“Qin Yue Time and Space”, the original chamber music by the South China University of Technology (SCUT)

 2 November 2021, the Tenth Chinese - ASEAN Music Festival was held in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, for 5 days, including 11 elaborate concerts and 2 summit fora. The School of Arts of SCUT was invited to this music festival and performed a concert.

 In the morning of November 3, the dean of School of Arts LIANG Jun made a speech in the first summit forum, introducing the education situation of the SCUT School of Arts, and the concept of encouraging original compositions as development engine, to produce new effect of Lingnan music with modern music language, and also the pieces in “Qin Yue Time and Space”, composed by SCUT School of Arts composers, as well as other Lingnan style works.

Dean LIANG Jun making speech at the summit forum

 Dean LIANG mentioned, for the school, the thoughts of education and production are inseparable. The educational policies need the involvement of fine production team and performing group to efficiently allocate talents and funds to constantly promote original compositions. In the new century, the composer group of the school rearranged traditional music elements into various forms and textures by diversified compositional techniques, producing completely new sound effects. Professor MI Heping, BAI Ling, ZHANG Xiao Feng at the school presented at the summit forum.

Photo taken at the summit forum

 In the afternoon of November 4, the concert of SCUT School of Arts Chamber Orchestra was performed. The production of the chamber music suite “Qin Yue Time and Space” launched in 2017, when the school was invited to the Fourth “Silk Road” International Arts Festival by the Ministry of Culture and Shaanxi People’s Government, and the production was performed successfully at the Xi’an Concert Hall and the concert hall of Xi’an Conservatory. In 2019 the production successfully received financial aid from National Art Foundation Small-Scale Program and Production project.

 Leading and caring by the party committee of the school, everyone of the faculty and students united together to collaborate and rehearse intensely for over a month, and eventually offered a high-level artistic bouquet to the audience from local and overseas in the best shape.

Operation mobilization before departure

Rehearsing

 The splendid performance touched around a thousand of audience and received long lasting applause, as well as great acclaim from experts and the audience.

Performing

 As introduced, Chinese - ASEAN Music Festival was established in 2012. It is developed to one of the largest and influential music festival in China, and successfully promoted the exchange, communication, and development of music in China, ASEAN, and the world.