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RACHMANINOFF’s Night - Alexei Volodin X Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (Program changed）
※The performance have been changed. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
Pianist Alexei VOLODIN, accompanied by the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra conducted by CHUANG Wen-Chen, was the rst person to perform all ve of Sergei PROKOFIEV's piano concertos in a single performance in Taiwan, writing a new page in the history of piano performance in Taiwan. In December 2020, VOLODIN will hit the stage at the Weiwuying Concert Hall with his incredible piano skills and stage presence.
The concert will open with the overture from Mikhail GLINKA's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, followed by Sergei RACHMANINOFF's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 and Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27. VOLODIN and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra will dazzle the audience with their performance of these Russian classics and demonstrate their extraordinary musical skills and expression. It is sure to be an astonishing performance.
Conductor｜Wen-chen CHUANG
Born in Kaohsiung, Wen-chen CHUANG has shown her great talent in music since she was in grade school. As a student, she has won many great prizes in piano performance, composition and violin performance from city-wide and nation-wide competitions. In 1990, Wen-chen's excellent performance in music earns her the admission from the top-ranked music school of Taiwan, the Department of Music of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). She received her bachelor degree in 1994 and then served as the 1st violinist in Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra.
In 1997, Wen-chen received a scholarship from Taiwan-Austria joint study program to study orchestral conducting in Universitat fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien under the supervise of Prof. Uros Lajovic. Her great performance in Vienna wins her many opportunities to conduct with Vienna Pro Arte Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra of Oradea. In 2002 and 2003, Wen-chen conducted with Vienna Taiwan Youth Orchestra in the annual national day concerts in Musikverein and Konzerthaus, two of the most famous concert halls in Vienna. Later in 2003 she won the conducting-concert prize in the International Master Classes Summer on Vienna.
Wen-chen CHUANG is currently resident conductor of Evergreen Symphony Orchestra and also the conductor of National Taiwan University Symphony Orchestra. She has performed at Taipei National Concert Hall, Tokyo International Forum , Los Angeles and Shanghai Concert Hall and cooperated with the pianist, Alexei Volodin、Alexander Gavrylyuk、Yukio Yokoyama、Weiyin Chen、Rueibin Chen、Eric Chen ; flutist, Gary Schocker、Amy Porter、Vincent Lucas、Andrea Lieberknecht、Sophie Cherrier、Seiya Ueno、Hu Chih-Wei、Lorna McGhee、Andrea Oliva; violinist, Su Shien-Da、Richard Lin etc. She worked also as a guest conductor with Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra and Kaohsiung City Chinese Orchestra. The audience is fond of and moved by her fresh, sentimental and stylish way of conducting.
Piano｜Alexei Volodin
Born in 1977 in Leningrad, he studied under Irina Chaklina and Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and later with Elisso Virsaladzé at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2001 he continued his studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como (Italy). He gained international recognition following his victory at the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zurich (Switzerland) in 2003.
Volodin regularly works with the world's top orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and the London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor collaborations include Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vasily Sinaisky, Mikhail Pletnev, Semyon Bychkov, Lawrence Foster and Marek Janowski.
Recent highlights have included Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR Stuttgart, Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and l'Orchestra dell'Accademia del Teatro alla Scala. Forthcoming engagements include RAI Turin, the Danish National Symphony, the Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic orchestras as well as the Bamberger Symphoniker and Orquesta Municipal de Santiago de Chile.
Recitals are a prominent part of Volodin's engagements and following on from his critically acclaimed debut at London's international Piano Series, this season he performs at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Munich's Herkulessaal, Berlin's Philharmonie and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.
Alexei Volodin is a regular artist at Festivals including the Bad Kissingen Sommer, La Roque d'Anthéron, Festival La Folle Journée, Sommets musicaux in Gstaad, White Nights in St. Petersburg and the Moscow Easter festivals.
Volodin has recorded with record labels such as Live Classics (Germany), ABC Classics (Australia) and Challenge Records (Netherlands). His recording of solo Schumann, Ravel and Skriabin works was released by Challenge Records in 2011 and prompted Carsten Dürer to write in Piano News that "this last recording shows that Alexei Volodin is one of the very best pianists of today ... outstanding". His previous release, a recital programme of works by Chopin, won a Choc Classica and was awarded five stars by Diapason. His most recent recording of solo Rachmaninov works was released by Challenge Records in 2013.
RACHMANINOFF’s Night - Alexei Volodin X Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (Program changed）
※The performance have been changed. For more information please contact +886-7-2626669.
Pianist Alexei VOLODIN, accompanied by the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra conducted by CHUANG Wen-Chen, was the rst person to perform all ve of Sergei PROKOFIEV's piano concertos in a single performance in Taiwan, writing a new page in the history of piano performance in Taiwan. In December 2020, VOLODIN will hit the stage at the Weiwuying Concert Hall with his incredible piano skills and stage presence.
The concert will open with the overture from Mikhail GLINKA's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, followed by Sergei RACHMANINOFF's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 and Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27. VOLODIN and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra will dazzle the audience with their performance of these Russian classics and demonstrate their extraordinary musical skills and expression. It is sure to be an astonishing performance.
Conductor｜Wen-chen CHUANG
Born in Kaohsiung, Wen-chen CHUANG has shown her great talent in music since she was in grade school. As a student, she has won many great prizes in piano performance, composition and violin performance from city-wide and nation-wide competitions. In 1990, Wen-chen's excellent performance in music earns her the admission from the top-ranked music school of Taiwan, the Department of Music of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). She received her bachelor degree in 1994 and then served as the 1st violinist in Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra.
In 1997, Wen-chen received a scholarship from Taiwan-Austria joint study program to study orchestral conducting in Universitat fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien under the supervise of Prof. Uros Lajovic. Her great performance in Vienna wins her many opportunities to conduct with Vienna Pro Arte Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra of Oradea. In 2002 and 2003, Wen-chen conducted with Vienna Taiwan Youth Orchestra in the annual national day concerts in Musikverein and Konzerthaus, two of the most famous concert halls in Vienna. Later in 2003 she won the conducting-concert prize in the International Master Classes Summer on Vienna.
Wen-chen CHUANG is currently resident conductor of Evergreen Symphony Orchestra and also the conductor of National Taiwan University Symphony Orchestra. She has performed at Taipei National Concert Hall, Tokyo International Forum , Los Angeles and Shanghai Concert Hall and cooperated with the pianist, Alexei Volodin、Alexander Gavrylyuk、Yukio Yokoyama、Weiyin Chen、Rueibin Chen、Eric Chen ; flutist, Gary Schocker、Amy Porter、Vincent Lucas、Andrea Lieberknecht、Sophie Cherrier、Seiya Ueno、Hu Chih-Wei、Lorna McGhee、Andrea Oliva; violinist, Su Shien-Da、Richard Lin etc. She worked also as a guest conductor with Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra and Kaohsiung City Chinese Orchestra. The audience is fond of and moved by her fresh, sentimental and stylish way of conducting.
Piano｜Alexei Volodin
Born in 1977 in Leningrad, he studied under Irina Chaklina and Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and later with Elisso Virsaladzé at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2001 he continued his studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como (Italy). He gained international recognition following his victory at the Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zurich (Switzerland) in 2003.
Volodin regularly works with the world's top orchestras, among them the New York Philharmonic, Gewandhaus-Orchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and the London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor collaborations include Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vasily Sinaisky, Mikhail Pletnev, Semyon Bychkov, Lawrence Foster and Marek Janowski.
Recent highlights have included Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR Stuttgart, Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and l'Orchestra dell'Accademia del Teatro alla Scala. Forthcoming engagements include RAI Turin, the Danish National Symphony, the Netherlands Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic orchestras as well as the Bamberger Symphoniker and Orquesta Municipal de Santiago de Chile.
Recitals are a prominent part of Volodin's engagements and following on from his critically acclaimed debut at London's international Piano Series, this season he performs at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Munich's Herkulessaal, Berlin's Philharmonie and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw.
Alexei Volodin is a regular artist at Festivals including the Bad Kissingen Sommer, La Roque d'Anthéron, Festival La Folle Journée, Sommets musicaux in Gstaad, White Nights in St. Petersburg and the Moscow Easter festivals.
Volodin has recorded with record labels such as Live Classics (Germany), ABC Classics (Australia) and Challenge Records (Netherlands). His recording of solo Schumann, Ravel and Skriabin works was released by Challenge Records in 2011 and prompted Carsten Dürer to write in Piano News that "this last recording shows that Alexei Volodin is one of the very best pianists of today ... outstanding". His previous release, a recital programme of works by Chopin, won a Choc Classica and was awarded five stars by Diapason. His most recent recording of solo Rachmaninov works was released by Challenge Records in 2013.
● 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
● 25% off for Weiwuying Youth member
● Applicable for Weiwuying Unlimited member
● For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
