衛武營國家藝術文化中心 National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)

This December, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (ESO) will perform a wonderful “Russian Winterland” concert at the Weiwuying Concert Hall, bringing together Russian romantic music to celebrate the Christmas of 2020. The concert will be conducted by ESO Conductor Wen-chen CHUANG and joined by Violinist Richard LIN for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major which is one of the best-known violin concertos. Richard LIN has become the most high-profile violinist in the international music area in recent years, and has won many awards in various international violin competitions. He is often invited to cooperate with international well-known orchestras. If you join us in this concert, you will find the extraordinary performance skills by ESO and Richard LIN. This will be an unforgettable journey and we welcome you to join!

  Pre-talk  

12/22 (Tue) 18:50-19:10. Concert Hall 3rd Floor

  Program  

Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in e minor, Op. 27

  Creative and Production Team  

Conductor｜Wen-chen CHUANG

Violin｜Richard LIN

Evergreen Symphony Orchestra

  Artist Introduction  

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.

Violinist｜Richard LIN

Richard LIN is the newly crowned Gold Medalist of the 10th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis which took place in September of 2018.

Highlights of Mr. LIN’s 2018-2019 season include recitals in Chicago, La Jolla and throughout Indiana, including Indianapolis, New Harmony and Bloomington. He will make debut concerto appearances with the North Carolina and Muncie symphonies in the United States and will perform with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and the Taiwan Philharmonic in multiple performances in Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tokyo and Osaka.

Richard has amassed a startling collection of top prizes at major international competitions including Joseph JOACHIM in Hannover, Sendai, Singapore, Shanghai Isaac STERN, Michael HILL, and the WIENIAWSKI International Violin competitions. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras at celebrated concert venues, and has also given many recitals in distinguished venues in America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, Richard has released two albums in Japan under the Fontec label.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in Taiwan, Richard began his violin studies at the age of four. He gave his public debut at age eleven performing the Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Richard graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School where he studied with Aaron ROSAND and Lewis KAPLAN respectively.

Evergreen Symphony Orchestra

In 2001, the CHANG Yung-Fa Foundation invited a number of Chinese musicians and eminent international arts consultants to help form the Evergreen Orchestra, which initially consisted of 20members. This was expanded to a full-blown symphony orchestra with 71 members in 2002: the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (ESO). Since 2007, the post of music director and chief conductor has been held by Gernot Schmalfuss, former guest conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Founded and supervised by the CHANG Yung-Fa Foundation, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (ESO)is exceptional in being the only professional orchestra in Taiwan overseen by a private foundation, and one of but a few of its kind on the international stage. Young and energetic, full of team spirit and discipline, and characterized by outstanding professionalism and a unique style, the ESO’s mission is to offer the public superior performances of classical music by training and employing local talent. We are devoted to fostering young musicians and cultivating an environment and outlook that is both rooted in Taiwan and open to the world, an aspiration that is amply reflected in our musical repertoire.