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Under the leadership of Music Director Shao-Chia LÜ, National Symphony Orchestra continues to be of the most representative orchestras in Asia. NSO and Music Director Shao-Chia LÜ program this concert specially designed for friends and fans of the southern Taiwan. The program includes Richard Strauss's Festival Prelude for Orchestra with Organ and Brahms's Symphony No. 2, and the concert invites the violinist Richard Lin to perform the violin concerto of the Taiwanese composer Tyzon Hsiao. This concent hopes to deliver the deepest musical sensation to the audience with these classical masterpieces of the East and the West.
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This concert programs works by two Romantic composers Richard Strauss and Brahms. Brahms, one of the important composers of the Mid-Romantic period, is regarded one of the German “Three Bs”, along with Bach and Beethoven. Richard Strauss is the most important composer of the late-Romantic period, whose late works indicate the stylistic tendency of Modernism, while Hsiao's works have the undertone of folk elements of musical nationalism.
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Tyzon Hsiao, a pianist, conductor and composer, is considered to be the Taiwanese Rachmaninoff—the last piano poet of Romanticism. He once sighed, "I always have a feeling that we have such excellent performers as Cho-Liang Lin, but there is no good composing in Taiwan, so that they have to play works of other cultures." After that, he composed his Violin Concerto in D Major. Hsiao's Violin Concerto in D Major is regarded as "Taiwanese Epic". Because of this violin concerto, Hsiao’s musical creativity has reached a new milestone, transforming him from a national musician into an international one. The concerto depicts beautiful, peaceful, quiet pastoral scenery of Taiwan, brings out the style of folk/nationalist music, and finally shows the love and striving for life with more modernist composition.
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\n\nConductor|Shao-Chia LÜ
\nViolin|Richard Lin
\nOrgan| Hsin-hung Tony LIU
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Conductor|Shao-Chia Lü
\n\n“Der Dirigent Shao-Chia Lü ist ein Meister der Zwischentöne.” ─ Süddeutsche Zeitung
\n\n“...Um so lauter der Jubel über die grandiose musikalische Einstudierung der‚ Jenufa'unter Shao-Chia Lü” ─ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
\n\n“In his mere 7 years at the helm, music director Shao-Chia Lü has brought the NSO to world-class status. The sound alone is a marvel—beauteous, richly rounded, perfectly balanced, at times of staggering power yet never forced or brash, the latter a quality found only to the world's very greatest orchestras.” ─ Der neue Merker
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Taiwan-born conductor Shao-Chia Lü studied music in Taipei, later at the Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, and also at Vienna's College of Music. His training resulted in important first prizes at three renowned international conductor competitions: Besançon (France), Pedrotti (Italy) and Kondrashin (the Netherlands).
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Shao-Chia Lü accepted positions as General Music Director of the Koblenz Theatre (1998-2001), the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz (1998-2004), and the Staatsoper Hannover (2001- 2006).
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Shao-Chia Lü appears regularly as guest conductor at several world-renowned opera houses, including the Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne, the English National Opera, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Gothenburg Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Hamburg and Stuttgart, Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper Berlin.
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Alongside his opera activities, Lü is equally at home on concert podiums. Lü has worked frequently with many leading European orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Norwegian and Swedish Radio Orchestras, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, SWR Stuttgart, Rundfunksinfonieorchster Berlin, the Göteborgs Sinfoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Frankfurter Museumsorchester and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. In Asia, Lü has worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK, New Japan Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra and leading orchestras in China.
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Shao-Chia Lü has been Music Director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (the National Symphony Orchestra) since August 2010.
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Violin/ Richard Lin
\n\nTaiwanese-American violinist Richard Lin has already amassed a startling collection of top prizes at major international competitions and collaborated with numerous orchestras at celebrated concert venues. In 2013, Lin released his first album on the Fontec label. The album includes works for violin and orchestra by Beethoven, Bartok, and Brahms performed with the Sendai Philharmonic and conductor Pascal Verrot. The next year, Mr. Lin recorded and released his second album consists of the complete Brahms Sonatas for Piano and Violin with his brother, Robert Lin. Born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Taiwan, he gave his public debut at age of eleven when he performed Saint-Saën's Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. At sixteen, he moved to the United States with his teacher Dr. Gregory Lee, newly named to the violin faculty of the University of Oklahoma. In the same year, Lin was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music and studied with Aaron Rosand. He later received his Master's degree at The Juilliard School, where he studied with renowned professor Lewis Kaplan.
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National Symphony Orchestra
\n\n“… vor allem bei Schostakowitsch'Symphonie Nr. 5 d-moll war das Ergebnis mitreißend: Es geriet eine Orchestermaschine ins Arbeiten, mit fliegendenBögenund wuchtigem Wollen, deren Produkt auf (fast) ganzer Linie überzeugen konnte. Da brauchtes kein gut gemeintes westliches Wohlwollen: Das Orchester hat seinen Platz im Konzerthaus wohl verdient. ”─ Kurier, 2017/3/31
\n\n“(US debut) as part of its first mini-tour of North America…Shao-Chia Lü and the underrated Taiwan Philharmonic scored a triumph with a stunning, fervently-played, meticulously nuanced performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. “─ Musical America (2016/12)
\n\n“When it came to Tchaikovsky's Fifth's… famous solos, especially those for clarinet, bassoon and horn, were exquisitely polished. The climaxes were spectacular……the Taiwan Philharmonic is overdue for a major U.S. tour.” ─ Los Angeles Times, USA(2016/12)
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Founded in 1986, the Taiwan Philharmonic, also known as the National Symphony Orchestra at home, is hailed as one of the best orchestras in the Asian Region and became the resident orchestra of the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center in 2005. Starting April 2014, the NSO has become an affiliate orchestra to the National Performing Arts Center. Led by renowned conductor Shao-Chia Lü as its 5th music director starting August 2010, the NSO has increased the country's cultural richness and music educational strength throughout Taiwan.
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The NSO with 99 members presents a 40-week musical season of approximately 75 concerts/chamber recitals and one opera production each year. It also launched educational programs and outreach projects constantly. Tour performances are regularly offered throughout Taiwan and overseas. It has toured to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Geneva, Milan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sapporo, Tokyo, Yokohama, Seoul, Hong Kong and major cities in China.
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The NSO works with internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Sir. Neville Marriner, Krzysztof Penderecki, Rudolf Barshai, Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Hogwood, Oleg Caetani, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Osmo Vanska, Hans Graf and soloists, including Midori, Vadim Repin, Hilary Hahn, Ray Chen, Yo-Yo Ma, Gautier Capuçon, Alban Gerhardt, Mischa Maisky, Sol Gabetta, Martin Grubinger, Louis Lortie, Kun-Woo Paik, Stephen Hough, Stephen Kovacevich, Sabine Meyer, Reinhold Friedrich, Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang and many others.
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The NSO has extended its artistic reach, involving in theater and opera productions, such as working with Lin Hwai-min, the world-renowned choreographer and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Austrian digital artist Klaus Obermaier, and opera stage directors Tobias Richter, Moffatt Oxenbould, and Hans-Peter Lehmann, Andreas Homoki and James Robinson. In addition to its record-breaking semi-stage concert operas Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Elektra, the NSO has collaborated with world-class opera houses for its multinational productions, such as Der Rosenkavalier (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2007), Carmen (Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Norwegian National Opera and Opera Australia, 2009), Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia, 2012), Fidelio (Operahaus Zurich, 2015) as well as in-house production Die Walküre (2013), Salome (2014), Othello (2016), Il Trittico (2017) and Parsifal (2018).
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