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Presenter: China Chinese National Orchestra
Conductor: Peng Jiapeng
Soloist: Dai Ya
Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts-Concert Hall
Dates: April 21, 2009    19:30
Price:  VIP    480    380    280    180    100 RMB

Programme Introduction

From April 21, NCPA and the China Chinese National Orchestra will jointly present ten Chinese folk music concerts. By that time, a great many folk music works of diverse styles of past and present will be staged and present the audience the music treasures of Chinese civilization. Moreover, ten world famous conductors will be invited to wield the baton and present a Chinese folk music gala together with the Chinese National Orchestra.

China Chinese National Orchestra
As the most representative domestic orchestra of Chinese traditional music, China Central Chinese Orchestra consists of a Chinese instruments band and a choir. The founder of the Orchestra was Li Huanzhi, the former Chair of Chinese Musicians Association and its current President is Xi Qiang. Since the creation of China Central Chinese Orchestra the musical life of the nation has been greatly enriched; a great number of traditional folk music have been adapted and recomposed.

Since its establishment, the orchestra has visited dozens of countries and regions in five continents many times, apart from its domestic road shows. In 1993, it founded the Orchestra Asia jointly with Ensemble Nipponia and South Korean National Orchestra to facilitate the creation and exchange of national music in Asia. In 1997, at the invitation of ICM from the U.S., it performed in dozens of American cities like New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles, and co-performed with the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Carnegie Hall. The orchestra held the China New Year’s Day Concerts in Goldener Saal Wiener Musikvereins and Berlin Philarmonie in 1998 and 1999 respectively. It also performed for the opening ceremony of “Sino-French Culture Year” in 2003, bringing road shows for audiences in 11 French cities; and the year 2005 saw its performance in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. All these performances have succeeded. As the new century is around the corner, the orchestra has invited famous composers both at home and abroad to create many new works as well.

Conductor: Peng Jiapeng
Peng Jiapeng, a national first-grade conductor, is the Art Director and Principal Conductor of China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, of the Oriental Symphonic Orchestra and of the Macao Chinese Orchestra and the standing guest conductor of Ukrainian National Philharmonic.

In August 1996, as the only young conductor from Asia, Peng was invited to participate in the 35th International Kirill Kondrashin Conductors Master Class held in the Netherlands. He was supervised by the two famous conductors, Edward Downes and Peter Eotvos. In June 1997, Peng was selected and sent by American Conductors’ Center to participate in the international conductor master class held in Ukraine’s capital Kiev. He then learned from several world famous conductors—Gustav Meier and other masters. Since 2000, he had made successful performances in Vienna’s Golden Hall for successive six years and received good comments of the international music circle. In February 2003, invited by American Viacom, one of the largest media groups in the world, Peng headed the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra to take a performing tour in New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Washington and San Francisco and in the same year won the Fourth Special Conductor’s Award by China Golden Record. Due to his outstanding contribution to the music field he was awarded one of the 15th “Ten National Outstanding Young People”.

Soloist: Dai Ya
Dai Ya is a famous bamboo flute soloist. He started to play bamboo flute at the age of seven and at nine he was taught and supervised by the famous bamboo flute performing master Zhao Songting. In April 1989 he won the first prize in the bamboo flute team of the first National Folk Instrumental Music Television Contest. In May 1995 he achieved the first prize in the bamboo flute team of the International Chinese Folk Instrumental Music Solo Competition. In June 1995 he won the first prize in the bamboo flute team of Taipei Third Folk Instrumental Music Concerto Competition. He was the only one in China who has won the championship three times in a row in folk instrumental music competitions. In recent years he has cooperated with many famous orchestras, such as Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra and Arditti Quartet, and held many bamboo flute solo concerts and concerto concerts and achieved great honor. He made many bamboo flute musical albums and made a great many records of bamboo flute solos, Xiao solos, Xun solos, Bawu solos and Pan-pipe solos for many record corporations. He was invited to give lectures for Sweden Royal University-College of Music, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Macao Conservatory. He also wrote many theses and compiled the domestic and international versions of bamboo flute playing level test courses and became a member of the evaluation panel of the overseas bamboo flute playing level tests many times. In 1999 he was recommended to pursue advanced studies in the postgraduate class for the “excellent actors of the Ministry of Culture”.

Programs
Folk Orchestral Music The Moon Is High in the Sky
Ancient Music (Adapted by Peng Xiuwen)

Bamboo Flute Concerto Saddening Empty Mountain
Composed by Guo Wenjing
Bamboo Flute soloist: Dai Ya
——Intermission——
Folk Orchestral Music Ambush from All Sides
Composed by Zhao Yongshan and Liu Wenjin

Folk Orchestral Music The Earth God
Composed by Tang Jianping

Folk Orchestral Music Lyric Variation
Composed by Liu Changyuan

(Source: ebeijing.gov.cn)