Muhai Tang conducts the Zhejiang Symphony at the Palau de les Arts
15.01.2013
– Muhai Tang will conduct the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra on Friday, January 18, at 8:00 p.m. at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
The rising Eastern ensemble offers at the Valencian arts center a program comprised of works by Chinese composers from the 20th and 21st centuries, along with Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony .
The Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra arrives in Valencia after an intense tour of Europe, with performances in Berlin, Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Prague, Turin, Verona and Vienna.
Muhai Tang, who began his international career in 1983 when Herbert von Karajan invited him to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic, has worked with the leading ensembles on the European continent, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Dresden Staatskapelle, as well as other international ensembles such as the Sydney and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras.
In recent years he has also conducted orchestras such as the NDR Hamburg, the Dresden, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Oslo, St. Petersburg and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestras, the Bilbao, Flanders, Japan's NHK, Tenerife and Milan's Verdi Symphony Orchestras, and the Lille National Orchestra.
Maestro Tang is currently the principal conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic and principal guest conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, as well as honorary conductor of the China Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra.
