, Lady Davies hosted a dinner in honour of Robert Wilson with guests including Philip Glass, […]
Read moreThis June, audiences in Beijing had their first opportunity to watch Danny Boyle’s critically acclaimed Frankenstein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. The KT Wong Foundation joined forces with National Theatre Live to facilitate two exclusive screenings of this hugely successful production in Chinese from 29 June – 30 June at the Beijing MOMA Broadway Cinema, the first and […]
Read moreThe KT Wong Foundation are delighted to announce their dynamic co-production of Benjamin Britten’s children’s opera Noye’s Fludde is to appear at the 15th Beijing Music Festival. In addition to the production itself, Noye’s Fludde’s star conductor Nicholas Chalmers will also lead a one off masterclass exploring the score behind Britten’s extraordinary children’s Opera. The […]
Read moreTonight, the story of Chinese pianist Lang Lang will be broadcast on BBC ONE as part of the ‘Imagine’ series. Do or Die: Lang Lang’s Story, has been executive produced by Lady Linda Wong Davies together with Alan Yentob and Jan Younghusband. In the film, Yentob examines Lang Lang’s life and career from child prodigy to global […]
Read moreThe Foundation are delighted to announce the second screening of the National Theatre’s Frankenstein in China. Featuring on the 2nd December 2012 at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, this second screening follows Frankenstein’s Chinese debut, earlier in the year in Beijing. An immediate sell out, the Beijing screenings generated unprecedented press and social media coverage and quickly became the […]
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