- 11/24(Mon)12:00 p.m. - 12/8(Mon)12:00 p.m.
25% Discount for Weiwuying member. - 12/1(Mon)12:00 p.m. - 12/8(Mon)12:00 p.m.
20% Discount for Audience Overall. - Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
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
(Program changed) [2026 Weiwuying International Music Festival] Opening Concert - From BRAHMS to AMMANN
| ※The program has been changed. For more information, please contact +886-7-262-6666. |
Maestro David ROBERTSON joins pianist Anton GERZENBERG and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra for three cross-era masterworks. WEBERN's Passacaglia fuses Romanticism with early modern precision through rich orchestral textures and layered variations. AMMANN's Gran Toccata reimagines the concerto, turning the piano into a kinetic, visual force seamlessly woven with the orchestra into a work of phenomenal virtuosity. BRAHMS's final symphony, No. 4, pairs structural mastery with profound emotion, its passacaglia finale a direct inspiration for WEBERN. From Romantic depth to modern brilliance, this program offers a journey through time and sound.
Pre-talk
4/10(Fri)19:00 Concert Hall 3F Lobby
Program
A. WEBERN: Passacaglia in d minor for Orchestra, Op. 1
Dieter AMMANN: Piano Concerto, Gran Toccata (2016-2019)
J. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜David ROBERTSON
Piano｜Anton GERZENBERG
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜David ROBERTSON
David ROBERTSON—conductor, artist, composer, thinker, American musical visionary – occupies the most prominent podiums in opera, orchestral music, and new music. He is a champion of contemporary composers, and an ingenious and adventurous programmer. ROBERTSON has served in numerous artistic leadership positions, such as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a transformative 13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with the Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and, as protégé of Pierre BOULEZ, the Ensemble InterContemporain. He appears with the world's great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and many major ensembles and festivals on five continents. Since his 1996 Metropolitan Opera debut, ROBERTSON has conducted a breathtaking range of Met projects, including the 2019-20 season opening premiere production of Porgy and Bess, for which he shared a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in March 2021. In 2022, he conducted the Met Opera revival of the production, in addition to making his Rome Opera debut conducting JANÁČEK's Káťa Kabanová. ROBERTSON is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, and is the recipient of numerous artistic awards. He serves on the Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, complementing his role as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Faculty of The Juilliard School, New York.
Piano｜Anton GERZENBERG
Since winning the First Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich in 2021, pianist Anton GERZENBERG, born in 1996, has made a name for himself in the music world: with a broad repertoire spanning from SWEELINCK to LACHENMANN, he captivates audiences with his virtuoso yet sensitive playing in sophisticated programmes.
In the second year of his residency as "Great Talent" at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Anton GERZENBERG can be heard there again in 2023/24 as a soloist as well as with chamber music and interdisciplinary performances. Having recently conducted the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from the piano, Anton GERZENBERG kicked off the new season with a play-conduct project with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, leading Beethoven's piano concerto No. 1. Further orchestra debuts as a soloist include the Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra, and the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic, among others. This season also sees his first solo appearances at the Heidelberger Frühling, at BASF Ludwigshafen, at Musikverein Vienna and Seoul Arts Center. Following his successful recital tour with the complete LIGETI Etudes for the celebration of LIGETI's 100th birthday in Germany and Austria, he will present works by Marco STROPPA, Unsuk CHIN, Chaya CZERNOWIN and Luigi NONO in a solo recital at the 2023 Wien Modern festival. He will also appear in concerts in Vienna, Munich and Elmau together with Martha ARGERICH, Lilya ZILBERSTEIN, and his brother Daniel GERZENBERG.
Anton GERZENBERG has performed on numerous important stages worldwide such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the KKL Lucerne, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore and the National Concert Hall of Taiwan, as well as at festivals such as the
Klavierfestival Ruhr, the tAccademia Chigiana, the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Martha Argerich Festivals in Lugano and Hamburg. He has worked with leading orchestras including the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Musikkollegium Winterthur among others. Frequent musical partners include Martha ARGERICH, Ilya GRINGOLTS, Julia HAGEN, and Dora SCHWARZBERG, as well as conductors such as Paavo JÄRVI, Stefan BLUNIER, Jonathan STOCKHAMMER and Nil VENDETTI.
Anton GERZENBERG's interest in new music was particularly supported by his studies with French pianist Pierre-Laurent AIMARD and has led him to work with numerous important composers of our time, among them Helmut LACHENMANN, Unsuk CHIN and Marco STROPPA. In 2019, he was one of the co-founders of the ÉRMA Ensemble, an ensemble specialized in Contemporary Music. His studies led him also to Julia SUSLIN and Julija BOTCHKOVSKAIA in Hamburg as well as Jan Jiracek von ARNIM in Vienna; important mentors were Robert LEVIN, Alfred BRENDEL, and Bella DAVIDOVICH.
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1945, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) is the oldest symphony orchestra in Taiwan. Since its establishment, it has been successively affiliated with the Taiwan Garrison Command, Taiwan Art Construction Association, Taiwan Provincial Department of Education, Department of Culture, Council for Cultural Affairs, and the Executive Yuan. In May of 2012, it came under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The orchestra is located in Wufeng, Taichung. It is a full-fledged music group with a full complement of software and hardware.
Over 80 years of history, under the direction of the past and the efforts of the current director, Dr. Hui-Kang OUYANG, the NTSO has accumulated extensive performing experience. Countless international teams and musicians have been invited to perform with the NTSO.
Since 2019, the internationally renowned conductor maestro Lan SHUI has taken on the position of the NTSO Principal Guest Conductor, cooperating with the NTSO to enrich artistic skills, innovate on tradition, deepen education, and promote aesthetics, thus enhancing the public's musical life, making music ever-present like air, water and sunshine.
Cultural Development Partner
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(Program changed) [2026 Weiwuying International Music Festival] Opening Concert - From BRAHMS to AMMANN
| ※The program has been changed. For more information, please contact +886-7-262-6666. |
Maestro David ROBERTSON joins pianist Anton GERZENBERG and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra for three cross-era masterworks. WEBERN's Passacaglia fuses Romanticism with early modern precision through rich orchestral textures and layered variations. AMMANN's Gran Toccata reimagines the concerto, turning the piano into a kinetic, visual force seamlessly woven with the orchestra into a work of phenomenal virtuosity. BRAHMS's final symphony, No. 4, pairs structural mastery with profound emotion, its passacaglia finale a direct inspiration for WEBERN. From Romantic depth to modern brilliance, this program offers a journey through time and sound.
Pre-talk
4/10(Fri)19:00 Concert Hall 3F Lobby
Program
A. WEBERN: Passacaglia in d minor for Orchestra, Op. 1
Dieter AMMANN: Piano Concerto, Gran Toccata (2016-2019)
J. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98
Creative and Production Team
Conductor｜David ROBERTSON
Piano｜Anton GERZENBERG
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Artists Introduction
Conductor｜David ROBERTSON
David ROBERTSON—conductor, artist, composer, thinker, American musical visionary – occupies the most prominent podiums in opera, orchestral music, and new music. He is a champion of contemporary composers, and an ingenious and adventurous programmer. ROBERTSON has served in numerous artistic leadership positions, such as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a transformative 13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with the Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and, as protégé of Pierre BOULEZ, the Ensemble InterContemporain. He appears with the world's great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and many major ensembles and festivals on five continents. Since his 1996 Metropolitan Opera debut, ROBERTSON has conducted a breathtaking range of Met projects, including the 2019-20 season opening premiere production of Porgy and Bess, for which he shared a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in March 2021. In 2022, he conducted the Met Opera revival of the production, in addition to making his Rome Opera debut conducting JANÁČEK's Káťa Kabanová. ROBERTSON is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, and is the recipient of numerous artistic awards. He serves on the Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, complementing his role as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Faculty of The Juilliard School, New York.
Piano｜Anton GERZENBERG
Since winning the First Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich in 2021, pianist Anton GERZENBERG, born in 1996, has made a name for himself in the music world: with a broad repertoire spanning from SWEELINCK to LACHENMANN, he captivates audiences with his virtuoso yet sensitive playing in sophisticated programmes.
In the second year of his residency as "Great Talent" at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Anton GERZENBERG can be heard there again in 2023/24 as a soloist as well as with chamber music and interdisciplinary performances. Having recently conducted the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from the piano, Anton GERZENBERG kicked off the new season with a play-conduct project with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, leading Beethoven's piano concerto No. 1. Further orchestra debuts as a soloist include the Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra, and the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic, among others. This season also sees his first solo appearances at the Heidelberger Frühling, at BASF Ludwigshafen, at Musikverein Vienna and Seoul Arts Center. Following his successful recital tour with the complete LIGETI Etudes for the celebration of LIGETI's 100th birthday in Germany and Austria, he will present works by Marco STROPPA, Unsuk CHIN, Chaya CZERNOWIN and Luigi NONO in a solo recital at the 2023 Wien Modern festival. He will also appear in concerts in Vienna, Munich and Elmau together with Martha ARGERICH, Lilya ZILBERSTEIN, and his brother Daniel GERZENBERG.
Anton GERZENBERG has performed on numerous important stages worldwide such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the KKL Lucerne, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore and the National Concert Hall of Taiwan, as well as at festivals such as the
Klavierfestival Ruhr, the tAccademia Chigiana, the Rheingau Musikfestival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Martha Argerich Festivals in Lugano and Hamburg. He has worked with leading orchestras including the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Musikkollegium Winterthur among others. Frequent musical partners include Martha ARGERICH, Ilya GRINGOLTS, Julia HAGEN, and Dora SCHWARZBERG, as well as conductors such as Paavo JÄRVI, Stefan BLUNIER, Jonathan STOCKHAMMER and Nil VENDETTI.
Anton GERZENBERG's interest in new music was particularly supported by his studies with French pianist Pierre-Laurent AIMARD and has led him to work with numerous important composers of our time, among them Helmut LACHENMANN, Unsuk CHIN and Marco STROPPA. In 2019, he was one of the co-founders of the ÉRMA Ensemble, an ensemble specialized in Contemporary Music. His studies led him also to Julia SUSLIN and Julija BOTCHKOVSKAIA in Hamburg as well as Jan Jiracek von ARNIM in Vienna; important mentors were Robert LEVIN, Alfred BRENDEL, and Bella DAVIDOVICH.
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1945, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) is the oldest symphony orchestra in Taiwan. Since its establishment, it has been successively affiliated with the Taiwan Garrison Command, Taiwan Art Construction Association, Taiwan Provincial Department of Education, Department of Culture, Council for Cultural Affairs, and the Executive Yuan. In May of 2012, it came under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The orchestra is located in Wufeng, Taichung. It is a full-fledged music group with a full complement of software and hardware.
Over 80 years of history, under the direction of the past and the efforts of the current director, Dr. Hui-Kang OUYANG, the NTSO has accumulated extensive performing experience. Countless international teams and musicians have been invited to perform with the NTSO.
Since 2019, the internationally renowned conductor maestro Lan SHUI has taken on the position of the NTSO Principal Guest Conductor, cooperating with the NTSO to enrich artistic skills, innovate on tradition, deepen education, and promote aesthetics, thus enhancing the public's musical life, making music ever-present like air, water and sunshine.
Cultural Development Partner
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- 11/24(Mon)12:00 p.m. - 12/8(Mon)12:00 p.m.
25% Discount for Weiwuying member. - 12/1(Mon)12:00 p.m. - 12/8(Mon)12:00 p.m.
20% Discount for Audience Overall. - Presenter: Weiwuying
- Duration is 110 minutes with a 20-minute intermission.
- Age guidance 7+.
- Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
- For Group Purchase Discounts, please contact 07-262-6666.
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
