2018 – 2019 Season Closing Concert“Splendid China”

26th July 2019

Conductor: Liu Sha

Suona: Tian Ding

Dizi: Tang Junqiao

Under the baton of Music Director and Principal Conductor Liu Sha, the concert will kick off with Cantonese Classics, a piece of traditional orhestral music with elements of Guangdong music. In addition, Tang Junqiao, the most influential Asian dizi performer and Professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, will perform dizi concerto The Song of Flight, while Tian Ding, principal suona player of the Macao Chinese Orchestra, will perform the Suona Concerto commissioned by the Macao Chinese Orchestra from famous composer Kuan Nai-chung. To conclude the concert, The Mohe Tribe Suite will be performed to depict the life of the ethnic groups in Northern China, allowing music fans to feel the spectacular nature and the historical glories of the country and nation as well as ending the 2018 - 2019 Season Closing Concert on a high note.

Programme Highlights

Repertoire	Solo	Composition / Arrangement
Chinese Orchestral Music Cantonese Classics (Macao Premiere)	-	Comp.: Chang Ping
Suona Concerto (Newly Commissioned Work / World Premiere)	Suona: Tian Ding	Comp.: Kuan Nai-chung
Dizi Concerto The Song of Flight	Dizi: Tang Junqiao	Comp.: Tang Jianping
Chinese Orchestral Music The Mohe Tribe Suite First Movement Warrior Second Movement Princess Third Movement Acrobatic Children Fourth Movement Wine Dance Fifth Movement Battle at Hualin Sixth Movement Tap Dance	-	Comp.: Liu Xijin