Celebrating ten years of Chen Bing's conducting career

Updated: 2010-02-02

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A magnificent and stirring performance at Music Island Concert Hall on Friday night, 22 January, 2010, marked a milestone for brilliant young conductor, Chen Bing. A varied programme that featured not one, but three, national CCTV folk instrument first prize-winners, drew thunderous applause from the appreciative audience.

Highlights of the evening included predominantly Chinese compositions such as "Wild Goose" (Xie Peng), "Great Wall Capriccio" (Liu Wenjin) and "The Yellow Earth" (Huang He). Ms Chen's conducting ensured a great range of emotion and power, from shimmering, delicate sounds to broad, sweeping swirls of pure power and tragic suffering. Through it all, Ms Chen seemed to become organically one with the orchestra, her whole body swaying and drawing forth their talent and unity, while the featured musicians revealed why, despite their young ages, they had advanced to the forefront of their chosen instruments – erhu and yangqin.

As always, Ms Zheng Xiaoying enthusiastically led the audience in understanding the magic of music by introducing the sections of the orchestra and displaying their various special sounds, in Benjamin Britten's "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra".

A particularly wonderful experience this night, was a passionate recital by Zheng Xiaoying of the Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Little Match-Girl", accompanied by the evocative music of Huang Anlun - a tale of poverty and tragedy mirrored and embellished by the music as it alternated with the recitation.

Probably the most breath-taking moment of the evening came after the final piece when suddenly, from the third row, a man dressed in a blue jacket, rose to his feet, threw back his arms and his head, and opened his mouth wide to produce a sound as wild and free as the winds of the Shanxi plains. Audience members were struck with fascination, faces fixed in delighted smiles, as Kou Fu presented his song and subsequently was enticed by lengthy applause from both the audience and orchestra members, to sing twice more.

Truly, Chen Bing both celebrated and ascended a pinnacle of success on this, her tenth anniversary of conducting, and the audience members were delighted and thrilled to be a part of such an outstanding evening of musical performance.

SOURCE: By Patricia Boman

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