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Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted.
Each audience should have a tick regardless of the age.
 

Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra
The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra is a highly professional symphony orchestra developed from the Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. The former of Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra is Shanghai Film Orchestra which was established in 1956 and Shanghai Broadcasting Orchestra which was established in 1950, which had both made great contributions to the development of Chinese film and broadcasting industry.
In 1996, Shanghai Film Orchestra and Shanghai Broadcasting Orchestra consolidated to form Shanghai Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra (SBSO) and it made great progress and development led by the former Music Director Hu Yongyan. The name of the orchestra was officially changed to the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in April of 2004 with famous conductor Chen Zuohuang as its Artistic Director, adopting the world’s most prevalent system of music seasons. Since January of 2008, youthful conductor Zhang Liang has assumed the position of conductor of the orchestra. In March of 2009, the famous conductor Tang Muhai took over as Artistic Director of the orchestra. Since January of 2018, famous conductor Zhang Yi has become the Artistic Director of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. With several years’ efforts, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra has now become one of the very best orchestras in China.
The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra pays a great deal of attention to the improvement of artistic taste and skill. The SPO has been involved in collaborations with quite a few renowned musicians both from home and abroad, such as Huang Xiaotong, Yu Long, Bian Zushan, Noorman Widjaja, Shui Lan, Lv Jia, Tan Lihua, Zhang Guoyong, Wang Yongji, Lin Yousheng, Zhu Qiyuan, Zhao Xiao’ou, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter-Lukas Graf, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Jessye Norman, Joe Hisaishi, Peter Flor, Max Pommer, Cristian Macelaru, Thomas Sanderling, M.G. Mola, Yo-Yo Ma, Támás Vásáry, Boris Berman, David Lively, Peter Frankl, Idil Biret, Oxana Yablonskaya, Chen Hung-Kuan, Paul Badura-Skoda, Robert Blocker, Alexei Volodin, Vincent Lucas, Li Jian, Tan Dun, Lang Lang, Li Yundi, Liao Changyong, Huang Ying, Shen Yang, Xu Zhong, Qin Liwei, Ning Feng, Chen Sa, Xue Wei, Huang Mengla, Wang Zhi-Jong, Song Siheng, Huang Jiajun, Yu Wei, Xu Yang and Tan Xiaotang spanning a number of exciting concerts.
The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra pays much attention to the composition of Chinese music, especially for symphony works. Since 2012, about 17 commissioned works written by Lv Qiming, Chen Xinguang, Jin Fuzai, Ge Ganru, Julian Yu and Peng-Peng Gong have been premiered in the world, including Peng-Peng Gong’s Symphony No.10 “Peking Fantasy” co-commissioned with Philadelphia Orchestra, Julian Yu’s Chinese Version of the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and so on. The SPO not only presents the world premiere for the music of Chinese composers of different generations such as Lv Qiming, Xi Qiming, Xu Shuya, Ye Xiaogang, Ye Guohui, Zhou Xianglin, Ge Ganru, Liu Yuan, Wang Qiang, Qin Yi, but also holds several concerts for the composers such as Lv Qiming, Huang Zhun, Yang Liqing, Ye Xiaogang, Chen Qigang, Tan Dun, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Qu Wei, Wang Xilin, Jin Fuzai, Ge Ganru, Guo Zurong and Peng-Peng Gong. The SPO spares no effort to promote and spread abroad the Chinese music composition. In March of 2016, the SPO held the concert of Lv Qiming in National Center for the Performing Arts. In October of 2017, Choral Symphony THE REVIVAL was successfully premiered as the Opening Ceremony Performance of the 19th China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra has attended many international music festivals and activities. In 1997, it successfully toured South Korea, Italy, Switzerland and France. In 2001, it toured Hong Kong and Macao areas. In 2005, it went to Singapore, before touring Taiwan area in 2006. In 2009, the orchestra toured Australia for the Friendly Week of “Queensland-Shanghai”. In 2010, it successfully assisted touring concerts in Switzerland, Slovakia, and Hungary. In 2016, it went to Suwon & Busan of South Korea and Kazakhstan. In 2017 it went to Bangkok of Thailand and Tokyo of Japan for concerts. In 2019 it joined The Philadelphia Orchestra to hold the first Chinese New Year’s concert at the Kimmel Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia. The SPO won wide praise and was acclaimed as one of the Asian orchestras with the greatest potential.
Dedicated to symphony promotion, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra has organized a variety of activities including “Neighborhood Concert” and “School Concert”. The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra has become the strategic partner with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for further cooperation. The Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra is endeavoring to make itself an all-round and widely influential orchestra, offering further contributions to the development and prosperity of China’s symphony field.
 

Conductor: Zhang Liang
Conductor Zhang Liang (b.1979) is currently the Deputy Director and Chief Conductor for the Shanghai Philharmonic, a member of the 7th Shanghai Literary Federation Committee, and has been named an Extraordinary Cultural Individual along with a medal from the prestigious Fourth of May Youth Awards.
Born in Taizhou, China, he began piano lessons at age five and enrolled in the Shanghai Conservatory’s Affiliated Primary/Middle Schools from 1989 to 1998, majoring in piano and composition under the instruction of Wu Zijie, Qin Jiang, and Deng Erbo. In 1996, he studied conducting under the tutelage of Professor Zhang Mei. In 1998, he got into the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with the highest audition score, studying under Uros Lajovic, David Lively, and J. G. Jiracek. His Vienna years were marked with acclaimed operatic performances at the State Opera, including Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna, Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Beethoven’s Fidelio, J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Weber’s Der Freischütz, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Puccini’s La Bohome.
As an active performer, he was a long-time piano accompanist for flutist Peter Lukas Graf, and concertized extensively in Germany, Austria, France, Mexico, Spain, Japan, and South Korea. In recent years, he has released many records with a number of outstanding musicians in China.
He became the principal conductor for the Shanghai Opera in 2003, and successfully premiered and recorded new works from living composers and led some of the most important gala concerts. In 2008, he was appointed resident conductor for the Shanghai Philharmonic, leading the orchestra’s first performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. He also worked as the assistant conductor of Riccardo Muti’s appearances in the orchestra’s 2010 New Year Concert. Since July 2010, he has served as Deputy Director and Chief Conductor for Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
Zhang has conducted Wiener Symphoniker, the Ambassade Orchestra Vienna, the Vienna Webern Symphony Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, the Macao Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Guangzhou Symphony, and the orchestras of the Beijing Central and Shanghai Operas, and among Zhang’s collaborators are Peter Lukas Graf, Paul Badura-Skoda, Ryu Goto, Sumi Jo, Wolfgang Schulz, Lynn Harrell, Jerome Rose, Eduardus Halim, Lang Lang, Wang Jian, Shen Yang, Liao Changyong, Huang Ying, Wei Song, and Chen Hongkuan.
Zhang’s conducting style has been praised by major European critics as authenticating, precise, economical, and delicate. He is especially noted for his interpretations of works from the Late Austro-German Romantic period. He is currently serving as Deputy Director and Chief Conductor of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and is on the conducting faculty at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the East China University of Political Science and Law, and Guest Conductor of CWI Children’s Palace Art Troupe of Little Friends Chorus.
 

Piano: Wan Jieni
Wan Jieni was born in Shanghai, China and grew up in Germany. At the age of four, she received her first piano lessons and moved back to China with her parents three years later. At the age of eleven, she was admitted to the Conservatory of Music in Shanghai and began her professional training in piano under the guidance of the famous Chinese Professor Li Minduo. Two years later, she continued her studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Professor Shao Dan. In June 2010, Jieni passed the entrance examination at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich with excellent marks and intensified her piano studies under Professor Gitti Pirner and Professor Antti Siirala, before joining Professor Wolfgang Wagenhäuser’s class in October 2017 for Konzertexamen at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Trossingen. She began her Master of Musical Arts at Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Professor Robert Blocker in 2018 and graduated in May 2020.
Since 2013, Wan Jieni has appeared as piano soloist with Chinese and western well-known orchestras, such as Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt, the Orchestra of Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, and the NCPA Orchestra. Wan Jieni has performed under the direction of such eminent conductors as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Pascal Rophé, Gilbert Varga, Yu Long, Xu Zhong, Li Xincao, Lv Jia, Tang Muhai and Yang Yang.
She has performed in many leading concert halls and venues, including Berlin Konzerthaus, Munich Herkulessaal, Theatre Erfurt, London Barbican Center in Europe, Wiener Konzerthaus, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, Kobe Concert Hall, National Theatre Concert Hall, the Center for the Performing Arts in Haifa, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Xinghai Concert Hall, and many other venues.
 

Cello: Li La
Born in 2002, Li La began playing the cello at the age of seven. At the age of nine, she studied with Professor Cao Min at the Music Middle School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2016, she began to study in the Juilliard School Precollege division with Professor Richard Aaron and Sieun Lin. In the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in 2012, Li La won First Prize (vacancy for Second Prize) of String Group E1, and won the Best String Performance Award and the Kobe Mayor Award. In the 9th "Antonio Janigro" International Cello Competition in Croatia in 2012, Li La participated in the Senior Group and won First Prize. In the following year at the 24th Flame International Music Competition in Paris, she again won First Grand Prize with a full score given by all jurors. In 2014, Li La participated in the 8th Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow where she won First Prize of the Cello Group and became the youngest champion of the previous competitions at that time. She also won the Silver Prize in the 43rd Stulberg International String Competition in 2018.
Li La has given concerts on many international stages such as the Verbier Festival in Schloss Elmau and Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. She has worked with the orchestras such as Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi (formed with principals from Russian orchestras), the State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia”, and conductors such as Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Yury Tkachenko, Tang Muhai and Zhang Guoyong. As a chamber musician, she had shared the stage with David Geringas, Tabea Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit.
Since October 2018, Li La has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.

Program
Lv Qiming: Ode to the Red Flag
Yin Chengzong/Chu Wanghua/Sheng Lihong/Liu Zhuang/Shi Shucheng/Xu Feixing:
Piano Concerto “The Yellow River” (Piano: Wan Jieni)
(Arr. based on “The Yellow River Cantata” by Xian Xinghai)
Bedrich Smetana: River Moldau
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (Cello: Li La)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
 
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