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

Masters deconstruct and reconstruct contemporary works, blending dramatic narratives, surrealistic imagination, and diverse cultural music. This concert, led by American maestro LUBMAN, features a half-century of contemporary music, including the premiere of After March by LIU, 2025 Composer Selection winner.

ZIMMERMANN, a "pioneer of collage music," vividly portrays puppet show scenes with dramatic musical language and versatile instrumentation. YUN blends Western modern techniques with Eastern philosophy, using serial methods to dissect the pentatonic scale and mimic traditional Korean instruments. SMOLKA, known for his poetic style and humor, creates a surreal world in Hats in the Sky and contrasts tension in En tractant by transitioning from a slow funeral march to chaotic madness.

  Program  

Isang YUN: Pièce Concertante for Ensemble (Taiwan Premiere)

Bernd Alois ZIMMERMANN: Das Gelb und das Grün, Musik zu einem Puppentheater (Taiwan Premiere)

Martin SMOLKA: Hats in the Sky (Asian Premiere)
　- Together with the Silent Film Vormittagsspuk by Hans RICHTER

LIU Po-chien: After March, for Violin Solo with Ensemble (World Premiere, Commissioned by Weiwuying)

Martin SMOLKA: En tractant (Asian Premiere)
　- Together with the Silent Film Entr'acte by René CLAIR

  Post-talk  

2025/4/17(Thu) After the performance at Recital Hall Auditorium　

  Creative and Production Team  

Conductor｜Brad LUBMAN

Violin｜CHANG Ting-shuo

Weiwuying Contemporary Music Ensemble

Project Executive｜TimeArt Studio

  Artists Introduction  

Conductor｜Brad LUBMAN

Brad LUBMAN, American conductor and composer, has gained widespread recognition for his versatility, commanding technique and insightful interpretations over the course of more than two decades. He is much in demand with major orchestras in Europe and the US and has been successful in building regular partnerships with several well-known orchestras and ensembles, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Alongside his busy schedule in Germany, he is also frequently asked to conduct some of the world's leading orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

In addition, he has worked with some of the most important European and American ensembles for contemporary music, including the Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble MusikFabrik, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Resonanz, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and Steve Reich and Musicians.

After recently having conducted major international orchestras such as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfoieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gothenburg Symphony, or the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the current season includes appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Radio Symphony Frankfurt, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the SWR Symphony Stuttgart and the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Musica. Brad LUBMAN kicked off the 2023/24 season with Stanley KUBRICK's 2001 A Space Odyssey at the Auditorio Nacional Mexico City, a multimedia project in cooperation with the Southbank Center London, which he already performed with Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony.

Brad LUBMAN is founding Co-Artistic and Music Director of the NY-based Ensemble Signal. Their recording of REICH's Music for 18 Musicians on harmonia mundi was awarded a Diapason d'or in June 2015 and appeared on the Billboard Classical Crossover charts. In Spring 2019, he led the ensemble in the premiere of Steve REICH's Reich / Richter as part of the Reich Richter Pärt project at the opening of New York art space The Shed.

He is also Professor of Conducting and Ensembles at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, as well as on the faculty at the Bang on a Can Summer Institute.

Brad LUBMAN has recorded for harmonia mundi, Nonesuch, AEON, BMG/RCA, Kairos, Mode, NEOS, and Cantaloupe. In 2017, he was Composer in Residence at the Grafenegg Festival; his compositions have been performed by acclaimed ensembles such as the Tonkünstler Orchester Austria and musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 2020 featured the premiere of a new piece written for Rudolf BUCHBINDER, premiered at the Vienna Musikverein, which BUCHBINDER also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon.

Violin｜CHANG Ting-shuo

CHANG Ting-shuo is a Taiwanese violinist currently pursuing a Konzertexamen degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, where he studies with Prof. Andreas R Ö HN, former concertmaster of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2021, Ting-shuo has been selected as a member and concertmaster of prestigious ensembles, including the Gstaad Festival Orchestra and Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, the Seiji Ozawa Academy Orchestra in Japan, and the Grafenegg Academy Orchestra in Austria.
A contemporary music enthusiast, Ting-shuo has been a violinist with the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland since 2019, joining the Lucerne Festival Alumni Orchestra the following year. In 2021, Ting-shuo was appointed both violinist and concertmaster of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, receiving invitations to perform at prominent European festivals, including the Donaueschinger Musiktage in Germany, the Forward Festival in Lucerne, and the Mizmorim Kammermusik Festival in Basel, Switzerland.
In 2023, Ting-shuo joined akademie kontemporär at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, collaborating with the renowned German contemporary ensemble, Ensemble Ascolta. Since 2022, Ting-shuo has also served as concertmaster for the contemporary ensemble at the Weiwuying International Music Festival in Taiwan.
In Taiwan, Ting-shuo studied at Ren-ai Junior High School and the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University under Professors WANG Chen-yun and CHANG Wen-hsien. Ting-shuo achieved first place in multiple competitions and was honored as a "Rising Star in Music" by the Cultural Affairs Department of New Taipei City Government in 2019.
Ting-shuo is the founder of "Misterioso Arts" and a member of "TimeArts Studio," and he has been selected as a violinist supported by the LEAD! Foundation in Finland, Live Music Now Hamburg, and the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung in Germany.
He is currently serving as the concertmaster of the Göttinger Symphonieorchester in Germany.