The Bard Chinese Ensemble (BCE) opens its 2025–26 season with a concert rich in color and emotion, celebrating the many voices of Chinese orchestral music. From the tranquil flow of Yun Shui (Clouds and Water) and the nostalgic warmth of Late Autumn, to the vivid soundscapes of Postcards from Macao and the lyrical heroism of Lyrical Variations, each work reveals a world of its own — expressive, evocative, and profoundly moving. FREE and open to the public. Join us!
PROGRAM
Phang Kok Jun 冯国峻
Symphonic Floras 《芬芳的交响》 (2018, rev. 2024)
Tang Jianping 唐建平
Yun Shui (Clouds and Water) guqin concerto 《古琴协奏曲 “云水”》 (2011)
Eric Kehan Wang, guqin
Wang Chenwei 王辰威
Postcards from Macao 《澳门明信片》 (2019)
Li Bochan 李博禪
Late Autumn pipa concerto 《琵琶协奏曲 “晚秋”》 (2014)
Zoey Xiaoyan Luo, pipa; Tessa Tianxiang Ni, piano
Liu Changyuan 刘长远
Lyrical Variations 《抒情变奏曲》 (2003)
FEATURED SOLOISTS
Eric Kehan Wang, guqin
Zoey Xiaoyan Luo, pipa
Tessa Tianxiang Ni, piano
ABOUT THE BARD CHINESE ENSEMBLE
The Bard Chinese Ensemble is the Bard Conservatory’s large mixed ensemble of Chinese and Western instrument players. Every year the instrumentation changes so that students of various different Western instruments have the opportunity to experience the unique technical and artistic challenges of playing alongside traditional Chinese instruments.
Each performance features specially arranged music from China. In addition to re-arranging traditional works from the Chinese orchestral repertoire, Music Director Shutong Li works with contemporary living composers to adapt new works to the ensemble’s unique instrumentation, offering audiences the opportunity to hear some of the finest and least often performed orchestral music of our time.
Ensemble photos by Aya Rebai