George Mason University's Center for the Arts

For more than 40 years, this remarkable sextet has maintained their place at the apex of a cappella singing, delighting audiences around the world with their incomparable musicianship, charm, and wit. One of Britain’s great musical institutions, they are counted among the world’s most elite classical performers, and celebrated for their commitment to perfection in blend, balance, and intonation. “Still unmatched for their musicality and sheer ability to entertain,” lauds The Times of London. Renowned for their versatility, The King’s Singers have an impressive and diverse repertoire that encompasses Medieval music to Renaissance masterpieces, lieder to folk, to pop and jazz. “The King’s Singers have the same microscopic perfection one sometimes hears from purely instrumental chamber musicians.” (The Washington Post)

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Long Yu, conductor
Di Wu, piano

Known as “the best in the Far East,” the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra was the first orchestra of its kind in Asia and is credited with the development of Chinese symphonic music. Formed in 1879, this ensemble introduces Chinese orchestral works to audiences around the world, while bringing the finest classical music of the Western World to the Chinese people. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Long Yu, the orchestra embraced a new era of its history with the recording of music for the Grammy Award-winning film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chinese-born Di Wu, winner of the 2009 Juilliard's William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award and recipient of one of the coveted prizes at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, joins the orchestra to perform the daunting Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff. The program also includes China Air Suite by Bao Yuankai and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture.

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Alexei Kornienko, conductor
Alexander Sinchuk, piano
Julian Schwarz, cello

This marvelous orchestra was founded in 1978 with the purpose of broadcasting the expansive symphonic repertoire of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries throughout Russia for the past 30 years has toured the globe, performing exquisite works by Russian composers. Following the European music tradition, the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra does not have a permanent principal conductor; instead, Music Director Anatoli Nemudrov invites distinguished maestros from Russia and around the world to conduct the ensemble, facilitating the continuing development and mastery of the musicians. “From the first notes played by the violas, one could predict that a special music event was about to start.” (Palm Beach Daily News)   Program includes The Tsar’s Bride Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43, Variations on a Rococo Theme in A for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite for Orchestra, Op. 35.

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Lang Lang, piano
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
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Each year, 100 of the world’s finest musicians are handpicked through a rigorous auditioning process to join this extraordinary orchestra, and participate in one of Europe’s most important classical music festivals, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Taking up residence at the Festival’s Orchestra Academy, which was founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, these musicians receive an unparalleled opportunity to study and perform with some of the most important names in classical music. Under the remarkable leadership of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and in its first tour of the United States, the orchestra performs a program that includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1. Virtuoso pianist Lang Lang joins the orchestra to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The New York Times dubbed Lang Lang the “hottest artist on the classical music planet,” and the San Francisco Chronicle raved, “Lang Lang’s playing is effortlessly sparkling and dramatic, full of showmanship and excitement.”

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Julian Rachlin, violin

Sir Neville Marriner says that the small ensemble he founded in 1958 “had no intention of giving any concerts or continuing forever.” Fifty years and countless performances later, it seems they had a change of heart, and the music world has been better off for it. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields has firmly established itself as one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, and boasts more than 500 recordings, making it the most recorded chamber orchestra worldwide. “As you travel around the globe, the Academy’s name has an aura possessed by no other British orchestra,” extols The Times of London. Lithuanian virtuoso Julian Rachlin leads this celebrated orchestra, and serves as violin soloist in a program that includes Astor Piazzólla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a delightful blend of stirring violin and Tango Nuevo, evocative of the city that Piazzólla called his home.

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