NCPA May Festival 2014
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Nicola Giuliani is an acclaimed conductor. He conducted, and continues to work with several orchestras in Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, ex-USSR, Czech Republic, Slovak, USA, China, Mexico and Venezuela and made important appearances at venues, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Herkules-Saal in Munich, the Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle, the Hamburg Musikhalle, the Moscow Dom Music, the NCPA in Beijing, the Sala Verdi at the Milan Conservatorio of Music.
Mr. Giuliani colloborated with renowned soloists including Leo Nucci, Corneliu Murgu, Fiorenza Cossotto, Chris Merrit, Elena Obrazova, Katia Ricciarelli, Jose Bros, Albina Shagimuratova, Boris Petrussansky, Natalia Lomeiko, Benedetto Lupo, Oystein Baadsvik, Julian Rachlin, Martina Filijak, Feng Ning, Mengla Huang.
Has also worked several years as principal guest conductor at the Odessa Opera Theatre and Opera Nationala Romana of Timisoara, conducting performances of Norma, Carmen, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Nabucco, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, La Boheme, I Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale and Don Giovanni.
He has recorded Liszt's "Dante Simphonie" and the Ukranian premiere of Bellini's Messa di Gloria with the Kiev Radio Orchestra and Choir. With the same forces Mr. Giuliani has also made recordings of Verdi's Requiem Mass, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Orff's Carmina Burana and Mahler's 2nd Symphony, while he has conducted the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra&Choir of Kiev on a CD comprising Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and Aldo Finzi's Psalm.
Nicola Giuliani is professor at the Conservatorio of Music "Nino Rota" in Monopoli. He held masterclasses for young conductors at the Conductors Institute of the University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
Recently he conducted the Orquesta Sinfonica de Estado de Mexico, Arena di Verona Symphony Orchestra, Ruskaya Filarmonia Orchestra in Moscow, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Janacek Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Slovak State Sinfonietta, The National Philharmonic of Russia in Moscow, SudWestFalen Philharmonie, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.
He is currently Permanent Guest Conductor of the Kiev National Symphony Orchestra and Timisoara National Opera Theatre.
One of the most respected violinists in China, Huang Mengla occupies a unique position in a land brimming with astonishing talent. He began violin lessons at the age of four, was admitted to the famed Shanghai Conservatory of Music at 8, and in 2006 received his master’s degree and became the youngest ever faculty member of Shanghai Conservatory.
Huang came to international attention after taking first prize at the prestigious Premio Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy in 2002, where he also was awarded the Renato De Barbieri Memorial Award for the best interpretation of Paganini's Caprices, and the Mario Ruminelli Memorial Award.
Since then, his brilliant technique and unique interpretations have fascinated audiences throughout Asia, Europe and North America. He has performed with many of the world's finest orchestras including the Bamberg, Danish National, Norrk?ping, Singapore, Sendai, NHK, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras, the Luxembourg, Nice, Osaka, Kyoto, Japan, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, and in his native land the China National, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestras, among many others. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include names such as Neeme Jarvi, Edo de Waart, Jonathan Nott, Henrik Schaefer, Muhai Tang, Nicola Luisotti, Jahja Ling, Lu Jia, Ryusuke Numajiri, Thomas Dausgaard, and Tovey Bramwell.
In April 2007 Huang gave his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and his Boston debut at the Jordan Hall, and the following year toured both Asia and Italy tour, debuting at Dvorak Hall during the 63rd Prague Spring Festival in May. He capped the year with an invitation to perform at the grand opening gala of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Last season saw further debuts and honours, including a featured performance at the 'Paganini Festival' in Taiwan, engagements with the Hamburger Symphoniker, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (under Neeme Jarvi) and Macao Orchestra (under Jahja Ling), a Japan tour with the NHK Symphony Orchestra (under Moshe Atzmon), a China tour with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and a China tour with Dresden Staatskapelle.
In addition to the Paganini prizes, Huang was awarded the Gold Medal and Public Prize in the 2001 Sendai International Music Competition in Japan; Best Performance Prize in the 2001 Shanghai Spring International Festival, and the Second Prize in the 2000 Lipinsky and Wieniawsky International Violin Competition in Poland. In 2007 he received the first Montegrappa's Genio Creativo Award, an annual international award for young talents who represent creativity and innovation in different fields of art from different countries.
Huang Mengla is under contract as a recording artist for Universal Music. 2005 saw his debut album 'Violin Showpieces' under the Deutsche Grammophon label. His second recital album on DG, a collection of works written by violinist-composers titled 'Violinissimo,' was released in 2008.
The Slovak Sinfonietta Zilina is one of the best known professional orchestras in Eastern Europe and holds a very important position in Slovak musical culture. It was founded in 1974 as the only 'Classical period' chamber orchestra in Slovakia. Since then the orchestra has attained a prominent position in both Slovak and Czech Republics, as well as developing a considerable international reputation.
Its 34 members are graduates of the major Czech and Slovak music academies, and many of them are winners of international competitions and active both as soloists and chamber musicians. The quality of the players, together with the experience and musicianship of the founding music director and conductor Eduard Fischer (1930-1993) brought about the quick artistic growth of the orchestra.
By 1977 the orchestra attained international recognition when it was invited to the Salzburg Festival and designated the official orchestra of that prestigious festival. Soon after, followed appearances at the 'Prague Spring' and the major festivals throughout Europe, including Wiener Festwochen, Viennese 'Spring Festival', Haydn Festival, Festa Musica Pro in Italy, Festival de Cataluňa in Spain, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Mozartfest Schwetzingen, Mozart Sommer Schloss Salem, Festival van Vlaanderen, Johann Strauss Festival in Vienna, Aspekte Salzburg, Bodensee Festival in Switzerland, Festival de Bonaguil in France, Festival El Djem in Tunisia, Ankara Music Festival, Bratislava Music Festival, and many others, including as far away as the 'Festival de Manaus' in Brasil. The Slovak Sinfonietta is one of only three orchestras together with the Vienna and the Berlin Philharmonics, that are annual performers at the Vienna Music Festivals.
The Sinfonietta has played in almost all the world's great concert halls from St.Petersburg to Tokyo and altogether, the orchestra has given over 2700 concerts in European countries as well as Tunisia, Japan, Brasil, Armenia, Turkey, Canada and the U.S.A. Their American tours included performances in many major cities including Chicago, Cleveland and New York.
The Slovak Sinfonietta is in reality, a small symphony orchestra with a very broad repertoire of baroque, classical, early romantic, as well as 20th an 21st century works. The nucleus of their repertoire is the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century works. The orchestra also occasionally performs non-traditional programs, mostly for young audiences, high-lighting jazz and popular music.
The Sinfonietta's many award-winning recordings for Opus, Donau, Naxos, Brilliant Classics, Oehms Classics, Hevhetia and BMG include works of Vivaldi, Telemann, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Hummel, Verdi, Respighi, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Milhaud, Britten, Martinu, Dvorák, Janácek, Cikker, Vladimír Godár and other composers.
The Music Director of the orchestra between 1995 – 2001 was Leos Svárovsky, one of the best known and distinguished Czech conductors with whom the orchestra made numerous tours and recordings. Maestro Svarovsky developed the orchestra's exciting energetic sound that is still a hallmark of the orchestra today.
Since 2004 until 2007 the Music Director of the orchestra was the best known Slovak conductor Mr. Oliver von Dohnányi. He had been working regularly with the orchestra even before (concerts, tours, recordings), but as the Music Director he cared for the high artistic level of musicians, warm homogeneous sound of the orchestra and pure performing of each music style. Mr. Oliver von Dohnanyi was appointed again the Chief Conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta Zilina. He took up his post on March 23, 2011.
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.