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Cristina Ortiz Piano Recital

Date: Feb 19 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 50-480 yuan

Cristina Ortiz' natural musicality, masterful craftsmanship and commitment to refined playing have ensured her a place among the most respected pianists in the world. Throughout her extensive career she has performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, and the Chicago Symphony, Philharmonia and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras among many others. She has collaborated with conductors such as Neeme Jarvi, Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur, Andre Previn and David Zinman. Ortiz' remarkable technique and acute sense of musical adventure is particularly evident in her wide-ranging repertoire. A popular artist with promoters and audiences around the world, she has recently worked with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Haydn Orchestra Bolzano and Trento. Highlights in coming seasons include her debut with the Orquestra Filarmonica de Minas Gerais as well as a European tour with the Fine Arts Quartet to include Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Beyond the concert platform, Cristina Ortiz has recorded some thirty albums for EMI Classics, Decca, Collins Classics and, most recently, Intrada, Naxos and BIS. Spring 2014 saw Naxos release her recording of solo piano works by York Bowen, while three previous recordings on the same label are collaborations with the Fine Arts Quartet - featuring music by Saint-Saens, Franck (which won a Gramophone Editor's Choice plaudit) and Faure respectively. Between recitals and concerto performances, Ortiz is a passionate and committed teacher, giving master classes worldwide as well as private peripatetic lessons. She has recently held workshops at Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Australian National Academy of Music, National Centre for the Arts in Mexico, Tokyo College of Music and Per Piano Solo Festival in Amandola, Italy, as well as throughout the UK.

Contact: 010-6655-0000

BBC Documentary Concert - Frozen Planet

Date: Feb 18-19 - 2:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Children Art Theater

Price: 80-480 yuan

An evocative live orchestral music with breathtaking HD images of "the majestic and frozen wilderness of the Polar Regions" from the landmark BBC television series, which is a unique audiovisual feast! Frozen Planet accompanied by the George Fenton's well-received score and performed by Shanghai Opera House Orchestra. "Frozen planet" is a costly documentary, which Truly shows gradually melting polar ice and all kinds of creatures living on the frozen planet to fully present the nature's mysterious side for the audience. During the concert, the audience can watch documentary through the 150 square meters of LED large screen with the majestic and witty live music. Such an audiovisual feast. Shanghai Opera House Orchestra is one of the nation-famous music presenters in China, specializing in accompaniment to operas and ballets. Since its establishment the orchestra has presented a lot of productions, including Chinese opera: Thunderstorm, the Wager, Poet Li Bai, The Savage Field, Sister Jiang and others; Western opera: Otello, Tosca, Turandot, La Boheme, La Traviata, the Nose, Rigoletto and others; Chorus and Oratorio: Beethoven 9th Symphony, Mozart Requiem, Handel Messiah; Ballet: Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Manon, Don Quixote, and others.

Contact: 400-610-3721