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Glorious Performance by Jian Wang and Xu Zhong
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 2006-2007 Music Season Closing Gala
Conductor: Yu Long
Piano: Xu Zhong
Cello: Wang Jian
Performer: Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
Program:
Mozart: Piano Concerto in G Major No.17, K453
Dvorak：Cello Concertos in B Minor, Op.104
Wagner : Tannhauser Overture
Time: Sunday, July 8, 2007, 8pm
Venue: Symphony Hall，Xinghai Concert Hall
Tickets： 300(VIP)/250/180/120/80（60/40 for students）
About Xu Zhong
As one of most internationally renowned Chinese pianists and conductors, Xu Zhong is the founding member and Artistic Director of China Shanghai International Piano Competition and Executive Artistic Director of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with many of the most world-renowned musicians, including Philippe Entremont, Sergiu Commissiona, Paul Badura-Skoda, Arie Vardi, Vladimir Krainev, Lazar Berman, Michel Dalberto, Arto Noras, Gérard Poulet and Pavel Kogan.
Xu Zhong was born into a family of medical researchers in Shanghai. His early childhood music education from Prof. Wang Yu of Shanghai Conservatory of Music prepared him for the rigorous formal music education he was to receive in the class of Dominique Merlet at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Xu Zhong won numerous prestigious international competitions since 1988, including the 1st Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, the Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, the 5th Tokyo International Piano Competition and the 10th Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
Since then, besides being the regular guest of Chinese orchestras and presenters, both as a pianist and conductor, he has taken up a concert career spanning Europe, North America, South America and South-East Asia. “La Folle Journée de Nantes au Japon” held in May 2006 reviewed him as top artistic pianist bursting on to the world stage. He represents the future of Asia. He has worked with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In 2007/08, he will be the soloist and conductor of the Lille National Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and will be the soloist of the Colonne Orchestra in Paris/Salle Pleyel.
Zhong participates to international master-classes at the American Schools of Fine Arts&Music in Fontainebleau and the Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice, where he shares his musical knowledge with the younger generation. In capacity of jury member he is regularly invited to attend international piano competitions, such as Leeds International Piano Competition, Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano (2007), Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (2007), International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (2008), AXA Dublin International Piano Competition (2009), and Seoul International Music Competition (2009).
Xu Zhong’s professional experience and achievements inside China are twofold : administrative and artistic. He has been Artistic Consultant of China Shanghai International Arts Festival and Artistic Director of “French Culture in Shanghai", L’Année de la France en Chine 2003/2005. He was nominated to be Music Consultant of Shanghai Concert Hall, member of Shanghai Grand Theatre Arts Group Artistic Committee and Vice President of Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre Art Committee.
About Jian Wang
Jian Wang began to study the cello with his father when he was four. While
a student at the Shanghai Conservatoire, he was featured in the celebrated
documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr Stern's
encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States
and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme
where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.
During the 2006/7 season Jian Wang will be undertaking a tour of the Far
East with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their music director Jiri
Belohlavek. He will also perform with the Florence Maggio
Musicale/Dudamel, City of London Sinfonia/Hickox, Singapore Symphony and
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestras. In April and May 2007 he will collaborate
with Gil Shaham and others in a series of chamber concerts in the US
including two performances at Carnegie Hall in New York. Last season Jian
Wang’s performances included the Boston Symphony/de Burgos, NHK Symphony/Ashkenazy, Detroit Symphony/Neeme Jarvi, Danish National Radio Symphony/Lazarev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Chung.
Jian Wang’s first professional engagement was in 1986, at New York’s
Carnegie Hall. Since then he has embarked on an international career,
early highlights including concerts with the Mahler Youth Orchestra/Claudio
Abbado and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (in
Amsterdam and on tour in China). Since then he has performed with many of
the world’s leading orchestras including Philadelphia, Cleveland; Boston, Detroit
and Chicago Symphony; Hong Kong Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle, Stockholm
Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Halle, Scottish Chamber, Mahler Chamber and
the National Orchestra of France. These concerts have been with many of the
greatest conductors, such as Dutoit, Krivine, Sawallisch, Bergland,
Eschenbach, Dausgaard, Hickox, Wigglesworth and Harding.
Jian Wang has also performed at many festivals throughout the world, as
both soloist and chamber musician. These have included Verbier in
Switzerland, Miyazaki in Japan, Aldeburgh in the UK and Tanglewood and
Mostly Mozart in the USA.
Jian Wang has an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, the Bach Cello Suites and a Baroque Album with the Camerata Salzburg being his most recent releases.
He has also recorded the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham; the Haydn Concerti
with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Muhai Tang; Messiaen’s Quartet for the
End of Time (with Chung, Shaham and Meyer) and Brahms, Mozart and Schumann
chamber music with Pires and Dumay. His instrument is graciously loaned to
him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam.
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 2006-2007 Music Season Closing Gala
Conductor: Yu Long
Piano: Xu Zhong
Cello: Wang Jian
Performer: Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
Program:
Mozart: Piano Concerto in G Major No.17, K453
Dvorak：Cello Concertos in B Minor, Op.104
Wagner : Tannhauser Overture
Time: Sunday, July 8, 2007, 8pm
Venue: Symphony Hall，Xinghai Concert Hall
Tickets： 300(VIP)/250/180/120/80（60/40 for students）
About Xu Zhong
As one of most internationally renowned Chinese pianists and conductors, Xu Zhong is the founding member and Artistic Director of China Shanghai International Piano Competition and Executive Artistic Director of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with many of the most world-renowned musicians, including Philippe Entremont, Sergiu Commissiona, Paul Badura-Skoda, Arie Vardi, Vladimir Krainev, Lazar Berman, Michel Dalberto, Arto Noras, Gérard Poulet and Pavel Kogan.
Xu Zhong was born into a family of medical researchers in Shanghai. His early childhood music education from Prof. Wang Yu of Shanghai Conservatory of Music prepared him for the rigorous formal music education he was to receive in the class of Dominique Merlet at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Xu Zhong won numerous prestigious international competitions since 1988, including the 1st Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, the Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, the 5th Tokyo International Piano Competition and the 10th Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
Since then, besides being the regular guest of Chinese orchestras and presenters, both as a pianist and conductor, he has taken up a concert career spanning Europe, North America, South America and South-East Asia. “La Folle Journée de Nantes au Japon” held in May 2006 reviewed him as top artistic pianist bursting on to the world stage. He represents the future of Asia. He has worked with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In 2007/08, he will be the soloist and conductor of the Lille National Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and will be the soloist of the Colonne Orchestra in Paris/Salle Pleyel.
Zhong participates to international master-classes at the American Schools of Fine Arts&Music in Fontainebleau and the Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice, where he shares his musical knowledge with the younger generation. In capacity of jury member he is regularly invited to attend international piano competitions, such as Leeds International Piano Competition, Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano (2007), Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (2007), International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (2008), AXA Dublin International Piano Competition (2009), and Seoul International Music Competition (2009).
Xu Zhong’s professional experience and achievements inside China are twofold : administrative and artistic. He has been Artistic Consultant of China Shanghai International Arts Festival and Artistic Director of “French Culture in Shanghai", L’Année de la France en Chine 2003/2005. He was nominated to be Music Consultant of Shanghai Concert Hall, member of Shanghai Grand Theatre Arts Group Artistic Committee and Vice President of Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre Art Committee.
About Jian Wang
Jian Wang began to study the cello with his father when he was four. While
a student at the Shanghai Conservatoire, he was featured in the celebrated
documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr Stern's
encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States
and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme
where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.
During the 2006/7 season Jian Wang will be undertaking a tour of the Far
East with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their music director Jiri
Belohlavek. He will also perform with the Florence Maggio
Musicale/Dudamel, City of London Sinfonia/Hickox, Singapore Symphony and
Osaka Philharmonic Orchestras. In April and May 2007 he will collaborate
with Gil Shaham and others in a series of chamber concerts in the US
including two performances at Carnegie Hall in New York. Last season Jian
Wang’s performances included the Boston Symphony/de Burgos, NHK Symphony/Ashkenazy, Detroit Symphony/Neeme Jarvi, Danish National Radio Symphony/Lazarev and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Chung.
Jian Wang’s first professional engagement was in 1986, at New York’s
Carnegie Hall. Since then he has embarked on an international career,
early highlights including concerts with the Mahler Youth Orchestra/Claudio
Abbado and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (in
Amsterdam and on tour in China). Since then he has performed with many of
the world’s leading orchestras including Philadelphia, Cleveland; Boston, Detroit
and Chicago Symphony; Hong Kong Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle, Stockholm
Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Halle, Scottish Chamber, Mahler Chamber and
the National Orchestra of France. These concerts have been with many of the
greatest conductors, such as Dutoit, Krivine, Sawallisch, Bergland,
Eschenbach, Dausgaard, Hickox, Wigglesworth and Harding.
Jian Wang has also performed at many festivals throughout the world, as
both soloist and chamber musician. These have included Verbier in
Switzerland, Miyazaki in Japan, Aldeburgh in the UK and Tanglewood and
Mostly Mozart in the USA.
Jian Wang has an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, the Bach Cello Suites and a Baroque Album with the Camerata Salzburg being his most recent releases.
He has also recorded the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham; the Haydn Concerti
with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Muhai Tang; Messiaen’s Quartet for the
End of Time (with Chung, Shaham and Meyer) and Brahms, Mozart and Schumann
chamber music with Pires and Dumay. His instrument is graciously loaned to
him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam.
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