In 2004, Stanford inaugurated its first Pan-Asian Music Festival. The festival is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of music in contemporary Asia through an annual series of concerts and academic activities. It combines innovative programming with performances of the highest artistic caliber featuring renowned international guest artists, faculty members of the Stanford Music Department and the university's own outstanding student performers.
The Pan-Asian Music Festival has solidified its reputation as one of the most important Asian music festivals in the nation. This year's festival will be an unprecedented musical project that will include 1.) a series of concerts featuring a great diversity of high caliber guest artists from across China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and 2.) a series of lectures and discussions in which experts from within Stanford and around the globe actively think through where contemporary Chinese art and music might be headed and what impact the growth and new directions will have on the world.
