11/05/2014 8pm
Alice Tully Hall @ Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, United States
The China NCPA Orchestra, resident orchestra at Beijing’s landmark National Centre for the Performing Arts, composed of distinguished musicians from around the world, performs more than a dozen operas and a full season of symphonic concerts each year. In February 2012, Lu Jia took on the role of Chief Conductor, succeeding Chen Zuohuang, a founding member of the orchestra and current Laureate Conductor. The NCPA orchestra prides itself on its long-term collaborations with the finest musicians of our day, including Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Gunter Herbig, Gilbert Varga, Lang Lang, Vadim Repin, Stephen Kovacevich, Leo Nucci, Yuja Wang and Han-Na Chang. The late maestro Lorin Maazel praised the orchestra for its hard-working excellence and great passion.
The orchestra has been acclaimed in numerous NCPA opera productions, including, in 2012, the Chinese premieres of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holl鄚der and Lohengrin. The NCPA Orchestra also received widespread international praise when it was invited by Kissingen Summer Musik and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivals to perform concerts across Germany under the batons of Christoph Eschenbach and Chen Zuohuang, followed by a successful concert at the Sydney Opera House. Last season, the NCPA orchestra commemorated the Wagner, Verdi and Britten year (2013) with several concerts, including The “Ring” Without Words under the baton of Lorin Maazel, the live recording of which was released by Sony Music. Highlights of the orchestra’s 2014 season include Verdi’s Requiem with Myung-Whun Chung, Mahler’s Symphony No.1 with Zubin Meta, and Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, Four Last Songs and Also Sprach Zarathustra with Antoni Witt, Gunter Herbig and Lu Jia.
For more information, please visit
http://www.chncpa.org/ens/ycgp/jmxx/2014-10-08/965214.shtml