On December 18, the official announcement of the performance details of "AIA Night - Kong Xiangdong 2024 New Year's Party": It will be staged at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Orchestra ** Hall on the evening of January 26, 2024.
As a feast for pianist Kong Xiangdong to join hands with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra led by the permanent conductor Mr. Zhang Liang, the biggest highlight of this "New Year's Party" is Kong Xiangdong's continuous interpretation of "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1" and "Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2", two popular and passionate and romantic Russian piano classics, which will also become a scene that has not been seen in the scene of Chinese classical music for decades.
Gao Shanfeng, director of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, said:
This is the second collaboration after three months of the Rachmaninov "Piano Concerto No. 3" which was presented to the audience in Shanghai on October 13 this year, and will successively present Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1" and Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2", bringing you a new feast. ”
For the two Russian classics that will be staged at the same time, Kong Xiangdong admired:
These two piano works are undoubtedly the most popular among all piano philharmonies in the world, and they are also the most desirable works for all pianists to play. The collaboration with Mr. Zhang Liang and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra on these two works is undoubtedly a great encouragement for me personally. ”
The indissoluble bond between Kong Xiangdong and "Chai Yi" began in 1984, when Mr. Fan Dalei taught Kong Xiangdong "Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1".In the National Piano Competition sponsored by the Ministry of Culture in early 1985, Kong Xiangdong won the first place with this piece
In November 1985, under the baton of Mr. Shi Shucheng, who had just returned from studying in Germany, Kong Xiangdong and the then ** Orchestra (now the China National Symphony Orchestra) performed this piano concerto perfectly again at the Haidian Theater in Beijing, which was also the first time that Mr. Kong Xiangdong performed the piano concerto with the symphony orchestra.
It is understood that the Kong Xiangdong 2024 New Year's Meeting, which is supported by AIA's exclusive title sponsorship, is also a key project in the opening stage of AIA's "Born to Beauty" brand aesthetic education platform. Through the interpretation of famous artists such as Kong Xiangdong, AIA will open a window for the public of different ages and different stages of art Xi to discover, understand and pursue beauty. In addition to the New Year's party, Kong Xiangdong will also be one of the first batch of instructors of AIA's aesthetic education master class "Famous Friends" in the first half of next year, and will visit many places to talk to you about the topic of beauty and aesthetic education, and use high-quality art activities to realize the good feedback and commitment to customers and society "healthy, long-term and good life".
As Jiang Limin, Chief Customer Officer of AIA Life, said:
Mr. Kong Xiangdong's New Year's party will not only be an audio-visual feast, but also an art lesson to cultivate temperament. We hope that through this cooperation, we can accompany everyone to 'live for beauty'." ”