On the evening of January 11, Italian conductor Massimo Zanetti conducted a Beijing Symphony Orchestra concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts, officially kicking off the 2024 Beijing Symphony Orchestra music season with a Mediterranean-style concert. Curtain. On the same day, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra officially announced its performance schedule for 2024. 18 season concerts and dozens of unique concerts will be performed in the new year.
The Beijing Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 music season has gathered masters, highlighting the charm of the capital’s symphony development. According to Meng Haidong, director of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Massimo Zanetti, Alexander Lahbari, Oko Kam, Tang Muhai, Lu Jia, Tan Lihua, Zhang Yi, Xia Xiaotang, Li Haoran, Yu Lu and other internationally renowned Conductor; Berlin Philharmonic principal violinist Venetta-Sareka Walkner, as well as Joseph Shpacek, Chen Xiang, Zou Xiang, Sun Yingdi, Sheng Yuan, Sun Jiayi, Li La, Namisa Sun Other soloists plan to join the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in the 2024 music season.
After the opening concert on the evening of January 11, conductor Zhang Yi will bring the audience a set of French works to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. At that time, Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, etc. The works will be staged one by one. In June, the orchestra plans to join hands with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s recently appointed Venetta-Sareka Walkner, the first female concertmaster in the orchestra’s 141-year history, to perform a performance celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of sister-city relations between Beijing and Berlin. Special commemorative concert.
This year, the orchestra’s music season performances will still take the opportunity of major festivals to stage a series of concerts praising the party and the motherland, including the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the 25th anniversary of Macao’s return to China, and the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy. show. Beijing Jiaotong University will use multiple concerts, combined with the lively musical masterpieces commissioned by the orchestra for a long time, to showcase the outstanding achievements of Chinese symphony and present gifts to the party and the country. Mentioning the orchestra’s new commissioned works plan for 2024, Meng Haidong, director of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, revealed that the commissioned works will be themed around Beijing’s central axis.
2024 is a new year for the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. This season, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra will invite the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Austria, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Russia, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in Germany, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra in Serbia. Guest concertmasters from famous groups join in the season performances.
Since the Beijing Symphony Orchestra launched the "Capital Citizen Concert Hall" series of charity performance projects in 2016, it has been based in the capital and radiated across the country. The scope has expanded from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to more than ten provinces, districts and cities across the country. The introduction of elegant art into campuses, communities, military camps, and enterprises is another highlight of the orchestra's performance in 2024. This year, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra will continue to build the public welfare brand of "Capital Citizens Concert Hall" and bring more exciting elegant art to the general public.
At the same time, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra will continue to implement the "Beijing Colorful Culture Blooms Youth" action plan jointly launched by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Education Working Committee of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and closely cooperate with universities in performances. “The Beijing Symphony Orchestra has reached a strategic cooperative relationship with Renmin University of China. Students from Renmin University have already performed two performances on the same stage with our troupe. In the future, we will continue to assign conductors and performers to provide guidance and assistance to the student orchestra. "Meng Haidong introduced.
In addition, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra also revealed the progress of the permanent orchestra location in Taihu Performing Arts Town. "If everything goes well, we will settle in Taihu this summer. After the settlement, the orchestra's functions will be expanded." Meng Haidong said, the orchestra A Capital Citizen Symphony Experience Hall and a Youth Art Exchange Center will be built at the new site to carry out youth training and education, and a youth orchestra will be formed to continue the BJT's "big hands holding small hands" brand in the city's sub-center.
Opening Concert Photography/Niu Xiaobei
Press Conference Photos Photography/Hou Xianquan
