In the six trumpets' enthusiastic "Guest March", the Shanghai Opera House yesterday welcomed Yu Lu, the youngest chief guest conductor in the history of the opera house and a young Chinese conductor who has attracted the attention of the international music scene.
Pictured: Trumpet playing "Guest March" Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
Xu Zhong, president of the Shanghai Opera House, a famous conductor and pianist, presented Yu Lu with a "golden key", hoping that this outstanding young conductor could use this "golden key" to open the door of opera art and collide with a new spark in the new musical journey with the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra. The live performance of the overture of "Figaro's Wedding", "spoilers" Yu Lu and the Opera Symphony Orchestra will cooperate in May "Enjoy Beethoven - Beethoven Concert".
At the age of 15, he was admitted to the Affiliated High School of the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place; at the age of 18, he was again admitted to the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with the first place; at the age of 19, he won the audition organized by Ozawa Seier and began to study with the master and concurrently serve as the master's assistant conductor; at the age of 22, under the strong recommendation of Master Ozawa Seiji and Bichkov and other masters, he was selected by the conductor Master Janssons and invited to the Netherlands to conduct the world's top Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and with excellent conducting skills, He won the orchestra's second year of conducting invitation, which has since attracted the attention of the European and even world music scenes; at the age of 23, he performed "Madame Butterfly" in Japan and completed his first opera conducting; 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 at 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; 30 years old. Recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Netherlands Concertgebouw orchestra and distributed worldwide. This year, Yu Lu was once again invited by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to conduct a concert for the orchestra's 2021/22 season in March. If he does, it will be his first appearance on the international classical music stage since he became the chief guest conductor of the Shanghai Opera House.
Pictured: Yu Lu conducts the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra to perform live Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai
In his recent years, Yu Lu has had a pleasant collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Saito Memorial Festival Orchestra and other world-class outstanding orchestras. In China, he also relied on the complete works of nine Beethoven Symphonies in five days broadcast live on Station B and led the China Junior Symphony Orchestra to perform Mahler's "First Symphony" and other pioneering music events, which attracted widespread attention and praise from the domestic industry and classical music fans across the country.
Xu Zhong is well aware of the importance of an excellent guest conductor to a professional symphony orchestra. "Every good 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." Different conductors inevitably bring different musical inspiration to the symphony orchestra. This is also an important reason why we invite the master conductor to cooperate every year. ”
The average age of the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra is only in their thirties, but this young team has established very good cooperative relations with many world-class conductors and singers. It is worth looking forward to that Yu Lu, after becoming the principal guest conductor, will bring Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony" to Shanghai music fans with the Shanghai Opera House Symphony Orchestra in May, and together with young pianist Zuo Zhang, perform Beethoven's "Emperor" of the Fifth Piano Concerto. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhu Guang)