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Countdown for Three-week Long Limited Early Bird Sale with a 25% Discount
Year 2019 launches a series of 20 wonderful programs for the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), and January 2nd sees the start of a three-week-long Limited Early Bird Sale, with a 25% discount. The ratio rate of ticket purchasing for the Taiwanese-German co-production of Turandot and for Jurowski & London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by its principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski, has reached close to 50%. The early bird purchase sale will soon end on January 31, and we urge you to seize the final countdown for the best seats with the lowest price.
Weiwuying’s series of splendid programs starts in March. The concert LÜ & NSO will be led by Music Director Shao-Chia LÜ of National Symphony Orchestra, along with Violinist Richard Lin, recently awarded the gold prize at the 10th International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, USA, to perform classical masterpieces of East and West, including works of Richard Strauss, Brahms, and the Taiwanese composer Hsiao Tyzon.
Mahler Duisburg 7 by The Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg along with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra will be directed by our Artistic Director Chien Wen-Bin. Moreover, Germany’s Tanz Magazine’s poll of international critics has named The Ballett am Rhein “Best Company” four years in a row, and its artistic director and principal choreographer, Martin Schläpfer, “Choreographer of the Year”. They will combine Mahler’s music with ballet steps on stage to portray all the challenges of life. The embodiment of symphony and ballet is something you don’t want to miss in early 2019.
The first time TIFA presented by Weiwuying via its “Weiwuying - TIFA Contemporary Music Platform” hopes to integrate music, performing arts, and installation arts by leading audiences to explore the unlimited possibilities of music performance. Three shows will showcase local artists from Hong Kong, China, and Germany.
Ensemble KNM Berlin Stereoscope is a Music-Theatre-Installation founded in 1988, combining concert, theatre, dance, and installation art to build a Utopia with musical language. Next, electronics sound musician Dickson Dee from Hong Kong and Nanyin artist Cai Yayi collaborate, using traditional Nanyin music and impromptu electronics sound music, to produce The Modern-Day Flavours of Nanyin and Naamyam to integrate and synthesize a jam session of traditional Nanyin and electronic sounds. Following the same vein, Hong Kong’s New Music Ensemble, which has been acclaimed by CNN as “one of the most avant-garde music groups in Hong Kong,” will perform with Taiwanese-born conductor Liao Xiao Lin to break the boundaries of forms and to bring variety to the contemporary music with The Sound of Bloom’s Epoch.
Piano fans won’t want to miss the Piano Solo by Russian pianist Ugorski and the Piano Duo by Lucas and Arthur Jussen. After fleeing to the West, Ugorski stunned the world with the intrinsic aspects of his artistic personality and supreme talent, and his albums with other artists were nominated for Grammy Awards. Anatol Ugorski will make his Taiwan debut, performing classical works of Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Liszt for Weiwuying’s audiences. Also, the Piano Duo by Lucas and Arthur Jussen will lure us with Chopin and Ravel along with their piano talents and demeanor. Their debut CD won them the “Edison Klassiek Audience Award” and their album was also listed by Gramophone amongst “The 50 Greatest Mozart Recordings.” These performances will definitely bring classical piano masterpieces for Weiwuying audiences.
Jeff Sobelle, actor and director, has been awarded the Bessie Award and Edinburgh Fringe First Award. His performance embraces absurdism concepts. Home explores the relationship between “House” and “Home,” inviting the audience to compose the performance together. Combining tears and laughter in performance composition, and deja vu moments, allow the audience to search for the meaning of “Home.” Home received the 2018 Bessie Outstanding Production Award, and the world tour will be performed in Australia, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Taiwan. Weiwuying is honored to present the exclusive show in Taiwan for all of our friends.
Weiwuying National Performing Arts Center, National Theatre & Concert Hall, and National Taichung Theatre will co-produce the first-prize-winning A Million Miles Away by Huang Yi Studio, which will be presented through weaving together technology and artistry. On a revolving stage nine meters in diameter, A Million Miles Away debunks the borders of technology and choreography, exploring life with unexpected encounters and sharing lasting moments in life that carry us forward. In addition, Nederlands Dans Theatre, founded for almost six decades and having performed for over 150,000 fans in Europe, is one of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies, and is under the leadership of artistic choreographer Paul Lightfoot. It will soon present Safe and Houses, Solo Echo, and Shut Eye to decipher the focal point of the individual from multi-facets of materialism, solitude, and senses.