- Lan Shui
Lan Shui is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra , Principal Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor ofDenmark 'sAalborg Symphony .Early life
Born in China, Shui made his professional conducting debut with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing in 1986 and was later appointed Conductor of the Beijing Symphony. In 1990 he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Summer Festival, where he came to the attention of David Zinman who invited him to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as Conducting Affiliate in 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he was Associate Conductor to Neeme Jarvi and the Detroit Symphony. In the same period he assisted Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic and conducted the Cleveland Orchestra in Paris as part of Boulez's young conductors' project.
Orchestras
Orchestras he has conducted include the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , theBerlin Symphony Orchestra , the Calgary Philharmonic, theDetroit Symphony Orchestra , the Gothenburg Symphony, the Houston Symphony, theLos Angeles Philharmonic , the Malm・Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Tampere Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony, the North German Radio Symphony (NDR, Hamburg), theFrankfurter Museumsorchester , the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony, the Bern Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, theKomische Oper a Orchestra, and the Thessaloniki Symphony.oloists
Soloists he has worked with this year include violinists
Pinchas Zukerman ,Gil Shaham ,Maxim Vengerov ,Hilary Hahn ,Lynnette Seah , cellistYo-Yo Ma , pianistsElizabeth Leonscaja ,Gerhard Oppitz ,Yefim Bronfman andRudolf Buchbinder .Festivals
He has performed at festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen, Bravo! Vail Valley, Round Top, Eastern Music, National Orchestra Institute, and Casals Festival.
Since he joined the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in 1997, the Orchestra has raised its level of excellence and signed an exclusive recording contract with the international label BIS. Shui has led the Orchestra on several successful tours. In support of Asian-influenced works, Lan Shui is also passionate about premiering and commissioning new works. The Singaporean composer
Bernard Tan 's Violin Concerto was premiered in January 2006 withLynnette Seah as soloist.Awards
Shui is the recipient of several international awards, amongst them kudos from the Beijing Arts Festival, New York Tcherepnin Society, 37th Besançon Conductors Competition in France and
Boston University 's Distinguished Alumni Award.
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