2010 in Asian music

See also: Timeline of musical events

Events

• March 5–7 – The 6th Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival opens in Jakarta. ^[1]
• March 22 – Daniel Barenboim is awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
• August 15 – "Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto", written by musician A. R. Rahman, is approved as the official anthem of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. ^[2]
• October 3 – At the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, musical performers include: ^[3]
  • Drummers from Kerala, Manipur, Karnataka, Orissa, Punjab and Meghalaya, including 7-year-old tabla prodigy Keshav.
  • Hariharan
  • Dancers including Birju Maharaj, Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Saroja Vaidyanathan, Sonal Mansingh and Bharati Shivaji

Albums

• Betzefer – Freedom to the Slave Makers (Israel)
• Ei Jibon Nohoi Xuna Bondhu (compilation album; India)
• Jasbir Jassi – Jassi – Back with a Bang (India)
• Kaela Kimura – 5 Years (Japan)
• Tarkan – Adımı Kalbine Yaz (Turkey)
• Haifa Wehbe – Baby Haifa (Lebanon)
• Younha – Hitotsu Sora no Shita (South Korea)

Classical

• Mehdi Hosseini
  • Taleshi Hava, for solo violin and bassoon
  • An Unfinished Draft, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and baritone
  • Pause, for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, violoncello and tubular bells

Opera

• The Child Dreams , by Gil Shohat ^[4]
• Madame White Snake , with music by Zhou Long and libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs ^[5]

Deaths

• January 7 – Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer (gas leak) ^[6]
• January 11 – Georgy Garanian, Armenian-Russian saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, 75
• March – Farman Behboud, Iranian pianist and piano teacher, 63
• March 22 – Yanie, Malaysian singer
• April 22 – Fred Panopio, Filipino folk singer, 71
• June 12 – Fuat Mansurov, Russian conductor, 82
• July 15 – Luo Pinchao, Chinese opera singer, 98
• November 2
  • Rudolf Barshai, Russian violist and composer, 86
  • Kalim Sharafi, Bangladeshi singer, 85 ^[7]

See also

• 2010 in music
• 2010 in Japanese music
• 2010 in South Korean music
• List of 2010 albums

References

1. "Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 5, 6, 7 2010". Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
2. Madhur Tankha (2010-08-17). "Rahman sings the CWG theme song". The Hindu . Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
3. "A R Rahman's grand finale with 'Jeeyo, Utho'". Times of India. 3 October 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
4. Blomster, Wes (February 2, 2010). "Shohat's The Child Dreams — A mature work". Opera Today. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
5. (18 April 2011). "Zhou Long's Madame White Snake Awarded 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music", OperaNews.com.
6. Fans mourn singer Kamal Mahsud's death ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
7. "Rabindra Sangeet exponent Kalim Sharafi dead". Sify . 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2014.