As Massimo Zanetti and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra played a beautiful movement at the National Center for the Performing Arts, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra Concert 2024 officially kicked off on the evening of January 11. On the same day, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra officially announced its 2024 performance schedule, which will stage 18 season concerts and dozens of unique concerts.
The Beijing Symphony Orchestra Concert 2024 has gathered masters, highlighting the charm of the capital’s symphony development. Massimo Zanetti, Alexander Lahbari, Oko Kam, Tang Muhai, Lu Jia, Tan Lihua, Zhang Yi, Xia Xiaotang, Li Haoran, Yu Lu and other famous conductors, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's principal violinist Wei Wei Neta-Sareka Walkner, as well as Joseph Shpacek, Chen Xiang, Zou Xiang, Sun Yingdi, Sheng Yuan, Sun Jiayi, Li La, Namisa Sun and other performers plan to join the concert season show.
On the evening of January 11, the opening concert of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra Concert 2024 was a concert full of "Mediterranean style". Italian conductor Massimo Zanetti collaborated with the orchestra to perform Rossini's opera "Algiers" "The Italian Girl" Overture, Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" Intermezzo and other works. Later, conductor Zhang Yi joined hands with Beijing Symphony Orchestra to bring a set of French works to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. In June, Beijing Symphony Orchestra plans to join hands with Venetta-Sareka Walkner, the first female concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, to perform a special commemorative concert to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of sister city relations between Beijing and Berlin.
This year, Beijing Symphony Orchestra Concert will still take the opportunity of major festivals to stage a series of concerts praising the Party and the motherland, including a series of performances to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the 25th anniversary of Macao’s return to China. Beijing Symphony Orchestra will use multiple concerts to showcase the outstanding achievements of Chinese symphony, combined with the long-term commissioned music masterpieces of the troupe. Mentioning the Beijing Symphony Orchestra’s new commissioned works plan for 2024, the orchestra’s leader Meng Haidong revealed that the commissioned works will be themed around Beijing’s central axis.
In the 2024 music season, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra will also continue to write poems about cultural exchanges, inviting guests from many world-famous orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Austria, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Russia, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in Germany, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra in Serbia. The concertmaster joins in the season performance.
Since the Beijing Symphony Orchestra launched the "Capital Citizen Concert Hall" series of charity performance projects in 2016, it has been based in the capital and radiated across the country. The scope has expanded from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to more than ten provinces, districts and cities across the country. Beijing Symphony Orchestra will also continue to build the public welfare brand of "Capital Citizen Concert Hall". The introduction of elegant art into campuses, communities, military camps and enterprises is another highlight of Beijing Symphony Orchestra's performances in 2024. Beijing Symphony Orchestra will continue to implement the "Beijing Color Culture Blooms Youth" action plan jointly launched by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Education Working Committee of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and carry out performance cooperation with universities.
Translator: BAI Jing
Reviewer: BAI Jing 1
