清明梦琴 Harfenträume des Qingming

清明梦琴 (Harp Dreams of Qingming) – A Musical Tribute to Remembrance

📅 Date: April 2, 2025 18:30

📍Venue: Theater Stok, Zurich

⏳ Duration: 75 minutes

🎟 Tickets: 30 CHF

🍷 Bar open after the concert

The Qingming Festival is a time to honor those who have passed, reflecting on memory, loss, and the eternal connection between the living and the departed. In this special concert, renowned Swiss-Russian harpist Alexander Boldachev and acclaimed Chinese pianist Li Jia come together for an evening of deeply moving music, dedicated to remembrance and transcendence.

The program features solo works for harp and piano, each piece carrying themes of longing, farewell, and spiritual reflection. The concert will culminate in a duo performance, symbolizing the bond between past and present, and uniting different cultures in musical storytelling.

Solo Piano (Li Jia)

🎵 Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1

🎵 Frédéric Chopin – Étude in A-flat major, Op. 25 No. 1 ("Aeolian Harp")

🎵 Franz Liszt – Spanish Rhapsody

🎵 Frédéric Chopin – Étude in C major, Op. 10 No. 1

Solo Harp (Alexander Boldachev)

🎵 Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 2

🎵 High Mountain, Flowing Water

🎵 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Lacrimosa

🎵 Tan Dun – Eight Memories in Watercolor (Excerpts)

🎵 Arvo Pärt – Fratres

Duo Performance (Harp & Piano)

🎵 Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon (銀雲追月) 

🎵 Butterfly Lovers (梁祝)

Following the concert, the bar will be open, inviting the audience to share thoughts, connect, and continue the spirit of community and remembrance.

Join us for this one-of-a-kind event, where music bridges the past and present, bringing people together in honor of those we remember.