Venue：National Centre for the Performing Arts - Concert Hall
Dates： Feb. 23, 2014
Duration： approximate 120 mins intermission included
Price： VIP/600/520/460/320/240/180 RMB
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is the General Music Director of the City of Cologne and Gürzenich-Kapellmeister as well as Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. He has studied at the School of Music in Cologne under Volker Wangenheim and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Markus Stenz has also held the positions of Artistic Director of the Montepulciano Festival (1989 – 1995), Principal Conductor of the London Sinfonietta (1994 – 1998) – one of the most renowned ensembles for contemporary music. As Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1998 – 2004) he broadened his repertoire and established his career as an international conductor.
Markus Stenz conducts many of the world's leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the radio symphony orchestras of Bavaria, HR and the WDR. Since his debut as an opera conductor at La Fenice in Venice with Hans Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers he has appeared at many of the world's major opera houses and international festivals including La Scala in Milan, La Monnaie in Brussels, English National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Bregenz Festival and the Salzburg Festival.
Markus Stenz has held the position of Principal Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra (Gürzenich-Kapellmeister) since 2003. He visited China with this orchestra for its first time in 2007 with great success. In 2010, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne was invited to the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai as one of the German cultural ambassadors. Under Markus Stenz, the orchestra played on the EXPO grounds in Shanghai and also opened the Macao International Music Festival. The concerts were connected with the first ever production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Shanghai and Mozart's Don Giovanni at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Sabine Meyer Clarinet
Sabine Meyer is one of the world's most renowned instrumental soloists. It is partly due to her that the clarinet, a solo instrument previously underestimated, recaptured the attention of concert audiences. Born in Crailsheim, Germany, she studied with Otto Hermann and Hans Deinzer. As an orchestral musician she was a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and solo clarinettist at the Berlin Philharmonic.
As a soloist, Sabine Meyer has been engaged by the world's leading orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Broadcast Orchestras of Vienna, Basel, Warsaw, Prague and Budapest as well as numerous additional ensembles.
Sabine Meyer is particularly interested in the field of chamber music, where she has formed many long-lasting collaborations. She has explored a wide range of chamber repertoire with such colleagues as Heinrich Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fazil Say, Martin Helmchen, Juliane Banse, the Hagen Quartet, Tokyo String and Modigliani Quartet.
In 1983, she founded the 'Trio di Clarone', together with her husband Reiner Wehle and her brother Wolfgang Meyer. The repertoire of this ensemble includes little known compositions of Mozart and many contemporary works. In recent years, the trio’s repertoire has been further extended by such innovative projects as their appearances with the jazz clarinet soloist Michael Riessler.
In 1988 Sabine Meyer founded the 'Blaeserensemble Sabine Meyer', which gives regular concerts in Germany and abroad with repertoire ranging from classic to avant-garde.
Both as a soloist and chamber musician, Sabine Meyer is a prominent champion for contemporary music with composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Niccolo Castiglioni, Manfred Trojahn, Aribert Reimann and others dedicating works to her.
Sabine Meyer has made numerous recordings for EMI Classics. Recorded repertoire varies from pre-classical to contemporary compositions and includes all important solo concerti and chamber music pieces for clarinet. Sabine Meyer received eight 'Echo Klassik awards', and numerous other important awards, including, in 2010, the decoration 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres' from the French government. Sabine Meyer is a professor at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Luebeck since 1993.
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