- 5/8(Thu)12:00 p.m. - 5/22(Thu)12:00 p.m. 25% Discount for Weiwuying member.
- 5/15(Thu)12:00 p.m. - 5/22(Thu)12:00 p.m. 20% Discount for Audience Overall.
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 105 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
Performed in Mandarin, Taiwanese and indigenous languages.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- The presenter and performers reserve the right to change the repertoire.
Helpful Guide
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
※ID and Youth membership card are required at the door. - Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
Kent NAGANO & Maria João PIRES & Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Portuguese pianist Maria João PIRES returns to Taiwan for the third time, making her debut performance of a piano concerto. Renowned for her poetic and pure sound, PIRES has won the hearts of Taiwanese music lovers. This time, she will be joining Kent NAGANO and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg to perform BEETHOVEN's Piano Concerto No. 4 at Weiwuying Concert Hall. Based on BACH's The Well-Tempered Clavier, MOZART's Prelude and Fugue in d minor will be performed before the piano concerto that reflects MOZART's interests in fugue. In the second half, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, steeped in two centuries of German-Austrian tradition and a witness to the Romantic era's brilliance, will perform BRAHMS' Symphony No. 4 under Kent NAGANO's baton, delivering an epic masterpiece of somber fate, passionate grandeur, and monumental tension.
From MOZART's experiment, BEETHOVEN's philosophical depth to BRAHMS' emotional torrents, PIRES' first piano concerto performance in Taiwan promises to be a historic moment not to be missed. Join us at Weiwuying to experience the pure, powerful impact of the music!
Pre-talk
2025/7/18(Fri)19:00 Concert Hall 3F Lobby
Program
W. A. MOZART/Arr. J. S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue in d minor, K. 405/4
L. v. BEETHOVEN: Piano concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
J. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜Kent NAGANO
Piano｜Maria João PIRES
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜Kent NAGANO
KENT NAGANO is considered one of today's outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is Artistic Director of the Ring project "The Wagner Cycles" with CONCERTO KÖLN and DRESDNER FESTSPIELORCHESTER, and as patron of the HERRENCHIEMSEE FESTIVAL. He is Honorary Conductor of the DEUTSCHE SYMPHONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN since 2006, CONCERTO KÖLN since 2019, the ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL since 2021 and the HAMBURG PHILHARMONIC STATE ORCHESTRA since 2023.
The 2024–25 season will be NAGANO's final season of his tenure in Hamburg and brings four new productions to the STAATSOPER alongside orchestral performances at ELBPHILHARMONIE and a tour to Asia. This season, he guest conducts the SYMPHONIEORCHESTER DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS in Passau, the ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL and the DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER in Berlin. Guest opera productions this season include Il Viaggio, Dante by PASCAL DUSAPIN at the PARIS OPERA and the revival of LIGETI's Le Grand Macabre at the BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER MÜNCHEN.
Under the artistic direction of KENT NAGANO and the Intendant of the DRESDNER MUSIKFESTSPIELE JAN VOGLER, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy is being performed from 2023 to 2026 in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into WAGNER and performance practice.
Born in California, KENT NAGANO was awarded in February 2024 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President and in June 2024 he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. He is the recipient of the 2024 BRAHMS PRIZE of the BRAHMS SOCIETY OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
Piano｜Maria João PIRES
Born in 1944 in Lisbon, Maria João PIRES gave her first public performance at the age of 4 and began her studies of music and piano with Campos COELHO and Francine BENOÎT, continuing later in Germany, with Rosl SCHMID and Karl ENGEL. In addition to her concerts, she has made recordings for Erato for fifteen years and Deutsche Grammophon for twenty years.
Since the 1970s, she has devoted herself to reflecting the influence of art in life, community and education, trying to discover new ways of establishing this way of thinking in society. She has searched for new ways which, respecting the development of individuals and cultures, encourage the sharing of ideas.
In 1999, she created the Belgais Centre for the Study of the Arts in Portugal. Maria João PIRES regularly offers interdisciplinary workshops for professional musicians and music lovers. In the Belgais concert hall concerts and recordings regularly take place. In future these will be shared with the international digital community (pay and non-pay).
In 2012, in Belgium, she initiated two complementary projects; the Partitura Choirs, a project which creates and develops choirs for children from disadvantaged backgrounds as in Belgium the "Hesperos Choir," and the Partitura Workshops. All of the Partitura projects have the aim to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations by proposing an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. This philosophy is being spread worldwide at Partitura projects and workshops.
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg's largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the "Philharmonic Orchestra" and the "Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre" merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara SCHUMANN, Franz LISZT and Johannes BRAHMS being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Richard STRAUSS, Gustav MAHLER, Sergei PROKOFIEV and Igor STRAVINSKY, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl MUCK, Joseph KEILBERTH, Eugen JOCHUM, Wolfgang SAWALLISCH, Horst STEIN, Aldo CECCATO, Christoph von DOHNÁNYI, Gerd ALBRECHT, Ingo METZMACHER and Simone YOUNG have shaped the orchestra's sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto KLEMPERER, Wilhelm FURTWÄNGLER, Bruno WALTER, Karl BÖHM and Hans SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian THIELEMANN, Semyon BYCHKOV, Kirill PETRENKO, Adam FISCHER and Sir Roger NORRINGTON.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent NAGANO has taken on the position of Hamburg's General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent NAGANO initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, NAGANO and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent NAGANO and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg WIDMANN to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall's opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which WIDMANN received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John NEUMEIER, making it Hamburg's busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone YOUNG and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Richard WAGNER as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes BRAHMS and Anton BRUCKNER – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Gustav MAHLER, Paul HINDEMITH and Alban BERG, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Toshio HOSOKAWA, Jacques OFFENBACH, Aribert REIMANN, Lera AUERBACH, Johann Sebastian BACH, Giacomo PUCCINI, Francis POULENC and Carl Maria von WEBER.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg's musical tradition and responsible for the city's artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg's schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra's own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic's musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow's music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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Kent NAGANO & Maria João PIRES & Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Portuguese pianist Maria João PIRES returns to Taiwan for the third time, making her debut performance of a piano concerto. Renowned for her poetic and pure sound, PIRES has won the hearts of Taiwanese music lovers. This time, she will be joining Kent NAGANO and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg to perform BEETHOVEN's Piano Concerto No. 4 at Weiwuying Concert Hall. Based on BACH's The Well-Tempered Clavier, MOZART's Prelude and Fugue in d minor will be performed before the piano concerto that reflects MOZART's interests in fugue. In the second half, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, steeped in two centuries of German-Austrian tradition and a witness to the Romantic era's brilliance, will perform BRAHMS' Symphony No. 4 under Kent NAGANO's baton, delivering an epic masterpiece of somber fate, passionate grandeur, and monumental tension.
From MOZART's experiment, BEETHOVEN's philosophical depth to BRAHMS' emotional torrents, PIRES' first piano concerto performance in Taiwan promises to be a historic moment not to be missed. Join us at Weiwuying to experience the pure, powerful impact of the music!
Pre-talk
2025/7/18(Fri)19:00 Concert Hall 3F Lobby
Program
W. A. MOZART/Arr. J. S. BACH: Prelude and Fugue in d minor, K. 405/4
L. v. BEETHOVEN: Piano concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
J. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜Kent NAGANO
Piano｜Maria João PIRES
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜Kent NAGANO
KENT NAGANO is considered one of today's outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is Artistic Director of the Ring project "The Wagner Cycles" with CONCERTO KÖLN and DRESDNER FESTSPIELORCHESTER, and as patron of the HERRENCHIEMSEE FESTIVAL. He is Honorary Conductor of the DEUTSCHE SYMPHONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN since 2006, CONCERTO KÖLN since 2019, the ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL since 2021 and the HAMBURG PHILHARMONIC STATE ORCHESTRA since 2023.
The 2024–25 season will be NAGANO's final season of his tenure in Hamburg and brings four new productions to the STAATSOPER alongside orchestral performances at ELBPHILHARMONIE and a tour to Asia. This season, he guest conducts the SYMPHONIEORCHESTER DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS in Passau, the ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL and the DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER in Berlin. Guest opera productions this season include Il Viaggio, Dante by PASCAL DUSAPIN at the PARIS OPERA and the revival of LIGETI's Le Grand Macabre at the BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER MÜNCHEN.
Under the artistic direction of KENT NAGANO and the Intendant of the DRESDNER MUSIKFESTSPIELE JAN VOGLER, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy is being performed from 2023 to 2026 in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into WAGNER and performance practice.
Born in California, KENT NAGANO was awarded in February 2024 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President and in June 2024 he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. He is the recipient of the 2024 BRAHMS PRIZE of the BRAHMS SOCIETY OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
Piano｜Maria João PIRES
Born in 1944 in Lisbon, Maria João PIRES gave her first public performance at the age of 4 and began her studies of music and piano with Campos COELHO and Francine BENOÎT, continuing later in Germany, with Rosl SCHMID and Karl ENGEL. In addition to her concerts, she has made recordings for Erato for fifteen years and Deutsche Grammophon for twenty years.
Since the 1970s, she has devoted herself to reflecting the influence of art in life, community and education, trying to discover new ways of establishing this way of thinking in society. She has searched for new ways which, respecting the development of individuals and cultures, encourage the sharing of ideas.
In 1999, she created the Belgais Centre for the Study of the Arts in Portugal. Maria João PIRES regularly offers interdisciplinary workshops for professional musicians and music lovers. In the Belgais concert hall concerts and recordings regularly take place. In future these will be shared with the international digital community (pay and non-pay).
In 2012, in Belgium, she initiated two complementary projects; the Partitura Choirs, a project which creates and develops choirs for children from disadvantaged backgrounds as in Belgium the "Hesperos Choir," and the Partitura Workshops. All of the Partitura projects have the aim to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations by proposing an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. This philosophy is being spread worldwide at Partitura projects and workshops.
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg's largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the "Philharmonic Orchestra" and the "Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre" merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara SCHUMANN, Franz LISZT and Johannes BRAHMS being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Georg Philipp TELEMANN, Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Richard STRAUSS, Gustav MAHLER, Sergei PROKOFIEV and Igor STRAVINSKY, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl MUCK, Joseph KEILBERTH, Eugen JOCHUM, Wolfgang SAWALLISCH, Horst STEIN, Aldo CECCATO, Christoph von DOHNÁNYI, Gerd ALBRECHT, Ingo METZMACHER and Simone YOUNG have shaped the orchestra's sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto KLEMPERER, Wilhelm FURTWÄNGLER, Bruno WALTER, Karl BÖHM and Hans SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian THIELEMANN, Semyon BYCHKOV, Kirill PETRENKO, Adam FISCHER and Sir Roger NORRINGTON.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent NAGANO has taken on the position of Hamburg's General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent NAGANO initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, NAGANO and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent NAGANO and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg WIDMANN to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall's opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which WIDMANN received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John NEUMEIER, making it Hamburg's busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone YOUNG and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Richard WAGNER as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes BRAHMS and Anton BRUCKNER – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Gustav MAHLER, Paul HINDEMITH and Alban BERG, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Toshio HOSOKAWA, Jacques OFFENBACH, Aribert REIMANN, Lera AUERBACH, Johann Sebastian BACH, Giacomo PUCCINI, Francis POULENC and Carl Maria von WEBER.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg's musical tradition and responsible for the city's artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg's schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra's own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic's musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow's music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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Sponsor
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- 5/8(Thu)12:00 p.m. - 5/22(Thu)12:00 p.m. 25% Discount for Weiwuying member.
- 5/15(Thu)12:00 p.m. - 5/22(Thu)12:00 p.m. 20% Discount for Audience Overall.
- Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 105 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
Performed in Mandarin, Taiwanese and indigenous languages.
- Age guidance 7+
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
- The presenter and performers reserve the right to change the repertoire.
Helpful Guide
- 10% off for Weiwuying Lifestyle member
- Weiwuying Youth member: 25% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
※ID and Youth membership card are required at the door. - Weiwuying Unlimited member: 30% ticket discount for your first purchase. The additional ticket discount same as Lifestyle members.
- For details, please see Weiwuying Members Benefit
