- Price: 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1500
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
KUO Chih-yuan Memorial Concert
2021 marks a full century from the birth of composer KUO Chih-yuan (1921-2013). Born in Yuanli, a small town in Miaoli, while Taiwan was under Japanese rule, KUO began his musical education in Tokyo at the age of 14 and soon became an excellent harmonica player. He dreamed of becoming a musician, and was later accepted by the Tokyo College of Music in Japan, where he majored in musical composition. Upon returning to Taiwan after the Second World War, he buried himself in music writing. It was not until he was in his 40s that he decided to pursue three more years of training at the Nihon University College of Art in Japan. KUO's Symphonic Variations on a Taiwan Folk Tune, first given domestically as part of the program for the 1956 Taipei and Indianapolis USA Exchang Concert, was the first-ever western-style symphonic piece written by a Taiwanese. In 1973, KUO began his tenure as a researcher at the Taiwan Provincial Symphonic Orchestra (now National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, NTSO), where he wrote many orchestral works inspired by Taiwanese culture until his retirement. Throughout his career, he was awarded the National Award for Arts, WU San-lien Arts Award, Executive Yuan National Cultural Award, and the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon. He also received an honorary doctoral degree from Providence University. KUO wrote more than 100 songs (including Red Rose (1953) and By Tamsui River (1997) ) in his life, and his songs became known for their delicately elegant melodies and rich local charm. His most representative orchestral works include Orchestra Suite Recollection (1961, 1973 finalized), Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra (1972), and the Symphonic Suite ŚĀSTĀ DEVAMANUSYĀNĀM (1988), among others.
Pre-talk
2021/12/5(Sun)13:50-14:10 Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Program
Three Taiwan Folk Tune for Orchestra
i. Sword Dance
ii. Nan Qoan
iii. Prelude
Symphony in A From Tangsang to Taiwan
i. Pioneer
ii. In Pastoral
iii. Those miserable and joyful days
iv. Festival of the mountain tribe
Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra
Rhapsody Aboriginal Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Orchestra Suite Recollection
i. Bacchanale
ii. Night song
iii. Folk dance
iv. Festival
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜CHENG Li-pin
Piano｜Lina YEH
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Artists introduction
Conductor｜CHENG Li-pin
As a conductor, CHENG learned violin and piano since childhood, and also studied traditional instruments such as Sheng and Erhu. In 1997, CHENG graduated from the National Academy of Arts majoring in violin performance, and received his master's degree in conducting from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2002. He was mentored by many maestros, including Henry MAZER, HSU Sung-Jen and Felix Chiu-Sen CHEN. In March 2006, he joined the masterclass of Maestro Lorin MAAZEL, where he found great validation from the maestro.
From 2003 to 2004, CHENG started his career as an assistant conductor with Taipei Symphony Orchestra. From 2004 to 2015 he served as the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Since 2007, he has been a full-time teacher in the Department of Chinese Music of Chinese Culture University. Between 2015 and 2021 he was seconded to serve as the General Director of Taipei Chinese Orchestra, and as the Acting Director of Taipei Symphony Orchestra in 2021. CHENG has in recent years received numerous invitations as a guest conductor by both professional Chinese orchestras and symphony orchestras from Taiwan and mainland China. His outstanding artistry has also put him on the podiums at concerts in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Sates. Moreover, CHENG has published 17 audio recordings. In 2017, CHENG was recognized with the "Best Interpretation" with Sketches of Taiwan during "The 28th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music"; a year later, he earned "Best Album Producer" in "The 29th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music" with Taiwanese Aboriginal Carnival.
Besides extraordinary conducting experience of Chinese and Western orchestras, CHENG is also keen to conduct and promote works by Taiwanese composers. During his tenure as the General Director of Taipei Chinese Orchestra, he led the orchestra to construct the "Voice of Taipei", which is highly acclaimed and its acoustic aesthetics has become highly recognizable from other Chinese orchestras. In 2018, the concert he conducted at the Carnegie Hall in United States made Taipei Chinese Orchestra the first professional orchestra in Taiwan to perform in that hall.
Piano｜Lina YEH
For more than fourty years Lina Yeh has been one of Taiwan's most beloved pianists. Her preeminence as this country's most unique artist came into sharp focus in 1990 when she received the National Cultural Award in recognition of her achievements in the performing arts. Lina Yeh has performed all over the world as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and in a piano duo team together with her husband Rolf-Peter Wille. Her concerts were included tours in Australia and New Zealand, Eastern Europe, South America and the Caribbean as well as appearances in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia, Canada, the United States, and the Far East. As soloists and piano duo she performed with various orchestras, including the Russian National Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Ural State Philharmonic, as well as all major orchstras in Taiwan. She collaborated with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Streatfield, Andrei Boreyko, Stephan Soltes, Henry Mazer, Jajah Ling, Alexander Rudin, Carlo Ponti, Shao - Chia Lü, Wen-Pin Chien, Felix Chen and as chamber musician with violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Fredell Lack, cellists Michael Flaksman, Alexander Rudin, and flutist Robert Aitken. She has made guest appearances at festivals, among others "Braunschweig Classix" festival, Germany, the Banff festival, Canada, the Europe-Asian Piano Duo festival in Sverdlovsk, Russia, Klaaspärlimäng festival in Tallinn, Estonia, and the National Concert Hall series, Taipei. The artist's refined musicianship in performing the classical repertoire as well as 20th -century Chinese music has won them great critical acclaim. In 1997 Paul Griffith commented in the New York Times on the strong professional musicianship of her playing. Her latest albums having been released on the Philips and PolyGram labels, Lina Yeh has recorded a substantial part of the two-piano and piano-duet repertoire with Rolf-Peter Wille. Having a diverse cultural and educational background and having graduated from and studied at schools as different as Salzburg, Hanover, Banff, and Juilliard, she has distinguished national careers as professor (Taiwan Normal University), writer and broadcaster as well. Her principal teachers include Jacob Lateiner, Hans Leygraf, Kurt Leimer, and Robert Scholz. She has also worked on contemporary music with John Cage and Robert Aitken. In 2010 and 2012 she has received the "Golden Melody" award for the "best performer" and best "classical music album". And she also received the "Friendship Medal "in 2010 and 2015 the "most outstanding professor" in Arts .
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1945, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) is the oldest symphony orchestra in Taiwan. Since its establishment, it has been successively affiliated with the Taiwan Garrison Command, Taiwan Art Construction Association, Taiwan Provincial Department of Education, Department of Culture, Council for Cultural Affairs, and the Executive Yuan. In May of 2012, it came under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The orchestra is located in Wufeng, Taichung. It is a full-fledged music group with a full complement of software and hardware.
Over 70 years of history, under the directors of the past and the efforts of the current director LIU Suan-yung, the NTSO has accumulated extensive performing experience. Countless international teams and musicians have been invited to perform with the NTSO.
Since 2019, the internationally renowned conductor maestro SHUI Lan has taken on the position of the NTSO Principal Guest Conductor, cooperating with the NTSO Director Liu to enrich artistic skills, innovate on tradition, deepen education, and promote aesthetics, thus enhancing the public's musical life, making music ever-present like air, water and sunshine.
Co-Presenter: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), National Center for Traditional Arts Taiwan Music Institute, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
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KUO Chih-yuan Exhibition
2021/11/5(Fri)-2021/12/5(Sun) 11:00~21:00
Weiwuying Art Gallery
Free Entry
KUO Chih-yuan Memorial Concert, Taipei
2021/12/4(Sat)19:30
Main Theatre, Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center
Sponsor
 |
KUO Chih-yuan Memorial Concert
2021 marks a full century from the birth of composer KUO Chih-yuan (1921-2013). Born in Yuanli, a small town in Miaoli, while Taiwan was under Japanese rule, KUO began his musical education in Tokyo at the age of 14 and soon became an excellent harmonica player. He dreamed of becoming a musician, and was later accepted by the Tokyo College of Music in Japan, where he majored in musical composition. Upon returning to Taiwan after the Second World War, he buried himself in music writing. It was not until he was in his 40s that he decided to pursue three more years of training at the Nihon University College of Art in Japan. KUO's Symphonic Variations on a Taiwan Folk Tune, first given domestically as part of the program for the 1956 Taipei and Indianapolis USA Exchang Concert, was the first-ever western-style symphonic piece written by a Taiwanese. In 1973, KUO began his tenure as a researcher at the Taiwan Provincial Symphonic Orchestra (now National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, NTSO), where he wrote many orchestral works inspired by Taiwanese culture until his retirement. Throughout his career, he was awarded the National Award for Arts, WU San-lien Arts Award, Executive Yuan National Cultural Award, and the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon. He also received an honorary doctoral degree from Providence University. KUO wrote more than 100 songs (including Red Rose (1953) and By Tamsui River (1997) ) in his life, and his songs became known for their delicately elegant melodies and rich local charm. His most representative orchestral works include Orchestra Suite Recollection (1961, 1973 finalized), Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra (1972), and the Symphonic Suite ŚĀSTĀ DEVAMANUSYĀNĀM (1988), among others.
Pre-talk
2021/12/5(Sun)13:50-14:10 Concert Hall 3rd Floor
Program
Three Taiwan Folk Tune for Orchestra
i. Sword Dance
ii. Nan Qoan
iii. Prelude
Symphony in A From Tangsang to Taiwan
i. Pioneer
ii. In Pastoral
iii. Those miserable and joyful days
iv. Festival of the mountain tribe
Concertino for Piano and String Orchestra
Rhapsody Aboriginal Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Orchestra Suite Recollection
i. Bacchanale
ii. Night song
iii. Folk dance
iv. Festival
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜CHENG Li-pin
Piano｜Lina YEH
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Artists introduction
Conductor｜CHENG Li-pin
As a conductor, CHENG learned violin and piano since childhood, and also studied traditional instruments such as Sheng and Erhu. In 1997, CHENG graduated from the National Academy of Arts majoring in violin performance, and received his master's degree in conducting from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2002. He was mentored by many maestros, including Henry MAZER, HSU Sung-Jen and Felix Chiu-Sen CHEN. In March 2006, he joined the masterclass of Maestro Lorin MAAZEL, where he found great validation from the maestro.
From 2003 to 2004, CHENG started his career as an assistant conductor with Taipei Symphony Orchestra. From 2004 to 2015 he served as the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Since 2007, he has been a full-time teacher in the Department of Chinese Music of Chinese Culture University. Between 2015 and 2021 he was seconded to serve as the General Director of Taipei Chinese Orchestra, and as the Acting Director of Taipei Symphony Orchestra in 2021. CHENG has in recent years received numerous invitations as a guest conductor by both professional Chinese orchestras and symphony orchestras from Taiwan and mainland China. His outstanding artistry has also put him on the podiums at concerts in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United Sates. Moreover, CHENG has published 17 audio recordings. In 2017, CHENG was recognized with the "Best Interpretation" with Sketches of Taiwan during "The 28th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music"; a year later, he earned "Best Album Producer" in "The 29th Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music" with Taiwanese Aboriginal Carnival.
Besides extraordinary conducting experience of Chinese and Western orchestras, CHENG is also keen to conduct and promote works by Taiwanese composers. During his tenure as the General Director of Taipei Chinese Orchestra, he led the orchestra to construct the "Voice of Taipei", which is highly acclaimed and its acoustic aesthetics has become highly recognizable from other Chinese orchestras. In 2018, the concert he conducted at the Carnegie Hall in United States made Taipei Chinese Orchestra the first professional orchestra in Taiwan to perform in that hall.
Piano｜Lina YEH
For more than fourty years Lina Yeh has been one of Taiwan's most beloved pianists. Her preeminence as this country's most unique artist came into sharp focus in 1990 when she received the National Cultural Award in recognition of her achievements in the performing arts. Lina Yeh has performed all over the world as recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and in a piano duo team together with her husband Rolf-Peter Wille. Her concerts were included tours in Australia and New Zealand, Eastern Europe, South America and the Caribbean as well as appearances in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia, Canada, the United States, and the Far East. As soloists and piano duo she performed with various orchestras, including the Russian National Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, Ural State Philharmonic, as well as all major orchstras in Taiwan. She collaborated with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Simon Streatfield, Andrei Boreyko, Stephan Soltes, Henry Mazer, Jajah Ling, Alexander Rudin, Carlo Ponti, Shao - Chia Lü, Wen-Pin Chien, Felix Chen and as chamber musician with violinists Ruggiero Ricci, Fredell Lack, cellists Michael Flaksman, Alexander Rudin, and flutist Robert Aitken. She has made guest appearances at festivals, among others "Braunschweig Classix" festival, Germany, the Banff festival, Canada, the Europe-Asian Piano Duo festival in Sverdlovsk, Russia, Klaaspärlimäng festival in Tallinn, Estonia, and the National Concert Hall series, Taipei. The artist's refined musicianship in performing the classical repertoire as well as 20th -century Chinese music has won them great critical acclaim. In 1997 Paul Griffith commented in the New York Times on the strong professional musicianship of her playing. Her latest albums having been released on the Philips and PolyGram labels, Lina Yeh has recorded a substantial part of the two-piano and piano-duet repertoire with Rolf-Peter Wille. Having a diverse cultural and educational background and having graduated from and studied at schools as different as Salzburg, Hanover, Banff, and Juilliard, she has distinguished national careers as professor (Taiwan Normal University), writer and broadcaster as well. Her principal teachers include Jacob Lateiner, Hans Leygraf, Kurt Leimer, and Robert Scholz. She has also worked on contemporary music with John Cage and Robert Aitken. In 2010 and 2012 she has received the "Golden Melody" award for the "best performer" and best "classical music album". And she also received the "Friendship Medal "in 2010 and 2015 the "most outstanding professor" in Arts .
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1945, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) is the oldest symphony orchestra in Taiwan. Since its establishment, it has been successively affiliated with the Taiwan Garrison Command, Taiwan Art Construction Association, Taiwan Provincial Department of Education, Department of Culture, Council for Cultural Affairs, and the Executive Yuan. In May of 2012, it came under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The orchestra is located in Wufeng, Taichung. It is a full-fledged music group with a full complement of software and hardware.
Over 70 years of history, under the directors of the past and the efforts of the current director LIU Suan-yung, the NTSO has accumulated extensive performing experience. Countless international teams and musicians have been invited to perform with the NTSO.
Since 2019, the internationally renowned conductor maestro SHUI Lan has taken on the position of the NTSO Principal Guest Conductor, cooperating with the NTSO Director Liu to enrich artistic skills, innovate on tradition, deepen education, and promote aesthetics, thus enhancing the public's musical life, making music ever-present like air, water and sunshine.
Co-Presenter: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), National Center for Traditional Arts Taiwan Music Institute, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
More
KUO Chih-yuan Exhibition
2021/11/5(Fri)-2021/12/5(Sun) 11:00~21:00
Weiwuying Art Gallery
Free Entry
KUO Chih-yuan Memorial Concert, Taipei
2021/12/4(Sat)19:30
Main Theatre, Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center
Sponsor
|
- Price: 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1500
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- More Offers
※Discounts are not applicable for tickets tier at NT$300 and lower.
