The Singapore Symphony Orchestra will give two concerts in Taiwan in October, which will showcase the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the cultural centres in Taipei and Taichung. Singapore Symphony Orchestra's tour marks the orchestra's re-appearance in Taiwan after 16 years.
The orchestra will perform at the National Concert Hall in Taipei (Oct 25) and the Chung-Hsin Concert Hall in Taichung (26 Oct).
The performances in Taipei and Taichung will be conducted by Lan Shui, with internationally renowned American violinist Gil Shaham playing the starring role of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto in Taipei. Violinist Jin Li, a member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and a former protégé of Yehudi Menuhin, will be the soloist in Paganini's Violin Concerto No.1 in Taichung. The programme will also include Barber's Overture to The School for Scandal and Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2.
Lan Shui joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra as Music Director in 1997. He is passionate about premiering and commissioning works by Asian and Singaporean composers, and has led the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on several successful tours. Lan Shui is also the Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony, and assumes the position of Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic from September 2007.
Gil Shaham is internationally recognized by audiences and critics alike as one of today's most virtuosic and engaging classical artists. Born in Illinois in 1971, he moved with his parents to Israel at the age of seven to study at the Rubin Academy of Music. In 1981, he made his debut with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic. In 1982 he won first prize in Israel's Claremont Competition.
Jin Li made his debut at Carnegie Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1985, and in the same year he appeared with Menuhin and the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the United Nations televised worldwide.
Since its inception in 1979, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra has toured America, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, France, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Among the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's recordings under BIS are a number of CDs which have earned international acclaim, including a recently released Seascapes CD, and the first-ever complete symphony cycle of Tcherepnin.
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra 2007 China tour is sponsored by Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, WBL Corporation Limited, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation, and supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore, the Singapore Season – China 2007, Singapore Airlines, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra Ladies' League and Mr & Mrs Wong Nang Jang. -- www.sso.org.sg
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