- Weiwuying Co-organizer Program.
- Duration is 115 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry
INBAL & SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13
"In Inbal, one can trace the clear traits of role models and teachers such as Franco Ferrara and Sergiu Celibidache; he possesses the strength for tranquility and the sense to create unbridled passion and dramatic effect.” —─”Die Welt"
Born in Israel, INBAL won first prize at the Cantelli Conducting Competition at the age of 26. He has been the chief conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2022, and will be serving as the Conductor Laureate from 2023. His interpretation of Gustav MAHLER, Anton BRUCKNER, and Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH has received high praise internationally.
Maestro Eliahu INBAL will lead the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, together with cellist Victor COO, presenting Ernest BLOCH's Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra, as well as Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH's Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar," which will be performed with Bass Grigory SHKARUPA and the Müller Chamber Choir.
BLOCH's Schelomo depicts the great era ruled by King Solomon. In "Babi Yar," SHOSTAKOVICH adapts poems into melodies, condemning the Fascist invasion of Ukraine and the massacre of Jews. INBAL will lead us into the torrent of history with his keen human observation and musical ideology. Let's hear the deep emotions that have traveled through three thousand years of Hebrew history.
Program
Ernest BLOCH: Schelomo, Hebräische Rhapsodie Für Violoncello Und Grosses Orchester, B.39
D. SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13 in b-flat minor, Op. 113, Babi Yar
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜Eliahu INBAL
Cello｜Victor COO
Bass｜Grigory SHKARUPA
Müller Chamber Choir
Taipei Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜Eliahu INBAL
Since winning first prize in the Cantelli Conducting Competition at the age of 26, INBAL has enjoyed a career of international renown, conducting leading orchestras around the world. Over the years, he has been appointed principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester), Teatro La Fenice in Venice, RAI National Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, who named him Conductor Laureate in 2014. From August 2019 on, Eliahu Inbal will take on the role of Principal Conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
During his tenure with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, whose honorary conductor he remains today, he distinguished himself with his outstanding musicianship. Based in Berlin, the charismatic Israeli conductor has garnered international acclaim for his interpretations of Mahler and Bruckner on a number of award-winning recordings (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque), and was the first to record the original versions of Bruckner's symphonies. He has received special recognition particularly for his interpretations of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Eliahu Inbal's operatic engagements include an award-winning production of Parsifal, as well as Tristan and Isolde and The Ring tetralogy of Wagner. His extensive discography features a performance of Mahler's Symphony No.10 (completed version by D. Cooke), as part of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's Mahler cycle in 2010, which was also released on DVD.
Born in Israel, Inbal studied violin and composition at the Jerusalem Music Academy before completing his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris on the recommendation of Leonard Bernstein. His teachers there included Louis Fourestier, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger. He was also greatly influenced by Franco Ferrara in Hilversum (Netherlands) and Sergiu Celibidache in Siena (Italy). In 1990, the French government named Eliahu Inbal an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. In February 2001 he was awarded the Golden Medal of Merit from the city of Vienna. He received the Goethe Badge of Honour from the City of Frankfurt and the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006.
Cello｜Victor COO
Taiwan-based Filipino cellist Victor COO is currently a full-time Assistant Professor for cello and chamber music at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and also teaches at the National Kaohsiung Normal University. An active chamber musician, he is a founding-member and cellist of the Voyage String Quartet, and principal cellist of Taiwan Connection Chamber Orchestra, he has collaborated both international and local musicians. Also a regular recitalist and soloist, he recently performed the Tyzen HSIAO Cello Concerto with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra.
A Doctoral of Musical Arts graduate at the Michigan State University, he also obtained degrees at the University of Maryland, Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) and a graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts. His principal teachers include Suren BAGRATUNI, Evelyn ELSING, Johanne PERRON, Wilfredo PASAMBA, and Amador TAMAYO. He attended music festivals such as Fontainebleau, Sarasota, Bowdoin, Master Works, and Interlochen; working with cellists such as Peter WILEY, Steven DOANE, Ron LEONARD, Timothy EDDY, Henri DEMARQUETTE, and Herre-Jan STEGENGA.
He is based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with his pianist-wife, Ya-Hsin WU, and two kids
Bass｜Grigory SHKARUPA
Grigory SHKARUPA started winning prizes at a very young age with his deep, warm and precisely sung bass. In 2011 he was a prizewinner at the 1st Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Singers in St. Petersburg. Later followed the Shalyapin International Competition in Yalta, the 'Three Centuries of the Classical Romance' International Competition in St. Petersburg, as well as the All-Russian Sviridov Vocal Competition in Kursk.
At the age of 19, SHKARUPA debuted at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He sang the roles of the Prisoner in VERDI's Nabucco, Patsyuk in RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Christmas Eve, Mityukha in MUSSORGSKY’s Boris Godunov, Zuniga in CARMEN, The Monk in VERDI's Don Carlo, Soldier in BERLIOZ's Les Troyens, and many others. He has performed with such distinguished conductors as Valery GERGIEV, Yuri TEMIRKANOV, Gianandrea NOSEDA, Mikhail TATARNIKOV, Justus FRANTZ, and Mikhail AGREST. He has also toured Spain, Israel, Germany and Lithuania with the ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre.
In October of 2010, SHKARUPA became a member of the Young Artists Program at the Bolshoi Theatre where he regularly performed on the stage of the Bolshoi.
In 2013, SHKARUPA became a member of the International Opernstudio at the Staatsoper Berlin. He has performed there as Samuel in VERDI's Un ballo in maschera, Marchese D'obigny in VERDI’s La traviata, Joe Alaskawolfjoe in Kurt WEILL's Mahagonny, Ein Athlet in BERG's Lulu and the Fifth Jew in STRAUSS' Salome. He sang the role of Don Alfonso in MOZART's Cosi fan tutte at the Bregenz Festival.
Grigory SHKARUPA is a member of the Staatsoper Berlin since September of 2015, where he has performed the roles of Sarastro In Zauberflöte, Ferrando In Trovatore, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Basilio in Barbiere di Siviglia, Masetto in MOZART's Don Giovanni, Trufaldino in STRAUSS's Ariadne auf Naxos, Biterolf in Tannhäuser. Grigorii SHKARUPA performs as a guest in Grand Theatre de Genève has also performed with such conductors as Daniel BARENBOIM, Zubin MEHTA,Vladimir JUROWSKI, P.ARRIVABENI, T.SOKHIEV, M.ZANETTI and others.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1989, after graduating from the Glinka Choral College in 2007, he went on to study at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory as both a singer and a choral conductor. At the opera studio of the conservatory, SHKARUPA already performed the roles of Gurnemanz in WAGNER's Parsifal (excerpts of the opera), Zuniga in BIZET's Carmen conducted by Mariss JANSONS, Panas in RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Christmas Eve, and others.
Taipei Symphony Orchestra
Taipei Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969, in the past 5 decades, it has evolved from a small group of musicians into a professional ensemble with over 100 members. TSO has graced the city with beautiful music since it was first founded, and its 50th anniversary also opened a brilliant new chapter in Taiwan's music history.
From the ensemble's inception, TSO has been known for its high musical standards, and has invited innumerable renowned musicians to perform and collaborate with them, including sopranos Anna Netrebko and Angela Gheorghiu, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Maxim Vengerov, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor Yuri Temirkanov, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, trombonist Christian Lindberg and composer Tan Dun. In 1979, when the first Taipei Music Festival was held, it set the precedent for large-scale music festivals in Taiwan, and aside from inviting renowned international orchestras, such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, TSO also established its long tradition of performing an opera every year, including such classic works as "Pagliacci", "La Dame aux Camelias", "Faust", "Carmen", "Turandot", and "La bohème". In October of 2011, TSO's production of Verdi's "Aida" was the first time a full opera was ever performed at the Taipei Arena. In recent years, TSO performed "La Clemenza di Tito" in its entirety for the first time ever in Taiwan, as well as the Taiwan debuts of "Ariadne auf Naxos", "Eugene Onegin", "Die Kluge" and "Der Mond", establishing the importance of TSO in the performance of opera in Taiwan.
Apart from performing in Taiwan, TSO is also no stranger to international concert halls, having performed in Austria, the U.S., Japan, Russia, France, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Singapore, China, and the Philippines; in particular, TSO's 2017 return tour of the west coast of the United states after 26 years gave fans on the other side of the Pacific Ocean the opportunity to hear the pride of Taipei and indeed the whole of Taiwan! In recent years, the orchestra has participated in many international music festivals and important events, such as the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, the closing ceremony of the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion in 2011, La Folle Journee in Kanazawa, Toyama and Tokyo, Japan in 2012, a tour of Japan in 2014, and performing at France's Les Flaneries Musicales de Reims in June 2015, Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2016, a U.S. tour in 2017, as well as a China tour in 2019, and has been invited by Washington Performing Arts (WPA) in Washington, D.C. to perform at The Music Center at Strathmore in November 2019.
In 2019, TSO appointed Maestro Eliahu Inbal as Principal Conductor from 2019 to 2022. In 2022, TSO named him as Conductor Laureate from 2023. Taipei Symphony Orchestra continuous presents the great music and quality sound to the world, then will become the most beautiful sound in Taipei City and let the world hear TSO!
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INBAL & SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13
"In Inbal, one can trace the clear traits of role models and teachers such as Franco Ferrara and Sergiu Celibidache; he possesses the strength for tranquility and the sense to create unbridled passion and dramatic effect.” —─”Die Welt"
Born in Israel, INBAL won first prize at the Cantelli Conducting Competition at the age of 26. He has been the chief conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2022, and will be serving as the Conductor Laureate from 2023. His interpretation of Gustav MAHLER, Anton BRUCKNER, and Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH has received high praise internationally.
Maestro Eliahu INBAL will lead the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, together with cellist Victor COO, presenting Ernest BLOCH's Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra, as well as Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH's Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar," which will be performed with Bass Grigory SHKARUPA and the Müller Chamber Choir.
BLOCH's Schelomo depicts the great era ruled by King Solomon. In "Babi Yar," SHOSTAKOVICH adapts poems into melodies, condemning the Fascist invasion of Ukraine and the massacre of Jews. INBAL will lead us into the torrent of history with his keen human observation and musical ideology. Let's hear the deep emotions that have traveled through three thousand years of Hebrew history.
Program
Ernest BLOCH: Schelomo, Hebräische Rhapsodie Für Violoncello Und Grosses Orchester, B.39
D. SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13 in b-flat minor, Op. 113, Babi Yar
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜Eliahu INBAL
Cello｜Victor COO
Bass｜Grigory SHKARUPA
Müller Chamber Choir
Taipei Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜Eliahu INBAL
Since winning first prize in the Cantelli Conducting Competition at the age of 26, INBAL has enjoyed a career of international renown, conducting leading orchestras around the world. Over the years, he has been appointed principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester), Teatro La Fenice in Venice, RAI National Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Czech Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, who named him Conductor Laureate in 2014. From August 2019 on, Eliahu Inbal will take on the role of Principal Conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
During his tenure with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, whose honorary conductor he remains today, he distinguished himself with his outstanding musicianship. Based in Berlin, the charismatic Israeli conductor has garnered international acclaim for his interpretations of Mahler and Bruckner on a number of award-winning recordings (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque), and was the first to record the original versions of Bruckner's symphonies. He has received special recognition particularly for his interpretations of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Eliahu Inbal's operatic engagements include an award-winning production of Parsifal, as well as Tristan and Isolde and The Ring tetralogy of Wagner. His extensive discography features a performance of Mahler's Symphony No.10 (completed version by D. Cooke), as part of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's Mahler cycle in 2010, which was also released on DVD.
Born in Israel, Inbal studied violin and composition at the Jerusalem Music Academy before completing his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris on the recommendation of Leonard Bernstein. His teachers there included Louis Fourestier, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger. He was also greatly influenced by Franco Ferrara in Hilversum (Netherlands) and Sergiu Celibidache in Siena (Italy). In 1990, the French government named Eliahu Inbal an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. In February 2001 he was awarded the Golden Medal of Merit from the city of Vienna. He received the Goethe Badge of Honour from the City of Frankfurt and the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006.
Cello｜Victor COO
Taiwan-based Filipino cellist Victor COO is currently a full-time Assistant Professor for cello and chamber music at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and also teaches at the National Kaohsiung Normal University. An active chamber musician, he is a founding-member and cellist of the Voyage String Quartet, and principal cellist of Taiwan Connection Chamber Orchestra, he has collaborated both international and local musicians. Also a regular recitalist and soloist, he recently performed the Tyzen HSIAO Cello Concerto with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra.
A Doctoral of Musical Arts graduate at the Michigan State University, he also obtained degrees at the University of Maryland, Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) and a graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts. His principal teachers include Suren BAGRATUNI, Evelyn ELSING, Johanne PERRON, Wilfredo PASAMBA, and Amador TAMAYO. He attended music festivals such as Fontainebleau, Sarasota, Bowdoin, Master Works, and Interlochen; working with cellists such as Peter WILEY, Steven DOANE, Ron LEONARD, Timothy EDDY, Henri DEMARQUETTE, and Herre-Jan STEGENGA.
He is based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with his pianist-wife, Ya-Hsin WU, and two kids
Bass｜Grigory SHKARUPA
Grigory SHKARUPA started winning prizes at a very young age with his deep, warm and precisely sung bass. In 2011 he was a prizewinner at the 1st Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Singers in St. Petersburg. Later followed the Shalyapin International Competition in Yalta, the 'Three Centuries of the Classical Romance' International Competition in St. Petersburg, as well as the All-Russian Sviridov Vocal Competition in Kursk.
At the age of 19, SHKARUPA debuted at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He sang the roles of the Prisoner in VERDI's Nabucco, Patsyuk in RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Christmas Eve, Mityukha in MUSSORGSKY’s Boris Godunov, Zuniga in CARMEN, The Monk in VERDI's Don Carlo, Soldier in BERLIOZ's Les Troyens, and many others. He has performed with such distinguished conductors as Valery GERGIEV, Yuri TEMIRKANOV, Gianandrea NOSEDA, Mikhail TATARNIKOV, Justus FRANTZ, and Mikhail AGREST. He has also toured Spain, Israel, Germany and Lithuania with the ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre.
In October of 2010, SHKARUPA became a member of the Young Artists Program at the Bolshoi Theatre where he regularly performed on the stage of the Bolshoi.
In 2013, SHKARUPA became a member of the International Opernstudio at the Staatsoper Berlin. He has performed there as Samuel in VERDI's Un ballo in maschera, Marchese D'obigny in VERDI’s La traviata, Joe Alaskawolfjoe in Kurt WEILL's Mahagonny, Ein Athlet in BERG's Lulu and the Fifth Jew in STRAUSS' Salome. He sang the role of Don Alfonso in MOZART's Cosi fan tutte at the Bregenz Festival.
Grigory SHKARUPA is a member of the Staatsoper Berlin since September of 2015, where he has performed the roles of Sarastro In Zauberflöte, Ferrando In Trovatore, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Basilio in Barbiere di Siviglia, Masetto in MOZART's Don Giovanni, Trufaldino in STRAUSS's Ariadne auf Naxos, Biterolf in Tannhäuser. Grigorii SHKARUPA performs as a guest in Grand Theatre de Genève has also performed with such conductors as Daniel BARENBOIM, Zubin MEHTA,Vladimir JUROWSKI, P.ARRIVABENI, T.SOKHIEV, M.ZANETTI and others.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1989, after graduating from the Glinka Choral College in 2007, he went on to study at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory as both a singer and a choral conductor. At the opera studio of the conservatory, SHKARUPA already performed the roles of Gurnemanz in WAGNER's Parsifal (excerpts of the opera), Zuniga in BIZET's Carmen conducted by Mariss JANSONS, Panas in RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Christmas Eve, and others.
Taipei Symphony Orchestra
Taipei Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969, in the past 5 decades, it has evolved from a small group of musicians into a professional ensemble with over 100 members. TSO has graced the city with beautiful music since it was first founded, and its 50th anniversary also opened a brilliant new chapter in Taiwan's music history.
From the ensemble's inception, TSO has been known for its high musical standards, and has invited innumerable renowned musicians to perform and collaborate with them, including sopranos Anna Netrebko and Angela Gheorghiu, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Maxim Vengerov, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor Yuri Temirkanov, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, trombonist Christian Lindberg and composer Tan Dun. In 1979, when the first Taipei Music Festival was held, it set the precedent for large-scale music festivals in Taiwan, and aside from inviting renowned international orchestras, such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, TSO also established its long tradition of performing an opera every year, including such classic works as "Pagliacci", "La Dame aux Camelias", "Faust", "Carmen", "Turandot", and "La bohème". In October of 2011, TSO's production of Verdi's "Aida" was the first time a full opera was ever performed at the Taipei Arena. In recent years, TSO performed "La Clemenza di Tito" in its entirety for the first time ever in Taiwan, as well as the Taiwan debuts of "Ariadne auf Naxos", "Eugene Onegin", "Die Kluge" and "Der Mond", establishing the importance of TSO in the performance of opera in Taiwan.
Apart from performing in Taiwan, TSO is also no stranger to international concert halls, having performed in Austria, the U.S., Japan, Russia, France, Spain, Germany, Luxembourg, Singapore, China, and the Philippines; in particular, TSO's 2017 return tour of the west coast of the United states after 26 years gave fans on the other side of the Pacific Ocean the opportunity to hear the pride of Taipei and indeed the whole of Taiwan! In recent years, the orchestra has participated in many international music festivals and important events, such as the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, the closing ceremony of the Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion in 2011, La Folle Journee in Kanazawa, Toyama and Tokyo, Japan in 2012, a tour of Japan in 2014, and performing at France's Les Flaneries Musicales de Reims in June 2015, Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2016, a U.S. tour in 2017, as well as a China tour in 2019, and has been invited by Washington Performing Arts (WPA) in Washington, D.C. to perform at The Music Center at Strathmore in November 2019.
In 2019, TSO appointed Maestro Eliahu Inbal as Principal Conductor from 2019 to 2022. In 2022, TSO named him as Conductor Laureate from 2023. Taipei Symphony Orchestra continuous presents the great music and quality sound to the world, then will become the most beautiful sound in Taipei City and let the world hear TSO!
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- Weiwuying Co-organizer Program.
- Duration is 115 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry
