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New Released CDs on Naxos
Podcast: New Naxos Orchestral CD and Interview with Bright Sheng
Podcast: Introducing Bright Sheng New CD Spring Dream
Dallas Symphony Orchestra premiere of Never Far Away (having a great time with Maestro Slatkin before the performance)
After Sheng & Friends concert with violinist Cornelius Dufallo
Recent News of Bright Sheng
July 10th-20th
Bright Sheng, Composer-residency and Guest Conductor and Pianist at Eastern Music Festival
July 13, 2009
-A night at the Chinese Opera (2006)
Jeff Multer, violin, Bright Sheng, piano
-Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Bright Sheng, piano, faculty at EMF
Recital Hall, UNC Greensboro, Greenboro, NC, USAJuly 14, 2009
-Four Movements for Piano Trio (1990)
Jeff Multer, violin, Bright Sheng, piano, Principle cellist from the orchestra
Carnegie Room, Guilford College, Greenboro, NC, USA
July 16, 2009
-Shostakovich: Festive Overture, op 96 (1954)
-Sheng: Flute Moon (1999)
-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Bright Sheng, guest conductor, Les Roettges, flute
Dana Auditorium, Greenboro, NC, USA
July 18 &19, 2009
-Tibetan Swing (2002)
Eastern Music Festival Orchestra
Bright Sheng, guest conductor
Dana Auditorium, Greenboro, NC, & Farthing Auditorium, Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC
the new harp concerto was conducted by Bright Sheng with Grand Rapids Symphony featuring harpist Yolanda Kondonassis on April 3 & 4, 2009;
also conducted by Leonard Slatkin with the Dallas Symphony on January 22-25, 2009;
world premiere by conductor Jahja Ling and San Diego Symphony on October 24-26, 2008, the concert was selected as the highlight of 2008 in classical music by San Diego Union Tribune. The symphony also gave the U.S premiere on Sheng’s Shanghai Overture on November 7, 2008
Sheng's conducting debut with Detroit Symphony Orchestra was selected as the highlight of 2008 in classical music by Detroit FREE PRESS
"Music leads DSO to China" by Detroit Free Press
"DSO and multi-talented Sheng forge an epic" by Detroit News
Silk Road Trip from October 28 to December 14, 2008
Bright Sheng launched a field research trip traveling through part of the southern route of the Silk Road, including Vietnam (south through north) and southern China to collect the local traditional and folk music. This is an effort of continuing the Silk Road research which he started in the year of 2000. Experience the trip with Bright
Newly Published Scores by G. Schirmer, Inc.
3 Fantasies: for Violin and Piano (September 1, 2008)
A Night at the Chinese Opera: for Violin and Piano (November 19, 2008)
Three Songs for Violoncello and Pipa (December 1, 2008)
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