Second International Music Week

November 17, 2008 by Nina Cheng
Filed under Stage Events

In the spring of 2005, TCG Nordica held a successful Nordic- Yunnan Jazz/Contemporary music week. It involved 11 high standard musicians from three Nordic countries. They presented a number of concerts and lectures to the audience in Kunming within a week. The success was great and the audience was satisfied. The music was of high quality and originated from the countries of Grieg, Sibelius, ABBA and Roxette.
As a continuation of last music week, TCG Nordica was holding the second International Music Week from November 24 to 30 2008. It was once again a cooperation with Yunnan Art Institute, that invited 12 excellent musicians from 6 western countries. The music fans in Kunming got a chance to enjoy both classic music and pop, especially music presented by the most famous Norwegian cellist, Aage Kvalbein who has been the top cellist in Europe in recent decades. Also a Miao Choir and local musicians performed on stage with a Danish soprano, Marianne G Nilsson. The Danish conductor Nenia Zenana conducted the choir. TCG Nordica presented a music event that could comfort the hearts of the audience with excellent singers and musicians. At the time, we offered various concerts, master classes, lectures and exchanges.
FORWARD
The year of 2008 is unforgettable in many ways. It brought along many natural disasters. The Olympic Games showed the beauty of human power and wisdom. The economic crisis washed away the world’s confidence. All things that can make us feel a mix of excitement and desolation. We realize that life is uncontrollable. Even though, we still keep the good wishes and hope for the future days.
Music is a special grace from the creator. It flows without a visible shape, it can wash away worries, and please our souls, bring comfort in sadness, and also stimulate our spirits. The most amazing thing about it is that music can cross over the differences of cultural barriers, edifying humans with different languages and religions. In addition, it is a part of human hearts, which are sublime and in the godly beauty above the physical world.
In the spring of 2005, TCG Nordica has held a successful Nordic-Yunnan Jazz/Contemporary music week. It involved 11 excellent musicians from three Nordic countries. They gave many concerts and lectures to the Kunming audiences for a week.
As a continuation from the last music week, and in the important year of 2008, TCG Nordica cooperates with Yunnan Art Institute again, and invited 12 excellent musicians from 6 Western Countries. Meanwhile, a Miao Choir and local musicians will perform with them on the stage. At the time, the music fans would get chances of enjoying the high quality concerts, lectures, master classes and result of music exchanges. Through this music week and based according to our vision stimulating reflection on human worth as expressed in various Arts Forms, we wish it can move our hearts and souls, so that they can receive the peace and joy. In the end, their eyes rise upon to the area where is above the disasters whatever produced by nature or human beings.
We send our appreciation to all the participants who have involved in the preparation period and further facilitation! Special thanks to teachers of the foreign affairs office and the music department of Yunnan Arts Institute; teacher Liao Qiyu and students from Yunnan Wen Hua Art Institute, the Miao Choir she has helped for long time. The music week would not be possible without their selfless contributions!

Wu Yue Rong
The General Manager of TCG Nordica

Schedule
Monday, November 24
Lecture with Christian Studler
8pm Flute Concert at Yunnan Arts Institute Concert Hall: “From the French flute tradition to the modern time”
Christian Studler (Switzerland), flute
Belle James (United States), piano

Tuesday, November 25
Flute master class at Yunnan Arts Institute, Christian Studler
8pm The Loch Ness Mouse (Norway) concert at Yuan Sheng Fang
Price: 40RMB/person

Wednesday, November 26
Flute master class at Yunnan Arts Institute, Christian Studler
8pm The Loch Ness Mouse (Norway) concert at TCG Nordica
Price: 40RMB/person Tel :4114691 4114692

Thursday, November 27
Flute master class at Yunnan Arts Institute, Christian Studler
8pm Cello Concert at Yunnan Arts Institute Concert Hall
Aage Kvalbein (Norway), cello
Pascal Salomon (France), piano
Grieg, Sammartini, Sommerfeldt

Friday, November 28
Chamber music master class at Yunnan Arts Institute, Aage Kvalbein
Piano master class at Yunnan Arts Institute, Pascal Salomon
8pm HIV/AIDS benefit concert at TCG Nordica
Price: 50RMB(Adult) 25RMB(Student) 15RMB(Children)
Musicians:
The Loch Ness Mouse, Aage Kvalbein, Pascal Salomon, Christian Studler, Belle James, Marianne G. Nielsen, Nenia Zenana, Mari Salli and the Kunming Dong Dong Qing Miao People Tang Yiling .

Saturday, November 29
8pm HIV/AIDS benefit concert at TCG Nordica
Price: 50RMB (Adult) 25RMB(Student) 15RMB(Children)
Musicians:
The Loch Ness Mouse, Aage Kvalbein, Pascal Salomon, Marianne G. Nielsen, Nenia Zenana, Mari Salli and the Kunming Dong Dong Qing Miao Peopleâ€™s Choirï¼Œ Tang Yiling ï¼Œoboe

Sunday, November 30
7:30pm Choir Concert at the International Trinity Church
Kunming Dong Dong Qing Miao Peopleâ€™s Choir
Marianne G. Nielsen, soprano
Liao Qiyu, soprano
Zhang Mingyue, bass
Gao Chang, alto
Nenia Zenana, conductor
Mari Salli, piano
Huang Shan, erhu
Tang Yiling ï¼Œoboe
ADD: Trinity International Church
Mendelssohn, Handel, Chinese music

Tags: Contemporary music week, music week

“Live From Earth”-Carl G Torstenson’s solo exhibition

November 17, 2008 by Zhu Xiaolin
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TCG Nordica-UP Gallery
Opening: 2008.11.24, Monday, 20:00
Duration: 2008.11.24-12.24
tel: 0871-4114962
Add: TCG Nordica, Chuangku, Xibalu 101#, Kunming
www.tcgnordica.com

Carl G Torstenson born in Uppsala Sweden 1948
As an artist he is working with sculpture, painting, and installations, mostly conseptional art or art projects on a theme. In theater and museums he is working with stage design, costumes and more. He started at the theater forty years ago and had his first solo art exhibition in -73.
Since then there have been around fifty solo exhibitions, mostly in Sweden, but also in the USA, Germany, Finland , Japan and Norway.
Since -90 he has worked with his art only and “œmaking rooms” is now in the center.
At first it was mostly impressionistic painting but from the beginning of the eighties the inner rooms slowly took over and the work with the theater and the art of his own was more and more influenced by each other.
He is now working in all materials, often in long time projects, often with existential problems like in the rice project Grow Now ltd that contains questions like who has the right to take patent on living materials, as seeds for example.
Rice is a material that he has bin using since -98 in many installations in various themes. One was about the Iraq war called “This is not a wedding”
Other themes have been “Predestination”, what are we borne to be or how to live and similar questions.
All the exhibitions usually contain both paintings and objects.
Participation in many international projects like Eventa II, III, and V on themes like: Wind, Water and Mankind.
During the year -07 there were many art projects in churches, and the latest was in Nykoping called “To measure what can not be measured”.
Carl G Torstenson has also made many public assignments and then often used sculpture and worked in different materials as a medium.
For the artwork and coming exhibitions in Kunming and Sweden Carl G Torstenson has together with the artist Annika Haglund collected local materials like soil and indigo and other nature materials during a two and a half months journey, all the way by train and bus from Sweden through Mongolia to Beijing, Inner Mongolia and then small mountain villages down to Kunming.

Exhibition in TCG Nordica KUNMING
by Carl G Torstenson

“LIVE FROM EARTH”
The impressions for this exhibition that I have called “LIVE FROM EARTH” comes from the present yourney through Asia together with the artist Annika Haglund
The trip began more than three months ago in Sweden and then we have been traveling with train all the way through Russia , Mongolia , Inner Mongolia, to Beijing and all the way down to Kunming where we are right now and have been working in a studio at TCG Nordica, a fantastic and inspiring place to work at and with so very nice people !
For this artwork, my exhibition in Kunming and also for coming projects in Sweden we have during this long trip collected local materials such as earth in different colors like the deep red Yunnan earth , Indigo blue and other nature materials for to use in the artwork in different ways.
Along the way we have been staying long periods in small villages high up in the mountains and there lived by the minority people. We have seen them working with the earth. Planting and digging, weaving, dying the fabrics and many other things coming from nature. Working hard along the steep mountainsides and there making it possible to grow on the small terraces. Also seen they carry everything they need up and down these mountains.
This project is a tribute for to grow the earth as well as for them who work with the earth and live in symbiosis with nature.
Then there is this question, is it the last generation we now see that is putting there hands in the earth or in the pot of Indigo?
.On the feather way through the Asian countries, that after Kunming goes to Vietnam and Cambodia the plan is to work and do small installations along the way where it is possible. The plan is also then to use local materials.