NEWS AND EVENTS

• On April 12-13 1924, the Tcherepnin Society, presented a cross-cultural celebration of the legacy of Lee Hsien-Ming and Alexander Tcherepnin at the DiMenna Center in New York City. Aided by the participation of the US-China Institute of Bard College and the generous support of the Louise and Y. T. Lum Foundation, the event consisted of an evening concert followed by a day-long series of lectures and presentations.

• Click here to view the opening concert of the celebration, presented on Friday April 12, 2024 at the Di Menna Center’s Benzaquen Recital Hall in New York City. The program featured music inspired by Lee Hsien Ming and by Alexander Tcherepnin’s enthusiasm for Chinese culture, and also included the prize-winning scores that Suxu Yao, Leyou Wang and Jianjun He submitted to the Third Tcherepnin International Competition for Composers, held in 2024.
• Click here to view the lectures and panel discussions presented on Saturday, April 13 hosted by Tcherepnin Society Performance and Cultural Advisor Jindong Cai. Accounts of Ming Tcherepnin’s life and influence by Meilun Ouyang, Feng Jiahui, and Jennifer Chang, are followed by analyses of Alexander Tcherepnin’s Seven Songs on Chinese Poems, Op. 71 and his Cycle of Seven Chinese Folk Songs, Op. 95 by Mengxi You and Kimly Mengyin Wang.
• Click here to view a video performance of Alexander Tcherepnin’s Cycle of Seven Chinese Folk Songs, Op. 95 by Wanchun Liang, Bass-Baritone and Kimly Mengyin Wang, Piano.
• Click here to view the prize winning compositions in the 2024 Tcherepnin International Competition.

•Alexander Tcherepnin: A Compendium, a major new resource for Tcherepnin research written and edited by Tcherepnin Society President Benjamin Folkman, has now been published. The 419-page hard-cover volume is available on Amazon.

A PDF version may be acquired from Blurb.

• Scores to two orchestral works by Nikolai Tcherepnin, “The Enchanted Kingdom,” Op. 39 and “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish,” Op. 41, both including forewords written by Tcherepnin Society Vice-President David Witten, are available from the Munich publishing firm MPH.

• In honor of its 90th Anniversary, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music published Alexander Tcherepnin’s June 1962 “Catalogue complet des oeuvres,” in a bi-lingual edition produced with the authorisation and facilitation of The Tcherepnin Society. The book presents a Mandarin-language translation of the catalogue, followed by a facsimile of Tcherepnin’s handwritten French original, taken from the copy given to the Conservatory by Ming Tcherepnin