HIGHLIGHTS
Like many arts organizations, we are facing a very challenging funding environment. Any donation is much appreciated! Click here to go to our donations page, or learn about a fun way to become a backer of this year's QiXi production by clicking on the QiXi image below!
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Enter our Drawing to Win!Round trip Main Cabin Air Transportation to Shanghai or Beijing for two, courtesy of American Airlines will be raffled at the Qi Xi After Party. You do not need to be present to win! Raffle tickets are just $10 each or 3/$25 and can be purchased at our online store or by calling 312-369-3197.
Free Registration ending on July 31!
CFAS is pleased to announce its Third International Music Composition Competition, “Migratory Journeys.” Prizes will be awarded to composers who create new works inspired by the wandering, resettling, and emigration of Chinese diaspora population through the world. First prize Professional division: $3500, Student division: $500. Click here for links to information and competition guidelines and to register. After free registration ends on July 31, a $25 registration fee will apply.
QiXi: A Chinese Love Story
We are honored that Millennium Park has asked CFAS to reprise QiXi: A Chinese Love Story, our traveling performance which made its debut in July, 2009. This year's performance will be presented August 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm, beginning at Cloud Gate. Adler Planetarium will present companion programming for this year's event. Read more...
Music Festival in Honor of Confucius
This is our annual music performance competition open to young classical musicians of all cultural backgrounds from the greater Chicago area. The 2010 MFHC will be take place at Sherwood Community Music School at Columbia College Chicago on October 24, 2010. The new repertoire listing is here!
The Chinese Fine Arts Society (CFAS) was founded in 1984 as a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the education and promotion of the Chinese cultural arts.
Chicago Sinfonietta – West Meets East on October 4th
Erhu Solist Betti Xiang
The Chicago Sinfonietta is offering visitors of this web site a 30% discount to attend their opening concert of the season – West Meets East on October 4 at 2:30pm.
The nation’s most diverse symphony orchestra, The Chicago Sinfonietta, proudly marks the start of its 23rd season with West Meets East. Guest conductor Maestro Mei-Ann Chen, currently Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, shares the podium with Maestro Paul Freeman as the romantic impressionism of Europe meets the striking music of Asia. Joined by the young Chicago piano virtuoso Jeremy Jordan and Chicago Erhu soloist Betti Xiang.
Guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen, a native of Taiwan, is one of America’s most exciting and promising young conductors. She was the first woman to win the Malko international conductors Competition in 2005. Having recently concluded a highly successful tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony, she has accepted a one-year appointment as Assistant Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony, beginning in the fall of 2009.
Jeremy Jordan is a twenty-year-old junior at the Juilliard School. After winning the Steinway Piano Concerto Competition at the age of 15, Jordan made his orchestral debut in May 2006 with the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra. Jordan first performed with the Chicago Sinfonietta in 2007 at the age of 17. He has received gold medals at numerous competitions; and is a recipient of the National Achievement Award, National Merit Award, and Commended Student Award of the National Merit Program.
Erhu Virtuoso Betti Xiang was born in Shanghai, China where her father, Xiang Zuying, a renowned Erhu master, first introduced her to the Erhu. After she moved to Chicago, Xiang has performed with Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble, Lincoln String Quartet, Amelia Piano Trio, Early Music Mixed Ensemble, and CUBE Ensemble. She also performed at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Kimmel Center and the Smithsonian Institute and Millennium Park.
The Chicago Sinfonietta will present this program on Sunday, October 4, 2009, at 2:30 p.m., at Lund Auditorium, Dominican University, 7900 West Division Street in River Forest, and Monday, October 5, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago.