Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of two or 0.9 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.
 

 

CHEN Weiping
CHEN Weiping currently serves as an associate cello professor and a postgraduate supervisor at the Orchestra Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also the guest professor of the Rutesheim Cello Art Festival in Germany. Cello maestro Mstislav Rostropovich had praised CHEN as “the most talented musician”. CHEN was the first Chinese to participate in the Saito-Kinen International Music Festival. He maintains frequent collaborations with well-known orchestras home and abroad and has performed at top venues in Europe and America. As a soloist, he has toured dozens of countries and regions in Europe and Asia and performed with China National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra on their European tours. He is often invited to serve as the judge of domestic and international competitions, and regularly holds masterclasses in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and other regions in Asia. Regarding the field of education in which he has achieved outstanding results, his students have won numerous awards in international competitions. He has also played an important role in the promotion and popularization of classical music. He has been interviewed by new media many times and appeared on such famous speech platforms as Ted and Yike Talks.
 

XIE Tian
XIE Tian, the youngest principal cellist of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, was the Gold Award recipient and the prize winner of “Best Interpretation of Bach’s Works” in the 9th Davidov International Cello Competition. He was also the gold award winner of the Concerto Competition of Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in 2010.
 
As a chamber music performer, XIE established a trio for piano, flute and cello and won the bronze medal in the 2012 Singapore International Flute Festival Ensemble Competition.
 
In 2014, he founded the "China-South Korea Cello Quartet" composed of young cellists from China and South Korea. He is active in major music festivals and masterclasses around the world, including the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles, the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in the U.K., the Tignes International Music Festival in France, the Salzburg International Summer Academy, the Adelaide International Cello Festival in Australia and so forth. He was also the scholarship recipient of the 2012 “Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation of China”.
 

XIE Liujia
XIE Liujia, a national first-class performer, currently serves as the principal cellist of the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra and a council member of the Shanghai Cello Association. He is a teacher of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and an adjunct associate professor of the Music College of Shanghai University. He entered the primary school affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of eight and successively studied cello under the tutelage of Professor LIU Meijuan, Professor XIA Jinglu and Professor CHEN Jiuhe. During his study period, he had won multiple prizes in a number of national cello competitions and the competitions at provincial and municipal levels. As a soloist, he had collaborated with the symphony orchestras of Shanghai Opera House and Fujian Opera and Dance Drama Theatre. As a principal cellist, he has been aboard many times for cultural exchanges together with the Cultural Ministry and the orchestra and has accumulated lots of experience in chamber music, symphony, opera and ballet.
 

CHEN Tian
CHEN Tian serves as the current associate principal cellist of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied cello at the age of five and entered the primary school affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music with excellent grades. In 2005, she was sent on recommendation to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied with Professor CHEN Weiping. In 2009, she continued her postgraduate studies under the tutelage of Professor CHEN Jiuhe and Professor LI Jiwu at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She also received the gentle guidance from such well-known cellists as Leonard Rose, Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrel, Liwei Qin, Wenxin Yang et al. During her study period, she was the principal cellist of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the China-Germany Youth Symphony Orchestra and Dongfang Sinfonietta. She had successfully performed an ensemble concert at the Konzerthaus Berlin to critical acclaim during the European Youth Symphony Festival. She had performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao and other places with great success. In December 2010, she won first place for the Performance Award in the second "Baichuan Award" Composition Competition of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
 

SHEN Yue
SHEN Yue, a young cello player, currently serves as the associate principal cellist of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. He was a postgraduate student and a full scholarship recipient of Bowling Green State University. After back to China, he entered The Shanghai Orchestra Academy with a full scholarship and studied under the guidance of cellist HUANG Beixing, the principal cello player of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. During the study period, he had collaborated with the principals of New York Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and so forth.
 
SHEN Yue started cello studies at the age of six under the tutelage of ZHONG Dengqi, the principal cellist of Chengdu Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, he was admitted to the Music College of Sichuan Normal University and had been the recipient of first-class scholarship for consecutive four years. He has become the associate principal cellist of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra since 2014.
 

YOU Dunbang
YOU Dunbang currently serves as the associate principal cellist of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. He graduated with a master’s degree from The Kharkov Conservatory of Music in 2012 and was the sliver prize recipient in the 21st Century Young Musicians Competition held in Kiev, Ukraine. He had collaborated twice with Kharkiv Youth Symphony Orchestra, performing cello concertos by Saint-Saëns and Elgar. From 2008 to 2012, he had taken the post as the principal cello player with Kharkiv Youth Symphony Orchestra. After back to China, he was admitted to The Shanghai Orchestra Academy to continue his studies under the tutelage of HUANG Beixing, the principal cellist of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and other well-known masters.
 

 
LÜ Bingxia
LÜ Bingxia serves as a teacher at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School and the Central Conservatory of Music. She was simultaneously admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music and the National University of Singapore. In 2011, she entered the University of Southern California as a postgraduate with a full scholarship, studying with the world-renowned cello educator Ralph Kirshbaum. LÜ Bingxia won the gold medal of the 5th Chinese Golden Bell Award of Music in 2005 and has been the youngest gold medalist since the start of the competition. In 2013, she won second place in Schoenfeld International String Competition. As a soloist, she has played with orchestras such as Chamber Music Adelaide, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, China Film Symphony Orchestra, China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra and so forth.

 
FANG Yijia
FANG Yijia, a young Chinese cellist and the D.M.A of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM), currently serves as a teacher in the Orchestra Department of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He is the founder of ChineseCelloMusic.org and was a former chamber music teaching assistant in UBC School of Music. Since 2020, he has become a young teacher of the Orchestra Department of Shenyang Conservatory of Music through a high-level talent introduction plan. FANG frequently makes cross-genre cooperation with traditional folk music masters, including the performance with Chinese Pipa master TANG Liangxing and Chinese Sheng master WENG Zhenfa at Carnegie Hall in New York. In terms of Chinese cello music, FANG held numerous concerts in year 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively, which attracted great attention from the Chinese and foreign music scene. Later he founded ChineseCelloMusic.org and dedicates himself to promoting new Chinese cello music.
 

Host：ZHOU Wei
ZHOU Wei, Director of Publicity Planning Department of Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a bachelor's degree in Musicology and graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy with a master’s degree in Arts Management (MFA). She has planned and produced music performances of various themes, such as the trilogy of The Concerts of Poetry, Literature and Painting in Chinese Music (“Free Spirit”, “Moon Shadows”, “Spirit of Chinese Calligraphy”) and the Chinese symphonic epic “Hero”. She has served as the literary planner of major performances such as the opening ceremony of the 18th China Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2016, New Oriental Chinese Music Scene, and the live performance “Our Common Homeland”. She has planned and hosted a total of 16 episodes of the special program “The Elegant East” of Hubei Xiangyang Radio and Television Station. She has also held many music lectures in major theaters and universities, and published art reviews in newspapers and magazines such as Jiefang Daily and Music Lovers.
 
Guest Composer and Arrange：ZHOU Chuhang
ZHOU Chuhang, a young composer and music producer, graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Composition. His music creation involves solo, chamber music, chorus, musical, electronic music, pop music, orchestral music and so forth.
 
He had participated in events such as Pandemic Diary of Music – HUO Zun, SONG Siheng and SSO String Quartet, LI Quan and Band, ZHANG Weiwei and SSO String Quartet, CHEN Weiping’s “Play and Fun” Concert Series, the musical Six Records of A Floating Life, Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Singers’ works like “Xinghe Hotel Suite” and “Calorie”, and the music of games such as “Glory of Kings”, “Moonlight Blade”, and “The Legend of Qin”.

 
 
Program
Game of Thrones Theme
Let It Go
Four Seasons, Summer, the Third Movement
Hungarian Dances, No. 5
Doraemon Theme
The March of Knights
Harry Potter Theme
Remember Me
Super Mario Theme
The Sound of Music Theme
Clap for Happiness
Marvel Theme
 
(Please check program updates at the concert.)