Announcing Chengzong Yin, the Yellow River Concerto, and the...
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40th Anniversary Yellow River Concerto2010 Tour of China |
Provisional Programme
- Braga Santos: Concerto in D for Strings (18)
- Beethoven: Symphony Nr 7 (33)
------ - Xian Xinghai, arr. Yin Chengzong and Chu Wanghua: Yellow River Concerto (21)
Yin Chengzong, piano (Celebrating 60 years of public performance and 40 years since the premiere of Yellow River Concerto)
Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
Pedro Carneiro, Christopher Chen, Conductors
Dates
- Early October 2010 (subject to mutual agreement)
Requirements
- 50-member travelling ensemble (43 musicians + 4 staff, 2 conductors + 1 soloist)
- Accommodation requirements: 8 singles + 21 doubles
- Music stands for string strength: 7/5/4/3/2 + 19 stands for winds and brass + 3 stands for timpani, harp and percussion
- 2 bass stools, 1 timpani stool, 1 harp stool
- 1 stick tray for timpanist
- 2 timps (baroque or classical calf head preferred)
- Fee + 2 nights’ accommodation + internal travel + per diem
More information
- Introductory Biography of Yin Chengzong
- Introductory Biography of Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
- Introductory Biography of Pedro Carneiro
- Introductory Biography of Christopher Chen
- Photos of Yin Chengzong
- Photos of Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
- Photos of Pedro Carneiro
- Photos of Christopher Chen
- Mp3 audio - Beethoven 8th Sym portion, (5 minutes, 5.2 MB Download)
- Mp4 video - Mendelssohn 4th Sym, IV. Saltarello: Presto (5.5 minutes; 67 MB Download)
- PCO Television documentary (in Portuguese) available on YouTube or request DVD
- Summary page for download (pdf file)
- Contact: John Ballard, Maxima Artist Management Ltd
- +64 9 522 1620 | john.ballard[at]maximaltd.com
Yin Chengzong
One of the world's leading pianists, Chengzong Yin was born on China's "Piano Island" of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. He gave his first recital at age nine. Three years later he entered the pre-college of the Shanghai Conservatory, later transferred to the Central Conservatory in Beijing. Mr. Yin traveled to Russia in 1960s to study with Tatiana Kravchenko, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory and Central Conservatory in Beijing.
He has won numerous awards, including the gold medal at the World Youth Peace and Friendship Festival held in Vienna in 1959 and second prize in the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Mr. Yin made his debut in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1983 and has returned five times as a soloist. The New York Times has called him "China's best pianist."
Through the years, Mr. Yin has traveled worldwide, performing under the baton of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and Sir Malcolm Sargent and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also appeared in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, and at Lincoln Center. His numerous interviews were featured on China's Central Television and CBS Sunday Morning. Formerly a professor and artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Yin now lives in New York City.
Mr. Yin is not only a virtuoso interpreter of Western masters, he is also a composer of highly renowned piano pieces. His piano arrangements and interpretations of traditional Beijing opera and other classic Chinese music, combined with his contribution to the Yellow River Concerto have made him a household name in China. His recording of the latter piece received a Gold Record award, which has already over 3 million copies sold. He has become a legend in the music world and is one of four Chinese musicians listed in the 1980 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
“The Portuguese Chamber Orchestra is one of the most significant projects in Portuguese music …. Pedro Carneiro has proven that it is absolutely possible to create an orchestra which maximizes the talent of some of our best young musicians to the extreme. Well, this we knew already... what we didn't know was that the PCO could entrance a full house with a Beethoven symphony played like this! The PCO's performance was not only so exciting, but ever so surprising - it delivered every detail with such clarity and power… cleverly createing its own voice. And pure genius it was.”
– Público (Lisbon), 24 December, 2008
"Brahms' First Symphony was a wonder of joy, commitment and vivacity (...) Carneiro the perfect conductor, unleashing a thick, rugged sound on the strings, extreme concentration from the first to the last desk, luminous playing from every single wind player. … the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra … [is] a great small orchestra, made up of people with total commitment to the music. Their bodies, gestures, breathing, simply overflow with the joy of music-making."
– Pedro Boléo, Público (Lisbon) October 7th 2008
The Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, an exceptional ensemble of new generation Portuguese virtuosi, combines artistic excellence and commitment with performance research and international promotion of Portuguese musicians. Their triumphant 2007 inaugural performance in the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, led immediately to the ensemble being name Associate Orchestra at the center, and in 2008 they were invited to become Orchestra-in-Residence.
Now in its 3rd season, the PCO has quickly developed a direct, powerful sound and dynamic performing style - often playing standing up. They owe their success to an unusual average of 12 rehearsals per concert and the presence of mature orchestral players and chamber musicians within the young ensemble, who act as rehearsal directors for each programme.
The ensemble comprises Portugal's most talented young professional musicians, and in its short existence has lead to a renaissance in the Portuguese music scene. It fulfilled a commitment to young Portuguese conductors from the outset, and a handful of the most talented have already toured with the orchestra, including Pedro Amaral, Pedro Neves, Luís Carvalho and Alberto Roque, as well as its internationally known artistic director, Pedro Carneiro. The organisation’s founding philiosophy – combining artistic integrity with social awareness – has also led to exciting new ways of fostering audiences and connections with the nation’s youth. One innovative programme, "My Friend plays in the PCO", connects disabled children to the musicians of the orchestra via workshops and open rehearsals.
The PCO has enjoyed widespread support from both National Radio and Television as media partners, with several live broadcasts as well as a prime time television documentary on the orchestra’s founding, first week and opening concert in 2007. The President of Portugal is also an official sponsor of the PCO, to whom he has granted a title “Ambassadors for Youth and Culture.” In January 2009, the Town of Portimão, in the Algarve region, joined hands with the PCO as community sponsors to foster and nurture a new generation of Portuguese musicians.
The PCO begins the next phase of its development with an international tour for the opening concert of the City of London Festival in June 2010, the programme featuring Beethoven's First Symphony and Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto, with Cristina Ortiz as soloist. In Autumn 2010 plans are underway for a tour of China and Japan, featuring four of the orchestra’s brilliant soloists in a programme including Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante in Bb Major.
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Pedro Carneiro
A man of many talents, the PCO’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Conductor and Composer Pedro Carneiro has also been acclaimed by the international press as one of the world's leading solo classical percussionists. He performs regularly throughout Europe, USA, Japan, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand, and has performed the world première of more than one hundred new works. He collaborates regularly with a wide range of musicians such as the Arditti and Tokyo Quartets, with whom he performed several new works for marimba and string quartet, as well as with many leading orchestras, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, New Zealand Symphony, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid and Estonian National Symphony – many of whom have also been recording partners. Carneiro has released several prize winning reoordings on the ECM, Zig-Zag Territoires and Rattle labels. See more detail at www.maximaltd.com/pedrocarneiro.
Conductor Christopher Chen
Christopher Chen is Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory and Artistic Director of Suzhou Science and Culture Centre. He studied with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore in the United States.
Christopher Chen was selected as one of eight conductors in the highly-competitive American Symphony Orchestra League’s National Conductor Preview 2005. As the winner of 2005 Karajan Fellowship for young conductors, he was invited to the Salzburg Festival to work with Vienna Philharmonic. He is also the third price winner of 2005 Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition. In 2007, he was appointed as the Music Director of Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra in China.
Mr. Chen has conducted orchestras around the world including the Kirov Orchestra of Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Finnish National Opera Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic in Poland, the Verona Philharmonic in Italy, Cadaques Orchestra in Spain, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra in Japan, and the Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras in Australia. Future Engagements include appearances with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Kharkov Philharmonic in Ukraine, Shanghai Philharmonic, Macau Orchestra and Tucuman Symphony Orchestra, among others.
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