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Musician, audiences see experimental spirit in Belt & Road festival
    2019-03-07  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Yang Mei

yangmei_szdaily@163.com

THIRD time’s the charm. Russian violinist Gleb Dontsov believes the 2019 Shenzhen Belt & Road International Music Festival, which will be heading into its third year March 24, will be even more appealing than ever as it will offer the audiences a dazzling mixture of different musical elements.

Dontsov came to Shenzhen in 1998 and served as a concertmaster with Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra until 2005.

In the eyes of Dontsov, this year’s music festival is all about experimenting. “This year is gonna be a little bit different. I can see the ideas of the organizers. It has a lot of experimental things almost everywhere and in every concert,” he said. “For example, the Italian flutist will be playing Antonio Lucio Vivaldi and Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla, trying to mix the 18th century and the mid 20th century. And also Brazilian folk music will be performed in a more classical way.”

The musician told Shenzhen Daily that such experiments have become a trend in the music circle and have proved to be very popular in an age when classical music is “in crisis.”

“I went to a couple of concerts in Moscow not long ago. One time the violinists played Dmitri Shostakovich’s preludes for violin and piano while a TV series actor read novels. They fit very well together, trying to connect different things into one performance,” he said.

Speaking of his expectations for the upcoming event, Dontsov said he is very curious to see how the experiment will work. “Any experiment is not necessarily very successful, but it’s interesting that people are trying to do that,” he said, adding that he expects some of them will be successful.

Dontsov said he will go to see the Andrea Griminelli & Solisti Filarmonici Italiani concert, which is scheduled for April 11 at Shenzhen Concert Hall, and the Quinta Essentia Quartet concert April 12 at Nanshan Culture and Sports Center.

He said if his schedule permits he will probably go to see the Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra on April 2 and 3 and see the collaboration between Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and Macao Orchestra on April 13, in which “An Alpine Symphony” written by German composer Richard Strauss will be played. Both of the concerts will take place at Shenzhen Concert Hall.

Du Qian, who co-founded a violin studio with Dontsov on the second floor of Shenzhen Concert Hall, shares similar feelings with her partner towards the coming concert. “This year’s music festival will offer more new musical elements and audiences will be able to see some crossovers,” she said, “I will go to see the Cleveland Orchestra to see what American orchestras are like since I often see top European orchestras invited to perform at the concert hall.”

Liao Wei, mother of a 6-year-old violin learner, said she looks forward to the Freiburger Barockorchester Concert Opera Mozart Don Giovanni on April 1 at Shenzhen Concert Hall as it is the opera’s very first time being featured in the music festival. Besides, Liao told Shenzhen Daily that she will bring her son to see the Great Britain’s Music Prodigy Alma Deutscher Concert and Seminar on March 27, one of the highlights of the festival, at Shenzhen Concert Hall, in hopes of getting some inspiration.

The 2019 Belt & Road Shenzhen International Music Festival will open March 24 and run through April 14, with 21 high-end concerts performed by over 800 prominent artists from more than 40 countries and regions around the world, announced the Shenzhen Municipal Government at a news conference Jan. 26.

Lasting for 22 days, the concerts will be held at major theaters in the city at affordable prices.

For more ticket and festival information, residents can follow the official WeChat account, “深圳一带一路国际音乐季” (WeChat ID: szbrmf), or visit the website, http://www.szbrmf.org.

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