“O Sole Mio” Concert

---Maestro Muhai Tang and 

   The Greatest Italian Heroic Tenor “Sir Giuseppe Giacomini”

Conductor：Muhai Tang

Muhai Tang-Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since the beginning of the 2006/07 season-was born in Shanghai as the son of a film director and studied at the Conservatory in his native city as well as the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Munich, where he completed his studies with a Meisterklasse-diploma in composition and conducting. In 1983 he was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct a subscription concert given by the Berlin Philharmonic. Further engagements with this prestigious orchestra were to follow, as well as guest conducting assignments with other internationally renowned orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre National de France, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 1987 Muhai Tang was appointed Artistic Director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. During his twelve-year tenure the orchestra's reputation grew considerably thanks to a series of international tours and CD recordings. Further stages in his career include the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane where he was Chief Conductor for more than ten years and which appointed Muhai Tang Honorary Conductor and Artistic Adviser at the beginning of the 2005/06 season, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders where he was Principal Conductor between 1991 and 1995, the China National Symphony Orchestra, and the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, of whose orchestra Muhai Tang was Chief Conductor between 2002 and 2006.

Muhai Tang is newly appointed Artistic Director of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra in Germany.

Tenor：Giuseppe Giacomini

【Commendatore e Cavaliere dell'Ordine di S. Gregorio Magno】
A living fossil of Italian traditional Vocal Art
“Commendatore e Cavaliere dell’Ordine di S.Gregorio Magno”
“Medaglia d”orodi Benemerito della Scuola della Cultura ed Arte”

Giuseppe Giacomini made his debut as Pinkerton in Puccinis "Madama Butterfly" in Vercelli and sang afterwards at all the important opera houses of the world. He has close relationships with the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Teatro alla Scala Milano and the Wiener Staatsoper who awarded him with the title "KammersÃnger". He was also awarded two of the most honourable decorations of Italy the title of "Commendatore e Cavaliere dell'Ordine di S. Gregorio Magno" and the "Medaglia d'oro di Benemerito della Scuola della Cultura ed Arte".

Program

Wagner Die Meistersinger prelude 9’
Tan Dun : Death and Fire, Dialoge with Paul Klee  30’

Program subject to change