中国国家大剧院管弦乐团芝加哥演出信息：2014年11月2日（周日）下午3点。地点：芝加哥交响中心

2014年11月，中国国家大剧院管弦乐团将在首席指挥吕嘉的带领下，携手世界顶尖华人钢琴家王羽佳、小提琴家吕思清及钢琴新秀刘晓禹，前往美国和加拿大两国，展开历史性的首次北美巡演，并在芝加哥、华盛顿、纽约、费城、渥太华、多伦多、蒙特利尔等七大城市的地标性音乐厅登台亮相。
身为中国表演艺术最高殿堂驻院团体的国家大剧院管弦乐团，在高品质音乐会、室内乐、歌剧的演出中，已经位列中国最具实力与活力的交响乐团之一。这次跨越美加七地的大型巡回演出，不仅是这支朝气蓬勃的中国交响劲旅的北美首秀，更是中国乐团首次大规模巡演北美殿堂级音乐厅。而北美观众不仅将有机会领略他们精彩绝伦的音乐演绎和多部经典动人的中西名作，更将有机会现场感受多位当代顶尖华人古典音乐家的出众风采。

中国最高艺术殿堂乐团 重磅亮相北美音乐重镇
国家大剧院自2007年底开幕以来，不但以其现代的造型成为名闻天下的地标，更迅速崛起为引人瞩目的世界级艺术殿堂。以此为家的国家大剧院管弦乐团，因身世不凡而在成立之初便引得世人关注，更凭其精湛技艺和出众气质而迅速崛起。目前，他们是在国家大剧院演出最多的乐团，堪称这座艺术殿堂中一颗闪耀的明珠，一方面在国家大剧院众多世界级歌剧制作中担纲重任，并被公认作最具歌剧演绎实力的中国乐团，更在马泽尔、捷杰耶夫、艾森巴赫、郑明勋等世界指挥大师的带领下有着光彩夺目的音乐会演出历程。
此次，国家大剧院管弦乐团将在七地全部公开商演，列入各地主流乐团、音乐厅或艺术中心的年度演出季，并通过各城市音乐厅的官方售票系统向观众开放售票。据悉，北美主流艺术殿堂以如此规模重磅呈现中国乐团尚属首次，这在很大程度上也说明了北美表演艺术界对国家大剧院及其乐团艺术造诣的高度认可。乐团总经理任小珑表示，这次巡演不管从演出级别、运作模式还是从指挥家、独奏家的阵容来看，都堪称中国乐团最大规模、最高规格的国际巡演活动之一。

联袂顶尖华人乐手 演绎中西经典名作
此次巡演将由乐团首席指挥吕嘉执棒，华人顶尖钢琴家王羽佳、小提琴家吕思清、钢琴新秀刘晓禹倾情加盟，共同演绎多部中外经典名作。七场演出均将以当代中国重要作曲家陈其钢的作品《五行》开场。《五行》堪称中国文化哲学之内里与西方音乐技法之外在的完美结合，整部作品包括了金、木、水、火、土五个短小精炼的段落，表现了传统中国理念对构成世界的五种元素的印象与认知。整部作品在大音希声般的简洁意境中，呈现了极其丰富的音色体验，探讨了玄妙深奥的哲学命题。
作为全球最炙手可热的钢琴家之一，王羽佳将加入华盛顿、芝加哥和费城的演出。对王羽佳来说，这不仅是来自她家乡北京的一支实力派乐团，更是一支和她有着深厚情结与友谊的乐团。据她透露，乐团中不少音乐家都是和她“从小一起长大、玩耍和学习的好朋友”，而国家大剧院也是她2009年签约环球德意志留声机唱片后“第一次回国举行独奏音乐会的地方”。王羽佳这次与乐团合作拉威尔《G大调钢琴协奏曲》，将是她近年来首次在北美演奏这首名作。作品在极致的力量速度和感人的优雅浪漫间营造出的超强张力，则让乐迷们对王羽佳版本的拉威尔G大调钢琴协奏曲充满期待。此外，乐团还将带来脍炙人口的德沃夏克《第八交响曲》。
领军此次巡演的吕嘉大师是当今最具指挥实力和音乐造诣的华人指挥家之一，也是最早在欧洲主流歌剧院及乐团获任总监职务的华人音乐家之一，早在26岁时即在意大利就任当地歌剧院总监，又于2012年回国出任国家大剧院歌剧总监及首席指挥。

空前规格北美巡演 助力中外文化交流
自投入运营以来，国家大剧院即对中国文化事业与音乐生活的发展起到了重要推动作用。乐团总经理任小珑表示，这次巡演不管从演出级别、运作模式还是从指挥家、独奏家的阵容来看，都堪称中国乐团最大规模、最高规格的国际巡演活动之一，而这些演出能够在当地主流演出季中获得呈现，也标志着中国乐团赴海外商演的新高度和新标准。
国家大剧院管弦乐团赴美巡演已被列入中美人文交流机制的联合成果清单，同时在列的还有2015年全美青年交响乐团在国家大剧院举办的音乐会。陈平院长表示，中美、中加文化交流源远流长，国家大剧院管弦乐团的巡演进入北美各大城市主流演出季，在很大程度上“不仅标志了中美文化交流的一个全新高度，也代表了中国文化事业全球视野的重大拓展，还预示着国家大剧院管弦乐团将有实力跻身世界重要交响乐团之列。”

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国家大剧院管弦乐团
首席指挥：吕嘉 | 桂冠指挥：陈佐湟

国家大剧院管弦乐团是中国国家表演艺术中心的常驻乐团。

新世纪的北京，历史气度和当代活力彼此交织，也滋育了国家大剧院管弦乐团全新的音乐精神和远大的音乐视界。这支年轻却不凡的乐团建立于2010年3月，由来自中国及海外的近百名音乐家组成。在短短几年内，以他们对音乐与生俱来的热情、专注和创新精神，已俨然在中国乐坛崭露头角，并迅速得到国际音乐界的热切关注。

伴随他们一起经历这个过程的，有诸多当今全世界最优秀的音乐大师，包括：指挥家洛林·马泽尔、克里斯托弗·艾森巴赫、弗拉基米尔·阿什肯那齐、根特·赫比希、克里斯蒂安·雅尔维、耶欧·莱维、谭利华、张国勇等，钢琴家鲁道夫·布赫宾德、郎朗、史蒂芬·科瓦塞维奇、王羽佳、陈萨等，大提琴家王健等，小提琴家瓦汀·列宾、吕思清、宁峰等，小号家艾莉森·巴尔松，打击乐演奏家李飚，歌唱家普拉西多·多明戈、里奥·努奇、和慧、沈洋等。马泽尔曾评价他们“富有激情，全心投入，实力非同一般”，艾森巴赫则认为他们已是“亚洲最优秀乐团之一”。

作为中国最优秀的两栖乐团，他们既是中国歌剧最高音乐造诣的代表者，也在音乐厅舞台上有着熠熠生辉的表现。在《罗恩格林》、《漂泊的荷兰人》、《奥赛罗》、《纳布科》、《托斯卡》、《图兰朵》、《茶花女》、《卡门》、《费加罗的婚礼》等众多世界级的国家大剧院歌剧制作中，来自乐池的精湛演绎已经成为其重要标志。在2014/2015演出季，他们将继续奉献《奥涅金》、《阿依达》、《乡村骑士》等经典剧目。

2011年，乐团在国家大剧院“全套马勒”系列中表现瞩目，2012年在艾森巴赫的指挥下成为《音乐周报》年度十大音乐会中的唯一中国乐团，2013年在吕嘉带领下开启全套贝多芬之旅。由马泽尔指挥的瓦格纳旷世剧作改编版《无词指环》被马泽尔认为“作品诞生25年来最完美的演绎”，而索尼为该场音乐会发行的现场录音，也成为乐团的首张交响乐唱片。心怀对当代音乐的巨大热情，他们还活跃在北京现代音乐节，相继上演吉雅·坎切利、武满彻等当代重要作曲家的作品。在2013年，乐团呈献了由国家大剧院独家委约的10位全球顶级作曲家（包括奥古斯塔·里德·托马斯、卡列维·阿霍、鲁多维科·艾奥迪、瑞切尔·波特曼等）新作的世界首演，更通过国家大剧院‘青年作曲家计划’推动中国新一代作曲家的成长。

作为极具时代精神的音乐使者，他们不仅通过周末音乐会、艺术沙龙和在学校、社区、医院、博物馆等开设的室内乐活动，将无数观众带入美妙的音乐世界，更将当代中国的艺术活力传播到世界各地。2011年，他们在首尔艺术中心上演《图兰朵》。2012年与艾森巴赫参加德国石荷州、基辛根等音乐节，与陈佐湟在柏林、纽伦堡、悉尼等地成功上演音乐会。2013年，吕嘉率团赴澳门、新加坡、首尔举行首次亚洲巡演并大获成功。

2014/15乐季，乐团将上演《奥涅金》、《阿依达》、《乡村骑士》等歌剧制作，并将在吕嘉及祖宾·梅塔、克里斯托弗·艾申巴赫、郑明勋、根特·赫比希、安东尼·维特等大师的带领下，与郎朗、王健、王羽佳等独奏大师合作，为观众带来精彩的音乐会。同时，乐团将在吕嘉带领下赴美国和加拿大进行首次北美巡演。

国家大剧院音乐艺术总监陈佐湟，是国家大剧院管弦乐团的创建者之一，也是乐团首任首席指挥。2011年，陈佐湟荣膺桂冠指挥，吕嘉出任首席指挥，并由袁丁担任助理指挥。吕嘉在交响作品和歌剧领域均造诣深厚，曾任意大利维罗纳歌剧院音乐艺术总监、西班牙特内里费交响乐团音乐总监，同时也是中国澳门乐团现任艺术总监。

陈其钢

旅法作曲家，曾就读于中央音乐学院，师从罗忠镕。1983年毕业后赴法国深造，被奥利维耶·梅西安纳为关门弟子。
1998年出任贝桑松国际作曲大赛的评委会主席。
2000年国际梅西安钢琴比赛特别设立陈其钢作品演奏奖。
2001年管弦乐作品《五行》从全世界一千多部交响乐作品中脱颖而出，被选为英国BBC国际作曲“Master Prize”的五首获奖作品之一；
由他作曲的芭蕾舞剧《大红灯笼高高挂》在北京全球首演。
2003年EMI/VIRGIN唱片公司在全球发行其作品专辑《蝶恋花》，该唱片被世界权威杂志《留声机》评为当年全球十佳古典音乐唱片。
2005年法国音乐版权组织授予陈其钢最高音乐成就奖“交响音乐大奖”。
2006年由EMI/VIRGIN唱片公司全球发行的作品专辑《道情》获得法国查尔斯·克罗学院最佳年度现代音乐唱片奖。
2007—2008年，应北京奥组委之邀，出任2008北京奥运会开幕式音乐总设计。他创作的歌曲《我和你》最终被北京奥组委确定为第29届奥运会主题歌。
2010、2011年为张艺谋电影《山楂树之恋》、《金陵十三钗》创作电影原声音乐。
2012年获法国最高学术机构“法兰西学院艺术院”颁发的年度音乐奖“罗西尼奖”。
2013年与莫言，郎朗一起被凤凰卫视等主要媒体评为全球文化艺术界最具影响力的华人。
为了表彰他在专业领域的成就以及在中法文化交流中所起的积极作用，2013年法国政府向陈其钢颁发象征国家荣誉的“文学与艺术骑士勋章”。
主要作品：管弦乐：五行、源、逝去的时光、蝶恋花、道情、失乐园、二黄。舞剧：大红灯笼高高挂。电影音乐：山楂树之恋、金陵十三钗。歌曲：我和你

吕嘉
国家大剧院管弦乐团 首席指挥
吕嘉是享有国际盛誉的华人指挥大师。他生于上海的一个音乐世家，幼年学习钢琴和大提琴，后来进入中央音乐学院，师从指挥大师郑小瑛学习指挥。24岁时，吕嘉进入德国柏林艺术大学，跟随汉斯·马汀·拉宾斯坦教授、罗伯特·沃尔夫教授继续深造。同年，吕嘉在意大利获得安东尼奥•佩得罗第国际指挥大赛第一名，并由此开始了辉煌的职业指挥家生涯。
在过去的近20年中，吕嘉在欧美及全球各国指挥歌剧及音乐会两千余场。他是第一位在意大利担任重要歌剧院总监的亚洲指挥家，也是第一位执棒芝加哥交响乐团的华人指挥家。在欧洲，他曾在斯卡拉歌剧院、巴伐利亚国立歌剧院、柏林德意志歌剧院，以及洛桑、都灵、罗马、那不勒斯、威尼斯、弗洛伦萨、法兰克福和斯图加特的众多歌剧院指挥过大量重要歌剧制作。在交响乐领域，他曾与众多国际顶尖交响乐团合作，如皇家阿姆斯特丹音乐厅管弦乐团、芝加哥交响乐团、莱比锡布商大厦管弦乐团、慕尼黑爱乐乐团、班贝格交响乐团、罗马圣塞西莉亚交响乐团、伯明翰城市交响乐团、利物浦皇家爱乐乐团、奥斯陆爱乐乐团、里昂国立管弦乐团、芬兰广播交响乐团、汉堡广播交响乐团、悉尼交响乐团，及众多其它欧美及澳洲乐团。
吕嘉是第一位录制全套门德尔松交响作品的华人指挥家，也是全球唯一录制了瑞典国宝级作曲家英瓦•利德霍姆全套交响乐作品的指挥家。他对德国古典浪漫派作品和法国印象派的诠释被盛赞为用“精准的音乐语言与完美的指挥技巧”演奏出“极其令人信服的音乐演绎”。在身为歌剧故乡意大利和德国，吕嘉指挥的歌剧剧目超过50部，被意大利的音乐评论家誉为“比意大利人更懂得意大利歌剧的指挥家”。
2007年，在意大利佩萨罗举行的罗西尼歌剧节上，吕嘉指挥的罗西尼歌剧《鹊贼》荣膺当年的“欧洲年度最佳歌剧大奖”。同年，意大利总统纳波利塔诺决定授予吕嘉“总统杯”，以表彰他为欧洲音乐文化的传播与发展做出的重要贡献。2012年，他还在举世瞩目的多明戈国际声乐比赛中担任评委，并由此成为该比赛有史以来唯一的华人评委。
2012年，吕嘉成为国家大剧院歌剧总监与首席指挥。由他监制和指挥的《罗恩格林》、《漂泊的荷兰人》、《奥赛罗》、《费加罗的婚礼》、《假面舞会》、《托斯卡》等歌剧，在世界众多歌剧与音乐媒体上广获赞誉。凭借这些世界水准的歌剧制作，国家大剧院不仅成为全球歌剧舞台上的耀眼明星，更由此开辟了歌剧艺术在中国发展的新篇章。同时，吕嘉带领下的国家大剧院管弦乐团，也通过其在音乐会中令人叹服的表现，稳步崛起为中国新一代交响乐团的杰出典范。
在担任国家大剧院歌剧总监和首席指挥之前，吕嘉曾任意大利维罗那歌剧院的音乐总监、西班牙特内里费交响乐团艺术总监，并曾在意大利特里埃斯特歌剧院、佛罗伦萨交响乐团、罗马拉奇奥室内乐团及瑞典诺克平交响乐团担任首席指挥。同时，吕嘉现在也是澳门乐团音乐总监。

王羽佳
王羽佳获公认为新一代最重要的演奏家之一。她曾与世界顶尖乐团合作，包括柏林国家管弦乐团、米兰史卡拉爱乐乐团、以色列爱乐乐团、巴黎交响乐团、西班牙国家管弦乐团、东京NHK交响乐团及皇家阿姆斯特丹音乐厅乐团等，以及美国多个主要城市的乐团，如波士顿、芝加哥、克里夫兰、洛杉矶等。与她携手的着名指挥家有亚巴度、巴伦邦、杜达美、杜托华、嘉提、格杰夫、马捷尔、梅达、马素尔、帕帕奴、特米尔卡洛夫，以及狄逊•汤玛士等。此外，王羽佳亦经常在世界各地举行独奏会及室乐演奏会。

今个乐季，王羽佳获列入伦敦交敦乐团艺术家系列，与指挥丹尼尔•哈丁于亚洲之旅中合作。她与匈牙利国家交响乐团首度合作，在高式殊指挥下，演绎巴托的第二钢琴协奏曲。她亦与洛杉矶爱乐乐团、波士顿交响乐团及克里夫兰管弦乐团再度合作。

王羽佳是德国留声机唱片公司旗下艺人，最近与西蒙．波利维亚交响乐团携手演绎普罗科菲夫第二协奏曲及拉赫曼尼诺夫第三协奏曲，由杜达美担任指挥。王羽佳曾就读北京中央音乐学院，师随凌远及周广仁，后赴美国费城寇蒂斯音乐学院，师随格勒夫曼。

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CHINA’S NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS ORCHESTRA MAKES ITS
NORTH AMERICAN DEBUT WITH CHIEF CONDUCTOR
LÜ JIA ON A SEVEN-CITY TOUR NOVEMBER 2-13, 2014
Landmark North American Tour:
Performances in Chicago, Washington, New York, Philadelphia,
Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal

Programs Include Works by Seminal Chinese Composers:
Zhanhao He and Gang Chen’s The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and Chen Qigang’s Wu Xing (The Five Elements)

Pianists Yuja Wang and Xiaoyu Liu and
Violinist Siqing Lu Are Featured Soloists

Historic Tour Celebrates the 35th Anniversary of
Official Diplomatic Relations Between
United States and People’s Republic of China
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
New York, NY — From November 2-13, 2014, China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra, based in Beijing, with Chief Conductor Lü Jia, will make their North American debut on a seven-city tour. Established in 2010, the resident orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China has quickly gained a reputation as one of that country’s most adventurous and dynamic orchestras. They will perform in Chicago (Symphony Center); Washington, DC (Kennedy Center); New York (Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center); Philadelphia (Verizon Hall); Ottawa
(Canada’s National Arts Centre); Toronto (The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall); and Montreal, Canada (Maison Symphonique). The orchestra will present a diverse set of programs that meld Eastern and Western traditions, including: Chen Qigang’s Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G
Major, Dvořák’s Symphony No.8, Zhanhao He and Gang Chen’s The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5. Pianists Yuja Wang (November 2, 3, and 7) and Xiaoyu Liu (November 11) as well as violinist Siqing Lu (November 5, 9, and 13) will be the featured soloists throughout the tour.

In addition to the Orchestra’s important North American debut, these concerts also mark the 35th anniversary of the official diplomatic relations between The United States and China. This dynamic and important relationship was born shortly following the Philadelphia Orchestra’s landmark tour to China in 1973 and has enlivened trade, education and culture between the two countries, allowing for a unique collaboration that has resulted in a cultural exchange that continues to flourish today.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAMS
To complement the three masterworks of the classical cannon by Ravel, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky performed throughout the tour, the Orchestra will also present two works by important Chinese composers.
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CHEN Qigang’s Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra (1999) opens each concert and is an embodiment of Olivier Messiaen’s grand idea of “a perfect fusion of Eastern philosophical emotion and Western musical expression.” It is a perfect showcase for the players with its intricate orchestral colors and subtle gestures.
Commissioned by Radio France, each of the five short movements symbolizes the five elements – water, wood, fire, earth and metal – that are fundamental to traditional Chinese culture. Since its premiere in 2001, The Five Elements has received dozens of performances worldwide.
Zhanhao HE and Gang CHEN’s The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written in 1958 to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The legend of the Butterfly Lovers is often described as the “Chinese Romeo and Juliet” with a similar story line of doomed love between the two young protagonists. The memorable main theme is based on the traditional Chinese Yueju opera featuring the same story, originally played by the Chinese instrument erhu and, for the concerto, transcribed for the violin. Throughout the work, specific scenes from the fated story are depicted as musical tableaux, and the composers utilized various traditional Chinese instruments in their writing of this piece. Featured on tour is violinist Siqing LU, who is widely considered to be one of the foremost interpreters of this concerto. His four recordings of the work have together sold well over a million copies worldwide.
ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
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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, Lü 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 Holländer 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 Lü Jia.
ABOUT THE CHIEF CONDUCTOR
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Lü Jia is the Chief Conductor of the China’s NCPA Orchestra as well as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the
Macao Orchestra. Lü Jia has conducted countless orchestral concerts and opera performances in Europe and the
Americas. He has led many of today’s foremost orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Munich
Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra,
Orchestra dell’ Academia di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and
Lyon National Orchestra, among others. Also a highly acclaimed opera conductor, Lü has worked with the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and La Scala in Milan, as well as in opera houses in Lausanne, Turin,
Rome, Naples, Verona, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. In 1989, he was awarded both the First Prize and
Jury’s Prize at the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento, Italy. In 2007, the Italian
President bestowed the “President’s Prize” on Lü for his exceptional contribution to Italian culture. That same year, the production of La gazza ladra that he conducted at the Rossini Opera Festival was voted “Opera Production of the Year” in Europe. Before he returned to China in 2012, he was the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Spain’s Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director of Italy’s Verona Opera House and Arena di Verona Festival.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Born in Paris on 1997, Xiaoyu Liu moved with his family to Montréal at age 6 and began his piano studies the following year. After winning a number of national competitions, Xiaoyu, at the age of 15, won the Grand Prize at the OSM Standard Life Competition (Canada) and the Silver Medal at the Cooper International Piano Competition (USA). He has performed as a soloist in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States, and with many orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, YOA Orchestra of the Americas, The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil, and Sinfonia de Lanaudières. He has performed and collaborated with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Jean-François Rivest, Nathan Brock, Jahja Ling, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Marc David, and Stéphane Laforest.
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Hailed by The Strad as “an outstanding talent,” Siqing Lu (pronounced See-Ching) was the first Asian violinist to win first prize at the prestigious Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy in 1987. Since then, he has performed to great acclaim in more than thirty countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, at many of the great concert halls of the world including the Musikverein, Hollywood Bowl, Wigmore Hall, Kremlin Palace and Suntory Hall. Over the course of his extraordinary career, he has collaborated with many of the world’s leading musicians including Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Edo de Waart, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lawrence Foster, Jaap van Zweden, Osmo Vänskä, Long Yu, Shao-Jia Lu, and Jian-Wen Bin. He has appeared as featured soloist with many of the world’s great orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony, Paris Sinfonietta, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Washington Symphony, Toronto Camerata, Vancouver Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. Born in 1969 in
Qingdao, Siqing Lu began violin study at four. At the age of eight, he became the youngest student accepted by the Central Conservatory of Music and at eleven was chosen by Yehudi Menuhin to study at his school in London. In 1984 he returned to China for advanced studies at the Conservatory in Beijing, and, five years later, went on to study with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang at the Juilliard School. His acclaimed recordings can be found on the Philips, Naxos and Marco Polo labels.
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Yuja Wang has performed with many of the world’s prestigious orchestras, including those of Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, in the U.S., and abroad with the Berlin Staatskapelle, China Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Orquesta Nacional de España, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Santa Cecilia, among others. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Claudio Abbado, Barenboim, Dudamel, Dutoit, Gatti, Gergiev, Maazel, Mehta, Masur, Pappano, Salonen, Temirkanov, and Tilson Thomas. This season Yuja is artist-in-residence with Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra and will also be featured in a two-week residency with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She performs Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 with both the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, and returns to the Concertgebouw to work with Mariss Jansons. In the U.S. she is featured soloist on the London
Symphony Orchestra tour with Tilson Thomas. An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Most recently, she recorded the Brahms violin sonatas with Leonidas Kavakos for Decca Records. Yuja received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2010. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music.

PRESS INFORMATION
Media contact – North American Tour
Milina Barry PR 212.420.0200 office@milinabarrypr.com

China NCPA Orchestra – 2014 North American Tour
CHICAGO, IL

Sunday, Nov. 2, 3PM
Symphony Center
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Program:
CHEN Qigang Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major
Dvorák Symphony No. 8

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Monday, Nov. 3, 8PM
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Program:
CHEN Qigang Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major
Dvorák Symphony No. 8
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NEW YORK, NY

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 8PM
Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Siqing Lu, violin

Program:
CHEN Qigang
Zhanhao HE, Gang CHEN
Tchaikovsky

Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 5
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PHILADELPHIA, PA

Friday, Nov. 7, 8PM
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon Hall
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Program:
CHEN Qigang
Ravel
Tchaikovsky

Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
Piano Concerto in G Major
Symphony No. 5
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OTTAWA, CANADA

Sunday, Nov. 9, 8PM
National Arts Centre, Southam Hall
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Siqing Lu, violin

Program:
CHEN Qigang
Zhanhao HE, Gang CHEN
Tchaikovsky

Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 5
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TORONTO, CANADA

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 8PM
Koerner Hall
The Royal Conservatory of Music
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Xiaoyu Liu, piano

Program:
CHEN Qigang
Ravel
Tchaikovsky

Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
Piano Concerto in G Major
Symphony No. 5
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MONTREAL, CANADA

Thursday, Nov. 13, 8PM
Maison Symphonique

Place des Arts
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, Chief Conductor
Siqing Lu, violin

Program:
CHEN Qigang
Zhanhao HE, Gang CHEN
Dvorák

Wu Xing (The Five Elements) Suite for Orchestra
The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto Symphony No. 5