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Duo Harrington-Varga Global Chamber Music

Date: March 11－7:30

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 120-200 yuan

Gregory Harrington enjoys a successful international career as a soloist and chamber musician. In July 2000, he debuted in the Purcell Room of the Royal Festival Hall to critical acclaim; and as a prizewinner of the Artists International Competition in New York in February 2003, Harrington made another successful debut at Carnegie Hall, where he has given multiple performances. Harrington's first album Reflections, accompanied by William Lewis on piano, is a recording of 16 virtuoso short pieces that gathered rave reviews in the press and critical acclaim internationally.

Sibelius' Nordic Poetry: Schumann & Sibelius with Lyv Jia and Buniatishvili

Date: March 13－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 80-480 yuan

Lyv Jia is the opera director of NCPA. He has conducted two thousand concerts and operas in Europe and the Americas, and has cooperated with more than one hundred opera houses and orchestras, including the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Scala in Milan, as well as opera houses in Lausanne, Turin, Rome, Naples, Verona, Venice, Florence, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Born in 1987 in Tbilisi, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili was introduced to piano at the age of 5. In 2008 she made her US debut at Carnegie Hall－New York. Since then, she performed with Israel Philharmonic with Kent Nagano, Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic, Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica (Scala de Milan, Rome, Pavia, Istanbul), Sinfonia Varsovia with Maxim Vengerov, NDR Sinfonie-Orchester Hamburg, and so on.