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Contemporary Music

2018-11-13

Venue: Concert Hall

Dates: November 14, 2018

Programme

JIA Guoping

Sheng, Pipa, Guzheng and Chamber Orchestra Ripples in Spacetime

TANG Jianping

Sheng, Pipa, Guzheng, Erhu and Chamber Orchestra Golden Unicorn

LI Binyang

Bamboo Flute, Suona, Sheng, Pipa, Ruan, Zhong Ruan, Hammered Dulcimer, Erhu, Zhonghu, Percussion and Chamber Orchestra Lake at Sunset

QIN Wenchen

Sheng, Zheng and Chamber Orchestra Symphonic Poem of Earth

CHEN Xinruo

Mixed Chamber Orchestra Grand Concerto

YE Xiaogang

Pipa and Chamber Orchestra Lagerstroemia

GUO Wenjing

Mixed Chamber Orchestra Recitative for Chinese Gong

Conductor

CHEN Lin

Conductor CHEN Lin is currently teaching at the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music. CHEN Lin is not only active on various important stages across the country, but has also cooperated with many international music groups. She was claimed as "a hard-won excellent musician” by the long-standing Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.

In 1996, CHEN Lin was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music and became a student of China’s famous conductor Professor YU Feng. In 2000, under the recommendation of the maestro Mr. Seiji Ozawa, she was exempted from the examination to study in the top Tanglewood Music Festival in US and won the Bernstein Scholarship. From 1999 to 2003, she entered the finals of the Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors three times. In 2007, in the 8th Gregory Fitelberg’s International Competition for Conductors held in the famous city Katowice of Poland, she took the second place, winning two prizes of "Silver Baton Award" and "the Best Conductor Award for Polish famous composer Szymanowki’s works”.

In 2003, CHEN Lin served as assistant conductor of Seiji Ozawa Music Academy and took part in numerous opera rehearsals. She also acted as the conductor of the Music Academy in China Tour in 2005, gaining great success. In 2006, she was invited to Japan's famous Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto as a guest conductor and conducted Rossini’s opera Il barbiere di Siviglia and many concerts. In 2011, Mr. Ozawa cancelled his performances at the NCPA in Beijing due to health conditions. CHEN Lin took over the conducting for parts of the concerts and received good praises. In 2013, CHEN Lin was invited to conduct the Closing Concert of Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto.

In recent years, CHEN Lin is also recognized as an opera conductor. In 2011, she was invited by the China National Opera House to conduct the premiere of Strauss's opera Die Fledermaus of the Chinese version in China. In 2015, she was invited to cooperate with the China National Opera House again to conduct Puccini's opera Tosca. From 2014 to 2016, under the invitation of the Taiwan Creation Opera Institute, she conducted Puccini’s opera La bohème and Mozart’s opera Così Fan Tutte.

CHEN Lin has conducted a wide range of works, like symphonies, Western classical operas and Chinese contemporary original operas. She has maintained good cooperation with China's leading orchestras and opera houses, such as the NCPA, the China National Opera House, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra and so on. Her musical talents have attracted the attention of renowned international music communities and music festivals, including Japan's Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Poland Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, and Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.

As a professional professor of conductor, CHEN Lin also concentrates on studies of teaching modern conducting methods. She has made outstanding teaching achievements at the university since 2004 and the conducting profession students under her supervision have repeatedly won excellent results in major competitions at home and abroad. From 2005 to 2008, she was appointed to be the music director of the student orchestra and the professor of Conducting Department, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), US.

Presenter

Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra

The Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, attached to the Central Conservatory of Music, is a professional symphony orchestra composed of professional musicians from home and abroad. The orchestra was founded in December 2016, and its current artistic director is Professor YU Feng, a Chinese conductor and President of the Central Conservatory of Music. All instrumentalists of the orchestra are recruited through strict assessments on a global scale. With passions, virtuosity and an earnest attitude toward performance, they interpret classic masterpieces of China and the world.

In May 2017, the Inaugural Conference of Music Education Alliance across the “Silk Road” was held at the Central Conservatory of Music, where President YU Feng raised his baton over the orchestra, performing classic work Sheherazade at the closing concert. In December, Sheherazade was performed at the NCPA. On December 29th, the live recording of Sheherazade performed by the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra under YU Feng’s baton won the best instrumental performance award at the 10th “China Gold Record Awards”.

At the start of 2018, the “Music Contemporary from China 2018—World Premiere of Works by Composers of the Central Conservatory of Music” was held as scheduled at the Lincoln Center in New York City.

The Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra has held concerts of music rich in content and interpreted in various forms under the aim of “approaching masters, feeling classics, cultivating taste and improving cultivation”.

Since its founding, the orchestra has given performances under the theme of “China National Arts Fund Artist Training Programme - China Young Conductor Training Master Class”, the “Maestro Class” by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, artistic director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and “2017 China Chamber Opera Composition Promoting Project”. In April 2017, the orchestra ushered in its 2017-2018 season, and has held various forms of concerts.

The orchestra has won high praise from a lot of musicians at home and abroad. Its achievements made in its opening symphony concerts show domestic and foreign music lovers the unique charm of an international symphony orchestra and its leading power in the Chinese symphony.

Traditional Chamber Orchestra of Central Conservatory of Music

Founded in June, 2018, the Traditional Chamber Orchestra of Central Conservatory of Music consists of young musicians who have won the golden awards at major Chinese music competitions.

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