小提琴：宁峰
小提琴家宁峰出生于中国成都，曾就读于四川音乐学院，随后到英国皇家音乐学院深造，并成为该学院首个在毕业独奏上拿到满分的学生。宁峰在国际舞台上频频获奖，在汉诺威国际小提琴比赛、伊丽莎白女皇国际小提琴比赛和耶胡迪·梅纽因国际小提琴比赛上都有所斩获，并且在2005年迈克·希尔国际小提琴比赛（新西兰）获得第一名，在2006年获得帕格尼尼国际小提琴比赛第一名，紧紧跟随世界顶尖小提琴家卡瓦科斯、克莱默和阿卡多的步伐。
作为中国最高水平的演奏家，宁峰在中国本土演出频繁，包括与许多国内交响乐团以及世界其他巡演乐团进行合作。宁峰现居于柏林，常在世界各地进行演出，由此以其极其抒情的艺术表现、华丽精湛的演奏以及令人惊叹的技巧而享誉世界。
荷兰Channel Classics唱片公司为宁峰录制发行过多张唱片，最新一张唱片是2014年发行的宁峰与柏林德意志交响乐团合作演奏的布鲁赫《苏格兰幻想曲》和柴可夫斯基小提琴协奏曲。此前他还在该唱片公司录制了两张独奏专辑——于2013年8月发行的《Solo2》专辑收录了巴托克、普罗科夫耶夫和亨德密特的独奏奏鸣曲；专辑《Solo1》以帕格尼尼、克莱斯勒、贝里奥、施尼特凯和其他音乐家的曲目为主打。“你将被这张专辑中演奏者精湛的演奏才能所震惊，此外，为那美妙的音色所震撼。”《高保真音响试听》杂志谈及此专辑时如是说。
在音乐会的舞台上，宁峰在最近的演出季与交响乐团密切合作演出，包括布达佩斯节日乐团、柏林音乐厅管弦乐团（指挥：伊万·菲舍尔）、俄罗斯国家交响乐团（指挥：弗拉基米尔·尤洛夫斯基）、里昂国家管弦乐团等一流乐团，并在悉尼歌剧院、莫斯科音乐大厅、维也纳音乐厅、柏林音乐厅、上海东方艺术中心以及北京国家大剧院等著名音乐厅演出。他频频出席于声名远扬的音乐节和系列活动进行独奏表演，包括温哥华音乐系列、香港国际商会、布拉格之春和石勒州节日音乐节等。宁峰和伊戈尔·勒维特在德国合作献演，包括路德维希堡和梅克伦堡音乐节以及他每年定期出席的基辛格之夏艺术节，宁峰是此艺术节2014年度驻场艺术家。
宁峰在2014/15音乐季的首演亮点频频精彩纷呈，包括于洛杉矶爱乐乐团、慕尼黑交响乐团、李斯特室内乐团、柏林音乐厅等音乐厅的演出，并与奥克兰爱乐乐团、澳门交响乐团等乐团合作在首尔、香港和布鲁塞尔进行独奏和室内乐演出。在都柏林和中国的两个重要巡演中，宁峰将作为小提琴独奏与皇家利物浦爱乐乐团及其指挥佩特连科合作演奏格拉祖诺夫协奏曲，并将在随后的演出季里到访包括伦敦、苏黎世、柏林和维也纳等在内的欧洲主要中心城市，联袂香港爱乐乐团及其指挥Van Zweden合作献演贝多芬协奏曲。
宁峰的演奏用琴是一把1721年的斯特拉迪瓦里小提琴，名为“麦克米兰”，飞跃演奏香港有限公司贴心为他安排了私人贷款以供该小提琴的使用。
指挥：余隆
余隆是活跃于国际乐坛的最杰出的中国指挥家，被纽约时报誉为“中国古典音乐届最具影响力的人物”，现任北京国际音乐节艺术委员会主席和中国爱乐乐团艺术总监，上海交响乐团和广州交响乐团音乐总监，上海夏季音乐节的联合总监，以及香港管弦乐团首席客席指挥。余隆创办了北京国际音乐节并于1998年至2018年间担任其艺术总监。
在2019/20乐季中，除了在中国的演出，余隆将以客座指挥英国皇家爱乐乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、伯尔尼交响乐团，荷兰广播爱乐乐团，阿德莱德交响乐团、奥克兰爱乐乐团、台湾爱乐乐团以及新加坡交响乐团等。2019年夏天，余隆与上海交响乐团的巡演之旅至美国和欧洲等地，包括了BBC逍遥音乐节、爱丁堡国际艺术节、拉维尼亚艺术节，卢塞恩音乐节等。
2018年6月，余隆与德意志留声机（以下称“DG”）签署独家录音合约,成为DG旗下签约的第一位中国指挥家。作为2018/19乐季德意志留声机120周年庆典的一部分，余隆于18年10月在北京的紫禁城太庙指挥了一场盛大的启动音乐会，同台艺术家包括阿依达•加里芙琳娜和丹尼尔•特里福诺夫，该音乐会随后发行了唱片。
余隆指挥过世界各地一系列知名交响乐团和歌剧院，其中包括纽约爱乐乐团、芝加哥交响乐团、费城交响乐团、洛杉矶爱乐乐团、蒙特利尔交响乐团、华盛顿国家交响乐团、辛辛那提交响乐团、巴黎管弦乐团、班贝格交响乐团、汉堡国家歌剧院、柏林广播交响乐团、莱比锡广播交响乐团、汉堡北德广播交响乐团、慕尼黑爱乐乐团、悉尼交响乐团、墨尔本交响乐团、BBC交响乐团、香港管弦乐团、东京爱乐乐团和新加坡交响乐团等。余隆多年来与以艾莉森•巴尔松、曹秀美、郎朗、马友友、米沙•麦斯基、马克西姆•文格洛夫和王羽佳为代表的众多国际著名艺术家保持频繁合作。
2008年，余隆指挥中国爱乐乐团作为首支中国乐团在梵蒂冈城保罗六世礼堂演出，教宗本笃十六世观看演出，成为令全世界瞩目的中西方文化交流盛事。2014年余隆率领中国爱乐乐团在英国BBC逍遥音乐节上演出，该音乐会的电视转播在英国收视率过百万，余隆和中国爱乐也成为了首位中国指挥和中国乐团登上这一舞台。
为了推动中国交响乐的宏观发展，余隆联合了上海交响乐团、上海音乐学院和纽约爱乐创建了中国首个乐队学院。他的前瞻性愿景着眼于向中国正在成长中的古典乐观众介绍重要的西方作品，包括瓦格纳的指环王系列、马勒系列，还有理查德•施特劳斯、本杰明•布里顿及其他作曲家作品。2014年，纽约爱乐乐团任命余隆为乐团国际顾问委员会荣誉成员。这一由12名成员组成的委员会是一个倡导者和大使们与各国个人和机构联结的关系网，以培养纽约爱乐长期在全球范围内的影响力。
余隆与广州交响乐团的初次合作是1993年，并于2003年成为该团音乐总监。任职期间余隆曾率领乐团赴欧洲和埃及巡演，在巴黎香榭丽舍剧院、卢森堡音乐学院、阿姆斯特丹音乐厅和开罗歌剧院演出。
余隆1964年出生于上海的音乐世家，自幼随外祖父、著名作曲家丁善德教授学习音乐。后求学于上海音乐学院和德国柏林高等艺术大学。1992年，余隆担任中央歌剧院首席指挥。同年，他参与创办了中国的新年音乐会系列，并连续三年担任指挥。1993年起，余隆连续五年为香港市政局指挥歌剧演出。
鉴于余隆在推动当今世界古典音乐事业发展和促进国际间文化交流方面所做的突出贡献，法国政府特别授予余隆“法兰西文学艺术骑士勋章”；2002年，德国万宝龙文化基金会向余隆颁发了年度“万宝龙卓越艺术成就奖”； 2005年，意大利总理贝鲁斯科尼向余隆颁发了“共和国骑士勋章”； 2014年，他获得象征着法国最高荣誉典属体系的荣誉军团骑士勋章；2015年，余隆荣获“全国优秀文学艺术工作者”荣誉称号，并获得由美国大西洋理事会颁发的“全球公民”奖，以及由耶鲁大学音乐学院颁发的“桑福德奖章”；2016年，余隆当选美国艺术与科学院外籍荣誉院士，并于同年被授予德意志联邦共和国十字勋章；2018年，余隆被香港演艺学院授予荣誉博士学位。
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68
NING Feng, violin
Long YU, conductor
NING Feng, violin
Established at the highest level in China, Ning Feng performs regularly in his native country with major international and local orchestras, in recital and with the Dragon Quartet which he founded in 2012. Now based in Berlin and enjoying a global career, Ning Feng has developed a reputation internationally as an artist of great lyricism and emotional transparency, displaying tremendous bravura and awe-inspiring technical accomplishment.
Recent successes for Ning Feng have included a return to Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer in Budapest and on tour to China performing Dutilleux L’arbre des songes, and on tour with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and van Zweden which included performances in Singapore, Seoul, Osaka, Sydney and Melbourne, following his critically-acclaimed European tour with the orchestra in 2015, as well as successful debuts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In recital and chamber music he performs regularly with Igor Levit, amongst others, in many of the major festivals in Germany and elsewhere, including Kissinger Sommer, Heidelberg, Moritzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schubertiade and La Jolla Music Society (California).
Highlights of Ning’s 2017/18 season include debuts with City of Birmingham Symphony with Gražinytė-Tyla playing Bruch Scottish Fantasy and Brahms Violin Concerto, with Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing Korngold, with BBC Scottish Symphony performing Bernstein’s Serenade with John Wilson and with New Jersey Symphony/Slobodeniouk. Ning also returns to Bilbao Symphony Orchestra with Giancarlo Guerrero, China Philharmonic with Isaac Stern, and Guangzhou Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic, both under the baton of Long Yu. Chamber music highlights include returns to Wigmore Hall and Schubertiade to perform the Schubert Piano Trios with Igor Levit and Daniel Müller-Schott, and two all-Schubert programmes with Nicholas Angelich and Edgar Moreau in Lucerne, as well as his debut at Moritzburg Festival and a performance at Premiere Performances Hong Kong’s 10th anniversary gala concert.
Ning Feng records for Channel Classics in the Netherlands and his latest disc, Apasionado, with Orchestra Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias and Rossen Milanov, features works by Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and Bizet/Waxman and was released in March 2016. Two further discs are due for release in the 2017/18 season: Bach’s complete solo works for violin, and the Elgar and Finzi Violin Concertos with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto.
Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Hu Kun, where he was the first student ever to be awarded 100% for his final recital. The recipient of prizes at the Hanover International, Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin International violin competitions, Ning Feng was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), and in 2006 won first prize in the International Paganini Competition.
Ning Feng plays a 1721 Stradivari violin, known as the ‘MacMillan’, on private loan, kindly arranged by Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, and plays on strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.
Long YU, conductor
Hailed as the “most powerful figure in China’s classical music scene” by The New York Times, the preeminent Chinese conductor Long Yu holds positions as the Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Principal Guest Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Yu is the Founder of the Beijing Music Festival and was its Artistic Director from 1998 to 2018. He is the Co-Director of the MISA Summer Festival in Shanghai.
In the 2019/20 season, alongside his work in China, Maestro Yu makes guest appearances across the globe, including with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Taiwan Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Summer 2019 saw Maestro Yu lead the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra on a tour of the USA and Europe, with orchestral debuts at London’s BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, Wolf Trap, and Ravinia Festival in addition to performances at the Lucerne Festival, Grafenegg Festival and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.
In June 2018, Maestro Yu signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, which began a global release and distribution partnership. As part of the Deutsche Grammophon’s 120th anniversary celebrations in 2018/19, Maestro Yu conducted a spectacular launch concert in October at the site of Beijing’s historic Imperial Ancestral Temple at the Forbidden City, alongside artists such as Aida Garifullina and Daniil Trifonov.
Maestro Yu has conducted a highly-acclaimed list of orchestras and opera houses throughout the world including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Washington DC’s National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Yu continues to collaborate frequently with many of the world’s most celebrated soloists such as Alison Balsom, Sumi Jo, Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Maxim Vengerov and Yuja Wang.
In 2008, the China Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Long Yu became the first Chinese orchestra in history to perform at the Vatican in the Paul VI Auditorium. The concert was attended by Pope Benedict XVI and marked a giant step in bringing eastern and western cultures closer together. In 2014, Maestro Yu and the China Philharmonic became the first Chinese conductor and orchestra to play the fabled BBC Proms series with a televised performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The concert was viewed by millions of people across the United Kingdom.
Leading the development of orchestral landscape in China, Maestro Yu has created the nation’s first orchestral academy as a partnership between Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Conservatory, and the New York Philharmonic. His dynamic vision is focused on introducing China’s growing audiences to key Western repertoire including Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Mahler Cycle, as well as works of Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten, and many others. In 2014, the New York Philharmonic named Maestro Yu an honorary member of their International Advisory Board. The 12-member Board serves as a network of advocates and ambassadors connecting with individuals and institutions in their home countries to cultivate the Philharmonic’s long-term reach and influence worldwide.
Maestro Yu made his debut with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in 1993 and in 2003 became Music Director of the orchestra. During his time as Music Director, Maestro Yu has embarked on European and Egyptian tours with the orchestra, performing at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Conservatoire de Luxembourg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Cairo Opera House.
Born in 1964 into a musical family in Shanghai, Maestro Yu received his early musical education from his grandfather Ding Shande, a composer of great renown, and went on to study at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin. In 1992, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Central Opera Theatre in Beijing and served as its conductor for three consecutive years. He created opera productions for The Urban Council of Hong Kong for five successive years.
Maestro Yu is a Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of the 2002 Arts Patronage Award of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation. In 2005, the Italian government honored Maestro Yu with the title of L’onorificenza di commendatore. He was awarded France
