TEDxBeijing 2010

Star Theater, November 2010. Check out pictures from the event, as well as links to other videos by clicking here.

Keith Lipson became the youngest clarinetist to be accepted into the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music where for two years he was principal clarinet of the Curtis Symphony. Keith is principal clarinet of the Knights Chamber Orchestra in New York with whom he has recorded two albums for Sony Classical and toured extensively in the United States and Europe. As a devotee of new music, he is a co-founder of the Beijing New Music. Keith is also a devoted teacher whose students have been accepted at prestigious music schools and conservatories in the United States.

Zhao Jiazhen (赵家珍) is one of the most famous masters of the guqin, an ancient Chinese seven-string zither. Zhao has performed for visiting presidents and dignitaries and has been featured on the soundtracks of movies such as “Red Cliff”, and “Dream of the Red Chamber.” A New York Times review of her recent Carnegie Hall performance called her playing “rarefied” and “pointillistic.” She is currently a professor at her alma mater, China’s Central Conservatory of Music.

American composer Eli Marshall moved to Beijing in 2003 as a Fulbright Fellow. Since then, he has made the city his home, written for orchestras and ensembles of the region, and tailored new compositions towards unconventional venues. As artistic director of the Beijing New Music Ensemble, his innovative programming was hailed by the Macao Daily as “revolutionizing the way chamber music is played.”