Glasgow has been named City of Music by the United Nations cultural body, UNESCO. This important award acknowledges Glasgow's rich and varied musical heritage, its vibrancy and its role as a world player in music.

Saturday 12 September 2009 sees Glasgow celebrating this title " Glasgow City of Music" with some spectacular events, from Glasgow's Big Bash to Proms in the Park, this will be an unforgettable day of contemporary, classical, Celtic and folk music. 

Harmony Ensemble will be performing live at

• 10.30am - 11.15am St. Enoch's Station
• 12.00pm - 12.30pm Royal Concert Hall for a special live broadcast with Celtic Music Radio
  You can hear it on 1530kHz AM/MW in the greater Glasgow area, or on their website, www.celticmusicradio.net
  
• 2.15pm - 3.00pm Partick Station
  

CHINESE MUSIC - through its instruments, songs and creativity.

In preparation for the Harmony Ensemble concert, three members of the group will give a seminar exploring instruments, songs and composition in China at the Sound Festival of new music in North East Scotland.

Eddie McGuire will talk on and demonstrate some of China's unique instruments. He plays bamboo flute in the group and is well known as a composer. He won a Creative Scotland Award in 2004 which led to a ballet uniting Harmony and Whistlebinkies (he toured China with them in 1991).

Kimho Ip will focus on how composing developed in China over the last 100 years looking at the Western influence, Shanghai Jazz and trends in the past 30 years. He gained a Doctorate in composition at Edinburgh University and his works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and widely performed.

Fong Liu will demonstrate and explain the spectrum of singing styles found in China ranging from folk song to regional style and opera traditions. She is much in demand throughout Britain for her performances of Chinese song and inherited much from her father who sung in traditional opera.

Tickets:

Free event

Saturday 22 August 2009 - 8pm
Canongate Kirk, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble will be presenting a unique programme of solo and ensemble pieces featuring traditional and contemporary Chinese music performed on Chinese traditional instruments in the wonderful acoustic setting of the Canongate Kirk.

Performers:

Fong Liu - Voice
Kimho Ip  - Yangqin (Chinese dulcimer)
Eddie McGuire - Dizi (Chinese bamboo flute)
Cheng-Ying Chuang -  Zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar) & Liuqin (Chinese lute)
Hooi Ling Eng - Drum & Percussion
Willem Mathlener - Violin

Tickets:

£10 or £6 for concessions. Tickets are available at the door or online from the Edinburgh Fringe website at http://www.edfringe.com/