Conductor: Marin Alsop

Chief Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra since 2012, Marin Alsop was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize by the Tanglewood Music Centre, where she was a student of Leonard Bernstein. An alumni of Yale University, she has been the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007.

 

 

In 2008, she launched OrchKids, a programme designed to promote musical education for under-privileged young people in the city. She regularly performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, amongst others. In September 2019, Alsop becomes Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

Violinist: Ning Feng

Established at the highest level in China, Ning Feng performs regularly in his native country with major international and local orchestras, in recital and with the Dragon Quartet which he founded in 2012. Now based in Berlin and enjoying a global career, NING Feng has developed a reputation internationally as an artist of great lyricism and emotional transparency, displaying tremendous bravura and awe-inspiring technical accomplishment.

 

Born in Chengdu, China, NING Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Hu Kun, where he was the first student ever to be awarded 100% for his final recital.

 

 

The recipient of prizes at the Hanover International, Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin International violin competitions, NING Feng was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), and in 2006 won first prize in the International Paganini Competition.

 

Since its first concert in 1954, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra—Osesp—has undergone major developments, to become an institution that is recognised today for its excellence. Having released over 80 CDs, Osesp has become an integral part of the culture of São Paulo and Brazil as a whole, fostering deep-rooted cultural and social transformations.

 

 

1. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, "Classical"
2. Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Violinist: NING Feng)

- Intermission -

1. Carmargo Guarnieri: Suíte Vila Rica (Excerpt)
2. Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite