Wang Xiaoxing

Graduate student piano advisor, associate professor of Music Art School of Guizhou Univercity; Membership of Chinese Musicians Association; 

President of Society of Piano Guizhou Musicians Association; 

2002 - Concert with Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra; 

2003 - Study in Russia sent by the government after strictly evaluation of Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China; 

2005 - Performance in many cities together with Music Art School of Guizhou University; 

Many different kinds of recital of piano and chamber music concerts.

Mr. Huang Yi is an extraordinary young Chinese conductor .

Mr. Huang was admitted into the Faculty of Conducting of China’s Central Conservatory of Music (CCM) with excellent academic scores in 2006, under the instruction of Professor Yang Li. From 2007 on, Mr. Huang has been instructed by noted conductor Professor Yu Feng.

2009, he was handpicked by the world renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa as his music assistant. 

2010, Mr. Huang proudly became a recommended student for the Postgraduate Program of the Conservatory with an authorized waiver of the Entrance Exam. 

2011, he admitted to Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in first class for master study majored in conducting, following Professor Christian Ehwald and Professor Hans-Dieter Baum.

2012, conducting China Philharmonic Orchestra at the 15th Beijing Music Festival's new production of the Chinese Opera “The Savage Land.”

2013, as assistant conductor at the 16th Beijing Music Festival co-production with Salzburg Easter Festival of the “Parsifal”.

Mr. Huang has conducted the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the New Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-Juku Symphony Orchestra, the Korea Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra，the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, the Macao youth Symphony Orchestra, the China Juvenile Symphony Orchestra, etc. 

Recently, Mr. Huang has collaborated with the famous Chinese soprano Liping Zhang, baritone Chenyan Yuan, mezzo-soprano Ning Liang, tenor Jianyi Zhang, bass-baritone Shen Yang, pianist Haochen Zhang, trumpet soloist Alison Balsom, Violinist Wei Wen and guitarist Xuefei Yang. 

Principal horn of Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, Vadim Shvedchikov has completed his Honours Bachelor of Music degree in Horn Performance on Full-scholarship at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. He has studied under Jamie Hersch (Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal horn), Han Chang Chou (Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal horn) and Lin Jiang (Honk Kong Philharmonic, Principal horn). During his study in Conservatory Vadim has participated in numerous performances with different orchestras and ensembles such as Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Festival Orchestra, Boston Brass, Australian Brass Quintet, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and many more.

Before Singapore Vadim was a Principal horn of National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan and Solo horn in the 'Omnibus' Ensemble. As a soloist he gave few performances with National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan and “Turkestan” Chamber Orchestra.

He has worked both publicly and privately with many world renowned artists such as Radovan Vlatkovich, Michael Thompson, Froydis Ree Wekre, Ben Jacks, Luca Benucci, Chris Castellanos, Raimund Zell, Johannes Hinterholzer, Thomas Hauschild, Olivier Darbellay, Christian Lampert, Peter Luff and Han Xian Guang.

Remarked by Yehudi Menuhin at an early age, Zhi-Jong Wang is considered one of the most promising violinists of her generation and receiving increasing international attention.

Zhi-Jong’s recent accomplishments include a tour with Warsaw Philharmonic under Maestros Yoel Levi and Antoni Wit; her debut recital at the Lucerne Festival and a tour with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under Pascal Rophé. Engagements in 2013/14 have also taken her to Japan where she gave highly acclaimed performances with the Osaka Century Orchestra and with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Tadaaki Otaka, and earlier in the season she gave concerts in Hanoi for the first time. 

As well as performing the standard violin repertoire, Zhi-Jong is a passionate exponent of contemporary music, performing works by Gubaidulina, Weil, Lutoslawski, Schnittke, Ligeti, Sch?nberg, etc. Forth-coming premieres in the 2013/14 season include Ana Sokolovic’s Commedia dell'arte III and Nikolai Badinski’s Violin Concerto No.2. 

Following her first concert leading the orchestra from the violin with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto no. 5 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, ‘play-conducting’ has attracted Zhi-Jong’s interest and in recent seasons she has played/conducted Vivaldi/Piazzolla’s Four Seasons and several of the Mozart concerti.

Zhi-Jong is the laureate of several important competitions beginning with First Prize in the 1998 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists - the last competition held by Sir Menuhin himself and following which he invited her to perform with him. In the same year, she also won the First Prize of the China National Violin Competition, where she was the youngest first prize winner ever in this competition. In the following years Zhi-Jong Wang has distinguished herself receiving the First Prize and three special prizes including “the Youngest Finalist” at the 22nd Lipizer International Violin Competition. Her achievements have attracted world-wide attention, in 2006 the China edition of Gramophone magazine featured her in a full-page report, and musical critics acclaimed her as “a rare new star in Asia”.

Zhi-Jong appears as a soloist with various orchestras, including Orchestre national de Radio France, Orchestre national de Lille, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Turku Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorcheser Berlin, China National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony orchestras amongst others. She collaborates with musicians such as Yuri Temirkanov, Gidon Kremer, Lynn Harrel (Chamber Music Connects the World), Matthias Bamert, Okko Kamu, John Storg?rds, Christian Arming, Muhai Tang, Jia Lu, etc. 

Zhi-Jong has studied at Shanghai Conservatory of Music with the famous Chinese violinist Professor Lina Yu. Afterwards, she studied with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, where she also worked as Professor Blacher’s assistant.  She graduated in 2011 with “Konzertexamen”. 

Zhi-Jong is currently Associate Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. 

Dorian Wilson, one of Leonard Bernstein’s last students, first received international recognition at the 1989 Malko International Conducting Competition, at age 24. As a result he was asked to be the second conductor for the Moscow Philharmonic; an unprecedented appointment in Russia; making Wilson the first American guest conductor in fifteen years and, at 25 years old, the youngest conductor in their history. Later Wilson was to be the first guest conductor of the Russian National Orchestra. He continues his close associations in Russia, especially with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic where he frequently conducts, as well as with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie. He has performed in the great halls of Paris, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam, Florence, Seoul, Athens, Bucharest and St. Petersburg.  

Between 2003 and 2007 Wilson was Principal Guest Conductor, then Music Director of the Belgrade Philharmonic, culminating with tours of Scandinavia in 2006. In October 2006 Wilson conducted a 9 concert tour of Spain with the Berliner Symphoniker. Future tours include China and Spain with the St. Petersburg Symphony, as well as a massive 16 concert production of Haydn’s “The Creation” throughout Spain, celebrating the composer’s 200th anniversary. In 2007 Wilson was bestowed with the title “Permanent Guest Conductor” with the St. Petersburg Symphony.

Wilson’s experience in opera began already at age 20, when he was 3 years assistant conductor for the Seattle Opera’s production of Wagner’s “Ring”. Between 1998 and 2003 Wilson was Music Director (GMD) of Theater Vorpommern, Germany (Budget €19 million. 330 staff including 210 under Wilson’s responsibility; orchestra, soloists, choirs, ensemble and ballet). In his tenure there he conducted over 50 productions in more than 300 performances. A solid repertoire was grounded with most of the standard operas and ballets, as well as new and seldom-heard works. Other opera performances include the highly acclaimed production of Mozart’s “Cosí fan Tutte” at the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, for the Deutsche Oper Berlin production of Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” and continues his work in Berlin with Bizet’s “Carmen”, Puccini’s “Turandot” and Verdi’s “La Traviata” at Komische Oper Berlin. Wilson made his Royal Swedish Opera debut with “Nozze di Figaro” and conducted the production of “Lohengrin” at the Deutsches National Theater Weimar, where he was immediately asked to conduct the new production of “La Boheme”.

As recognized by the International Federation of Music Competitions, Wilson has won more International prizes for conducting than any other conductor. Since 1989 Wilson has won an additional 8 prizes in every conducting competition he has entered, virtually every one of the world’s major competitions: Dimtri Mitropoulos; Athens, 1996, Kiril Kondrashin; Amsterdam, 1994, Tokyo International; Tokyo, 1994, Antonio Pedrotti; Italy, 1991, Arturo Toscanini; Italy, 1990, 1992, Nicolai Malko; Copenhagen, 1989, 1992 and Jean Sibelius; Helsinki, 1995.

Always wanting to bring out the less-known masterworks, Dorian Wilson premiered many works unknown to the East German audience, including the works of Ginastera, Copland, Martin?, Piazolla, C. Koechlin, Britten, Respighi and de Falla. He also had the privilege of conducting the German premiere of Jean Sibelius’ complete penultimate opus “The Tempest” as well as the Danish premiere of Debussy’s ?Pelléas et Mélisande“ Symphony (M. Constant) as well as the Scandinavian premier of  Samuel Barber’s “Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra”. In 2005 he conducted the premiere Russian performance of Schmitt “Salome” with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In total he has also performed over 35 world-premieres.

Wilson has collaborated with some of the most distinguished soloists. While conducting the “Winner’s Concert” with the Helsinki Philharmonic (after the Sibelius Competition) he had the honor of performing what was to be Sura Cherkarsky’s last orchestra engagement before his death. He has performed with M. Rostropovich in Germany and Italy and was the featured conductor in a BBC film working with Yo-Yo Ma entitled “A Month at Tanglewood”. Other soloists include:  Thomas Zehetmair, Sol Gabetta, Gary Hoffman, Barry Douglas, Boris Berezovsky, Nelson Freire, and Nabuko Imai.

Live television broadcasts include Danish National Radio Orchestra (in the presence of Her Royal Majesty, the Queen of Denmark); Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam); Russian National Orchestra (Bolshoi Hall, Moscow); Finnish Radio Orchestra (Finlandia Hall); and a documentary of a concert tour of Norway. Numerous radio programs have also been broadcast.

Wilson’s Conservatory studies are in piano, viola, composition, art history, and conducting; from Oberlin Conservatory (Piano and Art History), Indiana University (Piano and Viola), the University of Michigan (Orchestral Conducting and Opera Coaching), and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna (Conducting). His teachers include Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Dmitri Kitaenko, Rudolph Barshai, Jorma Panula and Leonard Bernstein.

Pianist Ran Jia is regarded as a striking musician with unusual natural abilities. Tan Dun hailed her a “piano poet with dramatic skill in music making.” William Grant Nabore, the director of international Piano Academy Lake Como appraised her "Ran Jia is one of the finest pianists of her generation. She has qualities that are as rare as precious on the music scene today: poetry and artistry. She is a phenomenal pianist! Just listen to her!“

Born in China, Ms. Jia began studying piano at the age of three and made her solo debut in 1995. In May 2004, Ms. Jia played a recital at the Heluting Concert Hall at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her recital was received with great enthusiasm by the audience and the media. Oriental TV broadcasted two documentaries featuring Ms. Jia’s life as a young artist including her live performance at the Conservatory. In November 2005, Ms. Jia made her debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with her teacher, Gary Graffman, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 under Maestro Li Jian.

In 2006, Ms. Jia played a return, sold-out concert at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and a performance of two Mozart concerti with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at the Shanghai Concert Hall. She has been featured in a live concert on Chicago’s classical music station WFMT as well as a worldwide broadcast on WQXR in New York of a concert in honor of Thelonius Monk’s 90th birthday for which she was the only classical pianist invited to performan. Ms.Jiamade an acclaimed European recital debut at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in the summer of 2008 playing two Schubert sonatas. The press commented “She refines each moment, each development, each transition of a melody to the next...With marvelous impressive elegance in touch she feels her way into Schubert’s language – sometimes with dolorous sweetness, sometimes with thunderous rage, then again with a sparkling style, to then go back to a Beethovian energy. There are no fractures, no stutters, no technical hurdles – with this pianist the structures and sounds flow naturally on its own...Tremendous.” In 2009 Ms. Jia made her Vancouver Symphony Orchestra subscription debut under Maestro BramwellTovey, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K. 414. In the summer of 2010, Ms. Jia toured the southern cities of China, performing Saint Saens Concerto No. 2 with Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra under Guoyong Zhang. She made her debut at the Miami International Piano Festival in May 2010, a recital which was recorded and recently released on VAI International as a DVD. Other engagements include performances at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, debuts in DusseldorfTonhalle, MunichHerkulesssaal, and Ludwigshafen, Germany, and with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Her recent performances include concerts at the Shanghai International Piano Festival, ‘MISA’ Summer festival Shanghai, At the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea, Chicago Myra Hess Series, USA, Franz Liszt Festival at Grottammare Italy; She made her debut with Tonhalle-Orchesters Zu?rich and conductor Lionel Bringuier by replacing Yefim Bronfman, Jenaer Symphoniker and Würzburg Symphonische Orchester in Germany, and State Youth Orchestra of Armenia. She also made a recording of two Schubert sonatas under French Label Artalinna and will be released world-widely in 2015.

Ran Jia studied with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and she is currently enrolled by the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy, studying under Maestro William Nabore.

Yang Yang, born into a musical family, learned piano with Professor Qifang Li. Later, he learned conducting respectively with Professor Xin Xu and Lingfen Wu, and then was admitted to the Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music, being one of the students of Professor Feng Yu.

As one of the most active young conductors in China, Yang Yang has maintained close partnership with all domestically and internationally mainstream orchestras and opera houses. In 2009, he was involved in founding of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra. From 2009 to 2012, Yang Yang had conducted Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra for nearly 200 splendid concerts in three seasons. According to the demand of CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government to develop the culture and with Yang Yang’s planning and devotion, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra had founded a long term strategic and cooperative partnership with Germany Berlin Philharmonic and Italian Florence Opera House, and been growing fast in professionalism and internationality by introducing Musician Exchange Plan, Talents Oriented Training plan and Opera Cooperation System. In three years, Yang Yang and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra had successfully appeared in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Ravello Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Taormina Festival, Ljubljana Festival, and won great applause and high evaluation. 

Yang Yang is acting as Resident Conductor of China Philharmonic Orchestra, and Artist Director and Chief Conductor of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra.

As an important contemporary young Chinese music conductor, Wang Linlin started his career in 2004, and has been active on dominant domestic and international music arenas. In the 2012-2013 performance seasons, Wang Linlin will work with many well-known Chinese professional symphony orchestras including China National Symphony Orchestra to perform various types of symphonic works, and as a keynote guest conductor this season, he will make joint efforts with the recently established Guiyang Symphony Orchestra on closer and more diversified collaborations.

Wang Linlin  was born in Beijing, and began his music studies and demonstrated distinctive talent in music since childhood. In 1999, after graduating from his high school which was affiliated the Tsinghua University with top academic performance, Wang Linlin started his education in the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music of China, where he studied under the supervision of the renowned conductor Professor Han Zhongjie and the pedagogue Professor Xu Xin. Because of his outstanding academic records, in 2004 Wang Linlin was recommended for admission of the Graduate Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music to continue his studies in the art of conducting, and at the same time he worked as the Associate Conductor of the renowned Chinese conductor Mr. Li Xincao. During his post-graduate studies, Wang Linlin became a contracted Associate Conductor and artistic director of the chorus of the China National Symphony Orchestra, which has laid an important foundation of his career.

As a conductor with a wide range of artistic experience, Wang Linlin has successfully conducted China National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Central Opera Theatre, the China Opera and Dance Theatre, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Ethnic Orchestra, and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, Shandong Symphony Orchestra, Xiamen Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony Orchestra, Hubei Symphony Orchestra and other outstanding Symphony Orchestras. Wang Linlin is described as an “excellent conductor full of talent” and “shows a strong sense of conducting controlling” by authoritative music reviews. Wang Linlin has worked with many of China's outstanding composers on many occasions by conducting a lot of new works, among which many are debut performances and he has produced multiple audio and video works such as published and distributed CD and DVD albums. He has repeatedly invited by Beijing International Contemporary Music Festival, the Sino-Korea Modern Music Festival as an orchestra conductor to conduct new music concerts. As an orchestra conductor, Wang Linlin has visited the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, as well as Hong Kong and Macao.

Wang Linlin’s conducting experience does not only outstands in symphonic music, as an exceptional choral conductor, Wang Linlin has well collaborated with almost all professional choral groups, with their tracks covering plenty of symphonic choral works and chamber choral works from Renaissance to contemporary age. As the chief conductor of the China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and art supervisor of Beijing Baroque Chamber Choir, Wang Linlin always exquisites choral concerts dedicated for audiences from both home and abroad.

Brought up in a musically rich environment, Makoto Ozone taught himself organ at a very young age. He first appeared on TV at the age of six and performed regularly on Osaka Mainichi Broadcasting. Ozone turned his attention towards jazz piano at the age of twelve, after attending an Oscar Peterson concert. He moved to the United States in 1980 to study jazz composition and arranging at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1983, Ozone graduated at the top of his class and gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. He became the first Japanese musician to sign an exclusive contract with CBS. 

In 1983 he joined vibraphonist Gary Burton's quartet and has since toured the world extensively with them. In addition to composing for and playing with Burton, Ozone has also worked with many other top international jazz musicians including Chick Corea, Ellis Marsalis and Branford Marsalis.

In 2004, he formed the "No Name Horses" big band in Japan. The band has been performing successfully in France, Austria, US, UK, Singapore and Japan ever since. 

In recent years, Ozone has been performing works from the classical music repertoire. Under internationally renowned conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Charles Dutoit, Thomas Zehetmair, Joseph Swensen, Alexandre Rabinovitch, Arie van Beek, Francois-Xavier Roth, Tadaaki Otaka, Eiji Oue and Michiyoshi Inoue, he has played concertos by Gershwin, Bernstein, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich, in collaboration with NDR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre de chambre de Paris (former Ensemble orchestral de Paris), Orchestre d'Auvergne, Sinfonia Varsovia, NHK Symphony Orchestra , etc. 

In 2003, on a commission from the famous playwright Hisashi Inoue, Ozone performed and conducted his own composition, a piano concerto titled “Mogami.” In 2006, he was invited to the “Chopin and His Europe” International Festival in Warsaw. In 2008, Ozone performed with the NDR Sinfonieorchester at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. In 2010, Ozone released “Road to Chopin,” an album dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. His 2012 highlight is a trio tour in Japan with the prestigious jazz masters Christian McBride and Jeff "Tain" Watts. In 2013, in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of his world debut, he toured with Gary Burton in Japan for a month.

In addition to his performing career, Ozone hosts a popular jazz music radio program and writes music for live theater and TV. 

In 2014, he toured Asia with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Alan Gilbert (Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, New York/Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue).

The same year, Makoto made a jazz arrangement of Mozart’s piano concerto No. 9 “Jeunehomme” for Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, performing the work’s world premiere together in UK. He performed with NDR Radiophilharmonie in their May 2014 Subscription Concert and in July, he gave special concerts with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (“Bernstein and Gershwin”, etc). In September, Makoto toured Japan with his big band No Name Horses, and together, they released their latest CD, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the band. Furthermore, he was invited to play with Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra to play as soloist in their October Subscription Concert. 

Makoto is active all over the world, performing in such cities as Vienna, New York, Sao Paolo, etc., together with such famous jazz musicians as Gary Burton, Chick Corea ,Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Branford Marsalis, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Christian McBride, Dave Weckl, Mike Stern and others.

He is a regular guest of classical music festivals such as the Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron in France and La Folle Journee in Nantes and Japan.

In 2016 he successfully realized a “Piano duo plays “Acoustic” tour – 11 concerts with Chick Corea all over Japan, including 2 performances of Mozart’s double piano concerto with NHK Symphony Orchestra under baton of Tadaaki Otaka.

He has released many albums on Universal Music including the Grammy nominated "Virtuosi" (2002), a duet album with Gary Burton. Since his debut album”Ozone” (1984), he has released almost one album per year. His most recent recordings include “Live & Let Live - Love for Japan” (2010), is a charity project for 3.11 earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan ; “My Witch’s Blue” (2012), a Jazz trio album with Christian McBride and Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts ;“Time Thread” (2013) is his third duo album with Garly Burton ; ‘Road/ Rhapsody in Blue’ (2014), is the 10th anniversary album of Ozone feat.No Name Horses, Jazz Band. 

Ozone is currently a professor at the Kunitachi College of Music

“True, authentic virtuoso! The beast of the piano as well as the perfect musician” (Le Figaro). “ He can draw enough thunder to raise the phantom of legends”(New York Times).“Is Paik a ‘new Busoni’ ?” (Fanfare) “Paik was simply phenomenal” (Frankfurt Allgemeine)

Kun Woo Paik’s first concert was at the age of 10 performing 

the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Korean National Orchestra.

At the age of 15, Kun Woo Paik moved to New York to study 

with Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School and with Ilona 

Kabos in London. He also Studied in Italy with Guido Agosti 

and Willhelm Kempff. His international career took off following

his first New York appearance, in which he performed complete

piano works by Maurice Ravel at the Lincoln Centre, and his

orchestral debut at the Carnegie Hall.

Since then he has collaborated with conductors such as 

Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel,, Mariss Jansons, Long Yu, 

Sir.Neville Marriner, 

Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jiri Belohlavek, Vladimir Jurowsky, 

Dmitri Kitaenko, Paavo Yarvi, Ivan Fischer, and Penderecki to 

perform his new piano concerto under his direction and 

performed with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic orchestra New York Philharmonic, St.Petersburg Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony ( Last Night of the Proms 1987). 

Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra National de France, 

Berlin Symphony, Hungarian National, Oslo Philharmonic, 

Rotterdam, Rai Italia, Warsaw Philharmonic, 

and English Chamber Orchestra…..

Kun Woo Paik’s numerous recordings include Scriabin, Liszt

   (“To play Liszt for Kun Woo Paik is a mystical journey, 

a way of bringing his audience to the very heart of the 

work, to feel its fundamental pulse…..” :Brigitte Massin 

Le Matin.). Mussorgsky, complete Rachmaninov piano 

concertos for BMG. His complete Prokofiev Piano concerto 

recording received both the “Diapason d’or of the year

   in 1993” and “Nouvelle Academie du disque” award in

France. As an exclusive Decca artist, he recorded Busoni’s 

transcriptions of Bach, Faure’s piano works, which won 

all the major prizes inFrance, complete works for piano

and orchestra by Chopin with Antoni Wit and 

Warsaw Philharmonic.

In 2005, Kun Woo Paik started new project to record

all 32 Sonatas by Beethoven for Decca. “Paik’s sense

of drama, his wit, mastery of nuance, thoughtfully,

weighted, chords, and fleet-fingered Virtuosity,

all are remarkable”(The Independent)-Rob Cowan.

Recent engagements includes a recital in Carnegie Hall,

Performance in La Scala with St.Petersburg Philharmonic

 and Yuri Tomirkanoff. 

The complete Rachmaninoff concerti in St.Petersburg and

 return to New Japan Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, 

Shanghai Philharmonic, 

Bergen Philharmonic, beside recitals in France, Italy, Spain.....

Kun Woo Paik lives in Paris, and since 1991 he is Artistic

 Director of the Emerald Coast Music Festival in Dinard, 

France and was made the “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts 

et des lettres”  by the French Government in 2000.

 

Philippe Cassard has established an international reputation as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician since giving a joint recital with Christa Ludwig in Paris in 1985. The same year he was finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition and in 1988 he won the First Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition.

His concerto appearances include performances with the London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Wales, Orchestre National de France... He has worked with many conductors including Sir Neville Marriner, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Fedossejev, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Raymond Leppard, Charles Dutoit, Armin Jordan, Marek Janowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Thierry Fischer…  

His performance of the complete piano works of Debussy (four recitals in a single day) received extremely enthusiastic press and media coverage. He has presented the cycle in London Wigmore Hall, Dublin, Paris, Lisbon, Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo. His Debussy's recordings published by Decca have been awarded Grand Prix du Disque Fran?ais in 1994. 

He also visits China, Australia, South America and Canada regulary. 

Philippe plays also a huge repertoire of chamber music, and he appearead with such artists as Natalie Dessay, Angelika Kirchschlager, Wolfgang Holzmair, Cédric Pescia, Paul Meyer, David Grimal, Anne Gastinel, Matt Haimovitz, Isabelle Faust, the Ebene, Modigliani, Takacs, Auryn, Vanbrugh, Danish and Chilingirian string quartets.

His recording of Schumann’s Humoresque and Fantasiestücke op.12 was awarded Gramophone Editor’s Choice and FM Magazine ? Best Buy ? (2005). Philippe Cassard's releases (Schubert 8 Impromptus, Brahms op.116 to 119) have been received very warmly. 

Philippe joins soprano Natalie Dessay in 2012 for a Debussy Songs programme (Erato) and a Poulenc, Fauré, Duparc and Chausson recital in 2015. His recent release of a Schubert programme (Sonata D959 and four hands piano music with Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia) for La Dolce Volta, has been awarded "Choc 2014" by Classica magazine. 

Philippe Cassard has been artistic director of the festival ? Nuits Romantiques du Lac du Bourget ? (1999-2008), and since 2005, he has presented 430 live weekly programmes on France Musique Radio dedicated to piano interpretation (awarded Prix SCAM in 2007 as "Best radio programme"). He has written an essay on Schubert and a book on cinema and music links.

 

Tang Weiguo, principal clarinetist of Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, Before joining the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra in 2009, he served as principal clarinet of the EOS Orchestra and he is an active clarinetist who is a regularly deputies of the National Opera Orchestra of China.

Tang studied at the Xi’an Conservatory, where he graduated with a Bachelor Degree in the class of Prof. Chi Zheng in 2005. Following his graduation from Xi’an, He continued his studies in Beijing with Fan Lei at EOS Orchestra Academy at Central Conservatory on Artist Diploma in 2006. During his time as a student, Tang participated in masterclasses with some of the famous clarinetists in the world including Guy Dangain, Robert Walzel, Wolfgang Meyer, Michael Rusinek, Wenzel Fuchs and Andrew Simon.

Tang was one of the members of Canton International Summer Music Academy under the music director Charles Dutoit in summer 2005 studied with Michael Rusinek.

Tang has performed as a soloist with many Chinese orchestras. He has recorded a CD of the Weber Concerto No1 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Central University of Nationalities. 

Tang won number of Prize in the major Chinese Competitions, including: 1st Prize of the National Clarinet Competition in 2001, 2nd Prize of II.Young Artists Concerto Competition in 2005.