Chinanews.com, July 23 (Reporter Gao Kai) The National Center for the Performing Arts “Entering the World in Records” art activity: “More than music, more than the East” – “Luo Wei: Gazing” record sharing session was recently held at the Art Information Center of the NCPA.
At the sharing meeting, the young pianist Luo Wei introduced the new album to music fans and friends, and performed tracks from albums such as “Granada” and “Oriental”. Poet and translator Xi Chuan, poet Ouyang Jianghe, composer Guo Wenjing and other guests attended the event and had dialogues on the topic of music and literature.
“Luo Wei: Gazing” is the latest album of the “Young Chinese Musician Debut Series Records” publishing plan launched by the music label NCPA Classics of the National Center for the Performing Arts in 2022. The young pianist Luo Wei in the United States performs the classic piano works of five western composers with both virtuosity and appreciation. Balakirev’s “Islamic Beauty” and Debussy’s masterpiece “Moonlight” – behind such selections, in Rowe’s own words, is to “transmit a kind of thinking and values through the music played”, and hopes that this album will become “a mirror that reflects the poetic imagery of music under the moonlight, in the forest, on the harbor, outdoors, mountains, and small bridges.”
In the sharing session, Luo Wei successively presented tracks from albums such as “Granada”, “Oriental”, “Moonlight” and “Chasing”.
Both literature and music are pictures of the human mind. Since ancient times, the communication, combination and mutual inspiration among literature, music and art have been extremely extensive and rich. The sharing session started from the concept of “gazing” and the field of comparative literature between East and West. The famous poet and translator Xi Chuan, poet Ouyang Jianghe, and composer Guo Wenjing discussed with Luo Wei. Xi Chuan said, “Every note played by Luo Wei can bloom into blooming flowers.” Ouyang Jianghe believed that “Luo Wei is a new generation of pianists with profound humanistic qualities.”
At the same time, several guests interpreted Luo Wei’s many years of music practice, aesthetic thinking and the oriental expression of Western composers in the “gazing” of composers, performers, and audiences from different perspectives, and in the intertextual relationship between music, poetry, and literature. It is worth mentioning that Guo Wenjing once composed a large-scale symphonic work for Xi Chuan’s long poem “A Long Journey”, and also released a record on the music label NCPA Classics of the National Center for the Performing Arts, which was also played at the event.
According to reports, Luo Wei, a young pianist in the United States, graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and studied under professors Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald. At the age of 11, he won the first prize in the Polish Chopin Youth International Piano Competition and the German Rachmaninoff Youth International Piano Competition. At the age of 16, he won the “Salon de Virtuosi” Outstanding Young Artist Award in New York. At the age of 17, he signed with Universal Music in the United States and released his first solo album, which received attention and praise from the British “Gramophone” magazine. At the same time, he was named one of the 19 most noteworthy artists in the world by the New York classical music radio station WQXR. Become a Steinway Global Artist in 2023.
At this sharing session, Luo Wei also announced his 2023 national tour plan of “Luo Wei: Gazing at the East”. In addition to the tracks in the newly released album, Luo Wei will also add composer Yao Chen’s “Five Colors” and other Chinese works to the tour to create a “gazing” between the East and the West. (over)
