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

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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.