- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 105 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
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
【2024 Weiwuying International Music Festival】Closing Concert - WAGNER, CHIN, BEETHOVEN
The closing concert of the 2024 Weiwuying International Music Festival will blend centuries, spotlighting timeless Beethoven and Wagner works, alongside a modern piece by maestro Unsuk CHIN. Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor CHIEN Wen-pin, will perform CHIN's 2006 Cello Concerto with renowned American cellist Zlatomir FUNG, champion of the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition. This concerto, renowned in contemporary music, offers captivating interplay between cello and orchestra, and was hailed by The Guardian as "one of the best 25 classical music works of the 21st century."
Korean pianist Sunwook KIM will shine as soloist in BEETHOVEN's Emperor piano concerto – a bold creation emerging from wartime audacity, demonstrating unwavering determination. WAGNER's final opera, Parsifal, showcases his mature and profound musicality. The masterful prelude beautifully blends solemnity and elegance, weaving intricate orchestral layers for a captivating and dramatic opening.
Pre-talk
2024/4/21(Sun)14:00 Concert Hall Auditorium
Program
R. WAGNER: Act I. Prelude from Opera Parsifal, WWV 111
Unsuk CHIN: Cello Concerto
L. v. BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
Cello｜Zlatomir FUNG
Piano｜Sunwook KIM
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin, General and Artistic Director of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), was born in 1967, graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and awarded a Master's degree at the National University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. CHIEN joined the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Germany) in 1996 and served as "Kapellmeister" for 22 years. 1998-2004 he was Resident Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan).
2001-2007 he was Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan Philharmonic); during his tenure the orchestra has achieved several milestones such as creating Subscription series, commissioning Taiwanese composers, introducing an opera series which coroneted with the first production of the complete "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard WAGNER in Chinese speaking areas, upon orchestra's 20th anniversary in 2006. 2014-2016 CHIEN was Artistic Advisor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In addition, CHIEN was winner of the "National Award for Arts" in 2014.
Cello｜Zlatomir FUNG
The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir FUNG is poised to become one of the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity, the 23-year-old has already proven himself to be a star among the next generation of world-class musicians. A recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2022 and a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, FUNG's impeccable technique demonstrates mastery of the canon and exceptional insight into the depths of contemporary repertoire.
In the 2022-2023 season, FUNG performs with orchestras and gives recitals in all corners of the world. Orchestral engagements include the BBC and Rochester Philharmonics, Milwaukee, Reading, Lincoln, Ridgefield and Sante Fe Symphonies, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, and APEX Ensemble. He gives the world premiere of a new cello concerto by Katherine Balch with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He plays recitals throughout North America with pianists Benjamin Hochman, Dina Vainshtein, and Janice Carissa, including stops in New York City, Chicago, IL, San Diego and Berkeley, CA, Los Alamos, NM, Rockville, MD, Melbourne, FL, Vancouver and Sechelt, BC, Northampton, MA, Province , RI, Burlington, VT, and Waterford, VA. Tours of Europe and Asia include a recital at Wigmore Hall and two performances at Cello Biënnale Amsterdam.
Recent summer festival appearances include Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail with the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin, ChamberFest Cleveland, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and Verbier. As a soloist, FUNG has appeared with the Detroit, Kansas City, Seattle, Utah, Greensboro, Ann Arbor, and Asheville Symphonies, among many others. Past recital highlights include his Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall debut with pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen and multiple tours throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. As a chamber musician, he has been presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, IMS Prussia Cove, Syrinx Concerts in Toronto, The Embassy Series & The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and Salon de Virtuosi and Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York City.
A winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Astral National Auditions, FUNG has taken the top prizes at the 2018 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, 2016 George Enescu International Cello Competition, 2015 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, 2014 Stulberg International String Competition, and 2014 Irving Klein International Competition. He was selected as a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar for the Arts and was awarded the 2016 Landgrave von Hesse Prize at the Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses.
Of Bulgarian-Chinese heritage, Zlatomir FUNG began playing cello at age three. FUNG studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. FUNG has been featured on NPR's Performance Today and has appeared on From the Top six times. In addition to music, he enjoys cinema, reading, and blitz chess. He plays a 1717 cello by David Tecchler of Rome, kindly loaned to him through the Beare's International Violin Society by a generous benefactor.
Piano｜Sunwook KIM
Sunwook KIM came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition's youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner. Since then, he has established a reputation as one of the finest pianists of his generation, appearing as a concerto soloist in the subscription series of some of the world's leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin Radio Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Finnish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Orchestra of Wales, Radio-France Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for his BBC Proms debut in Summer 2014. Conductor collaborations include with Karina CANELLAKIS, Nathalie STUTZMANN, Thomas SONDERGARD, Tugan SOKHIEV, Daniel HARDING, Paavo JÄRVI, David AFKHAM, Edward GARDNER, John Elliot GARDINER, Myung-Whun CHUNG, Osmo VÄNSKÄ, Vladimir ASHKENAZY, Kirill KARABITS, Marek JANOWSKI, Sakari ORAMO, Andrew MANZE, Vassily SINAISKY, Michael SANDERLING, Yuri BASHMET and Sir Mark ELDER.
Recital highlights to date include regular appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London International Piano Series), in the 'Piano 4 Etoiles' series at the Philharmonie de Paris and Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Piano aux Jacobin Festival, AIX Festival, La Roque d'Antheron International Piano Festival (France) as well as at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Symphony Hall Osaka and Seoul Arts Centre. Sunwook is also a keen chamber musician and has collaborated with singers.
As soloist in the 2022/23 season, Sunwook returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Tianyi LU), London Symphony Orchestra (Michael Tilson THOMAS), Chamber Orchestra of Europe to tour South Korea as well as to the Seoul Philharmonic in their tour of Europe (Concertgebouw, Cadogan Hall). Sunwook also returned to Bournemouth Symphony both as soloist (KARABITS) and to conduct DVORAK's Cello Concerto alongside Brahms Symphony No. 2. Sunwook's return to the Bournemouth Symphony as conductor follows his instant success having made his play-direct debut with the orchestra and international conducting debut with the KBS Symphony only last season. In August 2022, Sunwook also had the honour to conduct the Seoul Philharmonic in their National Liberation Day Concert marking the 77th anniversary of Korea's National Liberation Day and in December 2022 returned to conduct three performances of BEETHOVEN's Symphony No.9. Further conducting debuts included with the Fundación Excelentia Madrid and Macao Orchestra.
Next season, Sunwook will make his debut with Atlanta Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Gävle Symfoniorkester as well as his conducting debuts with the Franz LISZT Chamber
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO)
Wherever there is music, there is you.
- A young orchestra moving forward with determination
A city's orchestra is a rare and precious attribute for any place to have. The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra is a young, talented and energetic orchestra that strives to incorporate classical and cross-border performances into their repertoire, permeated with their unique passion. KSO creates high-quality themes for the fans of music.
Founded in 1981 and merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra Foundation in 2009 to form the "Kaohsiung Philharmonic Cultural and Art Foundation", with the current Kaohsiung City Deputy Mayor, SHIH Che, took up the post of the first President. The present chairperson of Foundation is WANG, Wen-Tsui, Director of Kaohsiung City's Bureau of Cultural Affairs. CHU Hung-Chang is the CEO of Foundation, and the resident conductor is Yang Chih-Chin.
Since 2009, the orchestra has played a pivotal role in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival and successfully established the reputation of the “Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival Grassland Concert”. KSO also took part in full opera production in Kaohsiung Spring Art Festival-Magic Flute, La Traviata, Carmen and La Boheme, which all have gained significant resonance and praise from the audience.
On the international stage, KSO has been continuously invited to perform in many cities, gradually stepping beyond the borders of cities and countries, taking the international-level orchestra as the goal of self-improvement and growth, and moving forward firmly.
During the pandemic, various online concerts were used to meet with music fans online to soothe people's hearts with the energy of music.
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Partner: Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival
Cultural Development Partner
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【2024 Weiwuying International Music Festival】Closing Concert - WAGNER, CHIN, BEETHOVEN
The closing concert of the 2024 Weiwuying International Music Festival will blend centuries, spotlighting timeless Beethoven and Wagner works, alongside a modern piece by maestro Unsuk CHIN. Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor CHIEN Wen-pin, will perform CHIN's 2006 Cello Concerto with renowned American cellist Zlatomir FUNG, champion of the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition. This concerto, renowned in contemporary music, offers captivating interplay between cello and orchestra, and was hailed by The Guardian as "one of the best 25 classical music works of the 21st century."
Korean pianist Sunwook KIM will shine as soloist in BEETHOVEN's Emperor piano concerto – a bold creation emerging from wartime audacity, demonstrating unwavering determination. WAGNER's final opera, Parsifal, showcases his mature and profound musicality. The masterful prelude beautifully blends solemnity and elegance, weaving intricate orchestral layers for a captivating and dramatic opening.
Pre-talk
2024/4/21(Sun)14:00 Concert Hall Auditorium
Program
R. WAGNER: Act I. Prelude from Opera Parsifal, WWV 111
Unsuk CHIN: Cello Concerto
L. v. BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 Emperor
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
Cello｜Zlatomir FUNG
Piano｜Sunwook KIM
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜CHIEN Wen-pin
CHIEN Wen-pin, General and Artistic Director of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), was born in 1967, graduated from the National Taiwan Academy of Arts and awarded a Master's degree at the National University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. CHIEN joined the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Germany) in 1996 and served as "Kapellmeister" for 22 years. 1998-2004 he was Resident Conductor of the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo, Japan).
2001-2007 he was Music Director of National Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan Philharmonic); during his tenure the orchestra has achieved several milestones such as creating Subscription series, commissioning Taiwanese composers, introducing an opera series which coroneted with the first production of the complete "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard WAGNER in Chinese speaking areas, upon orchestra's 20th anniversary in 2006. 2014-2016 CHIEN was Artistic Advisor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In addition, CHIEN was winner of the "National Award for Arts" in 2014.
Cello｜Zlatomir FUNG
The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir FUNG is poised to become one of the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity, the 23-year-old has already proven himself to be a star among the next generation of world-class musicians. A recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2022 and a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, FUNG's impeccable technique demonstrates mastery of the canon and exceptional insight into the depths of contemporary repertoire.
In the 2022-2023 season, FUNG performs with orchestras and gives recitals in all corners of the world. Orchestral engagements include the BBC and Rochester Philharmonics, Milwaukee, Reading, Lincoln, Ridgefield and Sante Fe Symphonies, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, and APEX Ensemble. He gives the world premiere of a new cello concerto by Katherine Balch with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He plays recitals throughout North America with pianists Benjamin Hochman, Dina Vainshtein, and Janice Carissa, including stops in New York City, Chicago, IL, San Diego and Berkeley, CA, Los Alamos, NM, Rockville, MD, Melbourne, FL, Vancouver and Sechelt, BC, Northampton, MA, Province , RI, Burlington, VT, and Waterford, VA. Tours of Europe and Asia include a recital at Wigmore Hall and two performances at Cello Biënnale Amsterdam.
Recent summer festival appearances include Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail with the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin, ChamberFest Cleveland, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and Verbier. As a soloist, FUNG has appeared with the Detroit, Kansas City, Seattle, Utah, Greensboro, Ann Arbor, and Asheville Symphonies, among many others. Past recital highlights include his Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall debut with pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen and multiple tours throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. As a chamber musician, he has been presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, IMS Prussia Cove, Syrinx Concerts in Toronto, The Embassy Series & The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and Salon de Virtuosi and Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York City.
A winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Astral National Auditions, FUNG has taken the top prizes at the 2018 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, 2016 George Enescu International Cello Competition, 2015 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, 2014 Stulberg International String Competition, and 2014 Irving Klein International Competition. He was selected as a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar for the Arts and was awarded the 2016 Landgrave von Hesse Prize at the Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses.
Of Bulgarian-Chinese heritage, Zlatomir FUNG began playing cello at age three. FUNG studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. FUNG has been featured on NPR's Performance Today and has appeared on From the Top six times. In addition to music, he enjoys cinema, reading, and blitz chess. He plays a 1717 cello by David Tecchler of Rome, kindly loaned to him through the Beare's International Violin Society by a generous benefactor.
Piano｜Sunwook KIM
Sunwook KIM came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition's youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner. Since then, he has established a reputation as one of the finest pianists of his generation, appearing as a concerto soloist in the subscription series of some of the world's leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin Radio Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Finnish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Orchestra of Wales, Radio-France Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for his BBC Proms debut in Summer 2014. Conductor collaborations include with Karina CANELLAKIS, Nathalie STUTZMANN, Thomas SONDERGARD, Tugan SOKHIEV, Daniel HARDING, Paavo JÄRVI, David AFKHAM, Edward GARDNER, John Elliot GARDINER, Myung-Whun CHUNG, Osmo VÄNSKÄ, Vladimir ASHKENAZY, Kirill KARABITS, Marek JANOWSKI, Sakari ORAMO, Andrew MANZE, Vassily SINAISKY, Michael SANDERLING, Yuri BASHMET and Sir Mark ELDER.
Recital highlights to date include regular appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London International Piano Series), in the 'Piano 4 Etoiles' series at the Philharmonie de Paris and Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Piano aux Jacobin Festival, AIX Festival, La Roque d'Antheron International Piano Festival (France) as well as at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Symphony Hall Osaka and Seoul Arts Centre. Sunwook is also a keen chamber musician and has collaborated with singers.
As soloist in the 2022/23 season, Sunwook returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Tianyi LU), London Symphony Orchestra (Michael Tilson THOMAS), Chamber Orchestra of Europe to tour South Korea as well as to the Seoul Philharmonic in their tour of Europe (Concertgebouw, Cadogan Hall). Sunwook also returned to Bournemouth Symphony both as soloist (KARABITS) and to conduct DVORAK's Cello Concerto alongside Brahms Symphony No. 2. Sunwook's return to the Bournemouth Symphony as conductor follows his instant success having made his play-direct debut with the orchestra and international conducting debut with the KBS Symphony only last season. In August 2022, Sunwook also had the honour to conduct the Seoul Philharmonic in their National Liberation Day Concert marking the 77th anniversary of Korea's National Liberation Day and in December 2022 returned to conduct three performances of BEETHOVEN's Symphony No.9. Further conducting debuts included with the Fundación Excelentia Madrid and Macao Orchestra.
Next season, Sunwook will make his debut with Atlanta Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Gävle Symfoniorkester as well as his conducting debuts with the Franz LISZT Chamber
Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO)
Wherever there is music, there is you.
- A young orchestra moving forward with determination
A city's orchestra is a rare and precious attribute for any place to have. The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra is a young, talented and energetic orchestra that strives to incorporate classical and cross-border performances into their repertoire, permeated with their unique passion. KSO creates high-quality themes for the fans of music.
Founded in 1981 and merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra Foundation in 2009 to form the "Kaohsiung Philharmonic Cultural and Art Foundation", with the current Kaohsiung City Deputy Mayor, SHIH Che, took up the post of the first President. The present chairperson of Foundation is WANG, Wen-Tsui, Director of Kaohsiung City's Bureau of Cultural Affairs. CHU Hung-Chang is the CEO of Foundation, and the resident conductor is Yang Chih-Chin.
Since 2009, the orchestra has played a pivotal role in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival and successfully established the reputation of the “Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival Grassland Concert”. KSO also took part in full opera production in Kaohsiung Spring Art Festival-Magic Flute, La Traviata, Carmen and La Boheme, which all have gained significant resonance and praise from the audience.
On the international stage, KSO has been continuously invited to perform in many cities, gradually stepping beyond the borders of cities and countries, taking the international-level orchestra as the goal of self-improvement and growth, and moving forward firmly.
During the pandemic, various online concerts were used to meet with music fans online to soothe people's hearts with the energy of music.
|
Partner: Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival
Cultural Development Partner
|
|
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 105 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
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
