Patrick Hines, from Cincinnati, Ohio, began playing the horn at age 12. He received
his Bachelor of Music Degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and his Master of Music Degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Before joining the Guiyang Symphony, Patrick was a member of the New World
Symphony, where he worked with world-renowned conductors and soloists such as
Michael Tilson Thomas, Mark Wigglesworth, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Emmanuel
Ax, among others. He was also part of a 60 concert tour of Star Wars in Concert
throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and has performed with the
British house music trio Dirty Vegas.
Patrick has also participated in many music festivals around the world, such as
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, International Opera
Theater in Citta della Pieve, Italy, International Orchestra Institut Attergau in
Seewalchen am Attersee, Austria, and Festival of the Youth Orchestra of the
Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Tzu-I Lee, originally from Taiwan, is a bassoonist and pianist. Ms. Lee graduated from Boston Conservatory in 2009 and holds a degree in bassoon performance; received a Master degree in bassoon performance at Boston University in 2011. She participated in numerous workshops and studied with Matthew Ruggiero and Suzanne Nelsen, and Richard Ranti. Ms. Lee has played with Newton Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Chamber Symphony Orchestra,New Bedford Philharmonic Orchestra, Video game orchestra, Boston University Symphony Orchestra, Boston University Chamber Orchestra, Boston Chamber Orchestra and New England Repertory Orchestra (NERO). She has been hired as a bassoon player for wind ensemble of Boston College and also for recording sessions with Berklee College of Music and Video Game Orchestra. Ms. Lee has served as principal bassoon for Video Game Orchestra and New England Repertory Orchestra. She is equally accomplished as a pianist; and she often accompanies and gives lessons to beginning pianists. Tzu-I Lee is pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in bassoon performance at Boston University, she is currently the associate principal bassoon at Guiyang Symphony Orchestra.
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A native of Korea, Jin-Sung Moon has been Principal Clarinetist of the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra (GYSO) in China since 2013. Prior to joining the GYSO, he was the Co-Principal Clarinetist of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra under Markand Thakar in additional to having performed as the Guest Principal Clarinetist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop.
As an active musician, Moon has participated in various musical events. He joined in the recordings of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, featuring Victoria Chiang, Isabella Lippi, David Perry, etc as soloists, released by Naxos. Moon appeared as a soloist with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Boston by winning their Concerto Competition. Other orchestra activities include the performances with the Asian Philharmonic Orchestra Academy under Maestro Myung-Whun Chung as the Principal Clarinet and Seoul Wind Ensemble as the Concertmaster. Also, Moon was invited to play in the Jeju International Wind Festival.
Equally versatile in chamber music, Moon performed in a Steinway Series Concert at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC with Bassoonist Phillip Kolker, and in Asger Hamerik Recital Series at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The collaboration with renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Gustav Meier, Myung-Whun Chung, Amit Peled, Marina Piccinini, John Corigliano and etc. enriched Moon’s musical sensibility.
Moon holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree from the Korea National University of Arts and moved to the United States to attend the Peabody Conservatory where he earned his Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma. He was a recipient of James Backas Memorial Scholarship and Cosimo C Abato Clarinet Scholarship, and was awarded Martha and William Bill Memorial Prize and James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize. He was under the tutelage of Kwang-Ho Oh, Sung-Taek Hong and Steven Barta.
He is currently Silverstein musical works in New York artist, Legere Reed artist, and D’Addario woodwinds/Rico Reed artist.
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Julian Li Yong Rui graduated from the University of Graz in 2015. While in Austria, he performed in many Orchestra concerts and gave many solo and chamber performances both in and outside of the University (Graz Symphony Orchestra, Austria Youth Orchestra and Tonkuentsler Orchestra)). In 2014 he was awarded with 'The Gifted Award' by the Mayor of Graz. He was also an award winner for Goh Soon Tioe Centenary Award and a scholarship holder of Tan Kah Khee Foundation in 2013. Julian Li took part in a solo summer course in the USA where only 5 Double Bassist will be chosen and sponsored by Pirastro to learn under a famous Double Bassist Jeff Braddetich. He has joined a concert tour around America with Vienna Concert Verein under the baton of famous French Pianist Phillippe Entremont and soloist Sebestian Knaut. In Singapore he was a guest musician for Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Lyrical Opera, Metropolitan Festival Orchestra and also as principal in many orchestras. He participated in the Asian Youth Orchestra in 2011.
Julian joined the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and became Associate Principal in 2016
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Luis Dominguez began studying the viola in his hometown, Sevilla, Spain. After attending school
there, he moved to Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to study at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with
the Professor Richard Wolfe on a scholarship awarded by the government of Spain.
During his career, he has been a member of orchestras such as the European Union Youth
Orchestra and Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, where he has worked with world
renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Enrique Mazzola. An
avid performer of chamber music, Luis has also performed in chamber music recitals in Spain,
France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and China.
Luis received a fellowship to study at the Barenboim-Said Academy, where he worked with the
principal viola players of the Staatskapelle Orchestra of Berlin, Yulia Deyneka and Felix Schwartz.
Currently, he is a member of the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 2013.
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Markus Lawrenson is from Great Britain. He has a degree in music from the Royal College of Music, London. During his studies, Markus developed a passion for orchestral playing inspired by working under conductors including Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel and Bernard Haitink. Before joining the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in 2010, he freelanced throughout the UK performing with many orchestras. His musical highlights include BBC broadcasts and recordings from the Albert Hall and performing at Buckingham Palace for Prince Charles.
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Aleksandra Denga - studied violin in Konstanty Andrzej Kulka class in Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland and graduated with a distinguished bachelor diploma followed by distinguished masters degree diploma in 2014. Her masters recital was recognised as one of three best in Poland in "artNoble 2014" competition. As a member of I, Culture Orchestra she toured Europe four times, working with conductors such as Sir Neville Mariner, Kiril Karabits, Illych Rivas and Pawel Kotla, performing in major venues in Europe. As a concertmaster of Symphonic Orchestra of Gdansk Academy of Music she toured China and recorded a CD album which won Polish Phonographic Award "Fryderyk". She attended masterclasses with Grigori Zhyslin, Eduard Grach, Wanda Wilkomirska, Yair Kless, Robert Canetti, Michael Vaiman and others. As a chamber musician she worked in a wide variety of ensembles. In 2013 her string quartet was invited for masterclasses with Apollon Musagete Quartet. She also recoreded with pop music artists, played concerts with baroque ensamble and performed with jazz musicians. From 2014 she's a member of 1st violin section of Guiyang Symphony Orchestra.
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Tenor
Luis Chapa has been praised for his “mellifluous, stupendously powerful” voice.
A native of Mexico, and a British
citizen, he studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England.
In
2015 he made his Musica Viva Hong Kong debut as Manrico in Il Trovatore, singing the opera 4 times in 3 days. He also sang
title role of Andrea Chenier with Croation
National Opera, returned to the Met for Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra, and sang Trovatore
in Genoa. He will return to Hong
Kong in 2016 as Don Jose in Carmen, and
debut in 2017 as Pinkerton in Guiyang, China. He will make his official house
debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the 2017-2018 season as Lt. Pinkerton in Butterfly...
Mr. Chapa's highlights of recent seasons were his USA debut as Don José in Carmen with Anita Rachvelishvili in the
title role at the Seattle Opera where he returned to perform Calaf in Turandot; his debut as Pollione in
Norma in Christopher Alden’s new production at Opera North in Leeds; and his
role debut as Tannh?user for the
Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Austria, directed and conducted by Gustav Kuhn, where
he also sang Erik in Der Fliegende
Holl?nder. Chapa also sang Butterfly
with Aalto Theater Essen, Trovatore (cover) with the Metropolitan
Opera , Turandot with the Polish
National Opera in Warsaw and with the Heidenheim Festival in Germany, and the title
role of Otello at Theater Freiburg,
in which he was lauded as “a heroic tenor of the first-rate” (Badische
Zeitung). Luis Chapa has appeared as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Teatro Verdi Trieste conducted by Donato Renzetti and
directed by Giulio Ciabatta; Calaf in Turandot
in Shanghai conducted by Marco Sabella; Verdi’s Requiem with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra; Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana for the Croatian
National Opera; Otello with the
Staatstheater Oldenburg. With the Metropolitan Opera he has covered the role of
Pollione in Norma.
Other engagements included: Tosca at Stadttheater Bern in
Switzerland; Il tabarro, Alvaro in La
forza del destino, Carmen, Maurizio
in Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrey in Mazeppa, all for the Croatian National
Opera; Hermann in Pique Dame in
Freiburg, Tannhauser in Karlsruhe, a
new production of Trovatore in
Wiesbaden; Aida, Laca in Jenufa, Cav and Pag in the Dom
Stufen Festival in Erfurt, Cavalleria in Mannheim; Aida in Freiburg; Viscardo in Mercadante’s Il Giuramento in Giessen; Otello
directed by Dietrich Hilsdorf in Bonn; Tosca,
Cav/Pag and Butterfly,
all directed by Christina Mielitz in Dortmund; a new Cav/Pag
in Saarbrucken, as well as Otello and
Butterfly in Braunschweig.
Luis Chapa has also appeared in the United Kingdom with Welsh National Opera
performing Cavalleria and was
subsequently invited to sing both Turiddu and Canio in the double bill, the
title role in Don Carlos, Manrico in
Il Trovatore and, with Dorset Opera
where he sang Turandot and Pagliacci.
Luis
Chapa has worked with conductors such as
Allemandi, Bosch, Callegari,
Dinic, Fisch, Frizza, Joel, Kuhn, Montanaro, Morandi, Renzetti, Soltesz, O. von Dohnányi, and stage directors
such as Copley, C. Alden, Ciabatti, Doucet, Hilsdorf, Immelmann, Lievi,
McVicar, Melitz, Montavon, Trelinski, and
Uzan. Recent concert engagements have included Cavalleria rusticana at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Verdi Gala with
the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; a Puccini Concert with the BBC Concert Orchestra and a Verdi
Gala with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Pamplona, both conducted by Carl Davis,
and Mahler's Symphony Number 8 with
the Orquesta Sinfonica of Nuevo Leon.
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Soprano Shu-ying Li
Chinese Soprano Shu-ying Li is one America’s leading Puccini Soprano, sought after for roles such as Cio-cio San in Madama Butterfly, Liu in Turandot. Following the performance of Madama Butterfly with New York City Opera, which was simulcast on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center telecast, New York Times critic acclaim “A really striking performer, offered big, clear singing with dramatic nuance as Butterfly; …was convincing and vocally impressive. Her strong, clear, expressive voice easily penetrated Puccini’s lush orchestration” The performance went on to win an Emmy Award. She also went on to win the Diva Award, as well as the Stanley Tausend Award for outstanding performer of New York City Opera.
She just had a great success to sing the tile role of Tosca in May 2016 in Japan and she will sing the title role of Turandot in Oct in Macau.
She has sung in multiple concerts as a soloist of G.Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and No. 4, as well as Beethoven’s symphony No 9. She had glowing success in her performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” with the Tokyo Metropolitan symphony.
She has performed the major roles include: Madama Butterfly as Cio-cio San, La Boheme as Mimi, Manon Lescaut as Manon, Tosca as Tosca , Turandot as Liu and Turandot ,Suor Angelica as Angelica; Don Carlo as Elisabetta, La Traviata as Violetta; Ariadne auf Naxos as Ariadne, Faust as Marguerite, L'Elisir d'amore as Adina, Le Nozze di Figaro as Contessa,Carmen as Micaela , Tea as Princess, WenJi as the title role of world premiere opera in New York and The River of Spring as Sufen of world premiere opera in Shang Hai. She has sung with many different opera companies through China to Europe and USA.
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Fang Yuan, Pianist
Fang Yuan, one of China’s leading pianists, has been praised by international critics and pianists for her outstanding performances. The great Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda said, “Fang is one of the few pianists who can bring the spirit of composers to life.” The Sueddeutsche Zeitung hailed her as “an amazing Chinese pianist who tugs at the heartstrings of the audience.”
She has performed worldwide with leading orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and many more, under the batons of leading international and Chinese conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Jia Lü, Walter Weller and Lawrence Foster.
Fang Yuan has recorded several CDs and DVDs of her favourite repertoire, that from Central Europe, including solo works by Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Her recent recording was made in 2015, when she recorded for Sony Classics with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (London). Her much praised interpretations of the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 have been released to excellent reviews, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Fang Yuan began piano studies at an early age, giving her first public concert at the age of 6. She continued her studies in Beijing at China Central Conservatory of Music, under Professor Yuan Wu. During a 7-year period of study in Germany, she worked with Gerhard Oppitz and Michael Schaefer, graduating in 2008 from the Munich Hochschule fur Musik und Theater with a double major in Piano and Chamber music, a qualification recognized as a doctoral equivalent by the Ministry of Education in China. She also attended master classes with Andras Schiff.
Early successes included winning the top prize from the Munich International Young Pianist Stage (2004). That same year, she was invited to join the Munich Pianist Club, and received recognition as the ‘Most popular pianist’. Equally at home performing chamber music, while in Germany she founded the MHM Piano Quintet and Spianato Piano Trio, with whom she has toured successfully in Europe and China. She has also performed with the outstanding cellist Jian Wang in the Sintra Festival in Portugal. She was invited to create a multimedia concert at the World Universidad Arts Festival in 2011.She played a wonderful solo recital in Carnegie Hall in 2016.
In China she is very active, performing with orchestras across the country, including the China National SO, NCPA Orchestra, Shanghai SO, Tianjin SO, Shenzhen SO, China Radio SO, Harbin SO, Lanzhou SO, Xiamen Philharmonic, Nanjing Philharmonic and many more across the country. She also has participated in the Beijing Modern Music Festival, performing several premieres of new works. Recitals and chamber music across China have also brought her success. Most recently she has presented music lectures at NCPA. She was appointed professor of piano at the China Central Conservatory of Music, at the age of 29 the youngest professor ever appointed there. A popular teacher, her students have been the recipients of many awards.
Conductors with whom she has collaborated with include Zubin Mehta、Lawrence Foster、Walter Weller、Michel Plasson、Christian Ehwald、Petr Altrichter、Conrad van Alphen、Shinik Hahm、Min Chung、Marek Sedivy、Martin Panteleev、Xiaoying Zheng, Jia Lü, Yongyan Hu, Daye Lin, and many more. Other soloists with whom she has enjoyed working with are Jian Wang, Noah Bendix-Balgley, SiqingLv, Liwei Qin, and many more. Most recently she toured China’s leading cities with the Diotima Quartet from France.
She is a B?sendorfer artist.
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Andrea Lucchesini
Trained under the guidance of Maria Tipo, Andrea Lucchesini garnered international recognition at a very young age when he won the "Dino Ciani" International Competition at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Since then he has performed throughout the world with leading orchestras, working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Dennis Russell Davies, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Gabriele Ferro, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, Gianandrea Noseda and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
In December 2015 he returned to Teatro La Scala with Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, under the baton of Franz Welser Moest
His wide-ranging activities, marked by a desire to explore music with no limitations, lead him to offer programs ranging from classical to current repertoire. In 1994 this earned him the recognition of European musicologists from which he received the Accademia Chigiana International Prize (the only Italian honoured so far). The following year he won the F. Abbiati Prize, which confirmed the appreciation of the Italian critics.
Lucchesini has made several recordings, the first few of which date back to the 1980s for EMI International (Liszt's Sonata in B minor, Beethoven's Sonata op.106 Hammerklavier and Chopin’s Sonata op.58). He then recorded Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Berg's Chamber Concerto for Teldec with the Dresden Staatskapelle conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli.
For BMG the pianist recorded Luciano Berio’s Concerto Echoing Curves, conducted by the composer himself. This marked one of the milestones of a close collaboration with Berio, with whom Lucchesini witnessed the creation of the composer’s final and challenging work for solo piano, Sonata. Lucchesini performed the world premiere of this piece in 2001 which - together with all of Berio’s other piano works - became part of a CD for AVIE Records, which met with unanimous international critical acclaim.
Equally appreciated is Lucchesini’s live recording of Beethoven’s complete cycle 32 sonatas for Stradivarius. The collective work obtained the recognition of "CD of the month" by the prestigious German magazine “Fonoforum” in August, 2004.
His most recent recording, the Schubert Impromptus made for AVIE Records, received an enthusiastic response from critics worldwide.
Soon he will be published the 5 concerts of Beethoven performed with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Antonello Manacorda
in 2016/2017 Andrea Luccheisni will appear at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Fabio Luisi, in Roma with Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Wyung Whun Chung and in Torino with the RAI Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russel Davies.
Since 1990, the pianist has dedicated his attention to chamber music as well, including in particular a close collaboration (performing and recording) with cellist Mario Brunello, and exploring various formations in chamber music repertoire.
Convinced that imparting musical knowledge to the younger generations is a moral duty, Lucchesini is passionately dedicated to teaching. He currently teaches at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where he has been artistic director from 2008 till 2016. He is frequently invited to hold masterclasses at major music institutions in Europe, such as the Musik Hochschule in Hannover and the Sommer Wasserbuger Festspiele and Musik Hochschule in Salzburg.
He serves on juries at numerous piano competitions all over the world and was named Accademico of Santa Cecilia in 2008.
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