The FIMM, which runs from 4 October to 4 November, brings “the Portuguese fado diva” to the territory for a “sublime collaboration” with the Macau Chinese Orchestra, said the president of the region’s Cultural Affairs Bureau during the press conference to present the festival.
“We want to emphasise that Macau is a place where there is a combination of Eastern and Western culture,” said Leong Wai Man, explaining why “fado has been collaborating” frequently with the Macau Chinese Orchestra.
In a festival with “different programmes of different types of music for different types of fans”, she highlighted, among the 12 programmes, the opening show, “Tosca – Opera in Three Acts by Giacomo Puccini”, which brings to the stage of the Macau Cultural Centre “Russia’s eminent Mariinsky Theatre”.
The festival’s programme director highlighted the concert by 84-year-old American pianist Herbie Hancock.
“When I spoke to Hancock, he said it could be his last world tour,” noted Lio Kuok Man, stressing the importance of the musician’s visit, who, according to the organisation, has an “illustrious career crowned with 14 Grammys”.
Also in jazz music, US trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra will make their debut in the Chinese region “in an energetic concert full of vibrant notes”, said the organisers.
The festival will also feature the DoosTrio, a group of renowned soloists and good friends who fuse their own traditions, giving new life to the fascinating rhythms of ancient Persia, China, and India.
The concert brings together Kayhan Kalhor, master of the Iranian string instrument “kamancheh”, Wu Han, a Chinese pipa specialist, and Sandeep Das, who plays the tabla, a percussion instrument widely used in India.
FIMM also has 16 Extra Festival activities, including talks and masterclasses, and this year’s budget is 33 million patacas (€3.04 million).
