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  • Young Asian Performaners to Compete at Kollaboration Boston’s Second Annual Show

    Kollaboration Boston is proud to present the city’s second Asian American talent show competition featuring its final contestants, who will compete for $1,000 prize during its inaugural event on Saturday, April 21, 2012. As a continuous celebration of Asian American talent, Kollaboration Boston is honored to once again seek to inspire Asian Americans in their pursuit of talent in development in the arts.

    PK, founder and executive director of Kollaboration said, “Kollaboration’s underlying mission is Empowerment Through Entertainment. Artistic expression through entertainment is one of the most powerful forces on earth and one of the greatest ways we can build our community, and understand both ourselves and other communities in a healthy, positive way.”

    The April 21 show will be taken place at the John Hancock Hall, located at 180 Berkeley Street Boston, MA 02116. Our team of passionate, young professionals and students from Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern, MIT, Wellesley, Suffolk, and has come together to once again to gain exposure of the Asian American entertainment industry.

    The Kollaboration Boston 2 talent show will feature its seven local talents CONcept Artists, UPRising, Fusion, Justin Chiou, K-Soul, Andy Kim, and Yui Mugino will compete with their vocal, instrumental, and dance talents for the winning title and the $1,000 grand prize.

    With a mission of Empowerment through Entertainment, Kollaboration Boston has mobilized the Asian American community since its November 2010 launch and will continue to do so through its second show in Boston on April 21, 2012 at John Hancock Hall located at 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116. Kollaboration Boston is part of a national movement headquartered in LA that seeks to bring Asian American talent into mainstream media and thereby raise awareness of Asian American issues. The Kollaboration movement has caught fire in 11 different cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York City, Tulsa, Houston, Columbus, San Francisco, Toronto, with shows selling out year after year. Boston is the 12th city to join the national Kollaboration movement.

    KOLLABORATION BOSTON’s website: – www.kollaborationboston.org

  • DaXun Zhang and Tomoko Kashiwagi To Delight Music Fans at Jordan Hall

    中華表演藝術基金會

    Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts

    Presents

    DaXun Zhang張達尋, Double Bass

    Tomoko Kashiwagi柏木知子, piano

    Saturday, April 7, 2012, 8 PM



    Picture of DaXun Zhang from 2010.
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  • Ying Wu’s Vocal Classes Celebrated Year of Dragon with Beautiful Songs

    By David Li, translation by Jun Yang

    On the afternoon and evening of January 28, Ying Wu’s vocal classes held a Chinese New Year’s concert in Hancock United Church of Christ in Lexington, Mass.

    As a special guest, Kristy Lee, New England’s only 24-hour news TV station NECN’s morning news anchor, hosted the concert. The daughter of the Korean-American anchor is also a student of Ms. Ying Wu. Piano accompaniment was by Boston’s renowned pianist David Collins.

    Kristy Lee hosting the concert (photo by Mingwei Li).
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  • World-Class Suona Master Yazhi Guo Performed in a Local Charity Concert

    By David Li, translation by Yunan Jiang

    Have you ever heard of a suona, erhu, guzheng (all traditional Chinese instruments) ensemble with saxophone, bass clarinet, bass guitar, guitar and other Western instruments?
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  • World-renowned Classic Guitarist Xuefei Yang Pays Visit to Boston

    By Han Yan, translation by David Li

    Weather turned warm again when Boston ushered in one of the of the greatest classical guitarist Xuefei Yang. On March 9, Xuefei Yang’s solo recital was held in the First Lutheran Church of the Boston with over 300 music fans showing up. This recital was sponsored by the Boston Classical Guitar Society. After Boston Guitar Orchestra’s warm-up performances, Xuefei Yang took the stage. With wonderful music flowing through the six strings of her guitar, the classical guitarist struck a chord with everyone in the audience.
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