●Organ performer will now be replaced by Eugenio Maria FAGIANI due to Taiwanese quarantine policy. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
●Approx. 110 mins incl. 1 interval of 20 mins
●Age guidance 7+
● 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
● 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
● Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
● For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
CHIEN Wen-pin X Eugenio Maria FAGIANI X Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra
Charles-Camille SAINT-SAËNS has been described as "the greatest organist in the world." His splendid and magnificent Symphony No. 3 is a musical masterpiece as well as his most famous musical composition. It has even become a classic choice for movie soundtracks. The melody is vibrant and memorable, and the use of the organ is the perfect finishing touch that reveals the composer's outstanding mastery of this musical instrument. The composer Thierry ESCAICH, a renowned organist in his own right, also displays the unique power of this instrument in his Organ Concerto No. 3, "Quatre Visages du Temps", in which the notes are layered like rolling waves. (Written by CHIAO Yuan-pu)
Track (Original track unchanged)
T. HSIAO: Formosa Symphony
T. ESCAICH: Organ Concerto No. 3, “Quatre Visages du Temps”
C. SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78
Pre-talk
10/9 (Fri) 18:50-19:10. Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Artist Introduction
Conductor | CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin was born in 1967 in Taipei. He received an undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and a Master’s degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 1998 to 2004, he was Resident Conductor at Japan’s Pacific Music Festival, founded by Leonard BERNSTEIN, and he became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in 2001, where he remained until 2007. In 1996, he began his 22-year career as Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf Duisburg, Germany). From 2014 to 2016, CHIEN served as artistic advisor to the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, he was honored with the National Award for Arts. Currently CHIEN is the Executive and Artistic Director of National Performing Arts Center - National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).
Organ｜Eugenio Maria FAGIANI
Renowned internationally for his impressive, enthralling and vibrant musical language, the Italian organist Eugenio Maria Fagiani performs regularly on the most important instruments in Europe, Russia, Middle East and Northern America such as Notre Dame de Paris (F), Berlin’s Dom (D), St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York (US), Tchaikovsky's Great Hall in Moscow (RU), the Royal Albert Hall in London (UK), Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze (I). the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Luzern (CH), the St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto (CDN), the Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilika (A), the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (IL).
Besides his activity as a soloist, he holds a long term collaboration with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano La Verdi (since 2010) and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (since 2020), and has been directed by eminent conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Riccardo Chailly, Xian Zhang, Claus-Peter Flor, Jens Georg Bachmann, John Axelrod, Missak Baghboudarian, Yusuke Kumehara, Giuseppe Grazioli, Daniel Kawka and Alpesh Chauhan.
Celebrated as “The Wizard of Improvisation”, he’s also a fine composer. His works are now part of the repertoire of some of the most prestigious artists of our time as David Briggs and Stephen Tharp.
Since 2008 he is the Organist of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna, Arezzo (IT).
Eugenio is the Artistic Director of the Festival Internazionale di Musica d’Organo de La Verna and the Festival Organistico “S.Donato” in the Arezzo’s Dome, and also since 2016 the Artistic Advisor of the Terra Sancta Organ Festival, across seven countries in the Middle-East region, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land.
He is invited to hold masterclasses (both in Interpretation and Improvisation) and lectures for several top-class music institutions around Europe and North America such as the Cambridge University Organ Scolar’s Forum (UK), the RCCO, Toronto (CDN). He is also invited to serve as juror in international competitions.
He records with: VDE-Gallo, Spektral Records, Fugatto, Da Vinci and Decca.
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO)
Wherever there is music, there is you.
- A young orchestra which advances with determination
It is an asset for a city to have an orchestra of its own. Young and energetic, the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO) invites world-class conductors and masters for collaboration, and challenges itself by staging performances of diversified styles. The development of the orchestra focuses on both classical and crossover genres; it has not only created increasingly more high quality musical miscellanies for music enthusiasts but also planted numerous seeds for music appreciation and performance, contributing to the innovation of classical music.
The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1981. It was merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra in 2009 as “Kaohsiung Philharmonic Culture and Arts Foundation”. Since 2009, the KSO has made considerable contribution in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival, successfully promoting its grassland concerts. In the last decade, the KSO has collaborated with renowned local and international artists and music groups and staged numerous concert series. The end of 2018 marked the grand opening of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), where the KSO participated in the center’s inauguration. KSO wishes to continue playing an important role in the center’s concert hall.
The KSO has been invited to perform on international stages regularly. Reaching beyond city and country borders, the KSO advances steadily with the self-development goal of becoming an internationally acclaimed orchestra.
Major Sponsor
CHIEN Wen-pin X Eugenio Maria FAGIANI X Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra
Charles-Camille SAINT-SAËNS has been described as "the greatest organist in the world." His splendid and magnificent Symphony No. 3 is a musical masterpiece as well as his most famous musical composition. It has even become a classic choice for movie soundtracks. The melody is vibrant and memorable, and the use of the organ is the perfect finishing touch that reveals the composer's outstanding mastery of this musical instrument. The composer Thierry ESCAICH, a renowned organist in his own right, also displays the unique power of this instrument in his Organ Concerto No. 3, "Quatre Visages du Temps", in which the notes are layered like rolling waves. (Written by CHIAO Yuan-pu)
Track (Original track unchanged)
T. HSIAO: Formosa Symphony
T. ESCAICH: Organ Concerto No. 3, “Quatre Visages du Temps”
C. SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78
Pre-talk
10/9 (Fri) 18:50-19:10. Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Artist Introduction
Conductor | CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin was born in 1967 in Taipei. He received an undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and a Master’s degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From 1998 to 2004, he was Resident Conductor at Japan’s Pacific Music Festival, founded by Leonard BERNSTEIN, and he became Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan in 2001, where he remained until 2007. In 1996, he began his 22-year career as Kapellmeister of Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf Duisburg, Germany). From 2014 to 2016, CHIEN served as artistic advisor to the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In 2014, he was honored with the National Award for Arts. Currently CHIEN is the Executive and Artistic Director of National Performing Arts Center - National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying).
Organ｜Eugenio Maria FAGIANI
Renowned internationally for his impressive, enthralling and vibrant musical language, the Italian organist Eugenio Maria Fagiani performs regularly on the most important instruments in Europe, Russia, Middle East and Northern America such as Notre Dame de Paris (F), Berlin’s Dom (D), St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York (US), Tchaikovsky's Great Hall in Moscow (RU), the Royal Albert Hall in London (UK), Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze (I). the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Luzern (CH), the St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto (CDN), the Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilika (A), the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (IL).
Besides his activity as a soloist, he holds a long term collaboration with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano La Verdi (since 2010) and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (since 2020), and has been directed by eminent conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Riccardo Chailly, Xian Zhang, Claus-Peter Flor, Jens Georg Bachmann, John Axelrod, Missak Baghboudarian, Yusuke Kumehara, Giuseppe Grazioli, Daniel Kawka and Alpesh Chauhan.
Celebrated as “The Wizard of Improvisation”, he’s also a fine composer. His works are now part of the repertoire of some of the most prestigious artists of our time as David Briggs and Stephen Tharp.
Since 2008 he is the Organist of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna, Arezzo (IT).
Eugenio is the Artistic Director of the Festival Internazionale di Musica d’Organo de La Verna and the Festival Organistico “S.Donato” in the Arezzo’s Dome, and also since 2016 the Artistic Advisor of the Terra Sancta Organ Festival, across seven countries in the Middle-East region, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land.
He is invited to hold masterclasses (both in Interpretation and Improvisation) and lectures for several top-class music institutions around Europe and North America such as the Cambridge University Organ Scolar’s Forum (UK), the RCCO, Toronto (CDN). He is also invited to serve as juror in international competitions.
He records with: VDE-Gallo, Spektral Records, Fugatto, Da Vinci and Decca.
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO)
Wherever there is music, there is you.
- A young orchestra which advances with determination
It is an asset for a city to have an orchestra of its own. Young and energetic, the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO) invites world-class conductors and masters for collaboration, and challenges itself by staging performances of diversified styles. The development of the orchestra focuses on both classical and crossover genres; it has not only created increasingly more high quality musical miscellanies for music enthusiasts but also planted numerous seeds for music appreciation and performance, contributing to the innovation of classical music.
The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1981. It was merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra in 2009 as “Kaohsiung Philharmonic Culture and Arts Foundation”. Since 2009, the KSO has made considerable contribution in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival, successfully promoting its grassland concerts. In the last decade, the KSO has collaborated with renowned local and international artists and music groups and staged numerous concert series. The end of 2018 marked the grand opening of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), where the KSO participated in the center’s inauguration. KSO wishes to continue playing an important role in the center’s concert hall.
The KSO has been invited to perform on international stages regularly. Reaching beyond city and country borders, the KSO advances steadily with the self-development goal of becoming an internationally acclaimed orchestra.
Major Sponsor
●Organ performer will now be replaced by Eugenio Maria FAGIANI due to Taiwanese quarantine policy. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
●Approx. 110 mins incl. 1 interval of 20 mins
●Age guidance 7+
● 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
● 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
● Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
● For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
