Lady Linda Wong Davies is the founder of the ground-breaking KT Wong Foundation and through the Foundation, a producer whose wide-ranging credits include a
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Heralded as the “hottest artist on the classical music planet” by the New York Times, the star, Lang Lang has played sold out recitals and concerts in
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Born in 1965 in Henan Province, Zhang Huan is considered the leading artist in China’s new wave art movement. He emerged at the forefront of Chinese cont
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Shao Fan is one of the first Chinese artists to explore the boundaries between visual art and design. Born into a renowned Beijing artist family in 1964, S
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As director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1997 to 2004 and more recently chairman of Made in China, Philip Dodd was one of the first figures
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, Sir Daniel Barenboim studied piano under his father and gave his first public concert at age seven. In 1952 the family moved
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In 1999 Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said were invited by the Kunstfest Weimar to create a workshop for young musician
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Liu Changle graduated from China Communications University in the early 1980s and joined China National Radio, with which he has worked as a reporter, ed
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The Academy of Ancient Music is one of the world’s great orchestras. It enriches the lives of a global audience of music lovers, with recordings and conc
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German-born and Beijing-based Ole Scheeren is principal of Buro Ole Scheeren and an internationally celebrated architect and visiting professor at Hong Kon
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George Benjamin is one of the outstanding composers of his generation. Born in 1960, Benjamin started to play the piano at the age of seven, and began co
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Jude Kelly is the artistic director of Britain’s largest cultural institution, the Southbank Centre, and is chair of culture, ceremonies and education at
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The designer Han Feng is sought after not only for her clothing and accessorie,s but also for her costume and exhibition designs. She was revered for her w
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The history of La Monnaie in a nutshell: 1695 : Gio Paolo Bombarda, owner of the theatre at the Hooikaai, banker and financial counsellor to Maximilian II
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Les Talens Lyriques is a baroque orchestra founded in 1991 by French conductor Christophe Rousset. In choosing the name, the conductor attested to his pass
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As director of the Central Conservatory of Music, Gao has helped the national leading musical institution in China to cater to all levels, from primary-lev
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Sir Nicholas Kenyon was director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007 and became managing director of the Barbican Centre in October 2007. He was a music cri
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Korean lyric coloratura soprano Sumi Jo (born Jo Su-gyeong) made her professional recital debut at university. Her professional operatic debut came soon af
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Phoenix Television is a Hong Kong-based Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese television broadcaster that serves the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, along wit
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Yu Long was born into a family of musicians in Shanghai and received his education from both the Shanghai Music Conservatory and Hochschule der Kunst in
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