East Meets West Orchestral Concert

Experience Australia's finest musicians performing traditional and contemporary music from the East and the West including the acclaimed Chinese masterpieces, Spring Festival Suite and Tune of Meihu, and the world-famous Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1.

The 50-piece orchestra from Willoughby Symphony will be led by emerging Australian-Chinese conductor Shilong Ye. The guest soloists include award-winning pianist Tony Tongyi Lee, leading Erhu player Tuqiang Zhang and Opera Australia's popular soprano Sharon Zhai.

"A blooming program of classic Chinese repertoire, capped off with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.” Limelight

Program

• Spring Festival Suite, composed by Huanzhi Li

• Tune of Meihu, Erhu solo: Tuqiang Zhang, composed by Rirong Lu

• New Horse Racing, composer Haihuai Huang, arranged by Yaoxing Chen and Jun ChenErhu: Tuqiang Zhang, Ashely Sui; Pipa: Zina Fan; Yangqin: Angela Feng

• Pamir My Beautiful Homeland, composer Qiufeng Zheng, Soprano: Sharon Zhai

• On Wings of Song, composer Felix Mendelssohn, Soprano: Sharon Zhai

• Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, Pianist: Tony Dongyi Lee