As one of the most prominent annual cultural events in the Chinese capital, Beijing Music Festival has played an significant role in presenting quality classical music concerts, promoting commission works and enhancing international musical exchanges over the past 12 years. In its 13th year, the festival reached an even higher level in its programs and successfully attracted more attention.

From October 11th to 31st, the 13th Beijing Music Festival staged 11 types of performances, including opera, symphony music, concerto, chamber music, solo concert, chorus, jazz, and children's concerts.

Lang Lang, Li Yundi, Chen Sa, Penderecki, Tafelmusik and the Choir of King's College... these A-list artists in the classical music scene gave local audience members weeks of grace and joy.

Remember polish piano poet

2010 marks the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin. The great poet of classical music was also one of the themes of the 13th Beijing Music Festival.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra "Ruin and Memory" is renowned composer Howard Shore's tribute in remembrance of Chopin. And Lang Lang, heralded as the "hottest artist on the classical music planet", says the Beijing Music Festival is his first choice of presenting a concert combining both Chopin's popular works and a 21st-century salutatory piece.

Lang Lang, Pianist, said, "Beijing Music Festival is one of the greatest in the world..."

Li Yundi and Chen Sa, who have both won the Chopin Piano Contest, also recited their homage to Chopin and Robert Schumann, who was born the same year as Chopin.

It is the first time that the three most well-acclaimed young Chinese pianists appeared in one event.