Published on Sep 13, 2026

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Thursday, October 15, 2026

Times: 7:30pm

Venue: Concert Hall of NCPA

Prices: 80, 120, 180, 280, 380, 580

Features: Vienna conductor Andreas Ottensamer will be leading the Shanghai Quartet with German pianist Gerhard Oppitz to performing at concert hall of NCPA on Thursday October 15th, 2026.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Conductor

Andreas Ottensamer
Andreas Ottensamer has won high praise from audiences and music critics for his distinctive musicality and diverse talents in multiple roles such as conductor, clarinetist and artistic director.

In the 2025/26 season, Ottensamer will collaborate with the Hyogo PAC Orchestra, the Century Symphony Orchestra of Japan, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gyur Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra for the first time, and will again collaborate with the Mulhouse National Orchestra, the Artists Orchestra of Thorn, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra, the Krakow Sinfonietta, the Winterthur Conservatory Orchestra and the Aichi Chamber Orchestra. In the second half of 2026, he will also make his debut with the North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Berlin State Opera Orchestra.

Piano

Gerhard Oppitz
Gerhard Oppitz's international career officially launched in 1977. He became the first German pianist to win the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition in Tel Aviv. The 90-year-old Rubinstein himself served as a judge of the competition. Since then, Opitz has toured throughout Europe, Japan and the United States. In 1978, he recorded his debut album. Up to now, he has more than 80 recordings. In 1981, Opitz was appointed professor at the Munich Conservatoire, a position he held until 2013. During his decades of artistic career, Gerhard Opitz has collaborated with many legendary conductors on the same stage. Including Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallich, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, these precious collaborations are recorded on CD and video materials.

Oppitz has performed complete suites in concerts many times, and the repertoire covers Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", the complete sonatas of Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart, and Grieg's piano works...

Presenter

Shanghai Quartet
Founded in 1983, the Shanghai Quartet has become one of the world's top chamber music groups after more than 40 years of artistic practice. The quartet is known for its elegant artistic style, superb performance skills and deep emotional expression. It can freely shuttle between the classic works of Western music masters, traditional Chinese folk music and cutting-edge contemporary music.

In recent years, the Shanghai Quartet has performed at important music venues around the world such as Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Freer Gallery in Washington, the Pablo Casals Festival in France, Wigmore Hall, the Budapest Spring Music Festival, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. It has also performed the complete Beethoven String Quartets at the Brevard Music Center and the Beethoven Festival in Poland.

Tickets for Gerhard Oppitz, Andreas Ottensamer and Shanghai Quartet are Available now!