The Suzhou National Orchestra is a municipal professional orchestra jointly established by Suzhou City and the High-tech Zone. The famous conductor Peng Jiapeng is the artistic director and chief conductor, and the famous erhu performer and composer Zhu Changyao is the artistic director. Cheng Congwu, the first-level art supervisor, was appointed as a consultant. The orchestra hired famous composers Zhao Jiping, Liu Xijin, Gu Guanren and folk music activist Wang Shuwei as art consultants. The orchestra has a "three-pipe system" and has more than 90 performers, composed of well-known performers at home and abroad and outstanding talents who graduated from the top ten music academies such as the Central and Shanghai.
Since its establishment, the orchestra has successively won the "National Advanced Group of Culture and Tourism System", "Austria Music Theater Award • International Symphony Orchestra Award", "National Top Ten National Orchestras", and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Happy Spring Festival" guidance award fund selection one. First prize, "Silk Road International Art Festival·Silk Road Cultural Contribution Award", "National Art Fund Project", "Jiangsu Province Wenhua Award" and other Chinese and foreign honors; the orchestra commissioned a group of famous contemporary composers Zhao Jiping to create new works. Among them, five works have been selected into the "Symphony of the Times - China Symphony Music Creation Support Program" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; a group of outstanding individuals have won the "Chinese Music Golden Bell Award", "Dunhuang Cup" Gold Award and other honors.
The orchestra has held a series of large-scale concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Hangzhou and other cities and more than ten countries including the United States, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Japan, and South Korea. , has been widely recognized and praised by Chinese and foreign audiences. Relevant leaders of the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Music Association, well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad, as well as many mainstream media such as Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, CCTV, Russian State TV and many other mainstream media praised the orchestra for its perfect expression of national music and international Fusion reflects advanced artistic concepts and superb performance skills. It is a "national youth art team" with a high starting point, high standard and high level!