● Approx 110 mins including one interval of 20 mins
● Age guidance 7+
Timeless encounters
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E Major, BWV 1042
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Three Violins in F Major, RV 551
--- intermission ---
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for strings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21
Pre-talk
9/26 (Sat) 18:50-19:10. Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Artist Introduction
Shao-Chia Lü
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: Besancon (France), Pedrotti (Italy) and Kondrashin (the Netherlands).
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). He has also been Chief Conductor of the South Denmark Philharmonic from 2014 to 2017.
Shao-Chia Lü appears regularly as guest conductor at several world-renowned opera houses, including the Opera Australia in Sydney, Den Norske Opera in Oslo and more. Alongside his opera activities, Lü is equally at home on concert podiums. Lü has worked repeatedly with many leading European orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and more. In Asia, Lü has worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK, Seoul Philharmonic and more.
Shao-Chia Lü has been Music Director of Taiwan Philharmonic (the National Symphony Orchestra) from 2010 to 2020 and continues to serve as Artistic Advisor of the orchestra.
Violin｜Nai-Yuan HU
Since winning the First Prize of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1985, violinist Nai-Yuan Hu has appeared on many of the world’s stages, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, David Geffen Hall in New York, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and other major venues in Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. He has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Netherland and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille in France, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and others.
Mr. Hu’s recording of Goldmark’s Concerto and Bruch’s Second Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony (Delos label) garnered “Critics’ Choice” from Gramophone as well as praises from many publications including BBC Music Magazine, The Times of London, and The Washington Post. In praise of his playing, BBC Music Magazine wrote, “Taiwanese violinist Nai-Yuan Hu is an awesomely capable performer whose technical facility, musical intelligence and unfaltering verve place him among the higher echelons of today’s string virtuosi.”
Mr. Hu has served on the jury of international competitions such as Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and Seoul Violin Competition.
Violin｜Ray CHEN
Winner of the Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin Competitions, Ray Chen is among the most compelling young violinists today. Ray has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony among others, and will make upcoming debuts with the San Francisco Symphony and other orchestras. He works regularly with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kirill Petrenko, and many others. Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists. He plays the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. This instrument was once owned by the famed Hungarian violinist, Joseph Joachim (1831-1907).
Violin｜William WEI
Laureate of the prestigious 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, rising young Taiwanese violinist William Wei is quickly building an international career as a soloist. Of his performance of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto with conductor Marin Alsop and the National Orchestra of Belgium, Le Soir wrote that William “gets everyone’s attention in the first movement; he expresses all the possibilities in the second movement; [and he] burns all his passion and freedom in the music till the end.” Radio Télévision Belge Francophone simply called his playing “superb”.
A winner of the Salon de Virtuosi’s 2018 Career Grant, William has been invited twice by renowned New York Times music critic Robert Sherman to perform on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. He performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with conductor, Jahja Ling and the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall as a winner of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition in 2013.
Following his recital debut in Taiwan, William has appeared as soloist on multiple occasions, performing with such orchestras as the Belgium National Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Sejong Soloists, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan String Academy, Boston Longwood Symphony, and Mainzer Virtuosi. He has appeared as soloist at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Jordan Hall, the Henry le Boeuf Hall in Belgium, Gasteig Concert Hall in Munich, Seoul Arts Center, Cremona Stradivari Museum (Museo del Violino), and Taiwan National Concert Hall, and has been invited to perform at several festivals, including the 4string festival in New Jersey, Incheon Music Festival in Korea, Green Mountain Music Festival in Vermont, and the Casalmaggiore Music Festival in Italy. William has performed with such renowned musicians as Gil Shaham, Marin Alsop, Nai Yuan Hu, Cho Liang Lin, Orion Weiss, Marc Danel, Sung-Won Yang, Brian Suits, and Ronald Feldman.
Born in Taiwan, William began his violin studies at the age of five. He is a proud recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Scholarship at the Juilliard School, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree under Hyo Kang. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin under Kolja Blacher, former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. William plays on a 1761 Tomasso Balestrieri loaned from the Chimei Foundation in Taiwan.
Taiwan Philharmonic,
the National Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1986, the Taiwan Philharmonic, also known as the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at home, is hailed as one of the best orchestras in Asia 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. From 2010 to 2020, led by renowned conductor Shao-Chia Lü as its 5th music director, the NSO has cultural and music educational strength throughout Taiwan. Starting 2021, Lü will continue as artistic advisor. The 99-member NSO presents a 40-week musical season of approximately 75 concerts, chamber recitals and opera productions each year. It also has launched numerous educational programs and outreach projects, which it continually develops. The symphony tours regularly throughout Taiwan and overseas, including Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Geneva, Milan, Seattle, San Francisco, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, Hong Kong , Beijing and Shanghai. The NSO has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Rudolf Barshai, Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Hogwood, Oleg Caetani, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Osmo Vänskä, Hans Graf, Long Yu and many famous soloists, including Mirella Freni, Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Asmik Grigorian , Narciso Yepes, Fou Ts'ong, Alicia de Larrocha, Jacques Thibaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Lilya Zilberstein, Louis Lortie, Garrick Ohlssono, Kun Woo Paik, Dang Thai Son, Alexandre Tharaud, Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma, Natalia Gutman, Lily Maisky, Gautier Capuçon, Jian Wang, Steven Isserlis, Daniel Müller-Schott, Sol Gabetta, Leonidas Kavakos, Nai-Yuan Hu, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Vadim Viktorovich Repin, Hilary Hahn, Midori, Joseph Lin, Ray Chen, Paul Huang, Richard Lin, Martin Grubinger, Sabine Meyer, Radek Baborák, Jörg Widmann, and Reinhold Friedrich.The NSO artistic reach extends to theater and opera. Its productions include collaborations 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, Hans-Peter Lehmann, Andreas Homoki and James Robinson. In addition to its own semi-staged opera productions such as Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Elektra (2011), Parsifal (2018) and Tosca (2019), the NSO has collaborated with worldclass opera houses for its multinational productions, such as Der Rosenkavalier with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2007, Carmen with Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Norwegian National Opera and Opera Australia in 2009, Madama Butterfly with Opera Australia in 2012, Fidelio with Opernhaus Zurich in 2015, as well as in-house production Die Walküre (2013), Salome (2014) Othello (2016) and Il Trittico (2017).
Organizer
Timeless encounters
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No.2 in E Major, BWV 1042
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Three Violins in F Major, RV 551
--- intermission ---
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in D for strings
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21
Pre-talk
9/26 (Sat) 18:50-19:10. Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Artist Introduction
Shao-Chia Lü
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: Besancon (France), Pedrotti (Italy) and Kondrashin (the Netherlands).
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). He has also been Chief Conductor of the South Denmark Philharmonic from 2014 to 2017.
Shao-Chia Lü appears regularly as guest conductor at several world-renowned opera houses, including the Opera Australia in Sydney, Den Norske Opera in Oslo and more. Alongside his opera activities, Lü is equally at home on concert podiums. Lü has worked repeatedly with many leading European orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and more. In Asia, Lü has worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK, Seoul Philharmonic and more.
Shao-Chia Lü has been Music Director of Taiwan Philharmonic (the National Symphony Orchestra) from 2010 to 2020 and continues to serve as Artistic Advisor of the orchestra.
Violin｜Nai-Yuan HU
Since winning the First Prize of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1985, violinist Nai-Yuan Hu has appeared on many of the world’s stages, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, David Geffen Hall in New York, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and other major venues in Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. He has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Netherland and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille in France, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and others.
Mr. Hu’s recording of Goldmark’s Concerto and Bruch’s Second Concerto with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony (Delos label) garnered “Critics’ Choice” from Gramophone as well as praises from many publications including BBC Music Magazine, The Times of London, and The Washington Post. In praise of his playing, BBC Music Magazine wrote, “Taiwanese violinist Nai-Yuan Hu is an awesomely capable performer whose technical facility, musical intelligence and unfaltering verve place him among the higher echelons of today’s string virtuosi.”
Mr. Hu has served on the jury of international competitions such as Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and Seoul Violin Competition.
Violin｜Ray CHEN
Winner of the Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin Competitions, Ray Chen is among the most compelling young violinists today. Ray has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony among others, and will make upcoming debuts with the San Francisco Symphony and other orchestras. He works regularly with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kirill Petrenko, and many others. Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists. He plays the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. This instrument was once owned by the famed Hungarian violinist, Joseph Joachim (1831-1907).
Violin｜William WEI
Laureate of the prestigious 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, rising young Taiwanese violinist William Wei is quickly building an international career as a soloist. Of his performance of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto with conductor Marin Alsop and the National Orchestra of Belgium, Le Soir wrote that William “gets everyone’s attention in the first movement; he expresses all the possibilities in the second movement; [and he] burns all his passion and freedom in the music till the end.” Radio Télévision Belge Francophone simply called his playing “superb”.
A winner of the Salon de Virtuosi’s 2018 Career Grant, William has been invited twice by renowned New York Times music critic Robert Sherman to perform on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. He performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with conductor, Jahja Ling and the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall as a winner of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition in 2013.
Following his recital debut in Taiwan, William has appeared as soloist on multiple occasions, performing with such orchestras as the Belgium National Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Sejong Soloists, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan String Academy, Boston Longwood Symphony, and Mainzer Virtuosi. He has appeared as soloist at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Jordan Hall, the Henry le Boeuf Hall in Belgium, Gasteig Concert Hall in Munich, Seoul Arts Center, Cremona Stradivari Museum (Museo del Violino), and Taiwan National Concert Hall, and has been invited to perform at several festivals, including the 4string festival in New Jersey, Incheon Music Festival in Korea, Green Mountain Music Festival in Vermont, and the Casalmaggiore Music Festival in Italy. William has performed with such renowned musicians as Gil Shaham, Marin Alsop, Nai Yuan Hu, Cho Liang Lin, Orion Weiss, Marc Danel, Sung-Won Yang, Brian Suits, and Ronald Feldman.
Born in Taiwan, William began his violin studies at the age of five. He is a proud recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Scholarship at the Juilliard School, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree under Hyo Kang. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin under Kolja Blacher, former concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. William plays on a 1761 Tomasso Balestrieri loaned from the Chimei Foundation in Taiwan.
Taiwan Philharmonic,
the National Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1986, the Taiwan Philharmonic, also known as the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at home, is hailed as one of the best orchestras in Asia 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. From 2010 to 2020, led by renowned conductor Shao-Chia Lü as its 5th music director, the NSO has cultural and music educational strength throughout Taiwan. Starting 2021, Lü will continue as artistic advisor. The 99-member NSO presents a 40-week musical season of approximately 75 concerts, chamber recitals and opera productions each year. It also has launched numerous educational programs and outreach projects, which it continually develops. The symphony tours regularly throughout Taiwan and overseas, including Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Geneva, Milan, Seattle, San Francisco, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, Hong Kong , Beijing and Shanghai. The NSO has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Rudolf Barshai, Leonard Slatkin, Christopher Hogwood, Oleg Caetani, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Michael Sanderling, Vassily Sinaisky, Osmo Vänskä, Hans Graf, Long Yu and many famous soloists, including Mirella Freni, Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Asmik Grigorian , Narciso Yepes, Fou Ts'ong, Alicia de Larrocha, Jacques Thibaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Lilya Zilberstein, Louis Lortie, Garrick Ohlssono, Kun Woo Paik, Dang Thai Son, Alexandre Tharaud, Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma, Natalia Gutman, Lily Maisky, Gautier Capuçon, Jian Wang, Steven Isserlis, Daniel Müller-Schott, Sol Gabetta, Leonidas Kavakos, Nai-Yuan Hu, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Vadim Viktorovich Repin, Hilary Hahn, Midori, Joseph Lin, Ray Chen, Paul Huang, Richard Lin, Martin Grubinger, Sabine Meyer, Radek Baborák, Jörg Widmann, and Reinhold Friedrich.The NSO artistic reach extends to theater and opera. Its productions include collaborations 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, Hans-Peter Lehmann, Andreas Homoki and James Robinson. In addition to its own semi-staged opera productions such as Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Elektra (2011), Parsifal (2018) and Tosca (2019), the NSO has collaborated with worldclass opera houses for its multinational productions, such as Der Rosenkavalier with Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2007, Carmen with Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Norwegian National Opera and Opera Australia in 2009, Madama Butterfly with Opera Australia in 2012, Fidelio with Opernhaus Zurich in 2015, as well as in-house production Die Walküre (2013), Salome (2014) Othello (2016) and Il Trittico (2017).
Organizer
● Approx 110 mins including one interval of 20 mins
● Age guidance 7+
