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The Macao Chinese Orchestra with Pianist Fang Yuan in Concert
The Macao Chinese Orchestra with Pianist Fang Yuan in Concert
  • Performed by:the Macao Chinese Orchestra, Fang Yuan; Conductor: Sha Liu
  • Hosted by:Shenzhen Concert Hall
  • Time:2019-11-16 ( Saturday) 20:00
  • Address:Symphony Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall
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The Macao Chinese Orchestra
Established in 1987, the Macao Chinese Orchestra (MCHO) is a professional orchestra under the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administration Region (MSAR) Government. Sha Liu is now the Music Director and Principal Conductor of MCHO. The Orchestra has always adhered to its principles, namely “taking root in Macao, facing the world, inheriting Chinese and Western traditions and disseminating culture”.
 
The Macao Chinese Orchestra (MCHO) has made great efforts to promote music art education and culture and demonstrate its concern for society by going deep into the community and schools. It has been actively participating in the Macao International Music Festival, Macao Arts Festival and Celebration of the Anniversary of Macao’s Handover to China. It has also been strengthening the nurture of small and medium-sized arts groups and young musicians with an aim to promote local Chinese music development and trying to put music performances into stage of World Heritage Sites, parks etc to enrich residents’ lives and activate the artistic genes in communities.
 
The MCHO had toured all over many countries and cities, such as Portugal, Belgium, India, Goa, Singapore, the Kingdom of Bahrain and other countries; Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Wuhan, Xian, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and Guangzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Putian, Zhongshan, and other cities. Through the integration of Chinese-Western elements and contemporary Chinese music art, the Orchestra aims to enhance exchanges and cooperation, and promote the cultural image of the integration of Macao and the West, what has been widely praised.
 
Conductors who have joined hands with the Orchestra include Kin-Wai Wong, Pang-Ka Pang, Zhengping Wang, Zhanhao He, Limin Gu, Guanren Gu, Fujian Wang, Xiaofei Huang, Yongji Wang, Bingxu Hu, Huichang Yan, Nai-Chung Kuan, Dongsheng Piao, Zushan Bian, Wenjin Liu, Xieyang Chen, Lie Zhang, Ning-Chi Chen, Xia Hong, Sha Liu and Tsung Yeh, etc.
 
The Orchestra has co-operated with numerous musicians and vocalists, including Sucheng Shi, Huifen Min, Dehai Liu, Rão Kyao, Kemei Jiang, Fei Song, Ya Dai, Zuohui Chen, Junqiao Tang, Jiazhen Zhao, Fengnu Guo, Frances Yip, Hongmei Yu, Paula Tsui, Kuizhi Yu, Adam Cheng, Jenny Tseng, Chuanyun Li, Chengzong Yin, Carlos do Carmo, George Lam, Yuxia Wu, Cong Zhao and Xuefei Yang, among others.
 
The Macao Chinese Orchestra performs periodically not only traditional folk music but also original Chinese music works with combination of Chinese and Western characters. It emphasizes on performing local commissioned works that feature elements of Macao’s culture that include Nai-Chuang Kuan’s Macao Love Stories, Jiping Zhao’s Macao Impressions, Jianping Tang’s Macau Suite, Danhong Wang’s Macau Capriccio, etc. Some of these music works even have been recorded and published, and they became representative works showing Macao’s unique cultural atmosphere.
 

Music Director and Principal Conductor: Sha Liu
Sha Liu is Principal Conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra, a young leading talent in the Ten Thousand Talents Plan, National Class One Conductor and currently Music Director, Resident Conductor of the China National Traditional Orchestra (CNTO) and the Central Conservatory Chinese Orchestra, Guest Conductor-in-Residence of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Jilin Symphony Orchestra, Executive Director of the Chinese Conductor Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, Vice-president of the Conducting Professional Committee and Executive Director of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, Vice Chairman of the Russian Chinese Artists’ and Musicians’ Association.
 
He graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music where he studied conducting, and later went to the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory to further his conducting studies. He completed the programme with top honours and was awarded a diploma in Opera-Symphony Conducting. During his studies, he had benefitted from the teaching of Professors Xin Xu, Fujian Wang, and Alexander Polishchuk. He had also attended the master classes of world famous maestros Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jorma Panula, Colin Metters and Gustav Meier.
 
Acclaimed as a cross-genre conductor adept in both Chinese and Western music in recent years, Liu has easy command over Western symphonic music and Chinese orchestral music. In the former, his forte is in the music of Russia and Eastern Europe, and he expanded his concert repertoire phenomenally by including 20th century Western music and Chinese contemporary works. In the latter, he actively explores ways to develop Chinese music ensembles and to groom professional conductors in Chinese orchestral music. He has performed by sight-reading and premiered close to a thousand works in the genre. Furthermore, Liu is a visionary who has been actively advocating, commissioning and performing new works by young composers. The resulting achievements have launched him into the limelight of the music circles of China and Asia. The media dubbed him as a distinguished representative figure and leader among the younger generation of Chinese music conductors.
 
At the 5th Chinese Music Forum in 2016, he was the youngest conductor to be named one of China’s Top Ten Conductors in Chinese Orchestral Music. In August the same year, he was the cover feature in People’s Music. Liu has published many papers and music critiques with contents showing his wide and varied empirical experiences as well as insights into pedagogic studies. He is currently a visiting professor to many arts institutes in China.
 

Piano: Fang Yuan
Fang Yuan, one of China’s leading pianists, has been praised by international critics and pianists for her outstanding performances. The great Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda said, “Fang is one of the few pianists who can bring the spirit of composers to life.” The Sueddeutsche Zeitung hailed her as “an amazing Chinese pianist who tugs at the heartstrings of the audience.”
 
She has performed worldwide with leading orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and many more, under the batons of leading international and Chinese conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Jia Lü, Walter Weller and Lawrence Foster.
 
Fang Yuan has recorded several CDs and DVDs of her favourite repertoire, that from Central Europe, including solo works by Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Her recent recording was made in 2015, when she recorded for Sony Classics with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (London). Her much praised interpretations of the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 have been released to excellent reviews, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
 
Fang Yuan began piano studies at an early age, giving her first public concert at the age of six. She continued her studies in Beijing at China Central Conservatory of Music, under Professor Yuan Wu. During a seven-year period of study in Germany, she worked with Gerhard Oppitz and Michael Schaefer, graduating in 2008 from the Munich Hochschule fur Musik und Theater with a double major in Piano and Chamber music, a qualification recognized as a doctoral equivalent by the Ministry of Education in China. She also attended master classes with Andras Schiff.
 
Early successes included winning the top prize from the Munich International Young Pianist Stage (2004). That same year, she was invited to join the Munich Pianist Club, and received recognition as the “Most popular pianist”. Equally at home performing chamber music, while in Germany she founded the MHM Piano Quintet and Spianato Piano Trio, with whom she has toured successfully in Europe and China. She has also performed with the outstanding cellist Jian Wang in the Sintra Festival in Portugal. She was invited to create a multimedia concert at the World Universidad Arts Festival in 2011.She played a wonderful solo recital in Carnegie Hall in 2016.
 
She was appointed professor of piano at the China Central Conservatory of Music, at the age of 29 the youngest professor ever appointed there. As a popular teacher, her students have been the recipients of many awards. Fang Yuan is a Bösendorfer artist.
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