厦门爱乐乐团介绍

The Introduction of Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra

自1998年9月9日厦门爱乐乐团在鼓浪屿举行首场音乐会至今，已经四年了。厦门爱乐乐团是在厦门市人民政府、鼓浪屿区人民政府、厦门古龙集团有限公司、厦门路桥建设投资总公司、厦门国有资产投资公司和鼓浪屿风景建设开发公司等的关爱和支持下成长起来的，去年有有了福建电力和厦门电业局及其集力公司的强力加盟，使乐团的生存有了基本保障。

四年来，厦门爱乐乐团虽然举步艰难，但仍坚持了五个音乐季的"周末交响"定期音乐会，为了"阳春白雪，和者日众"乐团邀请了国内外知名音乐家112位来厦门合作，演出了含81套不同曲目的307场带讲解的音乐会，计交响套曲70部、序曲、交响诗64部、舞曲、进行曲、小品88首。已经锻炼出一个拥有70多位乐手、追求国家一流水平的职业交响乐团，培养起了一批音乐爱好者。

四年来，厦门爱乐乐团积极完成市、区政府交办的庆典演出任务、为营造厦门"艺术之城"奉献力量；还热心为大、中、小学生举行普及音乐会，在鼓浪屿草坪上举行免费的"万众同乐"音乐会，为市民和旅游者免费开放排练，曾三次走出福建，在六省18市进行了极为成功的巡回演出，最近更面向全国举办了"指挥法基础教授班"，扩大了厦门的知名度。朱亚衍前市长给郑小瑛教授的祝贺信说："通过您的艺术之旅，不仅锻炼了队伍，推广普及了高雅艺术，而且，更用生动的事实宣传了厦门两个文明建设的成就，提高了我市的形象和文化品位；�"。爱乐乐团已经成为厦门市的一张名片。

Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra

The Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra is a professional orchestra currently supported by the Xiamen municipal government and the Gulangyu district government,with contributions from the Fujian Electricial Power Bureau. It made its debut on September 9,1998,on the beautiful Egret Island,a.k.a. Xiamen,under the leadership of Professor Zheng Xiaoying,the most prominent female conductor in China,who remains the orchestra's Artistic Director and principal Conductor.Shince that time,the "Gulangyu Weekend Symphony" has brought to audiences more than 300 well-received concerts that have included more than 80 different programs of classical and contemporary music,domestic and from abroad.

During performances,the "Zheng Xiao-ying System" of explaining while performing,helps people who are just becoming familiar with the symphony to be more receptive and understand more about the music.The orchestra actively advocates composition and promotion of symphonies with background stories or musical content of concern to China of Fujian.

This they view as a duty of Chinese orchestras.They also have made short tours to 18 cities in six provines to spread the seeds of philharmonic music more widely.In April 2002,they successfully toured three cities in Japan with a Chinese symphonic epic composed by Liu Yuan, "Echo of Hakka Earth Buildings",and have been invited to perform it for an important government meeting in Beijing in November. In preparation for this Fourth International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians,the young orchestra has played 77 concertos in cooperation with 71 musicians over the past four years. Artists in the orchestra have come from across China to devote their efforts toward building Xiamen and Gulangyu into a "Music Island of the Orient" which can live up to its name.

郑小瑛 - 厦门爱乐乐团艺术总监、首席指挥
郑小瑛教授曾任中央歌剧院首席指挥、中央音乐学院指挥系主任和《爱乐女》乐团的音乐指导，现被聘为《厦门爱乐乐团》的艺术总监、首席指挥。她毕业于中央音乐学院，留学苏联国立莫斯科音乐学院进修歌剧、交响乐指挥。她曾获文化部优秀指挥一等奖、法国文学艺术荣誉勋章、俄中友谊勋章等奖项。还经常担任国家重要活动的指挥，在国内外指挥的歌剧、交响音乐会达一千余场。她是中国最有经验的指挥教授之一，更是一位热情的音乐社会活动家。她采取各种形式向群众介绍音乐知识已达千余次，直接听众已达二十多万。她还多次获"全国三八红旗手"、"全国优秀女职工"、"老教授科教兴国"和"全国老有所为贡献奖"等荣誉。1998年她应邀来厦门组建一个不占国家编制的民办职业交响乐团，在厦门市政府和社会企业的大力支持和她的积极推动下，这个乐团正在改造，走近国家水平。1998年她应邀来厦门组建一个不占国家编制的民办职业交响乐团，在厦门市政府和社会企业的大力支持和她的积极推动下，这个乐团正在改造，走近国家水平。自1980年起，郑小瑛成功地多次赴澳、美、意、俄、英、芬、德、法、荷、瑞、比、爱、新、泰、港等地举行音乐会和指挥歌剧，皆获高度赞扬，她是第一位登上国外歌剧院指挥台的中国指挥，2002年冬还应邀赴美指挥中国交响诗篇《土楼回响》，西方媒介称她为"世界最佳女指挥家"。

Zheng Xiaoying - Before assuming responsibility as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Xiamen Philharmoinic Orchestra,Professor Zheng Xiaoying was Principal Condutor of China's Central Opera Theater and Dean of the Department of Conducting of China's Central Conservatory of Music.She was the founder and music director of "Ai Yue Nu",the Women's Philharmonic Chamber Crchestra,which was expanded into the first women's symphony orchestra in China and performed for the opening of the United Nations Fourth World on Women in 1955.She graduated from the Central Conservatiory of music,and continued for advanced studies in opera and symphonic conducting at the National Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow. She won first prize for excellent conducting from China's Ministry of Culture and also received the French Literature and Arts Medal of Honor.She often conducts for important state occasions,and has conducted more than 1000 opera performances and symphonic concerts at home and abroad.She is one of China's most experienced conductiong professors and is a passionate social activist for music.She has used various ways to introduce knowledge of music to audiences,whose members by now have numbered into the hundreds of thousands.She has won numerous national awards for he hard work and continuing contributions to music and to China's development.In 1998,she was invited to establish an orchestra run by non-government organizations in Xiamen and has promoted it to attain high levels of achievement in an unusually short time.

Since 1980,Zheng Xiaoying has held concerts and conducted operas to wide acclaim in 'Australia, the United States,Italy,Russia,England,Finland,Germany,France,Belgium,the Netherlands,Sweden, Estonia,Singapore,Thailand,Japan,Hongkong,Macau and Taiwan.She was the first Chinese conductor to take the podium in a foreign opera theater,and Western news media have called her the world's best woman conductor.
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