50 years of music and friendship is the title of the concert that the Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra will give next Sunday at 10 p.m. in the central courtyard of the Centro Cultural Conde Duque, as part of the Veranos de la Villa festival in Madrid.
The Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra, a subsidiary of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra founded in 2011 and the first youth music ensemble in China to be organised and managed by a professional orchestra, is visiting Madrid for the first time.
Under the orchestral direction of Jing Huan and with the famous Wang Jian as cello soloist, its more than one hundred members will perform a programme in which Chinese and Spanish music will share the limelight. The evening will open with Metrópolis, an orchestral tour de force brimming with lyricism and rhythmic vitality by the composer Zhou Tian; and Reflet d’un temps disparu, Concerto for cello and orchestra by Chen Qiqang to, after the intermission, give way to Suites No. 1 and No. 2 from Manuel de Falla’s Tres sombreros de copa.
And this concert celebrates 50 years of diplomatic relations between China and Spain, which began back in March 1973. Since then, both countries have developed a stable framework of relations and cooperation in the institutional, cultural and economic spheres.
This concert is organised by the Guangzhou Symphony Youth Orchestra and Wu Promotion, with the collaboration of the Centro cultural de China in Madrid. Tickets for the concert can be purchased at this link.
