The Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Date: March 31－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 100-580 yuan

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world's premier chamber orchestras, renowned for its fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world's most-loved classical music. Formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958 from a group of leading London musicians, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in November 1959. Life President of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner began his career as a violinist, playing first in a string quartet and trio, then in the London Symphony Orchestra. During this period he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with the aim of forming a top-class chamber ensemble from London's finest players. As a player, Sir Neville had observed some of the greatest conductors at close quarters.

2016 Naga Guitars－Masaaki Kishibe live In Wuhan

Date: April 8－7 pm

Venue: Luojiashan Theater

Price: 80-360 yuan

Masaaki Kishibe is an acoustic guitarist from Japan. While Kishibe is widely known around Japan and other eastern countries, he was not particularly well known in the US until he performed at the 32nd Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS in 2003 taking 2nd place overall in Fingerstyle Guitar; then subsequently touring with guitarist another former Walnut Valley winner, Andy McKee, throughout Taiwan. As McKee continued to rise to fame in the US, and helped bring attention to fingerstyle playing with the uploading of his videos of Rylynn and Drifting to YouTube garnering millions of plays and overnight fandom.

Maurizio Pollini Piano Recital NCPA Piano Virtuosos 2016

Date: April 3－7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 200-1,200 yuan

The name Maurizio Pollini evokes an extremely important career, the story of a man and an artist known all over the world, prized by audiences and critics of every latitude and several generations. He has been awarded many International prizes: the Vienna Philharmonic Ehrenring in 1987, the Goldenes Ehrenzeichen of the Town Salzburg in 1995, the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize in Munich in 1996, the A Life for Music－Artur Rubinstein Prize in Venice in 1999 and the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize in Milan in 2000.