2024深圳“一带一路”国际音乐季

2024 Shenzhen "Belt & Road" International Music Festival

玉观音与巨人-杭州爱乐乐团交响音乐会

Jade Guanyin & Titan - Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony Concert

演出时间 Date&Time

2024年9月24日（周二）20:00

Sept. 24 (Tues.) 8 PM

演出地点 Venue

深圳音乐厅·演奏大厅

Symphony Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall

演出曲目 Programme

演出阵容

Artist Lineup

杨洋/指挥

YANG Yang/Conductor

Born into a musical family, Yang Yang started music study initially on the piano with Prof. Li Qifang. Later, he started to study conducting respectively with Prof. Xu Xin and Prof. Wu Lingfen, and then was admitted to the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music, being one of the students of Prof. Yu Feng.

In November 2006, Yang won the first place for his outstanding performance at the International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition for Conductors in Greece which made him as the first conductor from China receiving award in a major international music competition.

As one of the leading conductors in China, Yang Yang has maintained close partnership with all major orchestras and opera houses in China. Meanwhile, he regularly conducts orchestras overseas including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, German Philharmonic Orchestra of Cologne, StuttgarterPhilharmoniker, National Rhine Philharmonic Orchestra, New Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Italian Verona Opera House, Teatro Regio Torino, Italian Rome Philharmonic Orchestra, French Cannes Symphony Orchestra, Bordeaux Symphony Orchestra, Valencia Orchestra of Spain, Greek Symphony Orchestra, Athenian Chamber Orchestra and Korean Incheon Philharmonic, etc. 

He has worked with various top soloists and vocalists including cellists Lynn Harrell, Alban Gerhard, Wang Jian, Natalia Gutman, violinists Maxim Vengerov, Gidon Kremer, Midori, Sarah Chang, Augustin Dumay, Lenard Karpison, Cho-Liang Lin, pianists Gary Graffman, Lang Lang, Barry Douglas, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Kun-Woo Paik, Jon Kimura Parker, soprano Sumi Jo, clarinetists Sabine Meyer, Wenzel Fuchs, French horn players Radovan Vlatkovic, Stefan Dohr, to name a few, as well as all the top Chinese instrumentalists and vocalists.

With prestigious recommendation from Maestro Long Yu, Yang Yang started his career in the year of 1998, at the First Beijing Music Festival (BMF). Since then, he has conducted operas and concerts at BMF eight years consecutively. From 2000 to 2016, Yang Yang held the position as the Assistant Conductor and Resident Conductor of China Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO). In 2006, Yang Yang joined in the conducting masterclass by Maestro Myung-whun Chung in Korea. In 2009 Yang Yang co-founded the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO), and in 2017 Yang Yang has led the founding of Hangzhou International Music Festival.

Since 2009, Yang Yang and HPO have successfully launched fifteen music seasons, and performed at leading festivals including Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Ravello Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Taormina Festival. He also toured with HPO extensively in Russia and Estonia. In 2018, Yang toured with HPO to five “Belt and Road” countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Hungary, as well as Japan, Korea and Thailand as the conductor, winning great applause from European and Asian audience and enjoying critical acclaim at home and abroad.

Yang Yang also devote opera ever since the beginning of his career, which led the appointment of Music Director and Chief Conductor of China National Opera House in 2016. During the past two decades Yang Yang has conducted China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Opera House and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra with opera productions including Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Carmen. He has conducted the world premiere performance of various operas by Chinese composers including Night Banquet, Wolf Cub Village, Songs Of The Long March, The Red Detachment of Women and Manas. Yang Yang has toured with China National Opera House to Swiss and Italy for Giacomo Puccini Opera Festival with Turandot, Madama Butterfly and Songs Of The Long March, which drew broad attention internationally on his outstanding talents in opera conducting. 

Yang Yang is Music Director and Chief Conductor of China National Opera House, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of Hangzhou International Music Festival and Artistic Director of CCOM Children Symphony Orchestra.

杨允晶/小提琴

Yoon Jung YANG/Violin

Dr. Yoon Jung YANG currently serves as an Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Born in Seoul, Korea, Dr. YANG is a distinguished violinist and educator.

She commenced her musical journey with foundational training at the preparatory division of the Korea National University of Arts and Yewon Arts Middle School. At the age of fifteen, her talent led to admission to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Aaron Rosand and Pamela Frank. There, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree and pursued advanced studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, with Miriam Fried and Donald Weilersteinn a full scholarship (Merit Scholarship). Her educational journey culminated in both a Master of Music degree and a Doctorate degree. Dr. YANG further holds a Master of Music degree from Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where she studied with Stephan Picard.

Dr. YANG has won awards from numerous competitions, both in her native country and abroad, such as being a semifinalist at the Queen Elizabeth Competition (2015) and winning the Modern Piece Prize at the Max Rostal International Competition (2012), to name a few.

As an international performer, Dr. YANG has graced solo and chamber music stages across the globe, captivating audiences in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Italy, Korea, Norway, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her soloist appearances include collaborations with esteemed orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, TBC Symphony Orchestras, Gwa-Cheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Chamber Orchestra, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, and St. Gellert Academy Orchestra. Most recently, she was invited to Budapest, Hungary, for a solo recital at the Liszt Academy. In 2016, she joined the Korean Chamber Orchestra, and in 2022, she served as a guest principal and assistant concertmaster of the KBS orchestra.

Beyond her solo performances, Dr. YANG is an avid chamber musician, sharing the stage with luminaries such as Atar Arad, Boris Berman, Natasha Brofsky, Kenneth Cooper, Timothy Eddy, Ralph Kirshbaum, Maria Lambros, Karl Leister, Seymour Lipkin, Anthony Marwood, Cynthia Phelps, Paula Robison, and Roger Tapping.

Her dedication to chamber music encompasses a rich repertoire, from classical masterpieces to contemporary works. Dr. YANG has collaborated with contemporary composers, realizing new compositions by Richard Danielpour, Mario Davidovsky, Brett Dean, Steve Mackey, and Christopher Theofanidis.

Participating in renowned festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, Festival MusicAlp, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Kontiki Festival, Music Academy of the West, Ravinia Festival, Summit Music Festival, and Sarasota Music Festival, Dr. YANG has had the privilege of studying chamber music with eminent artists such as Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Frans Hermerson, Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levine, Roger Tapping, and Arnold Steinhardt.

In her role as an educator, Dr. YANG has made significant contributions. She served as a faculty member for chamber music and violin at the Young Artists Program of the Yellow Barn Music Festival from 2011 to 2014. From 2018 to 2023, she was a dedicated faculty member at Sookmyung Women's University, and from 2021 to 2023, she held the position of adjunct assistant professor at Korea National University of Arts.

许韵頔/钢琴

XU Yundi/Piano

A talented young Chinese pianist, Yundi Xu developed a passion for the Romantic and French repertoire at an early age. Trained in France, England and Germany, she regularly performs in festivals and on major international stages (Salle Gaveau, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bolshoi Theatre, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the Prince Radziwiłł’s Hunting Palace in Antonin, the Heydar-Aliyev Center in Baku, Seiji Ozawa Hall, etc.). Gifted with innate pianistic skills and exceptional sensitivity, she excels both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.

Yundi Xu started playing the piano at the age of three, guided by her musician grandfather, and won the MIDO competition one year later. At nine years old, she entered the “École normale de musique de Paris Alfred Cortot” and then the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP). She obtained a double bachelor (including one in chamber music), followed by a Master’s Degree at the age of 19 and completed an Erasmus programme at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Two years later, supported by the Benjamin Dale and Frederic Jackson scholarships, she obtained her Master of Arts from the Royal Academy in London. In 2019, she started attending the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin as part of the Konzertexamen, and was involved in the Ravel class at the Académie musicale Philippe Jaroussky, whose mission is to make classical music more accessible by welcoming young people from culturally remote situations. She has earned numerous prizes, including the 12th International Piano Competition “Chopin for the youngest” (Poland, 2013), the special prize of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation at the 1st International Piano Competition “Olga Kern” (United States, 2016), the 36th Andrée Charlier Competition (Belgium, 2018), etc.

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Yundi Xu’s orchestra career started in 2015, playing with the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, then with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester, the Namur Chamber Orchestra and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra etc.. She has collaborated with prominent conductors such as Zhang Yi, Fuad Ibrahimov, Leonard Elschenbroich, Ayrton Desimpelaere and Li Biao, and her recordings of works by Chopin and Ravel have been broadcasted on Musiq’ 3, Deutschlandradio, RBB Kultur radio and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln. Furthermore, master classes have had a profound influence on her work: Yundi Xu has received guidance from the likes of Dang Thai Son, Gary Graffman, Arie Vardi, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Pavel Gililov during summer academies that greatly contributed to her international training. In 2018 she studied at the Aspen Music Festival and School with the support of the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship. Then she moved on to the Tanglewood Music Center, working with Paul Lewis and composer Thomas Adès, and performing the world premiere of an Andrew Hamilton piece as well as the American premiere of a Nathan Shields composition. Yundi Xu is deeply inspired by contemporary music and stage performance, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Generous, passionate and demanding, she is always willing to share her attachment to the Romantic and French repertoire with an ever-growing international audience.

杭州爱乐乐团

Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO)

Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO) has established itself as one of the most outstanding symphony orchestras in China. The orchestra has engaged Yang Yang as Music Director and Chief Conductor and Long Yu as the Chairman of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra Artistic Committee.

An impressive array of renowned musicians in China and around the world has performed with HPO in the past years, including conductors Krzysztof Penderecki, Zubin Mehta, Chung Myung-whun, Long Yu, Yu Feng, Zhang Guoyong, pianists Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, etc.

HPO promotes contemporary music, especially programs from Chinese composers. In 2012, Seven Episodes of West Lake composed by Ye Xiaogang. In 2014, HPO commissioned Guo Wenjing for Man Jiang Hong. In 2016, HPO commissioned Zhou Tian for Cello Concerto Flowing Sleeves. In 2018, HPO co-commissioned Zhao Lin for A Happy Excursion concerto for Pipa, Cello and Orchestra with BMF and New York Philharmonic. From 2018 to 2020, HPO commissioned Yang Yibo and Xu Jianqiang for New Melody of Zhejiang. In 2021, HPO commissioned lyricist Zhu Hai and composer Yang Fan for Flags of Our Faith. In the same year, the Orchestra commissioned composer Xu Zhitong to create The Light of Asia - Overture to Fulfilling the Dream of the Asian Games. In collaboration with23symphony orchestras of Chinese Musicians' Association, HPO jointly commissioned a symphonic poem A Thousand Li of Riversand Mountainswhich was dedicated to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China，and in the same year commissioned the composer LuoMaishuo to create a symphonic suite of The Elegance of Song Dynasty and a symphonic painting Dwelling of the Fuchun Mountains. In 2023, the HPO commissioned composer Ye Xiaogang to create the work Capriccio on Jade Guan Yin for violin and symphony orchestra, and also commissioned composer Zhou Tian to compose Threads.

Cultural exchange program being an integral part, the orchestra has partnered with Berliner Philharmoniker’s board, Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Philadelphia Orchestra and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory.

Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra has made great artistic achievements by establishing musical seasons. With joint efforts of all members, HPO emphasizes on professional development with Hangzhou Speed and HPO Model, and has been the golden name card and icon of Hangzhou in terms of cultural construction and international exchange.