China News Service, Guangzhou, January 21 (Zhang Lu) On January 21, the award ceremony of the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Music Week (hereinafter referred to as "Music Week") series competitions was held in Guangzhou.
The "future musicians" selected for the music week and the contestants who won the excellence awards in various music categories presented a wonderful audio-visual feast to more than 2,000 people at the scene, playing the youth movement of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
On January 21, the award ceremony of the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Music Week Series Competition was held.
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It is reported that this music week will be launched in August 2023. It will be divided into four categories: piano, orchestral music, folk music, and vocal music. Music talent selection activities will be carried out in cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and more than 70 cities including Beijing and Shanghai. 1,300 contestants advanced to the finals.
Tao Ying, secretary-general of the organizing committee of this year’s music week, said that the music week series competitions are based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and open to both domestic and overseas audiences, attracting more than 10,000 young music lovers to sign up.
The contestants' music works will be selected and included in the music week's outstanding works collection, which will be organized and distributed by Pacific Video Company and launched on a number of domestic and foreign Internet music platforms.
At the awards ceremony, the organizers issued trophies and certificates to the young people who won the Music Week's "Future Musicians" special award, special performance award, and gold, silver and bronze awards in various music categories, and announced the "3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Music Week" "start up.
"As the artistic consultant of the Music Week, I am very happy to see that Hong Kong teenagers and mainland teenagers have opportunities to learn from and communicate with each other. Through the Music Week series of competitions, the Hong Kong Orchestra will carry out more cooperation with teenagers from all over the world." Hong Kong Youth Orchestra Music Director Liang Jianfeng said so.
Xu Jianhua, Chairman of the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra Association, said, "Music Week is a stage for young people from Hong Kong, Macao and at home and abroad to communicate with each other and showcase their talents. As one of the co-organizers, we will take this opportunity and look forward to working together with musicians and fellow music travelers from all over the world. , to build an international exchange platform for young people in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and to discover and cultivate more future musicians." (End)