Liandu Festival for Young Musicians About the Program Mission Liandu Festival for Young Musicians is the only non-profit international summer camp of music which integrates teaching and research, dialogue between Chinese and Classical music, spread of art and experience of Chinese culture. It offers an invigorating environment for outstanding young musicians to take lessons from professional musicians and most sought-after teachers, and to participate in the youth orchestra for performances. All faculty members are renowned musicians from the most elite conservatories and orchestras around the world. Students will have opportunities for private one-on-one instructions, orchestral training, as well as participating in public master classes during the camp. Students will gain insight into Chinese culture and have the opportunity to join the music volunteer group to share music with children in mountainous countryside outside Lishui. Liandu Festival for Young Musicians is recommended for performance major students all over the world. A full scholarship, which includes room and board, will be granted for those who are admitted. This year, we welcome young talented string player to join us. Dates:August 1-14, 2016 Location:Liandu, Lishui, Zhejiang, China Activities and Performances:
All participants are eligible for private lessons. Other activities include orchestral rehearsals, sectional practices with coaches, conducting(elective), chamber music, lectures, master classes, faculty concerts, and cultural and sightseeing trips. Students will participate in outreach programs by sharing music with local children in mountainous areas. After the completion of lessons and rehearsals in the camp, the Liandu Festival orchestra is scheduled to perform five concerts, whose programs will range from classical to contemporary. Faculty Artistic Director /Conductor: Chen Lin Chen Lin is one of the most promising, talented female conductors that China has brought to the world. Chen Lin was a finalist in the Besangon International Conductors Competition in 1999, 2001 and 2003. She made her debut at the Tanglewood Music Festival, USA, in 2000, at the recommendation of Seiji Ozawa. Since 2003, Chen Lin has been participating in Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku as an associate conductor for opera performances of Die Fledermaus, La boheme and Il barbiere di Siviglia. The same year in 2003, recommended by Seiji Ozawa, Chen Lin made her successful debut in Japan by conducting the Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra at the Izumi Hall, a prestigious concert hall in Japan. In 2004, Chen Lin was appointed Professor of Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, immediately upon her graduation from the school as a Master s student of Conducting. In the following year, she was appointed Assistant Field Service Professor of Ensembles and Conducting of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and Music Director of CCM Concert Orchestra.
In 2006, she appeared at the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan and conducted operas for the Young People and Children s Concert. In 2007, she won the second prize of The 8th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors. In 2009-2010, she was invited to conduct Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. While the China National Opera House premiere of Die Fledermaus conducted by Chen Lin in 2011 is considered a milestone of her career, the Saito Kinen Orchestra debut of hers made on 6 September 2013 has marked yet another major success. Last year, Chen Lin was invited by China National Opera House again to conduct Puccini s Tosca in Beijing. Form 2014 to 2016, while the Taiwan Creation Opera Institute performances of Puccini s La Boheme and Mozart s Cosi Fan Tutte conducted by Chen Lin are instant successes. Chen Lin is currently a professor in the conducting department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Viola: Liu Yunjie (Jay Liu) Jay Liu, Associate Principal Viola of the San Francisco Symphony since 1993. He has served as Principle Viola of the San Diego Symphony. A member of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC from 1990 to 1993. He has also performed as guest Principal Viola with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Principal Viola of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1999, he has coached the viola section of the Asian Youth Orchestra, one of the most successful youth orchestras in the world. As a soloist, Mr. Liu has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He regularly gives solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the U.S. and Asia. In 1999, he performed the U.S. premiere of George Benjamin s Viola, Viola with violist Geraldine Walther. He has performed chamber music with such acclaimed artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Julia Fischer, Yefim Bronfman, Yuja Wang, and Michael Tilson Thomas.
In October 2011, he completed a residency at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music through the Fulbright Specialist Program, sponsored by the U?S. State Department and William Fulbright Foundation. A founding member of the Bridge Chamber Virtuosi. Mr. Liu was born in Shanghai and began studying violin at the age of five. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his teachers included Prof. Shen Xi-Di and Wu Fei. In 1986, he came to the United States to study with Prof. Donald McInnes and Alan De Veritch at the University of Southern California. Since 2014, he has been served as Viola Professor of San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Violin: He Wei Described by legendary violinist, Dame Camilla Wicks as "a genuine artist who has boundless imagination", violinist Wei He has given critically acclaimed recitals in such cities include Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Manchester, Oslo, Seattle, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Hawaii and San Francisco. Mr, he has collaborated in chamber music with members of Juilliard Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Francesco Trio and Peabody Trio among others. His performances have been broadcasted on public radio stations in San Francisco, Seattle, Hong Kong and Hawaii. A champion of contemporary music, Wei He co-founded Bridge Chamber Virtuosi (BCV) with principle players of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. BCV has worked with as well as made premiere recordings of new works by prominent contemporary Chinese American composers such as Chen Yi, Bright Sheng and Lei Liang. Passionate about teaching, Wei He has been a professor of violin at San Francisco Conservatory of Music since1999. Called "A Masterful Teacher" by San Francisco Examiner, students of Wei He have won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, and they have soloed with leading symphony orchestras in the US and Asia. Mr. He has given may master classes
and workshops at conservatories and festivals in the United States, Europe and Far East. As founding member of New China Trio, Wei He has won top prizes from Yellow Spring Chamber Music Competition in Ohio and Carmel Chamber Music Competition in California. New China Trio served for two years as graduate piano trio in residence at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Mr. He joined the first violin section of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra right after graduating. His major violin teachers include Chen Wen Yuan, Eugene Gratovich and Camilla Wicks. Cello: Tu Qiang Since arriving in the United States in 1987, Chinese-born Tu Qiang has established himself as a multifaceted artist much in demand. He won the San Angelo, Texas, Symphony Young Artist Competition in 1987, and the Grand Prize in the Downey Symphony Young Artist Competition of Los Angeles the following year. In 1994, he served as Principal Cellist of the Princeton Chamber Symphony. Mr. Tu joined the New York Philharmonic in November 1995. After making his solo debut at age 13 in Beijing, Mr. Tu began a twoyear engagement as soloist with one of China s major symphony orchestras. At age 17, he was awarded England s Menuhin Prize as a member of the China Youth String Quartet, and was later selected by the Chinese government to study in the Sydney Conservatory. In that capacity, he toured the country giving chamber-music and solo recitals, including a concert broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House. The culmination of his Australian tenure came when he won Sydney s Parlings Award for Music. Returning to Beijing, he was appointed, at age 20, Associate Professor of Cello at the Central Conservatory. Concurrently, he became Principal Cellist of the China Youth Symphony and concertized with the orchestra in Switzerland, West Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Great Britain. His solo album, Meditation, was distributed by the China Record Company. In the United States, Mr. Tu has appeared in Chicago, St. Louis, New York,
and other major cities. Early on, he gave a solo recital to benefit the Princeton Chamber Symphony and also performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Greater Princeton Symphony. Additional performances included the Elgar and Walton cello concertos with the Princeton Chamber Symphony. He also performed in recital with pianist Helen Huang to benefit the New Jersey Chinese community. Mr. Tu s appearances also include six recitals in Taiwan, including one at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, in addition to recitals in Japan, Hawaii, and at Weill Recital Hall in New York. His extensive chamber music appearances have included performances with the group, Elysium, at Weill Recital Hall; in Hawaii; and at the Hellenic-American Cultural Association of Colorado. He has performed at chamber music festivals in Maine, played cello works and chamber music in Korea, and has appeared with Lukas Foss in chamber works at Weill Recital Hall and at the Stephanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts in Wisconsin. Mr. Tu has performed on a live broadcast on WNYC, and appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles chamber music series at Merkin Concert Hall. Mr. Tu earned his bachelor of arts from China s Central Conservatory. In 1990, he received his master s degree from Rutgers University, where he studied with Bernard Greenhouse. He is an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West, now a partner in the New York Philharmonic Global Academy. Other past teachers include Zara Nelsova, Geoffrey Rutkowski, Lois Simpson, Paul Tortelier, and Zeguang Tu. Double Bass: Hou Junxia Hou Junxia, Professor of Double Bass, Director of the Faculty of Orchestral Instruments Studies and Orchestral Academy at China Conservatory, President of Chinese Society of Double Bassists, Executive Director of China Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, Founder and Artistic Director of Beijing International Double Bass Festival.He also holds the guest professorship at Central Conservatory of Music, National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, and
People s Liberation Army Academy of Arts, etc.professor Hou has been invited to be the jury member of many major international double bass competitions, such as ISB Double Bass Competition (U.S.), International J.M. Sperger Double Bass Competition (Germany), and World Double Bass Festival-International Double Bass Competition (Poland). With his guidance, many of his students have won top prizes in major national and international competitions. After graduation, most of his students take positions in major orchestras in China, including China National Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, China National Opera House, Beijing Symphony Orchestra and China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater, etc. Some of his students are faculty members in conservatories, music colleges and universities, such as Tianjin Conservatory, Xi an Conservatory and Shanghai Conservatory. As the Executive Director, Professor Hou led the China Youth Philharmonic Orchestra for successful concert tours in Europe, Asia and America, such as the Salzburg Festival in 2010, and the concert in Carnegie Hall in 2012. Professor Hou is often invited to give concerts and master-classes in many countries, such as U.S.A, Germany, Austria, Czech, Poland, Japan and Korea. Professor Hou is also the author of many academic publications and teaching syllabus for double bass, some of which have been awarded national prizes and supported by government funding. As the founder and Artistic Director of Beijing International Double Bass Festival, Professor Hou has invited numerous world renowned double bass performers, pedagogists and instrument-makers to give concerts, lectures, and seminars on the topic of double bass playing, teaching, instrument making, repairing and maintenance during the Festival. This Festival has made a great achievement and become one of the major international double bass festivals. Violin: Kyung Sun Lee Violinist Kyung Sun Lee captured sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikowsky
Competition, a bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elizabeth Competition, first prizes of the Washington and D'Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes. Subsequent to winning these awards she has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity as a performer. She has received high critical acclaim: Exceptional tonal suavity and expressive intensity in equal measure, commented The Strad. Godard's Concerto Romantique could not have had a more outstanding soloist than Kyung Sun Lee, proclaimed Harris Goldsmith in the New York Concert Review. Fluidity and grace; pathos and emotion, raved the Palm Beach Post. Lee is the most musical, the most intelligent soloist to have played with the orchestra in quite a while, maintained the Tuscaloosa News. Penetrating clarity, a strong sense of style and a technical supremacy that conquered all difficulties with unruffled ease, announced the Miami Herald. Beyond superb execution, she conveyed [Vieuxtemps's Concerto no. 5]'s particular Romanticism expertly, remarked Dennis Rooney in The Strad. In addition to her busy schedule as soloist and chamber musician, Lee is an accomplished teacher and clinician. After becoming Assistant Professor of Violin at the Oberlin Conservatory in the fall of 2001, then Associate Professor at the University of Houston in the fall of 2006, she finally became Associate Professor at Seoul National University in 2009. She taught for two summers at the Aspen Music Festival, and has also been involved with the Seattle and the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festivals, the Texas Music Festival, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea. Lee is a former member of the acclaimed KumHo/Asiana String Quartet, with whom she toured worldwide. In recent years she has also been in demand as a judge of violin competitions including the International IsangYun Competition, Seoul International Competition and the Corpus Christi International Competition. Kyung Sun Lee studied at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory, and Juilliard. Her teachers have included Nam Yun Kim, Sylvia Rosenberg,
Robert Mann, Dorothy Delay, and Hyo Kang. She plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin dating from 1723. Pipa: Liu Dehai Liu Dehai, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of China Conservatory of Music, is one of the most distinguished national musicians in contemporary China. Over the years, he has given performance in over 30 countries and regions. Late state leaders, like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Song Qingling, highly appreciated his performance. Many foreign heads of state also praised the excellence of Chinese music after enjoying his superb performance skills. Since 1979, cooperating with the conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he has performed the Pipa concerto Little Sisters of the Grassland and other music three times, which were recorded in an album. Because of his successful cooperation with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (Konzerthausorchester Berlin) since 1981, he was praised as the first musician of Chinese national music to cooperate with the western symphony orchestra, writing a brilliant chapter in promoting Chinese music culture. Apart from developing and innovating skills of playing the Pipa, he also composed dozens of pieces of music, including pieces about life, countryside and religion, which embarked on a new direction of the Chinese lute art both in terms of subjects and skills. This exerted great influence on and brought about innovation in national music circles. As a great educator, Mr. Liu has been insisting on practicing the educational thought of excellence in both performing skills and moral integrity for more than fifty years, training his students into outstanding national musicians active in the music arena both at home and abroad. Guqin: Chen Leiji Chen Leiji began studying guqin at the age of nine, after the Cultural Revolution that had outlawed this aristocratic instrument. As one of the very few soloists of his generation, the first guqin graduate of the Higher Conservatory of Music, and the first student of guqin master Gong Yi, for
thirteen years Chen was able to maintain contact through his teacher with all the different schools of guqin playing and thus occupy a key position in the great guqin tradition. In addition to his attachment to the classical repertoire of this instrument, representing an erudite strand of Chinese culture, Chen Leiji has also contributed to creating several contemporary works, including Liu Yuan s Youlan, with the Central Symphony Orchestra, and Luo Zhongrong s Concerto for guqin, with the Amsterdam Nieuw Ensemble. Chen Qigang also wrote his Concerto for an instrument of silence (1996) for him, again with the Nieuw Ensemble. These superb works all bear witness to the budding contemporary renaissance of this ancient instrument. Chen Leiji also holds a Graduate Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from the Rheims Conservatory. His in-depth study of two such different musical traditions Chinese and Western place him at a virtual point of confluence, taking shape throughout his personal life itinerary, between two totally divergent musical cultures and interpretations of music, symbolising our modern destiny to establish a unity in the world even as we grow profoundly conscious of the treasures of its diversity. Since his return to the country of his birth a few years ago, Chen Leiji has been devoting his time to teaching orchestral conducting at the Chinese Conservatory of Music and touring the world as an outstanding guqin soloist. He was chosen to play the Lost Sound of Antiquity, the most famous of all guqin pieces, at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - a performance that marked the true rebirth of this instrument and its community of adepts, as well as the official recognition of his artistic talent. How to apply Advanced musical training is a prerequisite. Applicants born before 2000 may apply. All the applicants need to send the application materials via email, and will be notified of their audition results after the audition process is complete.
Applications are accepted between March 31st, 2016 and May 30th, 2016. Please send application materials to liandufestival@sina.com. Materials for application 1. Application form (see Annex 1) 2. Photocopy of ID card or passport 3. Certificate photo 4. CV 5. Video of your performance (See Contents below for more details) 6. Application package including everything mentioned above should be sent to the official E-mail address: liandufestival@sina.com (the package should be in an.rar or.zip file) Application period By May 30, 2016 Contents of Audition: 1. 1st movement (exposition) of a concerto in Romantic Period 2. Two J.S.Bach's pieces in different tempos:for Violin, Six sonatas snd partitas for unaccompanied violin; For Cello and Viola, Six suites for unaccompanied violoncello (Viola). 3. An orchestral excerpt (in appendix 2) Serenade For Strings, I, Tchaikovsky Violin: from A to M Viola: from A to E, last 10 bars Cello: from B to C D. Bass: from the beginning to bar 15, D to F Uploading (select any one among the following three options): 1.Overseas students should upload the video to YouTube and send the link (please inform the password, if there is one) to the official E-mail 2.Chinese students should upload the video to Youku or Tudou and send the link (please inform the password, if there is one) to the official E-mail
3.Send the MP4 clip of your video to the official E-mail address Tuition Participants admitted will be granted with a full scholarship, including all tuition fees and accommodation. Contact information For more information about this Program, please send E-mail to the official E- mail address: liandufestival@sina.com
Attachment 1. Application Form Name Surname Given name Gender Nationality Male Female Date of birth MM/DD/YY Passport No. Contact Address e- Mail Contact/ Guardian Contact Number Relationship Country code e.g. parents Contact Address Instrument Educational background Including the major title: Contact Mobile No. Instructor Name Photograph Orchestral experience
Attachment 2. Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C, Op.48-1.Pezzo in forma di Sonatina Violin
Viola
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