Moreover, the Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gábor Takács-Nagy, will conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the orchestra. 3, and Denis Matsuevin a performance of Rodion Shchedrin’s Piano Concerto No. Valery Gergiev, Music Director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, opens the Festival with the Verbier Festival Orchestra and conducts two further concerts with soloists Mikhail Pletnev, who performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. The events will take place in the Festival’s regular venues, the 1,700-seat Salle des Combins the more intimate Église de Verbier and the Hameau Cultural Centre. Running from July 15 to 31 2022, the Festival offers more than 60 Mainstage events, ranging from large-scale orchestral concerts and opera in concert form to solo recitals, chamber concerts- assembling new teams of renowned soloists and chamber specialists in its ‘Rencontres Inédites’ series-and even a dramatised reading. As ever, in a distinctive and exhilarating spirit of community and exchange, the Festival brings together established and emerging musicians of the highest calibre-the major names of today and the major names of the future. Wang has served as principal viola coach for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony and adjunct professor of viola and chamber music at Carnegie Mellon University and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.The 29th edition of the Festival features a host of classical music legends returning to the Swiss Alps alongside future talent.Īpproaching its 30th anniversary in 2023 and affirming its position in the topflight of the world’s classical music festivals, the Verbier Festival announces its mainstage programme for 2022. As a teenager he immigrated to the United States to study viola at the New England Conservatory and later at the Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of renowned violists Hsin-yun Huang, Michael Tree, Karen Tuttle, and Roberto Díaz. Wang studied violin at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing. He was also a member of the faculty at the International Music Festival in Maine and the Utah Chamber Music Festival. Wang has performed in numerous highly respected summer festivals, such as the Verbier Music Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, and the Sarasota Music Festival.

He has also appeared on several radio stations throughout the United States. His performances have taken him throughout the United States and his native China, performing at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and the Beijing National Theater. He is deeply committed to the genre and has collaborated with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lars Vogt, Sharon Robinson, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Joseph Silverstein, Pinchas Zukerman, Lang Lang, Barbara Westphal, and pop star Bono. Wang enjoys an extensive career as a chamber musician. Prior, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony and principal viola of the Kansas City Symphony. Violist Meng Wang joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2017. Facilities at Valley Forge Military Academy & College.

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