All-star lineup "Huashan Sword Contest", 145-year-old Shanghai Symphony Orchestra releases new season

Release time:Jun 25, 2024 10:58 AM

This year marks the 145th anniversary of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall. On June 25, the orchestra released the lineup for the 2024-25 music season, which includes 83 symphony, opera, chamber music and cross-border performances. Big-name conductors such as Daniel Harding, Jaap van Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Paavo Järvi and others will visit this season, as well as star musicians with unique skills such as Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Augustin Hadelich, András Schiff, Gerhard Opitz and Wynton Marsalis.

In the new season, semi-staged operas Porgy and Bess and Verdi's Rigoletto will be staged, Liang Haoyi's Chinese Kitchen and Zhou Long's Erhu and Orchestra Concerto Nine Songs will be world premiered. The Left Bank Music Festival, which focuses on chamber music, and the Early Music Festival, which explores early European music, will also be held.

At the 145th anniversary of the founding of the orchestra and the 10th anniversary of the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall, Music Director Yu Long will gather with four former conductors of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Cao Peng, Chen Xieyang, Hou Runyu and other four conductors who have witnessed the history of symphony in New China, to lead the orchestra to perform famous Chinese and foreign works in turn, from Wagner, Mozart, Tchaikovsky to Ma Sicong and Huang Yijun, reviewing the glorious history of Chinese symphony. In addition, the 130th anniversary concert of the birth of Aaron Avshalomov, the first composer to orchestrate the March of the Volunteers, will also be staged.

The new season is full of stars, and the artist in residence is German baritone Matthias Görne. He has won the Gramophone Award, BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, French Diapason d'Or and other prestigious classical music awards. Following the popular "Young Magic Horn" last season, Görne will perform two other works of Mahler, "Das Lied von der Erde" and "Rückert's Lied", with conductors Yu Long and Dutoit.

Conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Daniel Harding, Jaap van Zweden, and Paavo Järvi will join hands with the Orchestra to present classic masterpieces by many masters including Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Beethoven, and Stravinsky.

This season's all-star violin lineup is also worth looking forward to: violinist Hilary Hahn, who has won three Grammy Awards and is hailed as "America's best" young classical musician by Time magazine, will open the new season with Yu Long and perform Bernstein's Serenade.

Maxim Vengerov, who is known as "one of the best musicians in the world today", German violin virtuoso Frank Peter Zimmermann, Augustin Hadelich who has won numerous international awards, "child prodigy" Yang Tianwa who has won the Classical Recording Award three times, and Korean-American musician Liu Aisha, the youngest winner of the 2010 Sibelius International Violin Competition... Violinists from different backgrounds and with their own strengths will present a string music feast like "The Battle of Huashan" in the new music season.

Many piano masters will come to Shanghai in the new season. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who has a strong personal style, will perform Bernstein's Second Symphony; Gerhard Opitz, known as the "authoritative interpreter of Brahms", will bring Brahms's First Piano Concerto; "piano thinker" András Schiff will return to Shanghai to perform piano works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert; and many domestic and foreign pianists such as Michel Dalberto, Jean-Evran Bavouzet, Li Jian, Chen Sa and others will appear one by one.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Puccini's death. Conductor Li Xincao will join hands with two outstanding singers, Huang Ying and Shi Yijie, to sing excerpts from Puccini's operas. Next year, Dutoit will conduct two masterpieces, "Pavane in Memory of a Princess" and "Piano Concerto in G Major" with Chen Sa as the soloist, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth.

Yu Long, the music director of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for 15 seasons, will perform 10 concerts and 11 concerts in the 2024-25 season. It is worth mentioning that he will collaborate with jazz master Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra to present the representative work of this musician who won both the Grammy Awards for Jazz and Classical Music - the symphony "Jungle", which is known as "a portrait of New York City".

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's music season is an important platform for launching original Chinese works. Pulitzer Prize winner Zhou Long was invited by Yu Long to compose a symphonic vocal suite based on Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs". More than ten years later, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Beijing International Music Festival Art Foundation jointly commissioned him to create a concerto version of "Nine Songs" for erhu and orchestra, which will be premiered this season, using the instrument "closest to human voice" to interpret the characters in the epic.

"Food is the most important thing for the people", and the Chinese food culture epitomizes the "color, fragrance and taste" of 5,000 years of civilization. Liang Haoyi, a young composer who has composed music for "Changjin Lake" and "Operation Red Sea", will bring his new work "Chinese Kitchen" to the stage, serving a "Man Han Banquet" to the audience.

Opera is the jewel in the crown of musical art. The Cape Town Opera Chorus traveled thousands of miles to Shanghai to perform a semi-staged version of Porgy and Bess with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. In this American-style work by Gershwin, jazz was performed in the form of an opera for the first time. In addition, the Cape Town Opera Chorus will also sing South African folk songs that are full of style and vitality.

The concert version of Verdi's opera Rigoletto, one of the "Top Ten Classic Operas in the World", will follow. Leo Nucci, the baritone singer known as the "World's First Rigoletto", and Xiahou Jinxu, the first Chinese resident tenor of the Vienna State Opera, will perform on stage in the new season together with mezzo-soprano Zhu Huiling and soprano Yu Guanqun.

In addition to "famous actors" and "big names", the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has been committed to building a stage for outstanding young musicians. As the only Chinese player to enter the final of the 2025 Rotterdam International Conducting Competition, the "post-00" conductor rising star Jin Yukuang will join the Left Bank Music Festival; Yin Jiongjie, who just won the 11th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition in Poland last year, and the 18-year-old piano rising star Yun Siqi will also show their talents; Cui Linhan, a Chinese female conductor who entered the international stage as Dudamel's assistant conductor before the age of 30, will be on the same stage with Vengerov; the young performers of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will also continue to shine on the stage of the Shanghai Symphony Chamber Music.

On Children's Day next year, Assistant Conductor Zhang Lu of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will conduct Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf", with Conductor Zhang Guoyong as the narrator. This father-son duo in the classical music world will perform a father-son musical relationship under the spotlight. Performers from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will also take the stage with their "own children".

In addition, there will be five "Music Map Classrooms" in the new season to popularize symphony music for students, and six "Evening Peak Concerts" to bring music enjoyment to office workers after get off work. Pre-sale tickets for the new season will go on sale at 13:00 on June 26.

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