[CANCELLED] Visiting Artist Series: Ma Wen Cello Masterclass
10 March • 4:00pm
Conservatory Orchestra Hall
In view of current health and travel advisories, this event has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
PROGRAMME
Programme to be announced.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Associate Professor of Central Conservatory of Music, China, Ma Wen, conducts a cello masterclass with YST students.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ma Wen is cello professor and doctorate supervisor of the Orchestra Department in Central Conservatory of Music, as well as director at the Society of Cello in China Musician Association. She gained her Masters and Doctorate Degrees at Rostock University of Music and Theatre in Germany. Her performances combine European and Russian traditions, and have received wide acclaim in China and beyond.
Ma Wen has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Phoenix Symphony Orchestra in the USA, Rostock Orchestra in Germany. China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony Orchestra, etc. In the concert for commemoration of the ninetieth birthday of MA Sicong in 2002, she successfully cooperated with China Youth Symphony Orchestra in the Ma Sicong Cello Concerto created in 1960 for the first time, and gained extremely high praise from musicians of Beijing. Furthermore, she was invited by Ma Sicong Research Society in 2006 to record a CD of the concerto with China Youth Symphony Orchestra, which was later published.
Ma Wen is regularly invited to judge in domestic cello competitions. Her students have gained prizes in cello competitions at home and abroad. In 2008, she was awarded at the 11th Outstanding Youth Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation. She has also published under the People’s Music Publishing House and Central Conservatory of Music Press. In 2007, she published a CD version of “Boutique Concert Collections of Ma Wen”.
TICKETING INFORMATION
• Free admission.
• All event information is correct at time of print.
• Out of respect for other concertgoers, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.
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