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Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a first-rate ensemble, one of Asia’s best,” the Taiwan Philharmonic makes its debut appearance at the Kennedy Center presented by Washington Performing Arts. In a wide-ranging program combining new work from Taiwan with European classics, celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of cultures in Taiwan, this concert is led by noted German conductor Jun Märkl, the orchestra’s newly-appointed music director. The Taiwan Philharmonic (known as the National Symphony Orchestra in its homeland) serves as an official ambassador of Taiwanese culture and regularly commissions and performs new work by Taiwanese composers. This program opens with the U.S. premiere of just such a work - Ebbs and Flows (co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts) from Ke-Chia Chen, an international award winner, a frequent collaborator with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music.
The program then travels some 6,000 miles and more than a century back in time with German Romantic composer Max Bruch’s ever-popular Scottish Fantasy, a work for violin and orchestra inspired by Scottish folk songs. Joining the orchestra as violin soloist on the Bruch is the Taiwanese-born Avery Fisher Career Grant honoree (and much-adored Washington Performing Arts veteran) Paul Huang. Concluding the globe-trotting program are multiple works from the French classical repertoire, one of Maestro Märkl’s most celebrated specialties.
Tickets to this performance on April 19 are available online at washingtonperformingarts.org.
The Taiwan Philharmonic - known as the National Symphony Orchestra in its homeland - returns to the United States for a national tour this spring, led by new Music Director Jun Märkl. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as, 'a first-rate ensemble, one of Asia's best,' the Taiwan Philharmonic begins their American tour in April 2023 after successful tours to the country in 2016 with violinist Cho-Liang Lin and in 2018 with pianist Stephen Hough and violinist Yu-Chien Tseng.
The Taiwan Philharmonic - known as the National Symphony Orchestra in its homeland - will be one of the first international orchestra to be presented by the New York Philharmonic in David Geffen Hall in their return to the United States for a national tour this spring, led by new Music Director Jun Märkl.
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