Orchestre e Teatri Lirici
China NCPA Orchestra
As the resident orchestra to China National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Beijing Performing Arts Centre, NCPA Orchestra shapes the music life in Beijing and nationwide.
In a typical 48-week season, NCPAO brings 100+ stellar live performances to around 200 thousand audience. Our mission is to integrate artistic creation and humanity, to make the music a bridge between past and present, b
As the resident orchestra to China National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Beijing Performing Arts Centre, NCPA Orchestra shapes the music life in Beijing and nationwide.
In a typical 48-week season, NCPAO brings 100+ stellar live performances to around 200 thousand audience. Our mission is to integrate artistic creation and humanity, to make the music a bridge between past and present, between east and west, and between arts and realities.
We are also devoted to develop the art of opera in China to a higher level of recognition, with our rich experience in opera production among the Asian orchestras.
In the past decade, we have had the honour to collaborate with numerous world-renowned, including Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Fabio Luisi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Shao-Chia Lu, Xian Zhang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Behzod Abduraimov, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Sa Chen, Kyung-Wha Chung, Siqing Lu, Gautier Capucon, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Hui He among many others.
We’ve made tours to many of the music destinations worldwide such as Berlin, Nuremberg, Kissingen, Sydney, Seoul, Daegu, Singapore, Washington D.C., Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Church Hill, San Francisco, Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, etc.. In 2014, the orchestra undertook its first North American tour and returned in 2017, where it performed at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, Davies Symphony Hall and other major venues in the US and Canada, under the baton of LÜ Jia. In 2021 and 2023, the orchestra conducted two China tours that bring the best of NCPA Orchestra to audiences nationwide.
Lately the orchestra has been working on marketing through online streams and social medias, thus to give our audience more access to our performances. Many of our archives are broadcasting through 40+ TV stations, major online channels and medias for an average of 20 millions audience worldwide each performance. The orchestra is also sharing the “behind-the-scene” stories and Artists interviews trough our official account on major platforms. In collaboration with record label NCPA Classics, the orchestra has published 60+ online records, some have won important awards. The complete set of recordings of Bruckner’s symphonies will be finished by 2024, which will be a milestone for the orchestra as well as the classical music world in China.
In 2022, the orchestra recorded for the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, accompanying billions of viewers to witness the lighting of the Olympic flame.
With the opening of the Beijing Performing Arts Centre in Fall of 2023, the orchestra is shifting to ‘dual-core’ operation. In the coming several years, we plan to expand the orchestra to one with 170 musicians.