The China Film Orchestra, China's only national professional theater with a festival orchestra style, is scheduled to present the "Blue Danube" Symphony Concert to the public at the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts on December 16, 2021 (The International Day of the Belt and Road). Nasdaq Chinese Radio 1216 International Broadcast, New York local time on December 3, 2021, 13 days before the international folk holiday - "Belt and Road" International Day (December 16). The New York Secretariat of the World Peace Ribbon Organization revealed that it was learned from the Chinese mainland that the 2021 "Blue Danube" Symphony Concert performed by the National Professional Orchestra - China Film Orchestra is scheduled to be performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on December 16 (the "Belt and Road" International Day), and Mr. Fan Tao, a national first-class conductor and permanent conductor of the China Film Orchestra, will be the conductor of this performance.
The performance group is the China Film Orchestra, also known as the China Radio film symphony orchestra, the group is the same age as the Republic, is the earliest national symphony orchestra in the founding of New China, with a glorious history of more than 70 years, in her long history emerged Feng Guangtao, Yao Guanrong, Wang Liping, Lü Qiming, Jin Zhengping, Bian Zushan, Chen Zuohuang and many other well-known musicians and many well-known works. As a Chinese film orchestra that has always been active in China's music scene and has a wide influence, it has cooperated with world-famous conductors, composers, performers and dancers in the United States, Germany, France, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Italy and other world-famous conductors, composers, performers and dancers to perform symphony concerts, world-famous operas, ballets and so on. In recent years, the Chinese Film Orchestra has created an artistic path that is close to music lovers and popularizes symphonic music. A group of young and well-known musicians have emerged, and the orchestra's style is more inclined to film music, pop music, Latin music, country music, jazz music and world classic folk songs and ballads, and her performances are all over the world and are loved by a wide audience. Her energetic and energetic performance has gained an excellent reputation among music lovers. As the only national professional theater group in China with the style of a festival orchestra, the China Film Orchestra has pioneered the cross-border integration of pop music, Latin music, folk songs, opera and symphony, and her playing style is diverse, the overall cooperation is tacit understanding, and the playing skills are superb. It has won high praise from the Chinese and foreign music circles, the art world and the general audience.
The performance was conducted by Mr. Fan Tao, a national first-class conductor and permanent conductor of the China Film Orchestra. Fan Tao graduated from the Composition and Conducting Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and then received a full scholarship to study in the United States. He has studied under The famous Chinese conductor and educator Huang Xiaotong, Professor Zhang Guoyong, and the famous American conductor and educator Mr. Phillip Spurgeon. During his time in the United States, he directed the Florida Symphony Orchestra to successfully hold concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York; he was also invited to conduct a series of highly distinctive modern works by famous contemporary Composers in the United States at the 11th Florida Modern Music Festival, including some world premieres, Fan Tao's delicate and unique interpretation of modern works has been highly appreciated and affirmed by the composers on the scene. In 2000, he won the Special Jury Prize of the 2nd Sibelius International Conducting Competition in Finland and awarded the Sibelius Family Fund, followed by the famous master conductor Essa Peca. Salonin. In 2006, ASEAN International invited Fan Tao to perform a symphony concert composed of musicians from eleven ASEAN countries in front of the world's monument Angkor Wat. In 2007, Mr. Fan Tao was invited to the United States to serve as a judge in the final of the 13th Oberlin International Piano Competition in the United States, and in 2011, he served as a judge in the final of the Cleveland Cooper International Violin Competition. Fan Tao has had pleasant cooperation with many famous symphony orchestras at home and abroad, and has traveled all over Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania, and is active on the world's conductor stage. He has conducted the Finnish National Radio Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt State Symphony Orchestra, the Colombian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tabilis Symphony Orchestra, the Danube Orchestra of Austria, the Croatian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Lviv State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oberlin Symphony Orchestra, the South Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the United States John F. Kennedy Symphony Orchestra. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Antalya Symphony Orchestra in Turkey, the Willebbee Symphony Orchestra in Sydney, Australia, the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Moldova, the São Paulo Orchestra in Brazil, and many other orchestras, as well as the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, the Cologne Grand Theatre, the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China, etc. have performed well. In China, he has had very pleasant cooperation with the Central Opera House, the National Ballet of China, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Opera House, etc., as well as many famous orchestras at home and abroad such as Hong Kong and Taiwan. Fan Tao has led many excellent professional symphony orchestras with his deepest understanding of music, including a large number of CD recordings, including "The Gate of Music" recorded by him and the China Philharmonic Orchestra; "Four Masterpieces", "Yellow River" and "Liang Zhu" recorded by the China Radio Chinese Orchestra; a series of classic records recorded by the China Film Orchestra, and many classic and unforgettable melodies, which won him the 2007 Asia Top Ten Fever Album Chart, The Best Record Of the Year Award & Best Conductor Of the Year Award, two major awards In 2008, it won the Asian Top Ten Audiophile Album Chart and The Best Planner of the Year Award. In April 2019, in order to thank Fan Tao for his outstanding contributions to the promotion of Ukrainian classical music and Chinese cultural exchanges over the years, he was invited and entrusted by the National Government of Ukraine and specially issued by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to personally award the "Special Contribution Award for the Chinese of Ukraine" to Fan Tao at the Kiev Philharmonic Hall in the capital of Ukraine. Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine from 2014 to 2020.