With the normalization of the epidemic and the orderly opening of cultural venues, the 2022 "Opening the Door to Art" Summer Art Festival will be presented in 60 days from July 3 to August 31. Xu Jian, chairman of Beijing Poly Forbidden City Theatre Management Co., Ltd., introduced that this year's summer art festival will feature 70 performances of Chinese folk music and opera, Western classical music, jazz, dance, acrobatics, children's plays, puppet plays, as well as percussion, 10 themed art summer camps including harp, brass, recitation, and music creation. These performances will be presented at the Zhongshan Concert Hall in Zhongshan Park, the royal garden of the Forbidden City with a history of more than 800 years.

2022 "Open the Doors of Art" Summer Art Festival Poster

It is reported that this year's art festival is hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, supported by the Beijing Municipal Culture and Art Fund, with the opening of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the closing of the Central Ballet. , Beijing Qu Opera Troupe, Beijing Hebei Bangzi Opera Troupe, China Acrobatic Troupe, China Puppet Art Theatre and many other national and Beijing-affiliated troupes participated in the performance. "Opening the Door to Art" also sets up a section of traditional Chinese folk music and opera, with performances of guzheng, pipa, guqin, flute xunxiao, percussion and folk orchestra, as well as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Pingju, Hebei Bangzi, Quju and other folk music and opera performances. Launched summer camps for Pipa, Guqin, Xun Dixiao, Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, etc., leading the new trend of national music and traditional culture.

Trumpet player Zhu Guang led three trumpet players Zhu Deen, Liang Tong and Liu Haoran who participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics to play "My Motherland and Me"

On June 11th, the first round of 48 performances of "Opening the Door to Art - 2022 Summer Art Festival", both offline and online tickets were issued simultaneously. This year's art festival held an online live broadcast for the first time, and Chunni, the ambassador of "Opening the Door to Art" , conductor Tan Lihua, who participated in the establishment of "Opening the Door of Art", and trumpet player Zhu Guang led three trumpet players Zhu Deen, Liang Tong and Liu Haoran who participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. They have devoted themselves to "Opening the Door of Art" for many years. Pipa player Zhang Hongyan, guzheng player Wang Zhongshan, pianist Zhang Jialin, young harp player Sun Shimeng, Hebei Bangzi performing artist Wang Yinghui, Beijing Peking Opera House young Peking Opera performer You Yaying, concert hall designer Li Yue and others participated in the live broadcast.
During the live broadcast, trumpeter Zhu Deen, who participated in the performance at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and Liang Tong and Liu Haoran, who participated in the selection, gave performances. It is reported that the three trumpeters will perform at the opening concert of "Opening the Doors of Art" and perform on the same stage with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Tan Lihua.
Tan Lihua, one of the founders and conductors of "Opening the Doors of Art", said: "It has been held for 29 years, with 70 performances per year, with a wide range of art categories, and an art festival specially designed for young people. Rarely, the art festival aims to make children fall in love with classical music since childhood, subtly form a keen perception of beauty, and integrate art into life when they grow up, which is of great help to the shaping of mind and personality.”
As for the summer camp, Chinese folk music and opera have always been the focus. From the opening of the first Peking Opera summer camp in 2007, it has developed to five summer camps themed on Chinese culture, including Pipa, Guqin, Xun Dixiao, Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera. The festival has also witnessed and led the way. Teenagers' interest and love for traditional culture.

Pipa player Zhang Hongyan, Guzheng player Wang Zhongshan

The Pipa Summer Camp, led by pipa performer Zhang Hongyan, is the largest summer camp in the festival and has recruited as many as 200 students. Zhang Hongyan said: "We have participated in the Open Doors of Art summer camp and performances for 11 consecutive years, not only because of myself, but also thanks to a team of teachers who are full of public welfare and love behind me. In the past 11 years, more than a thousand pipa students from all over the country have learned Among them, there are pipa major students and teachers, pipa lovers, blind children and autistic children who need social care. In addition, the concert with the theme of 'different and wonderful' has been held for seven consecutive years. This year's 'Different and Wonderful 2022—Pipa Master Zhang Hongyan & New Generation of Folk Music Performers Concert' will invite young performers from the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Zhang Liumeng, Liu Yinxuan, Di Lin, Qi Jie, Zhang Weiwei, Yan Guowei, Liu Xiaojing, Ma Yingjun, Feng Tianshi, Wang Yi, Cheng Haoru, and the Central Conservatory of Music String Orchestra performed together, presenting outstanding folk music works such as Spring Dance, Dunhuang Xinyu, West Lake Landscape, and Pin."
Wang Zhongshan, a famous guzheng master who is committed to promoting national culture, introduced: "Through popularizing concerts, we will show the charm of guzheng to children. I hope that the audience who are exposed to guzheng and folk music for the first time, especially the children who are learning guzheng, can gain something and love it. Art."