In 2024, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 145th anniversary, and the Shanghai Summer Music Festival (MISA) will also enter its 15th year. On May 20, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra announced the 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival and announced the program lineu

In 2024, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 145th anniversary, and the Shanghai Summer Music Festival (misa) will also enter its 15th year. On May 20, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra announced the 2024 Shanghai Summer Music Festival and announced the program lineup.

html July 1-15, 24 live performances, more than 20 "online misa", 13 city-wide symphonies, 5 "misa talk", 3 "misa walk" as well as Tai Chi experience, Shaolin Kung Fu display, world A variety of performances and activities such as coffee tours will be launched one after another.

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra will gather again. Five music groups, five student art groups, and nearly 50 conductors and solo artists will take turns to perform at the Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall and Shanghai City Lawn Music Square.

"The Shanghai Summer Music Festival allows every citizen living here and friends from afar to feel the colorful music life of this city. It is a window to the world's music culture and a gateway for the world to arrive in Shanghai. 'The entry point for music'," said artistic director Yu Long.

The main visual poster of the 2024 Summer Music Festival

Opening with four generations of conductors on the same stage, closing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jin Yong’s birth

In this year’s Summer Music Festival, friends from home and abroad will gather in Shanghai to create an ideal place for music.

html On July 1st, the opening concert, with the theme of "Music and Friends", gathered a super luxurious star lineup and gathered big names.

Four generations of conductors from the "post-60s" to the "post-90s" - Yu Long, Yang Yang, Huang Yi, and Sun Yifan will appear on the same stage, joining hands with violinist Ning Feng, cellists Wang Jian and Qin Liwei, pianists Zhang Haochen and Wang Yalun presents classic works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Chopin and other masters. Hong Kong's "post-90s" young composer Liang Haoyi will light up musical friendship with his song "Eternal Friendship Overture".

html On July 15th, Yu Long will conduct the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, teaming up with violinist Wang Jing and bamboo flute player Feng Tianshi to perform two works full of heroic sentiments - Tan Dun's "Hero" Violin Concerto and Liang Haoyi's "Martial Arts -". "Composed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jin Yong's birth" commemorates Jin Yong who created an "imagined cultural community" for countless Chinese people, and also marks the grand conclusion of the music festival.

"Hero" Violin Concerto is selected from Tan Dun's "Martial Arts Trilogy". "Martial Arts" was created by Yu Long and jointly commissioned by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Symphony Orchestra and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra to be composed by Liang Haoyi. This is the world premiere.

The New York Philharmonic is an old friend of the Summer Music Festival. After five years, it will return to the festival as a whole for the first time.

html On July 2nd and 3rd, conductor Jaap van Zweden, who is about to step down as music director, will lead the New York Philharmonic Orchestra to perform masterpieces by Mahler, Mozart, Brahms and other great masters, and will premiere in China the compositions of "post-90s" "Light" by Nina Shekhar.

Music Expo, harmonica, accordion, saxophone became the dazzling protagonist

From the display of diverse music such as Venice at Night, American Impressions, Gypsy Songs, and South American Style, to the focus on different musical instruments such as harmonica, accordion, and saxophone, this year’s summer music festival will Showing the music style like the World Expo.

Latvian accordion player Ksenia Sidorova and German young baritone Benjamin Appel performed "Venice at Night", dedicating the world premiere of this set to Shanghai, leading the audience to appreciate the scenery of the water city.

gcg The Pilot Orchestra will present an American music platter with works by composer/conductor Bernstein, minimalist music representative John Adams, Korngold and Coriano, who have won Oscars for best score.

Zhang Jiemin will hand over the baton and will join hands with soprano Fang Qiong and many young singers and emerging musical stars to sing "China in Singing" and praise the humanistic features of this vast land. Young mezzo-soprano Wu Hauni and Russian pianist Sergei Rybin will jointly lift "Carmen's Veil" and experience the gypsy style.

This year, you can also hear many rare musical instruments that contribute their "sounds". The harmonica, accordion, and saxophone will become the dazzling protagonists.

"I am very happy to be back in Shanghai. I have been waiting for this call for ten years."said Italian harmonica master Gianluca Litra. Zhang Lu and the string players of Shangjiao will cooperate with this musician who is proficient in both classical and jazz performance to perform Gordon Jacobs' "Five Pieces" " and Morricone's film scores and other popular works.

Accordionist Sidorova will explore tango music from around the world with the Shanghai Friends Chamber Orchestra; the Italian Saxophone Quartet will play Nino Rota's film music. ; Clarinetist Ergo will show the charming charm of the "orator" clarinet through the works of composers such as Wolf, Weber, and John Williams.

In addition, two pairs of twin sister pianists - Shi Wei and Shi. Rong will collaborate with Zhou Leping and Zhou Leting for the first time, and will also premiere Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" in the form of two pianos and eight hands. The new generation conductor Jin Yukuang will lead the neoclassical chamber orchestra and perform classical "new music" with Wang Yalun. Sound".