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

"Beginning" is strenuous but it brings hope. In The Creation, Joseph HAYDN used a variety of tonalities to capture the initial chaos of the creation of heaven and earth. The uneasiness and beauty manifested throughout the piece, and the drama, brought a new aura to religious music.
Polish composer Witold LUTOSLAWSKI's work Concerto for Orchestra, citing the traditional music tunes of the Mazowsze region (the province of Mazovian Voivodeship where Warsaw is located.)  The composer applies the Baroque musical form to this piece, creating a masterpiece of Neoclassicism.
For the opening of the first International Music Festival, Weiwuying specially invited LIN Chia-ying, the Taiwanese composer who has won numerous awards in recent years and was hailed for "manifest flair" by The Times, to commission a new song The Fabricated Sugar-Coat, showing the mastery of Taiwan's new generation of composers.
Finally, Igor STRAVINSKY's The Firebird is a ballet work commissioned for the Ballets Russes. With its original rhythmic patterns and orchestration, the music shocked the music circles in Paris, and opened a new era for classical music in Europe.

  Pre-talk  

2022/4/8(Fri)18:50-19:10 Concert Hall 3^rd Floor

  Program  

Joseph HAYDN: 'Representation of Chaos' from The Creation, Hob. XXI:2

Witold LUTOSLAWSKI: Concerto for Orchestra

LIN Chia-ying: The Fabricated Sugar-Coat for orchestra (World premiere, Commissioned by Weiwuying)

Igor STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919 Version)

  Creative and Production Team  

Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin

National Symphony Orchestra

  Artists 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).

National Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 1986, the Taiwan Philharmonic, also known as the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at home, has been hailed as one of the best orchestras in Asia. With some of the finest musical talent from at home and abroad, trained at top schools and international orchestras, the NSO enjoys a unique voice rich in diversity and tradition. Under the leadership of music director Jun Märkl since January 2022, the NSO aspires to resonate throughout the world as the cultural ambassador of Taiwan. Music by Taiwanese composers is extensively commissioned, performed, and recorded by the NSO.

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