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Date/Time List: Jun. 20th, 2008 19:30 (Fri.) Jun. 21st, 2008 19:30 (Sat.)
Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Concert Hall (Address: 425 Dingxiang Road 丁香路425号)
Ticket Price (RMB): ￥1800, ￥1200, ￥800, ￥500, ￥300, ￥200
Ticket State: Hot selling
Booking Office: Room 23B, No.420(HeYi Building), JiangNing Road, Shanghai,China
Booking Hotline: 021-62189930 , 021-62189950
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor
Yundi Li Piano
Friday, June 20, 2008
Otto Ketting The Arrival
Ravel Piano Concerto
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Ravel La Valse
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2
Beethoven Symphony No.3
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra is the musical heart of the city of Rotterdam. Soon after its foundation in 1918, the ensemble evolved into one of the leading orchestras in the Netherlands.
Between 1930 and 1962, the orchestra came into its first period of bloom under the direction of. It was Flipse who laid the foundation for the tradition of precision ensemble playing which later became the orchestra's hallmark. After the appointment in 1973 of the then still very young conductor Edo de Waart, the orchestra gained international acclaim. De Waart conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic in many outstanding recordings and on several successful international tours. Since 1995 the celebrated Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been the orchestra's Music Director. He initiated the Gergiev Festival Rotterdam which has grown out to be one of the orchestra's major events.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra's repertoire not only covers all periods of music history, but music genres beyond the realm of the traditional as well. By frequently commissioning and performing premieres the orchestra keeps in touch with contemporary music. In addition, the orchestra is actively building on it's already substantial opera tradition. The annual opera productions in cooperation with the Netherlands Opera are received with unanimous praise by audiences and critics alike.
Ambition and innovation have always been an important part of the Rotterdam Philharmonic's artistic make-up. One of the orchestra's key goals is making the symphonic repertoire accessible for as many different audiences as possible. New initiatives, especially in the educational field, are continually explored. This involves that children are an ever more important and growing target group.
Each year, approximately 110,000 music lovers visit the Rotterdam Philharmonic's concerts in de Doelen, the most important centre of cultural life in Rotterdam.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin is Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as of August 2008. Born in Montreal in 1975, Yannick Nézet-Séguin began piano lessons at the age of five. He later entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, studying piano, composition, chamber music, and conducting. While attending the Conservatoire, Yannick Nézet-Séguin also studied choral conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton , New Jersey and, in 1995, founded the vocal and instrumental ensemble La Chapelle de Montréal. He continued his training near a number of famous conductors, among them the great Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini.
In April 2000, he was appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. He has also appeared as guest conductor of L'Opéra de Montréal where, between 1998 and 2002, he was Chorus Master, Assistant Conductor and Musical Adviser. Productions he has conducted since 2000 include Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and an acclaimed Turandot by Puccini, to open the 2004/2005 season. From September 2008 he will be Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Yannick Nézet-Séguin guested with numerous orchestras in Canada, and conducted performances of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles at Sarasota Opera in Florida.
2004–2005: first concerts in Europe and Australia
In November 2004 he made his European debut with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and has since conducted Flemish Radio Symphony; RSO Frankfurt; Monte Carlo Philharmonic; Luxembourg Philharmonic; and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. In August 2005, he made his Australian debuts stepping in at short notice for Lorin Maazel with Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The positive impact created by his first season's work outside North America is demonstrated by the fact that he was immediately re-invited by each of these seven orchestras.
2005–2006: Rotterdam debut
Symphonic conducting in 2005/2006 included return visits to Monte Carlo, Flemish Radio and three programs in Toulouse; plus debuts with Rotterdam Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Northern Sinfonia, City of Birmingham, SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Indianapolis Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Opera conducting included Gounod's Faust at the Vancouver Opera and a fully-staged production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck with the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal.
2006–2007: International breakthrough
2006-2007 included a return visit to Rotterdam Philharmonic. He also made his debut with such orchestras as the Orchestre National de France in Paris, Staatskapelle Dresden and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also made his first German tour with Sudwestrundfunk Sinfonieorchester. Further debuts he made with Canadian Opera of Toronto for nine performances of Gounod's Faust.
2007–2008: Preamble to a Rotterdam Music Directorship
In 2007/2008, the season before Yannick Nézet-Séguin will start as Music Director in Rotterdam, he conducts four programmes with his new orchestra:
8, 9, 10 and 11 November 2007: Strauss, Mahler and Beethoven’s Third Symphony ‘Eroica’
25 and 26 January 2008: Promenade Concert ‘Spanish Nights’
19, 20 and 21 March 2008: Bach's St Matthews Passion
13 and 14 June 2008: Ketting (The Arrival), Ravel and Sjostakovitsj’ Fifth Symphony
Following this last concert, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra will make a tour of Asia.
2008/2009: Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
As of August 2008 Yannick Nézet-Séguin is Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that Yannick Nézet-Séguin will take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor at the start of the Orchestra's 2008/09 season.
Yundi Li
· 2000
Wins first prize on 4 October at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the first time the top prize has been awarded for 15 years. Also receives the award for best performance of a Polonaise and becomes the youngest first-prize winner in the competition’s history
· 2001
Signs exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Recital tour playing Chopin includes Los Angeles, Toronto, Germany and Poland
· 2002
Release of his first recording for Deutsche Grammophon with works by Chopin. Gives recitals of works by Chopin and Liszt in Japan, China, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands
· 2003
American concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Chopin’s Concerto no. 1; further performances with the Cincinnati Symphony and Paavo Järvi in the US and Berlin, and with the NHK Symphony in Japan. Performances of Grieg’s Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony and Paavo Järvi in Japan, with the Moscow Philharmonic and Yuri Simonow on a tour of Germany, and with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Recital debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Salzburg Festival playing Chopin and Liszt. Recitals in Prague, Paris, Verbier and Mallorca and honoured at a special reception at the home of the Chinese Ambassador in Washington, DC, where he performs Liszt for officials and guests including former Secretary of State Alexander Hague. His second recording of works by Liszt is released to extraordinary acclaim (Echo Award, 2003; Best Solo Album of the Year”, The New York Times 2003).
· 2004
Engagements include performances of the Grieg Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony and Stefan Sanderling, the First Chopin Concerto in Spain with the Orquesta Nacional de Espana under Antoni Wit and in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by James Judd, and Liszt’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in Germany, as well as recitals throughout Europe, in the USA, Canada and Hong Kong. CD/SACD release of Chopin’s four Scherzos and Impromptus nos. 1–3
· 2005
Performances of the Grieg Concerto with Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the First Chopin Concerto with the American Youth Symphony (including at Carnegie Hall). Recitals throughout Europe, the USA, in Taiwan and Japan. Concerts (with James Levine) and chamber-music appearances (with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Jian Wang) at the 2005 Verbier Festival. Further concerts with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Paavo Järvi (including an extensive German tour), with the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra and Jirí Belohlávek in Paris, Rome and Hamburg; and on tour in Japan with Seiji Ozawa and the New Japan Philharmonic. CD release: “Yundi Li – Vienna Recital” (works by Mozart, Schumann, Liszt and Scarlatti); DVD release: “Yundi Li – Live in Concert” (works by Chopin, Liszt and Wang)
· 2006
His busy schedule includes concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in Hong Kong, the London Symphony Orchestra in London’s Barbican Centre and Seoul, South Korea, numerous appearances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel in several Israeli cities and in Spoleto, Italy, with the Wiener Symphoniker in Vienna’s Musikverein and in Japan, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Philharmonie, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Zurich’s Tonhalle; recitals throughout the USA (including New York’s Carnegie Hall), Canada, Germany, London (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet), Finland, Denmark and Luxemburg. The year concludes with an extensive recital tour throughout China. Yundi Li records Liszt’s and Chopin’s First Piano Concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; the CD is due for international release early in 2007
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