Darrell Ang's triumph at the 50th Besancon International Young Conductor's Competition, where he took all three top awards–Grand Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize–launched his international career, leading to the music directorship of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne and numerous guest conducting engagements with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Orchestre Philharmonique du Strasbourg, among others.

 

 

Darrell Ang's uncommon gift was discovered at the age of four when he began to play violin, piano and bassoon. His natural artistic curiosity had no bounds, and soon he was inspired to study composition. As a teenager, he followed his musical dream all the way to St. Petersburg where he studied conducting with Ilya Musin.

 

 

China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing. Established in March 2010, the orchestra consists of highly accomplished musicians from around the world, who perform in more than a dozen opera productions presented by its home venue each year as well as in ballets and regular orchestral concerts in its own season. With a notably busy schedule, the young ensemble has fast established itself as one of the most adventurous and dynamic orchestras in the country.

 

 

LÜ Jia took up the post of Chief Conductor in February 2012, succeeding CHEN Zuohuang, the current Conductor Laureate, NCPA’s then Artistic Director of Music as well as a founder of the orchestra. In January 2017, upon CHEN Zuohuang's retirement, LÜ Jia started serving as NCPA's Artistic Director of Music and the NCPA Orchestra's Music Director.

 

1. LÜ Jia
Ode to the Red Flag
2. HUANG Ruo
Folk songs for Orchestra
I. Flower drum song from Feng Yang
II. Love song from Kang Ding
III. The girl from the da ban city
3. AO Xiang
Mandala, dul-tson-kyil-khor, for Orchestra (2018-2019 NCPA Young Composers Programme)
4. Smetana
Die Moldau, from Má vlast

- Intermission -

1. Jean Sibelius
Finlandia, Op. 26
2. Arturo Márquez
Danzon No. 2
3. Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Galánta
4. Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39
5. Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39