Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Lan Shui  水蓝  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Lan Shui

 
 

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Lan Shui   水蓝

 
 
 
   
 

Lan Shui  水蓝 pinyin Shui Lan

   

1964

Lan Shui  水蓝  conductor, was born in a wealthy family in Hangzhou,

  Zhejiang Province  China.
   
  -  China
 

He learned to play the violin at the age of five.

1970

At thirteen, he joined the People's Army's Song and Dance Troupe in Beijing.

1975

At eighteen, no longer able to play the violin due to an injury, he studied

 

composition at the Shanghai Conservatory. Disappointed with the subject,

 

he returned to Beijing.

1980

Impressed by Herbert von Karajan during the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's

 

performance in Beijing, he decided to enroll at the Central Conservatory

 

of Music in Beijing to become a conductor.

1986

He made his conducting debut with the Beijing Central Philharmonic Orchestra.

   
    -  United States
 

He left for the United States to continue his studies at Boston University, then

 

participated in the Tanglewood Music Festival.

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1994 - 1997

He was Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, United States

1997 - 2019

He was Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra

 2007 - 2015

He was Principal Conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Denmark

 

with whom he recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies.

2019

He was Guest Conductor of the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

   

   
 

   - Career

 

Conductor, he led the greatest symphony orchestras : selection

 

  -  United States

 

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

 

The Cleveland Orchestra

 

The Detroit Symphony Orchestrait

 

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

 

  -  Europe

 

The German Symphony Orchestra Berlin   

 

The SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra

 

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra

 

The Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestrade

 

  -  Asia

 

The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra  China

 

The Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra China

 

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra China

 

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra

 

The Taiwan Symphony Orchestra

   
 

As a conductor, he led the greatest philharmonic orchestras: selection

 

The Los Angeles Philharmonic

 

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra 

 

The German Broadcasting Philharmonic Orchestra

 

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra with which he recorded

 

the Complete Beethoven Symphonies (9 recordings)

 

The China Philharmonic Orchestra

 

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

 

The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra

 

The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

   
  He collaborted with the greatest conductors  :
 

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) American conductor - composer - pianist

 

Pierre Boulez  (1925-2016 ) French composer and conductor

 

Neeme Järvi ( 1937 ) Estonian conductor

 

Kurt Masur ( 1927 - 2015) German conductor

 

David Zinman (1936) American conductor and violinist

   

   
 

Discography selection

   
 

Lan Shui  水蓝  recorded some forty CDs

 

for the BIS Label with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, including: 

 

  - the first complete cycle of Tcherepnin's symphonies

 

Noriko Ogawa ((Piano Performer)), Alexander N Tcherepnin (Composer)

 

  - complete works of Rachmaninov  Rachmaninov Symphonies and orchestral Music

 

  - complete works of Debussy

 

  - complete Beethoven symphonies with the Copenhagen Orchestra

   
 

Two-time Grammy Award nominee.

   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

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