Fascination of Percussion ▏Percussion Duet DoubleBeats China Tour

Percussion Duet DoubleBeats was formed in 2012 in Berlin by renowned Chinese young percussionist Ni Fan (2013 German Montblanc Young Musician Award winner) and German contemporary percussionist Lukas Böhm. The unique and gorgeous playing style has made the audience crazy and the duet group has quickly become one of the hottest and successful percussion group in the world.

The two percussionists currently are studying for a master degree in Chamber Music major in Hochschule fuer Musik "HannsEisler" Berlin, Germany, learning from Li Biao (world-renowned percussionist), Reina Segus (chief timpani of Berliner Philharmoniker) and Franz (chief percussionist of Berliner Philharmoniker) and other professors.

In early 2012, they made their first performance at Konzerthaus Berlin and collaborated with Professor Sean Edward to perform concerto written by Jacob ter Veldhuis for percussion duet. Their outstanding performance made them soon stand on the Croatian International Percussion Arts Week.

Since the second half year of 2012, the group has traveled around the world with their fascinating music. They have attended all kinds of music festivals and concerts including Tavaszi Music Festival in Budapest, Hungary. 

The programs that DoubleBeats play including the classic and modern ones, such as Bach, Argentina Piazzolla and modern music’s leader Bela Bartok. The group is good at adaptation with new ideas, and use different kinds of instruments in their performance.

Aside from performing on stage, they are also admitted to music education and promotion. As the group who gained the Menuhin “ Live Music Now” Foundation’s scholarship, they participated frequently in teenage projects, so as to inspire the youth musicians.


Tour Schedule
August 22, 2018 National Center of Performing Arts
August 25, 2018 Guangzhou Opera House

German Classic ▏Concert of Konzerthausorchester Berlin

- The most German style of play, the most professional playing enthusiasm
- Gorgeous dignified modern and unique style of art
- It’s called the sound of nature by the masters
- The pillar orchestra in German classical music industry 

Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 in East Berlin, Germany, formerly known as the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which is a strong competitor against Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in West Berlin. In 2006, the orchestra was renamed as Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Now, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin is the sister orchestra with Berlin Chamber Orchestra, an important art group in Germany and one of the major orchestras in Berlin. Konzerthausorchester Berlin has been a regional symphony orchestra leader In the last 50 years, which holds up to 220 fixed concerts each year, creating the annual concert records in Germany.

Historically, the orchestra has had long-term cooperation with famous German conductor Kurt Sanderling and Israeli conductor Eliahu Inbal. Many world-class music stars including Domingo, Pavarotti and Carreras have hold outdoor concert with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, which achieved great repercussions. Konzerthausorchester Berlin is often based in the Konzerthaus Berlin, one of Germany's top art galleries designed by the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Guest Conductor - Lawrence Foster

Lawrence Foster, a world-famous conducting master, was born in San Francisco in 1941 and became a conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, also an assistant to Zubin Mehta of the San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra. In nearly 50 years of conducting career, he has performed with many world-class orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Houston Symphony, and the National Orchestra of Monte-Carlo. Since September 2012, Foster has been the music director of Opéra municipal de Marseille.

Soloist - Ning Feng

Ning Feng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in 1981, studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music since 1992, and was admitted to the Royal College of Music in London with full scholarship to follow Professor Hu Kun, a famous Chinese violinist and educator. In early 1999, Ning Feng was fortunate to perform in the Bach Works master class in front of Yehudi Menuhin, and was fully affirmed and appreciated. Meinuin also wrote a recommendation letter for Ning Feng before his death, praising his musical talent and bright future. At the end of Ning Feng’s studies in 2003, he became the first student who graduated with full marks in the nearly two hundread-year history of the Royal College of Music. After that, Ning Feng was admitted to the Hochschule fuer Musik "HannsEisler" Berlin.

2018 Fall, German Classic with celebrated conductor and violinist, you should not miss it !

Tour schedule : Wuhan - Shanghai - Jinan - Weifang - Beijing

Ballet Festival｜Roberto Bolle and Friends CHINA,Autumm 2018

 Abaut Italian ballet prince Roberto Bolle 

Roberto Bolle  is an Italian danseur. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.

In December 2005 at Covent Garden Opera House in London he performed Frederick Ashton’s production of Sylvia, broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day.

Bolle danced at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin where he performed a solo created for him by Enzo Cosimi. The ceremony was broadcast worldwide and seen by 2.5 billion people.

In 2007 he performed for the first time with ABT as a guest artist, on the occasion of Alessandra Ferri’s farewell performance.

For the 2009 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Bolle performed as a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre: the first time that a male Italian dancer joined the company as a principal. The "Dance Listings" in the New York Times on 26 June 2009 described Bolle as "utterly gorgeous (in both looks and dance)." Bolle’s Spring 2010 American Ballet Theatre performances include The Lady of the Camellias, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, and Romeo and Juliet.

Infinity ▏​Gauthier Dance Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is a young, dynamic company of 16 highly individual, versatile dancers, directed by the dancer, choreographer and musician Eric Gauthier. The Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart presents contemporary dance by Gauthier and internationally renowned choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Itzik Galili, Paul Lightfoot/Sol León and Hans van Manen. Set up in October 2007, Gauthier Dance established itself in the German dance scene with record speed and has become an international brand. During the first years, the company´s acclaim was based on their original, humorous bills that also attracted a big young audience. Today, the programme is every bit as accessible but offers a wider choice of styles and moods. In summer 2010, Gauthier Dance saw the successful world première of their first full-length piece, Christian Spuck´s POPPEA//POPPEA, which was included among the 10 top productions of the season 2009/10 by the British specialist magazine Dance Europe and earned Spuck the German Theatre Prize THE FAUST 2011. Two years later, the „German Academy Award“ once again went to a member of Gauthier Dance: Anna Süheyla Harms won THE FAUST 2013 as Best Performer Dance. The company has a reputation for breaking new ground. Following a stereoscopic version of Gauthier´s choreography Threesome which was also screened as a supporting film to Wim Wenders´ PINA and seen by more than 50,000 German arthouse cinemagoers, Gauthier Dance tackled an even more ambitious project: POPPEA//POPPEA became the first full-length dance piece to be turned into a 3D film and was broadcast on the French-German television channel arte in February 2014.
 
Parallel to its growing fame, Gauthier Dance has intensified collaborations with international star choreographers. Following the rave success of Mauro Bigonzetti´s narrative ballet Alice the next full-length piece saw its world première in June 2016: Marco Goecke´s exploration of the myth NIJINSKI – a ballet which was equally celebrated by critics and audiences and is widely regarded as another milestone in the company´s development. Awards include a Premio Danza&Danza 2016 for Marco Goecke as Best Choreographer and for Rosario Guerra as Dancer of the Year plus a particularly gratifying distinction: In the Yearbook 2017, the readers of the German specialist magazine tanz voted NIJINSKI the first winner in the new category Favourite of the Year. In fact, there seems to be no lack of special occasions for Gauthier Dance. In March 2017, the company celebrated its first ten years with the anniversary programme BIG FAT TEN. The schedule for the season 2017/18 is just as stacked with highlights. On top of three premières at Theaterhaus Stuttgart, the company will tour to Toronto, New York, Tel Aviv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Monaco and Berlin, as well as to seven cities in Switzerland for the 30th anniversary edition of the dance festival steps.
 
Besides well over 100 „normal“ shows per year Gauthier Dance undertakes an extensive Educational and Community Outreach programme, the first of its kind in Germany: Gauthier Dance Mobile. With a specially tailored repertory of works which can be presented in small spaces, the pioneering format brings contemporary dance to people who cannot come to the theatre themselves. Gauthier Dance Mobile performs at youth centres, hospitals or at old people´s homes.
 
The Theaterhaus Stuttgart, which opened its doors in 1985, is a unique cultural center which presents theatre, music, dance, cabaret, comedy, literature, political discussions and more on a total of four stages. The Theaterhaus has a long tradition of producing and presenting dance theatre; best known are the collaborations between Marcia Haydée and Ismail Ivo. The Theaterhaus has also traditionally been and continues to be, a venue for the free-lance dance scene in Stuttgart. Gauthier Dance is the First Resident Contemporary Dance Company in Stuttgart.
 
A warm thank you to our premium partner ElringKlinger AG, the sponsors: Fashion- und Lifestylehaus Breuninger in Stuttgart, Luisa Cerano/Sporlastic as well as to the supporters: First Friends and Friends of Gauthier Dance, Stiftung Herbert Metzger und Anneliese Metzger-Nord.
Theaterhaus Stuttgart is sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Bank, State Baden-Württemberg and State Capital Stuttgart.

HOLLAND BAROQUE & WU WEI

Holland Baroque likes to share the stage with playful, inspiring musicians. Composer and improviser Wu Wei is such a musician. Wu Wei can do everything with the sheng, the Chinese mouth organ that represents three thousand years of Chinese music culture and that is a miracle of harmony, melody and rhythmic possibilities.
 
Why does a baroque orchestra meet a sheng player?

The actual encounter of orchestra and musical guest always takes place in the field of a shared sound world. Holland Baroque and Wu Wei connect the beautiful sheng sound with baroque music and hear that old traditions and exotic instruments can produce new stories.

The result is a concert of new and old compositions that tells one thing in particular: Music is alive and continues to be so when creative spirits leap upon music that still has a huge power of expressiveness today. Whether that is music from Western or Eastern cultures, composed or improvised music is no longer relevant.
 
"Sheng means hope and hope is life," says Wu Wei. He is a modern musician who carries out an ancient tradition. It’s no coincidence that on Wu Wei’s sheng case a sticker is stuck with his motto: "Gutes bleibt, neues kommt”. A Motto that Holland Baroque can relate to very wel. Cherish what needs to be preserved and be open to new sounds. Because Holland Baroque thinks old music does not exist. The music is only finished when you play it.
 
 'Giving old notes new life, that is the holy grail.' T. Steenbrink, Holland Baroque

Night of Percussion ▏Li Biao Percussion Group 2019 Great China Tour

Li Biao

Century Dancer of Our Time ▏Gala of the World’s Ballet Stars

Vladimir Malakhov is one of the most well-known and artistic dignitaries in today's dancing world. When the Staatsballett Berlin was founded in 2004, he became the artistic director and served as the chief solo dancer at the same time. Under the guidance of Malakhov, the dance troupe cultivated world-class dancers such as Polina Semionova, Iana Salenko, and Shoko Nakamura. Malakhov also directed a series of famous plays for Staatsballett Berlin including Sleeping Beauty, The Dancer, and Cinderella, etc. making the Staatsballett Berlin the largest and strongest ballet troupe and the largest art group in Germany. Malakhov is now Honorary Chairman of the European Dance Association, and was recognized as "century dancer" by media. Malakhov's repertoires include a wide range of classical ballet and modern dance pieces. His beautiful performance won good reputation all over the world.

In the coming performing seasons, "Century Dancer" Vladimir Malakhov will join hands with the top European ballet dancers from the Staatsballett Berlin, the Semperoper Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, together bring a wonderful ballet Gala to the audience.

Dancers Overview
² Century Dancer - Vladimir Malakhov
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Iana Salenko
² Chief Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Marian Walter
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Soraya Bruno
² Solo Dancer of Staatsballett Berlin - Martin Buczkó
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Anna Merkulova
² Chief Dancer of Semperoper Ballet - Istvan Simon
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Dorothee Gilbert
² Chief Dancer of Paris of Ballet - Alessio Carbone
 

The Romance of France ▏World Famous Flute Soloist Julien Beaudiment Solo Concert

 
“Julien Beaudiment is one of the most excellent flute soloists I know, he perfectly represents the great French flute conservatories.” -- Famous Conductor Christoph Eschenbach

After holding the position of principal flute of the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, Julien Beaudiment is today principal flute of the Orchestre de l'Opera National de Lyon and professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. He has also held the same position with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Great Britain. It is currently the only french musician to have held this position in a British Orchestra and one of the too few to do the same in an American Orchestra.
  
Originally from La Rochelle and Bordeaux, he crossed the English channel at the age of 18 to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paul Edmund-Davies and Averil Williams. He subsequently entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de music de Paris, where he won the first prize of flute and chamber music in the class of Sophie Cherrier, Vincent Lucas, and Michel Moraguès for chamber music.
 
His solo career is developing rapidly out of the Conservatoire de Paris. He plays as a soloist at major international concert halls as well as at renowned festivals, such as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Khumo Art Hall and the Art Center in Seoul, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and the Tokyo Casals Hall, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Ljubljana philharmonic hall, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels , the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Bilbao Opera, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, the Chicago Symphony Center, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, accompanied by the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre Symphonique de Cannes, the Stuttgart Kammerorchester, the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie am Rhein, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Gangnam Philharmonic, the Chicago Philharmonic...
 
From the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, passing threw the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Royal Albert Hall in London, he plays in the most beautiful halls in the world with the Orchestra Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Estonian Festival, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the Hallé Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg, under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, Esa Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Paavo Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart , Vladimir Jurovski, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pido, Robin Ticciati, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Zacharias, James Conlon, Sir Roger Norrington, William Christie, Philippe Jordan, Ivan Fischer, Louis Langrée, Thierry Fischer, Emmanuel Krivine, Manfred Honeck, Thomas Hengelbrocht, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leonard Slatkin, Susanna Maliki... and musicians such as Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Itzhak Perlman, as well as the composers John Adams, Peter Eötvös, Matthias Pintscher , and the Hollywood star John Williams.
 
A Chamber music enthusiast, he is a prize winner of the international competition of Barcelona for duo sonata with the pianist Laetitia Bougnol. He also performs next to musicians such as Lawrence Foster, Emil Tabakov, Karl Heinz Steffens, Jonathan Stockhammer, Enrico Onofri of Il Giardino Armonico, Stefano Montanari, Antal Szallai, Eric Crambe, Guillaume Sutre, Sarah Nemtanu, Raphaël Oleg, Françoise Gnéri, Tasso Adamopoulos, Hartmut Rhode, Adrien Boisseau, Fabrice Pierre, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Anaïs Gaudemard, Christine Icart, Isabelle Moretti, Kyung Hee Sutre, Lluis Claret, Richard Hardwood , Jérôme Pernoo, Raphael Christian, Hervé Nkaoua, Florent Boffard Simon Zain, Didier Puntos, Roberte Mamou, Denis Pascal, Célimène Daudet, Ishiro Nodaira, Jean-François Zygel, Oliver Triendl, Ariane Jacob, the jazzman Antoine Hervé, the members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio, the Psophos and Diotima quartets, the flutists Emmanuel Pahud, Philippe Bernold, Michel Moraguès, Sophie Cherrier, Maxence Larrieu and Rachel Brown.
 
Teaching occupies a prominent place in his agenda. After having been the artistic deputy of José Daniel Castellon's flute class at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, it is today the teacher of the flute class of the Cnsm in Lyon, where he succeeded his illustrious predecessors, Philippe Bernold and Maxence Larrieu. He is also a  visiting professor at the Pole Supérieur de Musique de Bordeaux, as well at the "Talent Music Masters" of Brescia in Italy.
 
Julien gives an important place in his life as an Ambassador of the "Kidney Foundation" and as a "Board member" of "Music Beyond" American association based in New York to train and support young musicians in Africa.
 
Répertoire
Nielsen Flute concerto 
Mozart GM flute concerto
Mozart DM flute concerto
CPE Bach: concerto in GM or Dminor
Reinecke: flute concerto
Bernstein: Halil
Devienne:  concerto no 2 or 7
Haydn: concerto in D
Gianella: concerto in d minor
Jolivet: flute concerto
 
v Jazz Piano -- Cui Honggen
 
Cui Honggen studied at primary school and middle school of Central Conservatory of Music and finished his undergraduate courses in the same school after Chinese famous pianist and educator, Prof. Li Huili, Zhao Pingguo and Xie Huazhen. In December, 1988, he won the second price in the National Piano Competition, and in 1989 in Greek, he successfully entered the final stage in the Maria Callas Piano Competition. In 2002, after he has taught piano for nine years, he won the special prize in the Golden Bell Award, with accumulating the experience by teaching classical piano and performing jazz piano.
 
In 2003, Cui Honggen travelled to Montreal, Canada to further study his music, following the world master Mr. Deng Taishan. 6 years later, he got the master and doctor degree in Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, with his footprint all over Canada and America. He was highly praised by the audience, and was elected to be the chairman of Chinese Musicians Association of Quebec.

Spanish Glamour ▏Orquesta de Valencia Asia Tour Celebrating for the 75th Anniversary

Valencia is the third biggest city in Spain and is known as “a pearl in the western Mediterranean Sea”. It is a famous cultural and artistic city in Spain with the famous Palau de la Música and Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.

Under the support of government of Valencia, the Orquesta de Valencia was established in 1943, it is the only orchestra in Palau de la Música, and one of Spanish Orchestra Association.

In recent years, the orchestra has had a great development in its artistic vision, programme and performing level, under the artistic director and chief conductor Yaron Traub’s instruction. It has been cooperated with many world’s leading artists for a long time and has gained great comments and reputation from both the artists and the audience around the world.

Conductor - Yaron Traub 

Yaron Traub is one of the world’s most famous conductors as the music director and chief conductor of Orquesta de Valencia of Spain. 

Traub was born in a famous music family in Tel aviv, Israel. His father Chaim Yaub was the chief violinist in Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for thirty years.

When Traub was young, he studied in Munich, Germany, with the 20^th century legend conductor Sergiu Celibidach. After that, Traub worked a few years for the famous conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim as the assistant conductor. 

In 1998, Traub won the Award in the 4^th Kantian International Conductor Competition in Amsterdam. After that, he has been cooperated with many top orchestras, including Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and most of the Spanish symphony orchestras and has been spoken highly.

During his position of artistic director and chief conductor of Orquesta de Valencia, Yaron Traub has strengthened the orchestra’s performing level and helped the orchestra improve the image and influence in the music world.

Year 2018 will be the 75^th anniversary of Orquesta de Valencia, with the conductor Yaron Traub, the orchestra will perform and tour in Asia, showing the Spanish orchestra style to the Asian audience.

Music Unlimited ▏Germany’s Jenaer Philharmonie to Play for the 2019-2020 New Year

As the largest concert Orchestra of Thuringia and the only one with three choirs associated, the Philharmonic Choir, the Jena Madrigal Circle and the Boys' Choir, for more than 80 years the Jenaer Philharmonie has been an integral part in the cultural life of Jena, a high-tech and university town in the heart of Germany. The orchestra is famous and honored for his versatile as varied repertoire, including unusual programs and rarely performed pieces. The Jena Philharmonic has its home in the historical concert hall Volkshaus.

In addition to numerous concerts in Jena the philharmonic orchestra gives guest performances throughout Germany, like at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Konzert-haus Berlin and others. International attention attracted the ensemble with concerts at the  Tonhalle Zurich, Radio France during the Festival Printemps Musical in Paris, at the opening concert for the 38th International Festival Wratislava Cantans in Poland or the Festival Sagra Musicala Malatestiana in Rimini as well as at concert tours to France, Ljubljana, Katowice, Zurich, Bregenz, in the Slovak Žilina, to Panyu in China as well as at the 10th International Yerewan Music Festival in in October 2016.

The Jena Philharmonic, a young, dynamic orchestra, is one of the founders of the European orchestral network ONE®. To this day, the Jena Philharmonie is the only German orchestra that maintains a varied and regular exchange with other European orchestras. Following the current motto "ONE® ... is more" the Jenaer Philharmonie benefits of very lively contacts between the orchestras and musicians.

In cooperation with the  German Music Council, the Jenaer Philharmonie encourages the international conducting youth under the direction of renowned conductors. An extensive music education program of the orchestra and its musicians for babies, children and adolescents is very successful. Moreover, the ensemble is an important training and cooperation partner to the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar for more than fifty years.

Starting with the season 2018/2019 Simon Gaudenz is the General Music Director of the Jenaer Philharmonie.

Music Director - Simon Gaudenz

Simon Gaudenz is Music Director Designate of Jena Philharmonic Orchestra. During recent years he has made a name for himself particularly as an interpreter of the classical repertoire. A fresh, new approach against the background of historically informed performance practice characterizes his concerts and recordings. In keeping with this philosophy, he is currently forming and shaping the musical profile of the Hamburg Camerata and was celebrating the 30 years anniversary season of this cham-ber orchestra looking back on a rich performance tradition.

Ever since his triumphs at two prestigious competitions, including the German Conducting Price, Europe's most highly remunerated prize of its kind, Gaudenz has performed as an internationally sought-after guest  conductor with numerous renowned orchestras. The list includes the Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre National de France, WDR Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radio Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Russian National Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Saarbrücken Radio Orchestras, Monte-Carlo, Lyon and Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestras and Bavarian State Orchestra. 

He engages in enthusiastic collaboration with soloists such as Gidon Kremer, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Renaud Capucon, Arabella Steinbacher, Sabine Meyer, Lauma Skride, Lise de la Salle, Martin Stadtfeld, Marianna Shirinyan, Julian Steckel and many others.

From 2004 to 2011 he successfully conducted the Collegium Musicum Basel serving as its artistic director and principal conductor. Prior to this time he was a founding member of the camerata variabile basel and this ensemble's artistic director until 2004. It was during this tenure as the principal guest conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra that he realized recordings of Mozart piano concertos and Schumann's complete symphonies.

Jenaer Philharmonie is expected to tour in China at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, bringing the fantastic new year’s concert to the Chinese audience!

Full of Fun ▏Germany’s most interesting and free theatre - Theater Mummpitz

Theater Mummpitz is the most famous and free children’s theatre in Germany. Ever since its establishment, Theater Mummpitz has gain great praise and reputation thanks to its unique charm and attractiveness. Over the years, the theatre has been invited to attend the International Children’s and Youth Theatre Festivals many times and has won public praise. Theater Mummpitz won the Label Prize in 2017-2018 European Festival of Arts.

Theater Mummpitz was established in 1980 and has cooperated with many Germany’s theaters. In the late 1980s, Theater Mummpitz was invited to cooperate with the Niedersachsen theatre twice. Since 1997, it has been cooperating with Staatstheater Nürnberg.

Theater Mummpitz has about 150 performances including 2 to 3 new works per performing season. Until now, the theatre has produced at least 10 repertoire programs, mainly for children aged 3 to 12 . At the same time, the theater is also invited to other guesthouses to perform, with footprints all over Germany and abroad and around 20 to 30 performances per year.

Theater Mummpitz tells the stories of the most special moment in everyone's life, about journeys, births and deaths, and stories that can enhance children's courage so that they will listen and observe as these are the meanings of life. The classic plays including Am Anfang and Kaschtanka(Adapted from Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s short story "Kaschtanka").

Panoptikum Children’s Art Festival

The Panoptikum Children's Art Festival, held biennially by Theater Mummpitz since 2000, is the largest and most popular children's theater event in Europe and Bavaria (for children aged 3 to 12).

The festival provides a good communication platform for people in Germany and abroad, and brings a relaxing atmosphere to the audience. Each Panoptikum Children's Art Festival will bring together 10 new works from at least seven European countries in addition to 10 Bavarian children's plays.