About
The Suzhou Chinese Orchestra is led by the conductor PENG Jiapeng as Artistic Director and principal conductor, the erhu performer and composer ZHU Changyao as Art Director, and the national A-list art supervisor CHENG Congwu, Honourary President of the Suzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, as General Manager.
The famous composers ZHAO Jiping, LIU Xijin and GU Guanren and national music activist WANG Shuwei are artistic advisors to the orchestra. The orchestra has more than 90 performers, including well-known Chinese and foreign instrumentalists and graduates of China’s top ten conservatories of music such as the Central Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The orchestra has held a series of large-scale concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, Suzhou, the USA, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Russia, etc. It has received much praise from leaders of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Chinese Musicians Association, famous Chinese and foreign experts and scholars, and many mainstream media, such as the Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, CCTV, PTP, Germany Music Magazine and France Culture and Media Publishing House, for its advanced artistic idea and consummate performing skills reflected in its perfect combination of traditional Chinese music with international expressions.