We are delighted to announce the Ist concert of the “Focus on Italian Early Music”, co-organized by the Italian Institute of Culture of the Italian Embassy and the Central Conservatory of Music, in the framework of the “2019 CCOM Baroque Music Festival and Pipe Organ Week”.
Rafael Palacios
Rafael Palacios is an international musician, oboist, conductor and professor with a first class reputation in the rhetorical performance practice. He works regularly in Europe and Latin America helping professional musicians develop their performing skills, and to deliver their messages to selected audiences. For the last six years, he has been professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Dance de Paris, where he has created the Seminar on applied musical -rhetorical analysis.
Shen Fanxiu
Organist, Harpsichordist, Professor of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), China. Founder and Artistic Director of BeijingInternational Baroque Music Festival and Organ Music Week. Artistic Director ofthe Faint Scent Baroque Ensemble. Director of China Federation of Chamber Musician. M.A. from University of Music and Performing Artsin Vienna, studied harpsichord with Prof. Gordon Murray (1948-2017) and organ with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Scholz (1933-2012). She offered the courses of “Performance of Organ”and “Performance of Harpsichord”, “Harpsichord and Orchestra” of Baroque Chamber Music under CCOM and in China for the first time also. As a first performer of the organ in the National Center of the Performing Arts (NCPA), she has presented more than 40 recitals of organ in NCPA. She has also presented the recitals and concerts of organ and harpsichord in domestic cities and also in abroad. A Jury of Harpsichord Competition Gianni Gambi. She Collaborated with Valery Giegiev, Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Michael Plasson, played the organ in the concerts with Russian Malinsky Theater Orchestra, Finland Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra ,European Union Youth Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra and so on. She has published the CD of Teodoricus Pedrini (1671-1746) Sonatas for Kangxi Emperor.
Xie Haoming
Twenty-nine year old violinist Xie Haoming is winning plaudits in China and abroad for his affectionate performance and brilliant rich tone. Xie has received several prestigious awards andprizes. Xie has played as soloist with orchestras such as Shanghai PhilharmonicOrchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Nouve Musiche Orchestra, IndianapolisSymphony Orchestra, and others. He has worked with various famous conductors. Xie is also a frequent guestartist at music festivals.
Chen Yun
Concertmaster and Assistant ArtisticDirector of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Violin Professor and Director ofthe Chamber Music Division in the Orchestra Instrumental Studies Department atthe Central Conservatory of Music, and the Chairman of the China Federation of Chamber Musicians (CFCM).
The Master Ensemble of CCOM
The Master Ensemble of the Central Conservatory of Music is a professional and high-level domestic first-class chamber orchestra composed of outstanding young and middle-aged teachers from the orchestral department, secondary school and Orchestra College of the Central Conservatory of Music. The performances of the famous Chamber Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music are mainly stringed ensemble, wood wind ensemble, brass ensemble and chamber works of piano, string and wind. At the same time, it cooperates with the teaching and performing tasks of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music, and plays the music festival and new works of the Academy.
Through a series of performances from classical to modern music works, the teaching achievements of the Central Conservatory of Music are publicized, and the high-quality professional level is displayed. Since its establishment, the orchestra has successfully held the Korean Chamber Music Art Week and Master Class in China, the Chamber Music Art Week and Master Class in China and Singapore, the first International Violin Art Festival and the first Baroque Music Festival.
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