Beijing (22 September 2016) - To mark 13 years of partnership with the Beijing Music Festival (BMF), UBS is sponsoring a special concert featuring a solo recital by the virtuoso organist, Cameron Carpenter.

In line with its commitment to support the cultural and financial development of the communities in which it operates, the firm is once again sponsoring the BMF's annual concert program at the historic Wangfujing Church.

At this year’s Wangfujing Church Concert, Cameron Carpenter will play the ‘International Touring Organ’ – a multifunctional digital organ made to his design by specialist organ-builders Marshall & Ogletree. Taking place on 25 October, the recital will include works by Bernstein and Hisaishi, Carpenter's arrangements of pieces by Wagner and Tchaikovsky, and an improvisation based on Chinese folk songs. US-born composer-performer, Carpenter is widely acknowledged as having revolutionized the performance of organ music.

"The Wangfujing Church concert program continues to go from strength to strength. I am confident that this year's performance by Cameron Carpenter will further enhance the festival's international standing," said Eugene Qian, UBS Group China Country Head & President.

Carpenter will also participate in a number of initiatives for UBS's employees and Community Affairs partners, including giving an open rehearsal for over 30 students from Shunyi District Thirteenth Middle School – a boarding school that supports disadvantaged children from rural and migrant backgrounds. The organist will host an interactive organ-playing workshop for the students, and also participate in a UBS Lunch & Learn speaker series for UBS employees.

About UBS and Culture
UBS, a global financial services firm, has a rich history of cultural engagement around the world. As part of UBS's Main Partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival, which commenced in 1988, UBS launched the Prix du Public UBS in 2014 to secure the Festival's future by supporting musicians of tomorrow. In addition to its sponsorship of the BMF, in Asia UBS is Lead Partner with Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong, and is a long-term Global Lead Partner with Art Basel. In 2015/2016, UBS commissioned the celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz to create a new body of work for an exhibition WOMEN: New Portraits, which is currently on a 10-city global tour. In 2014, UBS presented the work of Swiss photographer and artist, Hannes Schmid, for the first time in Asia at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. In the same year, UBS (China) Limited opened a new Beijing sub-branch and the firm’s first ground floor presence in Asia Pacific, followed by the opening of its Shanghai Branch in Huangpu district in March 2016. A unique feature of the premises is the display of key western and Chinese contemporary art pieces from the UBS Art Collection by internationally acclaimed artists including Sir Anish Kapoor, Wei Guangqing, Shi Guowei, Michael Craig-Martin, Liu Weijian, Huang Min, Hanneline Visnes, Ingrid Calame and Sarah Morris. In 2013-2014, UBS presented the critically acclaimed show No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center and at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in Singapore as part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Since 2000, UBS has supported productions by the Sydney Theatre Company.

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