UD violinist Xiang Gao to perform in Sweden

Xiang Gao

2:11 p.m., March 8, 2005--World-renowned violinist Xiang Gao, assistant professor of music at UD, will perform with the National Orchestra of Sweden-Goteborg Symphony to celebrate Swedish-Estonian composer Edward Tubin's 100th birthday on Thursday, March 10. Maestro Neeme Jarvi, one of the world's leading and most-recorded conductors, will collaborate with Gao on a performance of Tubin’s violin concerto.

Gao will perform on the rare Italian concert violin, made by the master maker G.B. Ceruti before 1810, which was purchased in 2003 by UD. Gao’s premiere performance with the violin was held before a sold-out crowd last year at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington.

Other renowned concert artists playing this season with the National Orchestra of Sweden-Goteborg Symphony are violinist Hilary Hahn, vocalist Anne-Sofie von Otter and cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Jian Wang.

Gao is the only violinist in the world performing Tubin’s violin concerto, a post-Romantic, 20th-Century masterpiece. He also has performed the concerto with other leading orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Festival and the Estonia National Symphony.

Gao and guest artists will perform "From Cremona to Beijing, the New Silk Road" at 8 p.m., Friday, April 15, at UD. The concert will mark Gao’s debut with UD’s Performing Arts Series and will be his only solo appearance in the area this season. For more information, visit [www.udel.edu/alumni/events/pas.html].

Photo by Eric Crossan

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