14th International CHIME Conference

Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past

Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), Brussels, Belgium
18-22 November 2009

It will be hold as part of the 2009-2010 edition of the Belgian Europalia festival, which will be devoted entirely to Chinese music and culture during a period of four months. For CHIME, there will be an impressive programme with over 60 presentations supplemented with many concert performances and workshops.

Regarding the guqin, here is a preliminary list of related conferences:

1. DING Chengyun and FU Lina on Origins, reconstruction and development of the ancient se zither and its music
2. BONVINI, Luca on Transcription of Western Modal Music for Guqin
3. CHOW, Shuen-Git Natasha on Digital Guqin Museum: Preservation, promotion and development of the guqin through an online immersive virtual world - Secondlife
4. DYDO, Stephen on Tang melodies in Contemporary Performance
5. MAEDER, Marion on Giving in to Modernity, Past and Humour - Traditional Guqin Music Today
6. ROBERTS, Jeffrey on Li Xiangting and Guqin Improvisation: New Direction or Recreation of an Ancient Tradition?
7. YANG Yuanzheng on Demystifying the Golden Age Craftsmanship of Qin Making

Of course, there will be a guqin concert, scheduled for the evening of Nov 18th, including: Ding Chengyun and Fu Lina who will play unheard-of duets for qin and se; Lin Chen (disciple of Lin Youren) who will play classical pieces as well as newly composed qin songs accompanied by singer Gong Linna and Wang Hua on bamboo flute; Liu Xing who will play qin repertoire on zhongruan; and Luca Bonvini performing John Coltrane on qin.

Read details about registration, accomodation and final programme at CHIME's website