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LMTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND YOUNG SOLOISTS SPRING SESSION CONCERTS IN PLUNGĖ AND VILNIUS

2024 April 11, Plungė Duke Michał Mikołaj Ogiński Palace (Parko Str. 5, Plungė), 18:00

2024 April 12, LMTA Great Hall (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius), 18:00

LMTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND YOUNG SOLOISTS SPRING SESSION CONCERTS IN PLUNGĖ AND VILNIUS

The Symphony Orchestra of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, the second oldest of Lithuania’s symphony orchestras, has prepared an impressive programme for the spring session.

The LMTA Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1953. Abelis Klenickis, Jurgis Fledžinskas, Juozas Domarkas, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Laurynas Vakaris Lopas, Robertas Šervenikas, the most prominent Lithuanian masters and performers of the baton have worked with this youth orchestra at various times and have nurtured it. Since 2013 the orchestra has been led by conductor Prof. Martynas Staškus.

The LMTA Symphony Orchestra consists of students from the String and Wind and Percussion Departments, who come together in spring and autumn each year to play music together and prepare new programmes. The Academy’s spaces are then filled with the sounds of orchestral rehearsals, and the walls are filled with the majestic sound of the rehearsing ensemble. Guest conductors are often invited to work with the orchestra.

This time, the LMTA Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Ching-Ming Lu, a guest conductor from Taiwan, winner of the Eduard Mata International Conducting Competition and the Acknowledgement Award presented by the Austrian Government.

Together with the Symphony Orchestra, the solo programmes will be performed by LMTA students, laureates of international competitions – Lukas Pronskus, a student of violin class of Prof. Rūta Lipinaitytė, Birutė Ilčiukaitė, a student of viola class of Prof. Petras Radzevičius, Morta Jurkėnaitė, a student of Antanas Taločka’s clarinet class, Jose Vicente Fusco (marimba), a student of Sigitas Gailius’ percussion class.

The programme will include: the Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88 by M. Bruch, the Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra by E. Séjourné, Á. Piazzolla’s Inverno (‘Winter’), Verano (‘Summer’) from The Seasons in Buenos Aires for violin and strings and A. Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’, Op. 95

Concert hosts: Justina Mikniuvienė and Justė Jankauskaitė.

Concerts are free

“…… The charismatic Mr. Lu made a brilliant figure, whipping the waves of sound into a passionate peak, without ever losing control to the orchestra……”. Reviewed by Wiener Zeitung (The Vienna Times).

Ching-Ming Lu was awarded the Würdigungspreis by Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture of Austria to celebrate his achievement of musical art in 2003. He has worked with an impressive list of orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and others. He has given concerts across Europe, Asia, America and Africa. His concert video recordings were broadcasted in Austria, France, Mexico, China, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Ching-Ming Lu was appointed as the assistant conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 2004-2005 and the candidate of the Associate Conductor of France Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2005. After moving back to Taiwan, he served as the music director of Chimei Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006-2008 and led the orchestra several tours in China and Taiwan.

Ching-Ming Lu found the Taiwan Artists Symphony Orchestra (TASO) in 2009. As the music director and the conductor of the orchestra, he has been praised for innovative programming, enhancing the orchestra with multimedia and showcasing the works of Taiwanese composers. With over 500 concerts, TASO has the broad repertoire and the diverse genres of cross-field productions associated with painting, dancing, calligraphy, multimedia, information technology to Site-Specific Theater. In 2012 TASO was invited as the residence orchestra of the renowned “Festival Musique en Ré” in France, and held 14 concerts collaborated with the soloists such as Laurent Korcia, Régis Pasquier, Roland Pidoux, Patrice Fontanarosa, and Marc Coppey.

In 2006 Ching-Ming Lu’s recording of Richard Wagner’s orchestral music with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, released by Chimei label, received critical acclaim.

Recognized as a composer, Ching-Ming Lu’s compositions have been performed in Austria, China, Sweden, and Taiwan. In 2012 “Zerstörung und Erlösung” (Destroy and Redemption) was premiered at the Art Symposium of European Union, and it’s Italian premiere held at “Teatro La Fenice” later in 2013. In recent years, Lu changed his composition to combine western musical language and Taiwanese elements, his most updated orchestral suite “2 Sketches of Fu-Cheng” in 2018；“Fantasia Mount Ali” and “Distance to Love” in 2020, were premiered by TASO.

In 2005 Ching-Ming Lu received his Postgraduate Diploma for Orchestral Conducting of the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm where he studied with Jorma Panula. He received the First Diploma for Conducting with distinction in 1999 and the Second Diploma for Orchestral Conducting and Master Degree of Arts with distinction in 2003 from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In Vienna he was doing triple major, studying conducting with Uros Lajovic, opera coaching with Konrad Leitner and composition with Dietmar Schermann. In 2003-2006 he also attended the Lithuanian Music Academy and Sibelius Academy in Finland, working with Juozas Domarkas and Leif Segerstam.