Classical Music PR & Promotion

Sunny Li

The controversial Chinese pianist, Sunny Li, who caused a social media storm amongst the normally sedate Classic FM online community when ‘training’ videos of her  playing two grand pianos went viral with over a million views , sparking admiration and outrage in equal measure, is embarking on a UK tour this spring in line with the release of her new album.

Watch the video here: 

https://www.facebook.com/ClassicFM/videos/10154894757289260/

Whilst many of the comments on the video were complimentary, others took the form of what some may consider a sexist tirade due to the seemingly provocative style Sunny had to adopt when performing the ‘double grand work out’.  The comments deeply affected the young pianist who had never experienced such attention in her homeland of China.

Sunny stated that she ‘wasn’t expecting many views’ as the video was meant to be just for fun, as a way of displaying one of her piano workout methods, but some of the comments left her feeling confused and upset. Despite this, Li feels strongly about equality and encouraging people to play the piano. She added ‘There is no reason why women can’t play like men, they are just as equal. It’s the modern day – sometimes women are even better than the men!’

To add insult to injury, Sunny, who is a strong advocate of getting young people into classical music, believes that the musical genre is potentially on the verge of becoming extinct and therefore feels that the passionate side of classical music needs to truly compete with its pop music counterparts. Consequently, talent needs to go hand in hand with style and fashion in order to reach a younger ‘streetwise’ audience. She has compared classical music to ‘a very meaningful book that is close to the soul’ and it is this idea that she wants to push forward to young people in the hope that they might give classical music a chance.

Sunny is combating her detractors with these empowering standpoints and intends to show them just how passionate she is to spread the classical message with her upcoming tour of the UK this year. Having won many awards in China for her art as well as being a brand ambassador for the leading UK piano company, www.pianorestorations.co.uk , Sunny is also in the running to become a ‘Young Steinway Artist’, a highly sought after distinction that may well see her endorsed by the piano manufacturing giants.

Press:

http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/flight-of-the-bumblebee-two-pianos/

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Belle Chen

Avant-garde pianist Belle Chen joined Quite Great to promote her new classical music.

Belle Chen is an Australian-Taiwanese pianist, sound artist, and producer. Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and raised in Brisbane, Australia, Chen was a national finalist of Australian National Piano Award in 2010. In 2011, she relocated to London to study at Royal Academy of Music, and it was during this time that Chen began experimenting with integrating sound art with classical music. In 2015, Chen was voted as the winner of Classical Rising Star Award at London Music Awards. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3, BBC China, Monocle 24, ABC FM, Finland Classic Radio, Macroview TV Taiwan, amongst others.

Chen’s works have been described as “original and provocative” by Brian Eno and selected as the winner of Curator’s Choice for Music Award at 2014 NOISE Festival. With her newfound musical style, Chen debuted as BBC Introducing artist at 2016 Latitude Festival. Max Reinhardt, who saw Chen’s performance on BBC Introducing Stage, described her as “a revelation” on BBC Radio 6. In 2016, Chen performed at Royal Festival Hall for BBC Radio 3’s 70th Anniversary Celebration.

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Yet other than pure talent, there is always one thing that puts a classical artist in front of many other artists who create other musical styles, and that is passion! The desire to be heard, be seen and also oddly enough some may say, the desire to think very creatively hence we look back to the wonderful days of helping the fantastic manager who looked after Russell Watson when his career started and the creation of his name, ‘The Voice’ or the wonderful flow of ideas with Cortes resulting in extensive coverage at the Classical Brits, this was especially exciting as he was on an independent label so we were also running in the face of the convention as generally, it was only major label classical artists who got the attention. Clever ideas help artists to grow, and we aim to develop relevant ideas to get the artist noticed.

It is this final aspect that is important, as due to the development of our Quite Great Independent label services, we can offer classical artists everything they need ranging from the creation of an album, which is always a very special thing to develop especially when you have the chance to work with amazing producers like Haydn Bendall who is not only in our opinion one of the best classical producers but naturally a fantastic guy to work with. From that we can build the website then take the music to market via our friends at Palila Recordings .

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