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Enjoy delicacy and a premiere with violinist LIAO Haoyue
June 14, 2022 (Guangzhou, China) - On 19 June 2022, violinist LIAO Haoyue will present a matinee concert at the Guangzhou Opera House's experimental theatre. Guests of the concert will be welcomed with delicacies including refreshments and a drink, a unique opportunity to explore the architectural treasure left by Zaha Hadid in Guangzhou, as well as access to a long overdue world premiere.
The chamber music concert is presented by Guangzhou Opera House as part of its matinee series. Joined by some of her musician friends such as pianists Pauline Hwang and XIE Jiayi, cellist LIU Weipeng, LIAO will introduce music that pays tribute to Chinese violin maverick MA Sicong on the occasion of his 110th anniversary and Argentinian music giant Astor Piazzolla in a carefully curated programme. The two halves of the matinee are intended to serve as a bridge by connecting Oriental violin classics with their contemporaries from the farthest side of the Earth on the same stage.
The first half is dedicated to Cantonese composers and is a chronicle survey of Cantonese solo violin repertoire. MA Sicong's Song of Nostalgia was composed in the 1930s with inspirations from the composer's trip to Inner Mongolia while parts of China were still battlefields. Homeless and restless, MA wrote this piece originally as a slow movement from a suite during his extensive tour in exile as a poignant reminder of a war tormented nation. MA's ashes were brought back to China from the U.S. eventually and, accompanied by this piece, laid to rest in a memorial site by Luhu Park of Guangzhou in 2007.
Living composers are equally strongly represented. CAO Guangping, a prolific composer of 12 symphonies, a number of cantatas and professor at the Xinghai Concert Hall of Guangzhou, visited Shangrila of Yunnan province decades ago. His Shangrila for violin and piano was composed in 2003, a vivid evocation of the Tibetan people and their ethnic musical tradition. The piece has never been performed until a meeting between CAO and LIAO which proved fruitful. The result is a long overdue performance of CAO's Shangrila to be premiered by LIAO almost twenty years since the piece came into existence.
The second half features primarily tango music by Astor Piazzolla that offers an enticing contrast to the first half. As her signature, LIAO Haoyue aims to introduce the music in words before she plays it, a welcoming gesture to make classical music more appealing.
Programme
MA Sicong
MA Sicong
Song of Nostalgia
Dance Music of the North of the Great Wall
YANG Baozhi
Five Western Ethnic Songs
Rondo of Lantern at Xiushan Mountain
Rondo of Lantern at Xiushan Mountain
CAO Guangping
Shangrila
HE Dong
HE Dong
The LIs Off To Beijing
- intermission -
- intermission -
Astor Piazzolla
History of the Tango - Bordel 1900, 1930, 1960
Summer from Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
LIAO Haoyue, violin
LIAO Haoyue, violin
LIU Weipeng, cello
Pauline Hwang and XIE Jiayi, piano
LIAO Haoyue, violinist
M.Mag LIAO Haoyue is a forerunner of the benevolence and promulgation of classical music in China. For over a decade she has performed frequently on major stages in recitals, or with leading orchestras and ensembles. Those concerts are characterised by her pre-concert or in-concert talks, making music more accessible to a larger public domain.
Before finishing her postgraduate study at Universität Mozarteum and Kunst-Universität Graz in Austria, she was already featured in the TRENTA FORUM, a festival at Musikverein in Vienna highlighting young and promising instrumentalists hosted by members of Wiener Philharmoniker in 2007. In 2008-09 she joined the orchestra as a guest member playing in the pit at Salzburger Festspiele. A Moritzburg Festival's audience favourite musician in 2011, LIAO toured the world extensively in the U.S., Israel, Cyprus, Spain, Austria and Germany, etc, working with personalities like Jordi Savall, Misha Maisky and Julian Rachlin.
Upon return to China, she was appointed principal second violin of Guiyang Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 she founded LHY Music Studio, setting out to foster the young and help the poor with music tutoring. The charitable initiative she steers and fundraises since 2019 at a middle school in Congjiang county of Guizhou province has provided hundreds of students living in extreme poverty with aspirations for higher education, free access to music mentorship and violins. A couple of students benefited from the project and made their ways to key colleges.
She was elected VP of Guiyang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese in April 2022.
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Entrance starting from 13:30
Performance at 15:00
Sunday | June 19th, 2022
Guangzhou Opera House
1 Zhujiang W Rd, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Tickets are available at the box office of Guangzhou Opera House and its affiliated ticketing services at RMB 150 yuan (RMB 120 yuan from GOH subscription), complimentary refreshments and a drink included.
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