Conductor / Sebastian Lang-Lessing

Tianjin Grand Opera Orchestra (Tianjin Symphony Orchestra)

Time: 2013-11-16 16:00

ADD: Concert Hall

Price: ￥280 ￥180 ￥150 ￥120 ￥80 ￥50

PROGRAM

BRAHMS / Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90

BRUCKNER / Symphony No.6 in A major

Sebastian Lang-Lessing has established an enviable reputation especially in the United States and France. He is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Australia's Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra since 2004 and from the 2010-2011 season he is also Music Director of the San Antonio Symphony. Between 1999 and 2006, Lang-Lessing was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Opéra National de Lorraine. He had also served as Resident Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for eight years.

Lang-Lessing regularly appears on the podiums of the world's preeminent opera houses, including Opéra Bastille in Paris, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Colorado Opera, Opéra de Bordeaux and Hamburg State Opera as well as at the opera houses of Oslo, Stockholm and Gothenburg. Recent and forthcoming performances include Rienzi with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Falstaff with Washington National Opera, Les Pêcheurs de Perles and La Bohème with Colorado Opera, Porgy and Bess with Norwegian National Opera, a new production of Der Rosenkavalier with Cape Town Opera and Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci with West Australian Opera.

Equally renowned for his work on the concert stage, Sebastian Lang-Lessing has conducted the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He also directs an annual concert series in Sydney with his Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

Lang-Lessing has an extensive discography including the Mendelssohn and Schumann symphonies, works by Saint-Sa?ns, D'Indy, Franck, Ravel and Bruch. The conductor's rediscovery of the music of French composer Joseph-Guy Ropartz and CD releases of his symphonies with Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy have been greeted enthusiastically by the press.

Sebastian Lang-Lessing studied conducting at the Hamburg State Conservatory and piano at the Conservatories in Essen and Lübeck. When he was 24, he was awarded the Ferenc Fricsay Prize in Berlin.