2015/16 Music Season: Big Names

Long Yu, conductor
GSO Honorary Music Director for Life , “[The] most powerful figure in China’s classical music scene”—The New York Times

Shao-Chia Lü, conductor
Distinguished Chinese conductor, former Music Director of the Taiwan Philharmonic and Hannover State Opera

David Stern, conductor
Music Director of the Opera Fuoco, Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Shanghai Baroque Festival

Hélène Grimaud, piano
Also a famous writer, internationally celebrated model and protector of wild wolves, this French pianist is indeed one of a kind

John Nelson, conductor
“...wonderfully conducted... a glorious achievement.” —— The Sunday Times (UK)

Hansjörg Schellenberger, conductor / oboe
Berlin Philharmonic oboe principal during the Karajan era who has also taken up the conductor’s baton

The Ju Percussion Group
The troupe’s name is synonymous with percussion in Taiwan and beyond

Claus Peter Flor, conductor
Established German conductor active on the international arena

Andris Poga, conductor
Chief Conductor of Norway’s Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Meng-Chieh Liu, piano
Legendary pianist, recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant

Vladimir Rylov, conductor
Famed conductor, successor in the Russian school of conducting and laureate of the Russian Federation State Award

Matthias Goerne,baritone
Premier baritone on the international stage and the world’s authority on German Lieder

Lukasz Borowicz, conductor
Polish maestro who has received numerous international recording awards

Perry So, conductor
Winner of the Prokofiev Conducting Competition and one of the inaugural Gustavo Dudamel Conducting Fellows at the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Glenn Dicterow, violin
Renowned violinist and former Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic

Song Siheng,piano
The first Chinese to win the Grand Prize at the Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition

Jesús López Cobos, conductor
Spanish maestro and former music director at the Deutche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid and Cincinnati Symphony, currently Conductor Emeritus of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor
Once an outstanding German piano virtuoso, now also an outstanding conducting maestro

Shinik Hahm, conductor
Music Director of the KBS Symphony Orchestra with an international profile