Dunhuang Ode to Mercy
December 26-27, 2020 // 8:00 p.m.
Lanzhou Concert Hall
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"Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" can be described as a thousand-year-old song that sang Dunhuang, and Tan Dun also made a precise interpretation of his own work: "'Ode to Mercy' tries to turn Dunhuang's murals into sounds, so that we can hear Dunhuang. When we look back at history and Chinese culture, we can see that we have experienced so many vicissitudes and can find a little spiritual strength in it. Hosted by the Lanzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and hosted by the Lanzhou Grand Theatre, the 2020 Lanzhou Huimin performance, "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy", will be staged at 8:00 p.m. every night on December 26-27, 2020 at the Lanzhou Concert Hall. This concert specially invited internationally renowned composers and conductors Tan Dun to join hands with well-known baritone Wang Yunpeng and Zhang Xiaomeng; mezzo-soprano Dong Fang and Wu Hongni; tenor Wang Chuanyue; sopranos Huang Ying and Xu Lei; original ecological soprano Ze Renyangjin; original ecological bass hasbargen and Dunhuang dance rebound pipa Chen Yining to perform together with the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir.
"Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" is a fusion of national, classical, two-hour-long giant stage music written for soloists, choruses and symphony orchestras, which can be described as magnificent and far-reaching, it is like a thousand-year-old dream, embracing human beings who have endured hardships, giving us comfort and hope. Previously, "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" had premiered in Europe and Australia, and the venue was full, and when it premiered in Germany, more than 1,800 spectators stood up to pay tribute to the music masters from China and around the world, and the thunderous applause and cheers lasted for fifteen minutes. Artists of different nationalities, different races, and different faiths gathered together to sing the Heart Sutra with Chinese together, which was shocking.
There's "Ode to Joy" in the west, and "Ode to Mercy" in the east.
Two odes in unison
"Ode to Dunhuang Mercy" recreates the musical heritage hidden in the cave murals of a thousand years ago, dissolves and crosses to today's stage, through the world's music academies, choirs and symphony orchestras, which are institutional sound bridges, playing Dunhuang music that carries the faith, compassion and wishes for the future of the nation, conveys chinese culture about life and life reflections, and is a real "Oriental Symphony" that leads Chinese culture to the world. The Asian premiere of such an extraordinary masterpiece has shaken the music world, and some music critics have commented: there is "Ode to Joy" in the west and "Ode to Mercy" in the east, the two odes drive together, ancient and modern meet, boundaries dissolve, and people's hearts and minds are connected.
A major feature of "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" is that it shows the culture of the East with Western music, ancient Oriental instruments and modern Western instruments sound in unison, not only that, at the performance site can also see the rebound pipa, Xiqin and other ancient instruments restored in the Dunhuang murals, and the traditional Chinese musical instruments such as bowls, wooden fish, and yingquan are interspersed in the music, with full layers and magnificent waves, which produce unique resonance, and many natural elements are more Zen.
The division of culture is in the hands of music masters, creating a unique landscape that has never been seen before, showing the vastness of the sea. Composer Tan Dun borrowed a lot of Tang music in the "Ode to Mercy", showing the audience a picture of the Tang Dynasty, allowing the audience to travel with the music on the "Silk Road" and taste the style of the great power of the Tang Dynasty's artistic heyday on this ancient road full of Western characteristics.
On May 23, 2018, Dunhuang Ode to Mercy premiered at the prestigious Dresden Music Festival. When Tan Dun finished the last note, more than 1,800 spectators suddenly stood up, thunderous applause and cheers for fifteen minutes, realizing the export of Chinese culture and art.
Posters of the Dunhuang Ode of Mercy are scattered throughout the streets of Dresden
Five years of grinding a sword Dunhuang Grottoes nurture inspiration
Tan Dun traced the ancient music and dance scores of the Heart Sutra in the 10th century of the Tang Dynasty in the British Library
Tan Dun studied the dunhuang ancient genealogy at the National Library of France
Tan Dun studied the murals in the Mogao Grottoes
"Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" is a musical masterpiece created by Mr. Tan Dun over a period of five years, inspired by the Dunhuang Grottoes murals, the whole text is based on the dunhuang mural story, the ancient music, musical instruments and musicians in the Dunhuang murals are restored, and expressed in the form of a symphony orchestra and a chorus, which is divided into six acts: "Under the Bodhi Tree", "Nine Colored Deer", "Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes", "Zen Garden", "Heart Sutra" and "Nirvana". Each scene contains a profound philosophy, using music to dialogue with culture, history and heart, guiding people to be good, "people and all things should be harmonious, people and sentient beings should love", advocating integrity, equality, dedication, compassion... In the process of creation, Tan Dun rewrote and rearranged many details in the story of the mural, refining the human nature of the characters in the play.
Mr. Tan Dun said in an interview: "The most important thing for Chinese culture to share with the world is to have a spiritual platform and a bridge of faith. Traditional Chinese culture is very appealing, such as the belief in compassion and kindness, which can be found in many other cultures. My greatest wish in creating Dunhuang Ode to Mercy is that there will be no war and that everyone will be inspired to pursue our common goal, love nature, and love human beings themselves. ”
For best results, "pristine" singers are also invited to intersperse Sanskrit chanting, so that all primitive, precious, and potentially forgotten cultural lifelines can be transmitted. Through the six-act story, the universal value "love and peace" is conveyed, and the self-realization and epiphany shown through the plot and characters bring spiritual enrichment to the audience.
No matter where in the world, the understanding and sympathy for human suffering, the praise for kindness and compassion, and the ultimate reflection on life expressed in Dunhuang Ode to Mercy are universal.
Tan Dun:
"This work is a promise to a kind, compassionate mass that has survived the pressure, a promise to one's own culture, to one's faith, to one's ancestors."
"I put my ideal of life into dunhuang Ode to Mercy, which is the most important work in my life!"
Fan Jinshi (Honorary President of Dunhuang Research Institute):
Eight years ago in Dunhuang, Tan Dun and I joked, can you turn the Dunhuang murals into sounds? Unexpectedly, he actually did this, and did it. The Buddhists say compassion, and those who do not believe in Buddha also say compassion, so what is compassion? Compassion is to make people get wisdom, compassion is to liberate people from suffering, and compassion is to talk about the equality of all sentient beings and save all sentient beings. "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" connects everyone together through music, and I was deeply moved after listening to it.
Yi Zhongtian (Scholar):
After listening to Tan Dun's "Ode to Dunhuang And Mercy", I deeply felt that this magnificent musical work belonged to all mankind. I have always believed that all human beings have common values, such as the pursuit and affirmation of love and goodness. This common value, regardless of race, regardless of region, regardless of era, regardless of country, is commonly owned and recognized by human civilization. This work of Tan Dun is the artistic presentation of the common values of mankind, which is its great significance. Congratulations Tan Dun!
Yu Qiuyu (Scholar):
Tan Dun's dissemination of Chinese culture is not to export an existing antiquity, but to show a completely new creation. He is already the most avant-garde music explorer in the contemporary world, but in the depths of his music, people can always find the oriental natural sounds of thousands of years ago. Tan Dun let the world understand that although Chinese culture has a long history, its life base is always ahead.
Dresden Daily News:
"Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" is like a movie that can be listened to, and the Chinese story is like a storm that shakes everyone's heart.
The Voice of Bach, UK:
"Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" is an absolutely unforgettable dramatic experience... The singer's emotional singing and the composer's own straightforward and chest-bound script allow the spirit of Dunhuang and the reincarnation of life to be integrated and presented in the same night.
Dudamel, Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra:
"'Ode to Dunhuang Mercy' allows people to have a deep understanding of the East and a deep communication of spiritual beliefs between people, countries and nations, and ethnic groups, and it makes the East and the West our common home today, opening up a heard Silk Road."
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Acting
December 26
Writer & Composer & Conductor: Tan Dun
Baritone: Wang Yunpeng
Mezzo-soprano: Dong Fang
Tenor: Wang Chuanyue
Soprano: Huang Ying
Pristine soprano: Zeren Yangjin
Raw bass: Hasbagon
Dunhuang rebound pipa music and dance: Chen Yining
December 27
Baritone: Zhang Xiaomeng
Mezzo-soprano: Wu Hongni
Soprano: Xu Lei
Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra
Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir
Time
December 26-27, 2020
Every night at 20:00
Location
Ticket prices for shows
280、380、480、680、880、1080
Ticketing telephone
0931—8623568
Composer/Conductor Tan Dun
Dun Tan, Master of the Central Conservatory of Music, Ph.D. of Columbia University in New York, UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, President of the Bard School of Music, USA, Honorary Artistic Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of China. As a world-renowned composer and conductor, his art and music have had an indelible impact on the world. He has won some of the most influential art awards in the world today, including the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement in The Art of the Venice Biennale, the Grammy Award, the Academy Award, the Bach Prize in Germany, the Shostakovich Grand Prix in Russia, and the Gervinmer Award in the United States. Tan Dun conducted the world-famous Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan to visit China, achieving great success at the box office and media reviews. In the new season, Tan Dun conducts the european-renowned German NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra on a tour of five European cities and the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra in Paris and London. He will also lead and conduct the 2019 Tour of france and China by the Lyon National Symphony Orchestra.
The New York Times once named Tan Dun "one of the ten most important musicians in the international music scene" and was named one of the ten Chinese people who influenced the world in 2006 by the world's ten most important Chinese-language media such as Phoenix TV. In 2014, he was selected by CCTV "Light of China" as the Person of the Year for Disseminating Chinese Culture. Tan Dun is currently chairman of the China Committee at Carnegie Hall, and lifelong honorary conductor of the Netherlands Orchestra and artistic director of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Creative Director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Director of Modern Music at the Belgian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Composer and Conductor-in-Residence of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Director of the Modern Arts Festival at the Barbican Centre in the United Kingdom, and Artistic Director of the Tanglewood International Modern Music Festival in the United States. As an international artist in China who integrates conducting and composing, Tan Dun regularly conducts many of the world's most famous orchestras, including: The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Netherlands Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the French National Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Milano Scala Opera Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Santa Cecilia Symphony Orchestra in Italy, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, etc.
Baritone Wang Yunpeng
Wang Yunpeng graduated from the Vocal Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan Conservatory of Music, won three awards at the 20th Domingo World Vocal Competition in 2012, and was invited to join the Lindemann Young Artist Training Program at the Metropolitan Opera. He is currently a contracted artist for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2015, he appeared on the cover of the October issue of the authoritative American music magazine "Opera News" and was hailed as one of the "25 rising stars in the opera world". Representative repertoire includes Pereas in Pereias and Meresand, Mocutius, the main character in Romeo and Juliet, count Amarviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiorero in The Barber of Seville, and The Bird in Madame Butterfly.
Mezzo-soprano Dong Fang
Dong Fang is one of China's top ten young mezzo-soprano singers in "CCTV Glorious Bloom", graduated from the Vocal Opera Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studied under Professor Song Bo, obtained a master's degree, and is now a vocal teacher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Dong Fang's voice is mellow and full, her singing is relaxed, her appearance is elegant and graceful, and she is evaluated by the German Hannover Times as a "very promising mezzo-soprano singer". He has won the second prize of the 17th French Marmande International Vocal Competition, the silver medal of the 6th China Golden Bell Award Vocal Competition, the excellence award of the 13th CCTV Youth Song Competition, and the winner of the 4th China (Ningbo) International Vocal Competition.
Baritone Zhang Xiaomeng
Zhang Xiaomeng is a young baritone singer in Europe. Bachelor of Music in Vocal Opera at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Master of Opera Performance at Manhattan Conservatory of Music, Master of Opera Performance from Juilliard School, USA. He is currently based at the Zurich Opera House in Switzerland for opera performances.
He was selected for the 2018 International Top Young Singers Opera Program and the Excellence Award of the Dallas Opera Association Vocal Competition. At the same time, he has achieved numerous results in major competitions such as the Opera Festival, the Lisia Albanes Puccini Foundation, the Giulio Gary Foundation and the Gerda Rrisner International Vocal Competition.
Zhang Xiaomeng was evaluated by the San Francisco News as a "majestic voice" for his outstanding singing skills and skillful performance skills, and the Aspen Times praised his role as The Count of Alma Viva as "the perfect interpretation of arias".
Mezzo-soprano Wu Hongni
Wu Hongni is known as the most promising young mezzo-soprano singer on the international stage today. She is the gold medalist of the 2018 Metropolitan Opera Vocal Competition, a contracted singer of the Royal Opera, and has received a Diploma (PhD) from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, as well as the Stan Seter Professional Achievement Award from the College. In September 2018, she was officially selected for the Royal Opera House Artist Project and became the first Chinese female singer to be selected since the establishment of the project. He is currently teaching in the Vocal Music Department of Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music. The opera newspaper, the world's most authoritative newspaper in the opera world, once commented that she "has charming sound quality, excellent floral cavity and very graceful control of sound".
Tenor Wang Chuanyue
Professor of vocal opera at the Central Conservatory of Music, contracted singer of the San Francisco Opera House, winner of the Grand Slam in China's domestic vocal competitions. Graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, he is a member of the international top young artist training program Merola and Adler. In 2015, he won the silver medal of the Tchaikovsky Competition, which can be called the "Olympics of the music industry", breaking the record and becoming the best result of the Chinese tenor in the 55 years since the beginning of the competition.
Soprano Huang Ying
Huang Ying is a famous lyrical soprano singer and opera performance artist. She was the first Chinese singer to play the female lead in an opera film and earned a worldwide reputation for her wonderful performance in the opera film Madame Butterfly. In 2009, Huang Ying was honored as a representative of outstanding Chinese singers in the "Star Photo Wall" of the 125th anniversary celebration of the Metropolitan Opera House. In 2013, she returned to her hometown and was hired as an expert professor at her alma mater, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and as the deputy director of the Vocal Opera Department. As a messenger of cultural exchanges between China and the West, Huang Ying is frequently invited to attend major celebrations and performances around the world, such as the "1997 Vienna Christmas Concert" with opera master Domingo and pop superstar Michael Burton. Huang Ying, with her soft and sweet tone, flexible and superb singing skills, and pure and rich musical style, has been praised by Western authoritative media as "the nightingale flying from China".
Soprano Xu Lei
Xu Lei was employed by the Vocal Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and served as artistic director of the Chakonggu Orchestra from 2017 to 1019. She is the first Chinese soprano to land at the ravinia festival and marlboro festival, the most famous chamber music festival in the United States, and during her time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Xu Lei has staged collaborations with the world's top singers Such as Placido Domingo, Kaufman, and Didonado. Xu Lei played the female number one Palmina in Peter Brook's new production of The Magic Flute. At the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Xu Lei starred in several operas. In 2018, she participated in Tan Dun's famous musical "Ode to Mercy" and played soprano in the premiere of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Steven Wadswartz, Head of the Opera Department at the Juilliard School of Music, has described her as an extremely intelligent and artistically cultivated young artist with great talent in artistic sensibility and poetic expression.
Pristine soprano Ze ren Yang Kim
Zeren Yangjin is a famous Tibetan pristine soprano singer who was admitted to the vocal music department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 2001 with the first professional result. In 2004, Zeren Yangjin won the second place in the popular singing method of the professional group of the 11th National Young Singers Television Grand Prix in Sichuan Division, graduated from his alma mater with the first place in 2005, won the fifth place in the national finals of "Dream China" in 2006, participated in the recording of the CCTV Lantern Party in 2008, and worked as a soloist in the Central National Song and Dance Troupe since 2014. Zeren Yangjin has visited more than 30 countries and cities as an outstanding singer of ethnic minorities in the Chinese delegation, and has participated in various music programs organized by CCTV for many times with his excellent singing skills. Her voice is clear and high-pitched, sweet and melodious, and is praised by the industry as a Tibetan lark and a highland spirit, and her songs are extremely ethnic, which can lead the audience into the pure and clean grassland or the mysterious Tibetan plateau.
Pristine bass Hasbaggen
Hasbagen is a performer of the Dunhuang ancient musical instrument Xiqin, a member of the China Horsehead Qin Association, a public welfare cultural ambassador of the China Social Work Development Foundation, and a horsehead qin teacher at the China Conservatory of Music. Hasbahgen graduated from the School of Arts of Inner Mongolia University in 2000 and stayed on to teach until 2007, when he went to Japan to teach at the Shimizu Kunimitsu Natural School in Tokyo in 2008. In 2014, he co-published his debut album "Shule Song" with Ruiming Records, which won the nomination for the Best HIFI Performance in 2015 at the Chinese Golden Melody Awards and the "2015 Best Original Music Album Award" on the 11th Top Ten Audiophile Albums Chart.
Dunhuang rebound pipa music dance Chen Yining
A student of the Department of Chinese Classical Dance at Beijing Dance Academy, he won the "Star Torch Cup" Folk Music Grand Gold Medal and Dance Gold Award in 2008. During his studies, he was invited to participate in the "Book of Poetry" of the China Opera and Dance Theater, and his music and dance performances were well received. In 2017, he won the first prize of the 15th Beijing Dance Competition.
Founded in 1973, the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra was separated from the Lanzhou Song and Dance Theater in 2008 and officially inaugurated. For more than 40 years, the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra has continuously and successfully launched nearly 1,000 concerts of different types and styles, forming its own unique artistic style in the long-term performance, which is deeply loved by the audience. The late Professor Xu Xin, a famous music educator and conductor, devoted ten years of painstaking efforts to music with his full emotion and profound cultivation of music, strict training and meticulous polishing, and made outstanding contributions to the growth and improvement of the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra. The Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra is headed by Su Xiaolin, former vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and Yu Long, a famous conductor and artistic director of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, serves as the artistic advisor of the Lanzhou Grand Theatre; the famous conductor Li Xincao serves as the honorary head of the troupe and serves as the opera artistic director of the Lanzhou Grand Theatre; Zhu Man, the permanent conductor of the Central Opera House, serves as the chief and permanent conductor of the orchestra; and the permanent conductor of the China Opera and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra, Jing Kong, is the permanent conductor of the Orchestra.
In the process of development, the orchestra has worked closely with Xu Xin (deceased), Zheng Xiaoying, Yu Long, Yu Feng, Bian Zushan, Zhang Guoyong, Liu Dadong (deceased), Lu Jia, Zhang Yi, Li Xincao, Yang Yang, Lin Daye, Xia Xiaotang, Zhu Man, Jiao Yang and other famous conductors. In the concerts held, the famous Chinese singers Di Libaier, Yin Xiumei, Mo Hong, Yan Weiwen, Lü Jihong, Dai Yuqiang, Liu Weiwei, Wu Bixia, Wang Wei, Zhu Huiling, etc., the famous performers Ma Youyou, Wang Jian, Lü Siqing, Yu Hongmei, Zhang Hongyan, Wu Yuxia, Song Fei, Qin Liwei, Lang Lang, Chen Sa, Tan Xiaotang, Huang Bin, Huang Mengla, Ning Feng, Nie Jiapeng, Li Chuanyun, Chen Yi, etc., and jointly held a symphony concert with the China Symphony Orchestra Choir and the Central Ballet Symphony Orchestra, and played Beethoven, The works of many world-famous composers such as Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Johann Strauss, as well as Chinese composers such as Xian Xinghai, Wu Zuqiang, Du Mingxin, and Zhang Qianyi, have accumulated a rich repertoire of concert repertoire.
In January 2007, the "Chinese Silk Road Classic Concert" was held in the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, which was well received by European audiences. The orchestra has performed in famous venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Beijing Concert Hall, National Centre for the Performing Arts, And Shanghai Concert Hall. From October 10, 2016 to November 20, 2016, the first Lanzhou Music Festival of "Yellow River Capital" was held, which lasted more than 40 days, performed 20 different forms of concerts, with 2,500 participants and 26,000 audiences, and finally concluded with a musical epic of "Long March Suite", making outstanding contributions to the artistic festival of displaying the cultural image of "Beautiful Lanzhou" city and creating a central city performing arts platform in northwest China. In July 2017, at the invitation of the Italian Mediterranean Music Festival - Taormina Opera Festival, led by Li Xincao, the opera "Bohemian" was performed by Italian performing artists in the Ancient Greek Theater in Taormina, Italy, and the opera "Bohemian" was broadcast live by 680 cinemas in Europe, with great success! On October 27 of the same year, the Lanzhou Concert Hall version of the Italian Puccini classic opera "Turandot" jointly created by Zhu Man, tang xinxin, Chen Bing as the choral conductor, produced by Lanzhou Concert Hall, Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir, Lanzhou Song and Dance Theater, Lanzhou Opera Theater, and Lanzhou Performing Arts Group Stage Engineering Production Co., Ltd., successfully premiered in Lanzhou, filling the gap that there is no complete stage version of the opera works on the Lanzhou art stage. On July 28, 2018, led by Zhang Yi, directed by French director Julian Giraldé, xie Yingbin as choral conductor, produced by Lanzhou Concert Hall, Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir, Lanzhou Song and Dance Theatre, Lanzhou Opera Theatre, lanzhou performing arts group, Lanzhou Performing Arts Group Stage Engineering Production Co., Ltd., once again jointly created the Lanzhou Concert Hall version of the French Bizet classic opera "Carmen" in Lanzhou In November 2019, she participated in the Lanzhou Concert Hall version of Verdi's classic opera "La Traviata" conducted by Li Xincao and directed by Tang Xinxin, and achieved a complete success. This new breakthrough has once again refreshed the highest level of current stage art creation in our city. At 8:00 p.m. on October 1, 2019, the 70th anniversary of the National Day gala was held in Tiananmen Square, and the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra joined the "Symphony Orchestra of a Thousand People" to pay tribute to the Republic with music!
Since 2006, the orchestra has accompanied the large-scale dance drama "Big Dream Dunhuang", one of the top ten fine plays of china's "National Stage Art Quality Project", and accompanied the footprints of "Big Dream Dunhuang", and has performed in many places in China and many cities in Europe. The orchestra also accompanied The Swan Lake, the first classic ballet carefully rehearsed by Lanzhou Ballet.
Founded on May 2, 2017, Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir is the first professional choir in the history of Gansu, with 70 actors, all of whom are undergraduate and master's degree graduates of vocal music from major colleges and conservatories in China, provinces and cities. At the beginning of its establishment, it has received the care and support of the Chinese Musicians Association and people from all walks of life, and has been unanimously praised by the audience.
The artistic director of the choir is Su Xiaolin, counselor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government, a national first-class actor, and the former vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and the head of the choir is the vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Musicians Association and the national second-level actor Ma Yuan. Dr. Chen Bing, Associate Professor of the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Young Conductor and Opera Art Director, was invited to serve as the music director. Dr. Wang Wei, professor of the Vocal Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and a national first-class actor, was specially invited to serve as the vocal director.
Since its establishment, the choir has successfully performed the concert version of the opera "Bohemian", the concert version of the opera "Country Knight", the finale of Beethoven's Ninth (Chorus) Symphony "Ode to Joy", and the stage version of the classic opera "Turandot", "Carmen" and "La Traviata". In 2018, he was invited to participate in the first large-scale original opera "Shan Hai Jing Ben Yue" of the Central Conservatory of Music; invited to participate in the 2018 "World AIDS Day" "Love Let Us Be Together, Masters Have a Covenant Public Welfare Concert"; at the invitation of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, he went to Shenzhen to participate in various large-scale concert performances; in 2019, he was invited to participate in the special program of the second season of CCTV's "Classic Arias" - "Back to Yan'an to Sing Classics" and "5.23 Music Festival"; in July of the same year, He has participated in the 2018-2019 Music Season of the China Symphony Orchestra and the concert commemorating the 80th anniversary of the premiere of the "Yellow River Chorus", the closing concert of the 2019 Hangzhou International Music Festival and the 2018-2019 Music Season Concert of Mahler's Eighth "Thousand People" Symphony; in August 2019, he went to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to participate in the literary and artistic evening party "Struggle bar, Sons and Daughters of China", a musical and dance epic celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, sponsored by the Central Propaganda Department In October, the choir cooperated with the China Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time, participating in the work "Ode to the Six Ancestors" composed and conducted by the famous composer Li Haiying. In July 2020, he was invited to participate in the closing ceremony of the 2020 Shanghai Summer Music Festival, performing the work "Ode to Dunhuang Mercy" composed and conducted by the famous composer and conductor Tan Dun, and participated in the tour in Xi'an and Beijing, in August he was invited to participate in the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra's 2020-2021 opening ceremony concert "Mahler No. 2 Symphony"; in November, he was invited to participate in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's 2020-2021 season concert and the concert in honor of Chen Yifei, performing Faure's "Requiem".
The choir has cooperated with Famous Chinese conductors Yu Long, Chen Xieyang, Tan Lihua, Yu Feng, Zhang Yi, Li Xincao, Chen Lin, Xia Xiaotang, Zhu Man, Chen Bing, Lin Daye, Jiao Yang, King Kong, Zhang Qiu, etc., and famous Singers Wei Song, Mo Hualun, Yi Hong, Wang Wei, Sun Xiuwei, Huang Ying, Guo Sen, Liao Changyong, Li Shuang, Wang Chuanyue, Shen Yang, Zhu Huiling, Xue Haoyan, Liu Songhu, Zhou Zhengzhong, Li Jingjing, Wang Hongyao, Yang Qi, etc., to create and perform many outstanding Works at home and abroad.