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Lang Lang Launches Bocconi Art Gallery

, by Andrea Celauro, translated by Richard Greenslade
On Monday 29 June at 7pm, the Chinese pianist will be on stage at Bocconi for an interview concert during the opening event of the fifth edition of BAG

Classical music for the inauguration of the fifth edition of Bocconi Art Gallery, Monday, June 29 at Bocconi. At 7pm, in the 1000-seat Aula Magna of the University (via Roentgen 1), the Chinese pianist Lang Lang will be interviewed at the piano by music critic and journalist Gian Mario Benzing of ViviMilano and Corriere della Sera. The entrance to the interview-concert will be free, but reservations are required and can be made at www.unibocconi.it/langlang.

The pianist will take the stage at Bocconi in a collaboration between the University and the Allianz Group, with which Lang Lang maintains close partnership internationally for training and dissemination of musical culture, especially among the young. The results of this partnership include several initiatives in 12 countries worldwide including, through the Lang Lang Music Foundation, the creation of the Allianz Junior Music Camp. This is a master class for 10 young piano talents under 14, now in its third edition. As part of the partnership, in addition, Allianz Italy led the Chinese maestro on a tour in our country that will end on June 30 with a recital at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi.

Lang Lang, born in 1982, is today considered one of the greatest interpreters of piano music in the world: in addition to performing with leading orchestras worldwide, his concerts have opened the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the Milan Expo 2015. In 2013, Lang Lang was appointed Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General, with special attention to global education.

The classical music of Lang Lang will thus accompany contemporary art # BAG5. This year, Bocconi Art Gallery counts on the presence of a hundred works of art by fifty Italian and foreign artists. Painters, sculptors and photographers such as Rodolfo Aricò, Nicola Bolla, Paolo Ceribelli, Vittorio Corsini, Massimo Gatti, Piero Gilardi, Paolo Iacchetti, Giovanni Ozzola, Paola Pezzi, Giovanna Rasario, Andrea Salvetti, Arcangelo Sassolino, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Pio Tarantini, Ernesto Tatafiore, and Antonio Trotta whose name join those of past participants Stuart Arends, Giorgio Bevignani, Rosa Barba, Ana Cardoso, Carlo Bernardini, Antonio Calderara, Marco Casentini, Enrico Castellani, Pietro Coletta, Arthur Duff, Fabrizio Dusi, Sergio Fermariello, Giovanni Frangi, Debora Hirsch, Zhang Huan, Emilio Isgrò, Massimo Kaufmann, William Klein, Richard Long, Elio Marchegiani, Jason Martin, Gerold Miller, Elena Modorati, Andrei Molodkin, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giorgio Rastelli, Anselm Reyle, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Ettore Spalletti, Mauro Staccioli, Jan Van Der Ploeg, Grazia Varisco, Peter Wüthrich.

BAG is the project for promotion of contemporary art organized by Università Bocconi in collaboration with galleries, collectors, foundations and the artists themselves. Bocconi Art Gallery has enabled the presence on campus, since its first edition in 2009, of hundreds of works by the greatest names in contemporary art.

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