HOME CALENDAR NEWS PRODUCE PROJECT ISCM ABOUT US 中⽂ 26.May 2018 The Pine-soughing Valleys Closing Concert of ISCM World New Music Days 2018 At 19:30 on May 26, 2018/ Saturday CCOM Opera & Concert Hall China National Symphony Orchestra ZHANG Guoyong, conductor Seizan Sakata, Shakuhachi Mizuki Aita, percussion ZHANG Jiakang, zheng ZHENG Yang, sheng 1.Witold Lutosławski (Poland) Three Postludes for Orchestra (1958–63) 2.Harue Kunieda (Japan) Floral Tributes III for strings, percussion and shakuhachi（2017） 3.Bernhard Gander (Austria) Blood Beat for Orchestra (2016) --------Intermission------- 4.JIA Guoping (China) The Pine-soughing Valleys for sheng, zheng and orchestra (2014) 5.CHEN Danbu (China) The Peng in the Wind for orchestra (2016-17) 6.TAN Dun (U.S.A.) Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds 7.Fung Lam（Hong Kong, China） Quintessence China National Symphony Orchestra The China National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) was founded in 1996 on the basis of the Central Philharmonic established in 1956. The orchestra is chartered and administered by the Ministry of Culture of China with three affiliations: the orchestra, a chorus and the Beijing Concert Hall. The CNSO's present director is Yi Zhang; Artistic Consultant is Zuqiang Wu; The CNSO Honorary Artistic Director is Tan Dun; Principal Conductor is Xincao Li; Laureate Conductor is Muhai Tang. Principal Guest Conductor is En Shao and its Guest Conductor is Xieyang Chen. The CNSO concertmaster is Kunyu Zhao. During the last century, renowned Chinese conductor Delun Li, Zhongjie Han, Liangkun Yan laid a solid foundation for the orchestra’s development. In the new millennium, conductors of international reputation such as Zuohuang Chen, Muhai Tang, En Shao successively devote themselves to the undertaking of the orchestra. Throughout its history, the CNSO has collaborated with many world-leading artists in order to bring excellence to its audiences at home and abroad. Our audiences have been thrilled by a string of conductors including Herbert von Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, Seiji Ozawa, Gennadi Rozhestvendsky, Charles Dutoit, David Zinman，Michel Plasson, and by well-known guest instrumentalists David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Siqing Lv, Feng Ning, Yo-Yo Ma, Jian Wang, Chengzong Yin, Martha Argerich, Lang Lang, Yundi Li，Yujia Wang, Lindeman, Albretch Mayer; vocalists Giuseppe Giacomini, José Carreras, Kathleen Battle. The Oscar winning documentary "From Mao to Mozart" was partially recorded because of the good cooperation and friendship between the artists and CNSO. To insure the highest possible standard, exceptional Chinese musicians are admitted through strict auditions, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China,among them winners of competitions at home and abroad. The outstanding musicians gather in the orchestra and incessantly energize it, making CNSO the flagship among the Chinese orchestras. As a national symphony orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra undertake the major performance on significant national and diplomatic occasions such as "Beautiful China and Glorious Dream" Concert in Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of Establishing of the People's Republic of China, Concert in Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Victory of Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War and World Anti-Fascist War" , “Eternal Faith " Concert in Celebrating 95th Anniversary of Establishing of CCP , "BRICS Conference" ,"Boao Forum for Asia" ,"APEC Summit","G20 Summit" and etc .the outstanding techniques and performances of our musicians were acclaimed by state leaders and officials from various states and won honor fro the country. Meanwhile, the CNSO is actively involved in studio recording for films and TV series. Some of the bestrecognized ones are "Zhou Enlai" "The Promise" "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" "The Passionate Years" and sound tracks from big events such as 2008 Olympic Games, NPC&CPPCC, APEC Summit, World renowned recording companies such as Philips 、 EMI、 DG and Universal Music have recorded and released quite a few CDs for the orchestra. The orchestra holds almost 100 concerts per season. Since last century, the orchestra had developed an educational program by bringing symphony to school, military and even the factory until now.This convention is passed down by the musicians from generations to generations and carried for ward. The orchestra has toured in major countries and regions in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America as well as presenting unforgettable performances to Chinese audiences. The Western audiences were surprised to find "a new powerful member in the largest territory of classical music" .the South Korean media praised the orchestra as "the best symphony orchestra in Asia", "pride of 1.3 billion people". The CNSO took part in the Opening Ceremony Concert of "2010 Festival of the World Symphony Orchestra" and the Opening Ceremony Concert for"2013 Asian Orchestra Festival" in Daegu Concert Hall，2015 Asia Orchestra Week in Tokyo . The China National Symphony Orchestra sincerely invites you to enjoy these moments of beautiful music and listen to the sound of China. It brings honor to the Chinese people at home and abroad by its achievement and improvement. Composer： Witold Roman Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (Polish: [ˈvitɔld lutɔsˈwafski]; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composerand orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles. During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began developing his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance. During World War II, after escaping German capture, Lutosławski made a living by playing the piano in Warsaw bars. After the war, Stalinist authorities banned his First Symphony for being "formalist"—allegedly accessible only to an elite. Lutosławski believed such anti- formalism was an unjustified retrograde step, and he resolutely strove to maintain his artistic integrity. In the 1980s, Lutosławski gave artistic support to the Solidarity movement. Near the end of his life, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. Harue KUNIEDA Born in Tokyo, she entered the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and majored in composition, graduating in 1983. Her works have been performed at ISCM-ACL in Hong Kong, Australia and Israel, at the Asian Music Festival in Sendai, at Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival and others. Serenade for Soprano and Harp’ was selected for ISCM World Music Days in Luxemburg in 2000. She was an artist of the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program in London in 2003. Peace on Earth for Soprano, Harp and Orchestra’ was commissioned and the first performed by the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in 2005, was selected for ISCM World New Music Days in Sweden in 2009. She is a professor at the Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University and a member of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music and the 21st Century Composer's Association. Bernhard Gander Born in Lienz in 1969, Gander studied piano and conducting at the Tyrolean Provincial Conservatoire and composition with Beat Furrer in Graz. He also studied at the Studio UPIC in Paris and at the Swiss Centre for Computer Music in Zurich. 2004 he has received the Musikförderungspreis of the City of Vienna, Erste Bank Composition Prize, a government grant in 2005,Ernst-Krenek Prize 2012. Also he received commissions from Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern,RSO,Musikprotokoll, Konzerthaus Wien,Donaueschinger Musiktage,Wiener Festwochen, Biennale Munich, Wittener Tage für neue Jia Guoping Jia Guoping (b. Shanxi, 1963) completed studies in music at the Shanxi-Jin Opera Academy in Taiyuan. After four years serving as chairman of the music department at the Culture House in Luliang, he studied composition at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, becoming an instructor in harmony and composition in 1991. A grant from the German Academic Exchange Commission (DAAD) brought him to Stuttgart for four years of study with Helmut Lachenmann at the Hochschule there. He also participated in the Darmstadt Summer Course. Since 1998, he has been professor of composition and analysis of new music at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. Strongly committed to cultural exchange between China and Germany, Jia has devoted vast energy to organizing concerts and scholarly events. He initiated the annual Con Tempo Composition Competition in 2007 and, in 2009, the German Contemporary Music Festival. Many of his students have also gone to Germany for advanced study. In 2011, with the support of the Siemens Foundation and the International Ensemble Modern Academy, Jia founded the Ensemble ConTempo Beijing, the first Chinese ensemble for modern music in which Western and Eastern instruments are combined. His compositions, which are