The Piano aux Jacobins festival comes back to China for the 9th consecutive year. Famous for the mastery of its selected pianists and the variety of its classical, contemporary, and jazz program, the Piano aux Jacobins festival has managed to create for itself a choice place in the hearts of Chinese music lovers.

BEIJING Forbidden City Concert Hall (FCCH) May 24th 19:30 Anne-Marie Mc Dermott May 25th 19:30 Bertrand Chamayou & Yaron Herman May 26th 19:30 Bertrand Chamayou

SHANGHAI Shanghai Oriental Art Centre May 26th 19:00 Anne-Marie Mc Dermott May 27th 19:00 Bertrand Chamayou May 28th 19:00 Yaron Herman

WUHAN Qintai Concert Hall May 24th 19:30 Bertrand Chamayou May 25th 19:30 Anne-Marie Mc Dermott May 26th 19:30 Yaron Herman

GUANGZHOU Xinghai Concert Hall May 30th 19:30 Yaron Herman solo

The Spirit of Piano - Bordeaux

Established in 2010 in Bordeaux, L'Esprit du Piano (The Spirit of Piano) festival is dedicated to young artists, and since 2011 has been the partner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium, one of the three biggest competitions in the world dedicated to young artists.

This project makes it posible to allow young artists of exceptional talent to make history, and thus to look forward to promising young generations.

This year the festival offers an anthology of young pianists of undeniable and surprising talent: Yuri Favorin (Russia, laureate of Queen Elisabeth Competition 2010), Victoria Aja (Spain, Luis Coleman competition 1st Price) and Sheng Song (China, Long- Thibaud competition 1st price). 2013 edition is dedicated to Chopin and his influence on music of 19th and 20th centuries.

BEIJING Beijing Concert Hall May 16th 19:30 May 17th 19:30 May 18th 19:30 May 19th 19:30

GUANGZHOU Xinghai Concert Hall May 16th 20:00 May 17th 20:00 May 18th 20:00 May 18th 15:00 May 19th 20:00

Philippe Jordan conducts the China National Symphony Orchestra

Philippe Jordan, virtuoso conductor who has seduced international stages before joining the Opéra national de Paris, at a young 35 years of age, collaborates for the first time with an orchestra in China, the celebrated China National Symphony Orchestra . They will be accompanied by first violin Frédérique Laroque, with whom they will play a program of Tcha?kovski's music.

BEIJING July 3rd 19:30 National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)