Recently, "Fenghua National Music - the first concert and pre season concert of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music National Chamber Orchestra" was held in Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. This concert is the first appearance of the National Chamber Orchestra of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music after its establishment, and also officially kicked off the pre-season concert of the orchestra.
It is reported that the National Chamber Orchestra of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music was officially established on September 30. It is a high-level professional chamber orchestra affiliated to Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. The orchestra is committed to the interpretation of traditional classics and modern national music works, takes promoting the integrity, innovation, prosperity and development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture in the new era as its own responsibility, and takes building a new peak of Chinese national music creation and performance as its goal, constantly explores a new operating mode of professional orchestra that is organically integrated with the teaching and research of the college, and strives to build a first-class professional orchestra with international vision, national characteristics, and Chinese character.
The national chamber orchestra performs in the mode of international popular music season. At present, the orchestra is in the process of improvement and construction, and will try to launch a pre-season series concert before the official music season.
It is understood that the whole orchestra will hold four pre-season concerts temporarily.
The first performance held in the evening was dominated by classical traditional music, with Chen Zhiyi, a famous Gaohu performer and associate professor of Guangdong Dance and Drama Vocational College, Liu Yu, an outstanding young erhu player and lecturer of the Department of National Music of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Wei Sijun, an outstanding young bamboo flute player, and Huang Huang, an outstanding young dulcimer player and dulcimer teacher of the Affiliated Middle School of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, as well as members of the National Chamber Orchestra.
The concert opened with the traditional ancient music "Night of Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River", which was divided into two parts: the first half was composed of traditional works such as guqin and national chamber music "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", erhu and national chamber music "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", zither and xiao "High Mountains and Flowing Water", national chamber music "Amusement", and the second half was composed of regional style silk and bamboo music such as "Walking Street", "Three fifty-seven", "Double Hate", and "Chain Link", At last, the concert ended in the "Eight Tones Harmony" created by the famous composer Wang Yunfei.
The whole concert deeply rooted in the purity and diversity of traditional music, presented the connotation and unique charm of Chinese excellent traditional culture with music language, and demonstrated the inheritance and promotion of the value and vitality of Chinese traditional culture by Chinese musicians in the new era.
In addition to the first performance, the orchestra will also launch the concert "Poetry in Jiangnan" in the middle and late November, with Zhejiang style as the theme and Jiangnan style as the theme, to show the meaning and far-reaching culture of Zhejiang. In November, the first national chamber orchestra creation competition and works collection will be held in the National Music Festival of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. In the first ten days of December, the orchestra will launch an activity themed "Rhythm of the Times", which will win awards and a concert of outstanding works. At the end of December, the orchestra plans to go out of the campus to perform its first show outside the province and the 2023 New Year concert in Shanghai Concert Hall.
It is reported that the first performance season will be officially launched in the middle of March 2023. The performance season is planned in the order of the 24 solar terms, an excellent traditional Chinese culture. From the early spring to the end of the Lantern Festival next year, there will be about 20 seasonal concerts with various themes and styles, as well as no less than 8 people benefiting concerts.