The Shanghai Opera House hired a chief guest conductor for the first time, why was he chosen?

Oriental Network reporters Bao Yongting and Bai Kelin reported on February 8: On the morning of February 8, in front of the gate of the first floor of the Shanghai Opera House, young conductor Yu Lu conducted the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra to perform the "Marriage of Figaro" on the spot, which was also Yu Lu's debut as the youngest chief guest conductor of the Shanghai Opera House.

At the press conference, Xu Zhong, president of the Shanghai Opera House, a famous conductor and pianist, presented Yu Lu with a "golden key" and looked forward to his new musical journey with the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra. It is reported that in May 2022, Yu Lu will cooperate with the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra for the first time in the "Enjoy Beethoven - Beethoven Special Concert" to bring Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony" to fans.

Xu Zhong, president of the Shanghai Opera House, famous conductor and pianist, presented a "golden key" to the young conductor Yu Lu

Yu Lu's musical life can be described as "open and hanging" all the way. He studied violin and piano from an early age, studied with the master Seiji Ozawa at the age of 19 and served as a master to support the conductor; at the age of 22, under the recommendation of master Ozawa and Bitchkov and other masters, he was selected by the conductor Master Janssons to conduct the world's top Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Netherlands, and won the orchestra's second year of conducting invitation with excellent conducting skills; at the age of 24, he was invited by the Salzburg Festival to conduct the Mozart Orchestra in Austria, and was nominated for the Young Conductor Award of the Salzburg Festival In the same year, he received an invitation from IMG Artists, one of the world's largest classical music agencies, becoming the youngest Chinese conductor in IMG history. In 2020, with the complete collection of nine Beethoven symphonies broadcast live in five days by Station B, it attracted wide attention and praise from the domestic industry and classical music fans across the country.

Invited to serve as the chief guest conductor of the Shanghai Opera House this time, Yu Lu told reporters, "From signing the IMG official debut to now, this is the first time I have accepted a musical position. Xu Zhong, the director of the Shanghai Opera House, has a strong artistic appeal, and the Shanghai Opera House has a group of young and excellent artists, and the artistic magnetism created by the Shanghai Opera House makes me yearn. He believes that classical music needs new users and looks forward to trying more new ways to play and attract more young people to pay attention to classical music.

"This is the first principal guest conductor in the history of the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra and will conduct our symphony orchestra from time to time." As the director of the Shanghai Opera House, Xu Zhong is well aware of the importance of an excellent guest conductor to a professional symphony orchestra, "Every excellent conductor not only has a unique understanding of the work, has different thinking about music, but also has his own learning experience, personal interests, age experience and other factors, has his own areas of expertise and expertise." At the same time, each conductor will have different working habits and different ways of communicating with the musicians. Therefore, different conductors inevitably bring different musical inspiration to symphony orchestras. ”

The Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra is a vibrant and vibrant orchestra with an average age of just over thirty years. "Young conductor Yu Lu is also in his 30th year, and he believes that in future collaborations, young orchestras and young conductors can collide with each other's inspiration to create a more wonderful musical spark." Xu Zhong said.

It is reported that Yu Lu has once again received an invitation from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and plans to conduct a concert of the orchestra for the 2021/22 season in March this year. This will also be his first appearance on the international classical music stage since he became the chief guest conductor of the Shanghai Opera House.

(Bao Yongting)

(Orient Net)