On the evening of October 26th, the 13th China Music Golden Bell Awards Ceremony and Closing Concert hosted by the Federation of Chinese Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Musicians Association and hosted by the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government was grandly held in Chengdu City Concert Hall.
Li Qianguang, member and vice chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Luo Qiang, vice governor of Sichuan Province, Zhao Jiping, honorary chairman of China Music Association, Ye Xiaogang, vice chairman and chairman of China Music Association, Han Xin ‘an, party secretary and resident vice chairman of China Music Association, Zheng Xiaoxing, chairman of Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Tian Rong, member of the Standing Committee of Chengdu Municipal Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department, and Liu Xuguang, vice mayor of Chengdu, attended the closing ceremony and presented awards to the winners. Some members of the presidium and leadership team of China Music Association, judges of this Golden Bell Award, and relevant leaders of Sichuan Province and Chengdu City were also present at the closing ceremony.
Ye Xiaogang delivered a speech at the closing ceremony, saying that 2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China（CPC） and the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The 13th Golden Bell Award was held at the historical intersection of the “two centennial” goals. Focusing on the overall development of the party’s music industry, the Golden Bell Award made improvements and innovations in selection procedures, competition system processes, stadium accompaniment and other aspects around the goal of fully displaying a new era, new atmosphere and new style. The scientific, professional and artistic nature of the competition has been greatly enhanced. The people-centered work orientation has been adhered to, and the online and offline channels, three-dimensional and media-integrated publicity and promotion efforts have been intensified. The Golden Bell Award has continuously expanded its social influence and enhanced its brand effect. A group of outstanding young musicians stand out, and the new “Golden Bell Star” is rising. They will live up to expectations, shoulder the mission of the times bravely, forge ahead and make dedication, and become a new force to promote the prosperity and development of China’s music industry.
The Golden Bell Award was awarded as “Centenary Annual; grand occasion” was the theme, during which 44 professional events and 8 high-level concerts were presented. After 8 days of competition, 266 contestants decided the top five in piano, vocal music (Bel Canto), vocal music (national) and guzheng.
After the award ceremony, Zhang Guoyong, a famous conductor and vice chairman of the Chinese Music Association, performed the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and together with the judges of this Golden Bell Award, Zhang Ye, Yan Weiwen, Diliber and Shi Yijie, and the contestants Sun Qilin, Tamia Liu, Zhang Mingxu and Cao Zhaozhao who won the first place in four competitions, brought wonderful performances to the audience.
The concert started with Enemy of the Motherland, an excerpt from the opera Andre Chenier performed by Liu Tao, the first winner of this Chinese Golden Bell Music Competition. Subsequently, Zhang Mingxu, the first winner of the Chinese Music Golden Bell Vocal (National) Competition, sang the song Tianlu with deep affection, and Cao Zhaozhao, the first winner of the Chinese Music Golden Bell Guzheng Competition, presented the guzheng concerto Cloudless to the audience.
As a judge of the Golden Bell Awards Vocal Music Competition, the famous singer Shi Yijie brought the famous aria Women are fickle in the opera Rigoletto and You are everything to me in rehal’s operetta Kingdom of Smiles to the audience at the concert.
The song Meihuayi, performed by Zhang Ye, the director of the jury, a famous soprano and vice chairman of the Chinese Music Association, is elegant in tune and tactfully ups and downs, lamenting the beauty of plum blossoms. In the audience’s warm applause, she presented the song Hello Motherland to the audience, which combined the simple and natural style with the theme of praising the motherland, and expressed noble patriotic feelings.
Subsequently, Sun Qilin, the first winner of this Chinese Music Golden Bell Piano Competition, performed the second and third movements of prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3 for the audience.
The judges of vocal music (Bel Canto) competition and the famous lyrical coloratura soprano Diribell brought two Chinese and foreign art songs with different styles, Riding the Wings of Singing and Song of Maple Leaf, which made the audience experience the beauty of the fusion of Chinese and Western in singing.
Mother and Little Poplar are popular songs. At the concert, Yan Weiwen, a judge of vocal music competition and a famous tenor singer, revisited these two classic songs with the audience. High-pitched, bright, full of voice and emotion, singing the infinite gratitude to the mother, aroused the strong resonance of the audience.
In the classic melody of I Love You, China sung by all the performers, the concert ended successfully.
China Music Golden Bell Award, approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is also the only national-level professional award in the Chinese music industry at present, aiming at commending and rewarding outstanding young music talents. After 20 years of reform and innovation, the award mechanism of Chinese Music Golden Bell Awards has been continuously improved, the audience has been expanding day by day, the professionalism, authority and orientation have become increasingly prominent, and the social communication power and influence have been growing, showing a good trend of prosperity and prosperity. The successful holding of this Golden Bell Award for Chinese Music is another grand meeting of Chinese music circles in the new era, a collective review of the younger generation of music talents, and a start for the vast number of music workers to forge ahead on a new journey standing at the historical intersection of the “two centennial” goals.
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Winners of the 13th China Music Golden Bell Awards.
Winners of piano competition
Sun Qilin (selected by Sichuan Conservatory of Music)
Yu Yichen (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Hao Lei (selected by Central Conservatory of Music).
Tang Xiaoshu (selected by Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Shen Lin (selected by Central Conservatory of Music).
Winners of vocal music (bel canto) competition
Liu Tao (selected by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music)
Shi Lin (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Chen Yongxi (selected by Wuhan Conservatory of Music)
Wang Bo (selected by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music)
Zhang Yuan (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Winners of vocal music (ethnic) competition
Zhang Mingxu (selected by Qinghai Musicians Association)
Li Jiawei (selected by Shanghai Musicians Association)
Li Yang (selected by China Railway Art Troupe).
Zhang Yu (selected by Sichuan Conservatory of Music)
Feng Wei (selected by Shaanxi Musicians Association).
Winners of guzheng competition
Cao Zhaozhao (selected by China Conservatory of Music)
Li Han (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Wang Yu (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Zhang Jiakang (selected by Central Conservatory of Music)
Li Hanyue (selected by Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
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