Rhythm of Youth - Asian Youth Orchestra Concert

Published on May 26, 2017

Rhythm of Youth - Asian Youth Orchestra Concert

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Venue: Concret Hall of NCPA

Prices: 180, 280, 400, 560, 680, 800, 1000


Features: The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France is a French radio orchestra providing music for Radio France. It specializes in contemporary music. On May 27th, the orchestre will be perofrming at Concert Hall of NCPA in Beijing.


PROGRAMME

Don Juan Richard Strauss
Violin Concerto Jean Sibelius

——Intermission——
Symphony No. 7 Beethoven


BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Conductor: Richard Pontzious
Richard Pontzious is the Artistic Director of Asian Youth Orchestra. He graduated from New York College of Music and thereafter developed the Instruments Department of Saint Mary's University in Tokyo. In 1987 he co-founded Asian Youth Orchestra with the violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin, and thereby began his cooperation with prestigious musicians including Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Elly Ameling, LIN Zhaoliang and Alicia de Larrocha. The Orchestra was commended by critics as "an amazing youth orchestra, one of the best in the world".


In 1980s, Richard became conductor of the famous Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He led the concert tours of the orchestra, giving the Chinese premiere of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto in G minor and the first concert of all Brahms programmes after World War II. As the guest conductor of orchestras from Nanjing, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and other cities, he organized the premieres of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in these cities, conducted a series of Beethoven concerts in Northern China, and laid a foundation for the revival of Harbin Summer Music Festival. For all his contributions, he was called the music missionary in China.


In order to celebrate his achievements, Lord Menuhin and the master Comissiona invited Richard to conduct the last programmes in the last concerts of every music season since the premiere of Asian Youth Orchestra in 1990. Apart from this, Richard also performed in Berlin, Tokyo, Osaka, Manila and Italy. He was awarded Bronze Bauhina Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2000.


Richard Pontzious

Asian Youth Orchestra
The 110 members of the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) are among the finest young musicians in China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Chosen through highly competitive auditions held throughout the region, they are together for six weeks each summer, initially for a three-week Rehearsal Camp in Hong Kong, then for a three-week international concert tour with celebrated conductors and solo artists.


Cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Steven Isserlis, WANG Jian and Alisa Weilerstein, violinists Gidon Kremer, Gil Shaham, Elmar Oliveira, Young Uck Kim, Stefan Jackiw and Cho-Liang Lin, soprano Elly Ameling, the Beaux Arts Trio, pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Cecile Licad, Leon Fleisher and Jean Louis Steuerman are among those who have performed with AYO under the direction of principal conductor James Judd, music director emeritus Sergiu Comissiona, Alexander Schneider, TAN Dun, and the orchestra’s co-founders, Yehudi Menuhin and Richard Pontzious.


Since its inaugural performances in 1990, the award-winning Orchestra has played some 395 concerts in Asia, Europe, the US and Australia to an audience of more than one million concertgoers. Millions more have seen and heard the orchestra around the world on CNN, CNBC, NHK and Radio and Television Hong Kong.


A staggering 20,000 musicians, ranging in age from 17 to 27, have auditioned for AYO. Those selected for the full scholarship programme study with an exceptional artist-faculty of principals from the Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Minnesota and San Francisco symphony orchestras, the Bergamo Festival Orchestra (Italy), the Triple Helix Trio, Harvard, and the Boston and Peabody music conservatories.


Recipient of Japan’s prestigious Praemium Imperiale Grant for Young Artists in 2010 and Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture in 2015, highlights in AYO's history include the first concert by an international orchestra in 50 years in Hanoi, the world premiere performances of TAN Dun’s Symphony 1997 with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Hong Kong and Beijing, multiple performances in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, performances in the White House and at the United Nations, and around the world, in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Shauspielhaus, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, the Sydney Opera House.


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Opera House of Beijing National Grand Theatre

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West of Tiananmen Square, Beijing

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