Beijing Music Festival

Name: Beijing Music Festival
Address: 6 Ritan Road, Sunjoy Mansion, Suite 401, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020, CN
Telephone: 86(0)106593 0250

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Founded in 1998, Beijing Music Festival (BMF) has become one of the world's leading music festivals

Founded in 1998 by Maestro Long Yu, The Beijing Music Festival (BMF) is the premier event in China's cultural calendar and one of the leading classical music festivals in the world. The festival presents 30 concerts every October, offering a wide variety of classical and jazz music including opera, orchestral, chamber, solo, and choral concerts. BMF also hosts master classes, community outreach co

ncerts, children's concerts, and educations activities. Notable performers who have appeared at the festival include Martha Argerich, Pinchas Zukerman, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Emmanuel Ax, Murray Perahia, Maxim Vengerov, Christoph Eschenbach, Tan Dun, Kathleen Battle, Jose Carreras, Sarah Chang, Augustin Dumay, Valery Gergiev, Mischa Maisky, Krzysztof Penderecki, Issac Stern, Melvyn Tan, Fou Ts'ong, the Kodály Quartet, and the New London Consort. The Festival has always been active in commissioning and presenting premieres of new works by great Chinese and international composers, and many works of the Western classical music canon had their Asian premieres at BMF. Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake, which was co-commissioned with Opera Boston, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2011. The Foundation also presented the world premiere of Ye Xiaogang’s opera, Song of Farewell (texted by Sun Gexuan) and the sensational China premiere of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony of a Thousand”). In the opening concert of the 13th Beijing Music Festival, the Foundation commissioned Howard Shore for a new piano concerto commemorating the bicentennial of Chopin’s Birth. Entitled “Ruin and Memory” and performed by Lang Lang, this work received its world premiere at the festival.

24/10/2025

The great Hayato Sumino in recital - October 21👏👏

21/10/2025

A selection of East-West classics, including "Seven Chinese Folk Songs" and a lovely rendition of Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major, were recently performed in a hall set within the grounds of the Temple of Heaven in downtown Beijing.

21/10/2025

Wonderful memories from Sunday’s concert at the Forbidden City Concert Hall featuring iconic Mikhail Pletnev alongside the brilliant Tianxu An and the electrifying Rachmaninoff International Orchestra led by Kirill Karabits.

20/10/2025

One of the highlights of the 28th BMF, Alban Berg’s revolutionary modern opera masterpiece “Wozzeck” was given its China premiere on the stage of the Poly Theater on October 18th.

The performance was presented by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Charles Dutoit on the podium and an all-star cast of singers and production staff. Johan Simons directed.

The performance was a perfect blend of music and stage production, making the audience shout and applaud for several minutes after the show ended. The performance marks a new milestone for the Beijing Music Festival in the history of modern opera in China.

15/10/2025

"The English Concert, under the baton of conductor Harry Bicket, took to the stage of the 28th Beijing Music Festival on Tuesday evening, delivering a passionate performance of George Frideric Handel's operatic masterpiece "Rinaldo." This unforgettable and dazzling Baroque extravaganza transported the audience in the Chinese capital into a legendary world woven with heroism and captivating arias, serving as a tribute to commemorate the 340th anniversary of German-born English composer Handel's birth."

The English Concert, under the baton of conductor Harry Bicket, took to the stage of the 28th Beijing International Music Festival on Tuesday evening, delivering a passionate performance of George Frideric Handel's operatic masterpiece "Rinaldo."

15/10/2025

Just 2 days until the China premiere of Berg’s “Wozzeck” - one of the most searing, modernist operas ever written—an explosive fusion of expressionism, psychological realism, and musical innovation. October 18th with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - 上海交响乐团 and Charles Dutoit.

12/10/2025

Congratulations to the Jino Young Musicians - recipients of this year’s BMF Young Artist Award. These young talents gave the world premiere performance of the newly-commissioned Du Yun work “The Ocean Etched in the Forest”. How proud we all are of them!

11/10/2025

Such a pleasure to have Du Yun back again at BMF to premiere her new music theatre show “The Ocean Etched in the Forest”, co-directed by Julian Crouch . We are delighted to be co-commissioning the piece with Lincoln Center and to celebrate our diverse tradition through music. And thanks to CUSEF for organizing today’s wonderful preshow talk!

Over the past several years, Du Yun and her collaborator Julian Crouch have worked closely with artists of the Jino ethnicity from Yunnan province, including He Guiying, the national inheritor of his people’s unique heritage. Living almost entirely isolated from urban society until 1979, the Jinuo people have maintained their distinct culture and ecologically grounded mindset amid modernization. In collaboration with Du Yun and Crouch, Guiying has been recording Jino children in Bapiao Village as they perform nearly forgotten local folk songs. These recordings, merged with music from Du Yun’s band OK MISS, represent an original musical tapestry that transcends time and geography, highlighting the intersections of ancient tradition and modern methodology, folk tales and contemporary storytelling, generations living and gone.

11/10/2025

Opening Concert of the 28th BMF on October 10th - featuring the China Philharmonic Orchestra led by Maestro Long Yu with star soloist Haochen Zhang.
The program featured two iconic Russian works: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5.

Address

6 Ritan Road, Sunjoy Mansion, Suite 401, Chaoyang District
Beijing
100020

Telephone

86(0)106593 0250

Website

http://www.bmf.org.cn/

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