Published on Oct 27, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Saturday, December 9, 2017

Venue: Concret Hall of NCPA

Prices: 180, 280, 400, 520, 600, 680, 880

Features: China NCPA Orchestra will be held a Hero's Life - A Night of R. Strauss concert with Indian conductor Zubin Mehta and lyrico-spinto soprano Kristin Lewis at concert Hall of NCPA in Beijing on December 9th, 2017.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), with which he has conducted over three thousand concerts over five decades, including tours spanning most continents.

Mehta's father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and from him, he received his early musical education. When he was 18 he enrolled in the Vienna state music academy where he graduated after three years with a diploma as a conductor. He began winning international competitions and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at age 21. Beginning in the 1960s Mehta gained experience by substituting for celebrated maestros throughout the world.

Mehta was made Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1962 when he was 26, where he stayed until 1978, being the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969 he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 Mehta became its permanent Music Director for Life. In 1978 he was made Music Director of the New York Philharmonic where he continued for 13 years. Since 1985, he has also been chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy.

He is an honorary citizen of both Florence and Tel Aviv and was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera in 1997 and of the Bavarian State Opera in 2006. The title of "Honorary Conductor" was bestowed to him by numerous orchestras throughout the world. More recently, Mehta made several tours with the Bavarian State Opera and kept up a busy schedule of guest conducting appearances until present times. In December 2006 he received the "Kennedy Center Honor" and in October 2008 was honored by the Japanese Imperial Family with the "Praemium Imperiale". In 2016, Zubin Mehta has been appointed as Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.

Kristin Lewis
Kristin Lewis is a lyrico-spinto soprano, known for her Verdi repertoire. She has performed in many opera houses around the world, and is based in Vienna, where she continued her studies with opera singer Carol Byers. In 2014 she created the Kristin Lewis Foundation to support emerging musicians from her home state, Arkansas, with funds for tuition costs, attendance at master classes, and national or international travel.

China NCPA Orchestra
China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing. Established in March 2010, the Orchestra consists of highly accomplished musicians from around the world, who have performed in more than a dozen opera productions presented by its home venue each year as well as in ballets and regular orchestral concerts in its own season. With a notably busy schedule, the young ensemble has fast established itself as one of the most adventurous and dynamic orchestras in the country. LU Jia took up the post of Chief Conductor in February 2012, succeeding CHEN Zuohuang, the current Conductor Laureate, NCPA’s then Artistic Director of Music as well as a founder of the Orchestra. YUAN Ding was appointed Assistant Conductor in the same year. In January 2017, upon CHEN Zuohuang’s retirement, LU Jia started serving as NCPA’s Artistic Director of Music and the NCPA Orchestra’s Music Director.

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