Zubin Mehta Conducts NCPA Orchestra with Lang Lang

Published on Jan 5, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Friday, January 30, 2015

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Features: Maestro Zubin Mehta will be conducted the China NCPA Orchestra with one of the world's most sought after pianist Lang Lang to perform at Concert Hall of NCPA in Beijing on Friday January 30th, 2015.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Zubin Mehta
Maestro Zubin Mehta Born in Bombay, India, Zubin Mehta grew up in a musical environment. His father, Mehli Mehta, founded the Bombay Symphony and was Music Director of the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles.

Despite this musical influence, his initial field of study was in medicine. At the age of eighteen, he abandoned his medical career to attend the Academy of Music in Vienna. Seven years later, he conducted both the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics. He has rapidly become one of the world's most sought after orchestral and operatic conductors.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra appointed Mr. Mehta Music Advisor in 1969, Music Director in 1977, and Music Director for Life in 1981. Combining concerts, recordings and tours, Zubin Mehta has conducted thousands of performances on five continents with the IPO. Since 1985, he has also acted as Music Advisor and Chief Conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the summer festival in Florence, Italy. September 1998 marked his five year appointment as Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

In 1978, Maestro Mehta became the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. During his thirteen years in New York, he conducted over 1,000 concerts, thus holding the position longer than any Music Director in the Orchestra's modern history.

Lang Lang
Lang Lang is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China.

Lang Lang has given recitals and concerts in many major cities and was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and some top American orchestras. A Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals". Lang has been praised by musicians and critics around the world – the conductor Jahja Ling remarked, "Lang Lang is special because of his total mastery of the piano... He has the flair and great communicative power."

The China NCPA Orchestra
The China NCPA Orchestra is an orchestra based in Beijing, China. The orchestra gave its premiere in the spring of 2010. In 2012, Lu Jia was appointed Principal Conductor, while NCPA’s Artistic Director of Music, Maestro Chen Zuohuang is the orchestra's Conductor Laureate, and Singapore-born Joshua Kangming Tan is its Resident Conductor. The orchestra and the NCPA Chorus, founded a few months before on 9 December 2009, are parts of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The Orchestra performs in most of NCPA’s own productions of operas and ballets, together with presenting its own concert series by the name of “China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra.”