The composer and conductor Tan Dun has been honored with The Brilliance of China – Choice for Chinese Culture Promoters of the Year. The award recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the advancement of Chinese culture in other nations and regions around the world in areas as diverse as the arts, sports, education, politics, humanities, natural sciences, and philanthropy. From the New York Philharmonic to Water Music, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to Nu Shu, ...

Joined by accomplished composers—the Pulitzer Prize-winning Zhou Long, and the award-winning Chen Yi—Tan Dun will lead a performance and discussion that weaves together a narrative of the artists’ musical journeys from China to America. The evening will also include a tribute performance from the award-winning Ying Quartet to composer Chou Wen-chung, who invited the composers to America and Columbia University.

To kick off the New Year, Tan Dun conducts the Latin American premieres of Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women and Martial Arts Trilogy as part of the 2015 Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil in Santiago, Chile. On January 3, 2015, the Chinese composer/conductor takes the podium for a performance of Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, a symphony ...

On February 3 & 4, 2015, Tan Dun will conduct his Water Passion after St. Matthew, first for the opening event of Hamburg’s Lux Aeterna Festival–which is devoted to artists, composers and works where spirituality plays a central role–and also in Lübeck. Tan Dun will lead the Internationale Chorakademie Lübeck and a cast of soloists that includes Maria Chiara Chizzoni (soprano), Stephen Bryant (baritone), Jiamin Wang (violin), Beibei Wang (percussion), ...

To mark the Lunar New Year, Tan Dun appears this February at the Huayi Festival in Singapore and returns to conduct the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for performances of Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women. The Chinese composer/conductor’s symphony for 13 micro films, harp and orchestra traces this ancient and endangered tradition of women’s writing — “Nu Shu” — and gives it a contemporary voice. For the first of his two ...

On March 6, 2015, Tan Dun continues his spring performance season as conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taipei for the Asian premieres of his Contrabass Concerto: The Wolf and Percussion Concerto: The Tears of Nature. The new work is a co-commission of co-commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, St Louis Symphony, and Tasmanian ...

Expect the unexpected. The Soviet authorities wanted Shostakovich’s Ninth to be a blockbuster epic, but instead they got a brilliantly entertaining mini-masterpiece with a wicked sense of humour. Tonight the Orchestra’s own Marcel Becker stars in the UK premiere of a new Double Bass concerto by Tan Dun, the world-famous composer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And the dynamic young conductor Darrell Ang has roots in the Far East – but trained in the great ...

On September 27, Tan Dun conducted the Australian premieres of Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women and Symphonic Poem on Three Notes at the OzAsia festival in a performance that won praise from audiences and critics alike. The Guardian, in its four-star review of the evening, wrote that the “multimedia extravaganza brought beauty and wisdom to Adelaide,” engaging audiences ...

On September 27, Tan Dun conducts the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in the Australian premiere of Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women at the OzAsia Festival. In a recent interview anticipating the performance, Tan Dun explains: “I think it’s like a spiritual offering. I decided to create something much more associated with today’s technology and philosophy and today’s culture, but meanwhile, a creation also linked ...

Earlier this month, composer and conductor Tan Dun toured Water Passion after St. Matthew with the Nieuw Ensemble, giving the work’s Dutch premiere in Rotterdam and also appearing in Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. The premiere was met with critical and audience acclaim. Algemeen Dagblad, Rotterdam’s most widely circulated newspaper, featured the performance on its front page.