Qin Li-Wei & Yang Yang: Barber & Rachmaninoff

Thu, 13 April 2017
7:30pm
Esplanade Concert Hall
Tickets at $20/$15 from SISTIC

CONSERVATORY Orchestra
Yang Yang conductor
Qin Li-wei cello

Barber Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Come listen to YST’s Associate Professor Qin Li-Wei performing with the Conservatory Orchestra and Yang Yang, Principal Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Hangzhou Philharmonic, one of YST’s partnering orchestras. Barber’s dark and challenging Cello Concerto, a work composed during World War 2, is coupled here with Rachmaninoff’s luscious and popular symphony from the opening of the century.