Author: Ellen Ng

Macao Orchestra kicks off its 2016-17 Concert Season

Date: 05/09/2016

The Macao Orchestra (OM, from the Portuguese acronym), under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, kicks off its 2016-17 Concert Season with the opening concert “No. 1 Piano – Yulianna Avdeeva and Macao Orchestra”. The opening ceremony was held on 3 September, at 7:40pm, at the lobby of the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium, and was officiated by the Counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao S.A.R., Qiu Weiwei; the President of the Chinese Musicians Association, Ye Xiaogang; the Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, Leung Hio Ming; the Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Chen Ge; the Head of the Department of Cultural Events of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, Kent Ieong Chi Kin; and the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Macao Orchestra, Lü Jia.

Through the concert season themed ‘My Time with Music’, a number of promising talents of classical music and exceptional music masters will be invited to present high quality classical concerts. In the opening concert, under the baton of the Music Director of the Macao Orchestra, Yulianna Avdeeva, first prize winner of the Chopin International Competition, will play two piano concertos by Chopin and Mendelssohn, as well as the ultimate work of the romantic period of classical music, Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major. This edition of the Concert Season also features the “Music hours” outreach programme, allowing music fans to get close to a number of prominent musicians. Excellent programme “Music Hour With Yulianna Avdeeva”, held on 2 September, attracted a lot of music fans coming to see the style of musicians.

Macao Orchestra’s 2016-2017 Concert Season Programme can be obtained at Macao Ticketing retail shops for free. The electronic version can be downloaded at www.icm.gov.mo/om. For details and enquiry for programmes, please call 2853 0782 during office hours. In addition, holders of BOC Multi-Currency Credit Card or BOC Card are offered 30% discount for ‘Starry Vienna – New Year Concert’ and ‘2016-2017 Season Closing Concert –Eine florentinische Tragödie’. Ticketing Hotline: 2855 5555.

Macao Orchestra New Concert Season Ticket Available for Sale from 8 August
Chopin Competition Winner Yulianna Avdeeva Present at Opening

Macao Orchestra under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau will embark upon its 2016-2017 concert season in September. Through the concert season themed ‘Your Time with Music’, a number of promising talents of classical music will display the youthful effervescence of the genre. Concertgoers can, through the diverse performances, feel the preservance and zeal of the musicians and envisage how they spend their time with music, thereby being absorbed in the moment with music of their own. Tickets will be available for sale from Monday 8th August on Macao Ticketing Network.

Up-and-coming stars born from 1980s to 2000s, including Yulianna Avdeeva, First Prize winner in the Chopin Competition; Yao-yu Wu, the winner of the 2013 Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors; Alice Sara Ott, a young pianist with extraordinary character and affinity; wizardly violinist Nemanja Radoluvic; young conductors Roberto Gianola and Jose Luis Gomez, and others have been invited to perform for the coming concert season. Among the other musicians are exceptional music masters including world-renowned British conductor Gordon Hunt, Hungarian conductor Gilbert Varga, famous German conductor Bruno Weil and prestigious Chinese violinist Ning Feng – they will collaboratively render Chinese and foreign classics to convey their sentiments on this music voyage.

In addition, Macao Orchestra will make a debut of the tremendous symphony by British composer Sir Edward William Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and stage a concert of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s renowned opera. The orchestra will also develop new performance space and genres, introducing prominent and magnificent music works including musical theatre and the multimedia film score concert to Macao. Music fans are welcome to experience the outstanding music performances in person.

Macao Orchestra’s 2016-2017 Concert Season Programme can be obtained at Macao Ticketing retail shops for free. The electronic version can be downloaded at www.icm.gov.mo/om. For details and enquiry for programmes, please call 2853 0782 during office hours. In addition, holders of BOC Multi-Currency Credit Card or BOC Card are offered 30% discount for ‘2016-2017 Season Opening Concert – No. 1 Piano – Yulianna Avdeeva and Macao Orchestra’, ‘Starry Vienna – New Year Concert’ and ‘2016-2017 Season Closing Concert –Eine florentinische Tragödie’. Please call Ticketing Hotline: 2855 5555.

2016 / 5 Japan Tour
12th “La Folle Journée” Music Festival

Tokyo
03-05-2016 11:45

Violin / Dmitri Makhtin
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2, The American Four Seasons

03-05-2016 13:45

Soprano / Rie Hamada
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été , Op. 7

04-05-2016 18:45

Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68, F major, Pastorale

04-05-2016 20:30

Programme：
Dvorak: Concert Overture In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91, B. 168
Dvorak: The Wild Dove, Op. 110
Dvorak: Cypresses

9 / 2015 Europe Tour – Austria, Switzerland, Hungary

Austria – Linz – International Brucknerfest Linz 2015
13-09-2015

Piano / Zhang Haochen
Sheng / Wang Wei

Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Huang Ruo: Colour Yellow, Concerto for Sheng and Chamber
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106

Austria – Linz – International Brucknerfest Linz 2015
14-09-2015

Violin / Fei-Nga Su
Piano / Haochen Zhang

Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Bruckner: Overture in G minor, WAB 98
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor

Austria – Erl
17-09-2015

Piano / Haochen Zhang
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106

Switzerland – Zurich
18-09-2015

Cello / Lionel Cottet
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme：
Mao Yuen / Lau Ti Shan: Dance of the Yao Tribe
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106

Hungary – Budapest
20-09-2015

Austria – Vienna
21-09-2015

Piano / Zhang Haochen
Conductor / Francis Kan

Programme：
Bruckner: Overture in G minor, WAB 98
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106

4-5 / 2015 Guangzhou Tour

Guangzhou
28-29/4/2015

Performance Group / English National Ballet

Programme：
Coppélia Ballet

Guangzhou
2-3/5/2015

Performance Group / English National Ballet

Programme：
Swan Lake Ballet

Guangzhou
8-9/5/2015

Programme：
Opera Excerpts

Mezzo-Soprano / Elina Garanca
Soprano / Jo Sumi
Tenor / Adam Diegel
Bass / Riccardo Zanellato
Conductor / Gianluca Marciano

7 / 2014 Taiwan Tour
Taipei, Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, Taichung

Taipei
24-07-2014

Hsinchu
26-07-2014

Pipa / Zhang Hongyan
Conducotr / Lü Jia

Programme：
Wu Zuqiang、Yanqiao Wang、Dehai Liu : Pipa Concerto, Little Sisters on Grassland
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major

Kaoshiung
28-07-2014

Taichung
29-07-2014

Piano / Chen Rueibin
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programa：
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Rimsky-Korsakov : scheherazade

6 / 2014 Tibet Tour

Tibet
5/6/2014

Pipa / Shu Yin
Conductor / Lü Jia、Bian Ba

Programme：
Mozart: Serenade in G major
A Flowery, Moonlit Night on the Spring River
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major
Offenbach: Can-Can
Johann Strauss II : Thunder and Lightning polka

12 / 2013 China Hainan Tour – Haikou, Sanya

Haikou
28-12-2013

Pipa / Zhang Hongyan
Conductor / Francis Kan

Programme：
Weber : Overture to Der Freischutz
Dvořák : Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
Wu Zuqiang、Yanqiao Wang、Dehai Liu : Pipa Concerto, Little Sisters on Grassland

Sanya
30-12-2013

Pipa / Zhang Hongyan
Conductor / Shao En

Programme：
Weber : Overture to Der Freischutz
Dvořák : Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World
Wu Zuqiang、Yanqiao Wang、Dehai Liu : Pipa Concerto, Little Sisters on Grassland

5 / 2013 Korea Tour
Seoul International Music Festival

Seoul
16-05-2013 Thursday

Violin / Ning Feng
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor , Pathetique

17-05-2013 Friday

Piano / Kim Kyu-Yeon
Conductor / Lü Jia

Programme
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Prokoviev: Piano concert No. 3 in C Major
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathetique