China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra
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The China NCPA Orchestra or China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra is an orchestra
based in Beijing
, China
. The orchestra gave its premiere in the spring of 2010. NCPA’s Artistic Director of Music, Maestro Chen Zuohuang is the orchestra's Principal Conductor, and Singapore-born Joshua Kangming Tan is its Resident Conductor. The orchestra and the NCPA Chorus, founded a few months before on 9 December 2009, are parts of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The Orchestra performs in most of NCPA’s own productions of operas and ballets, together with presenting its own concert series by the name of “China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra.”(Chinese: 国家大剧院音乐厅管弦乐团)
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
based in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, China
China
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. The orchestra gave its premiere in the spring of 2010. NCPA’s Artistic Director of Music, Maestro Chen Zuohuang is the orchestra's Principal Conductor, and Singapore-born Joshua Kangming Tan is its Resident Conductor. The orchestra and the NCPA Chorus, founded a few months before on 9 December 2009, are parts of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The Orchestra performs in most of NCPA’s own productions of operas and ballets, together with presenting its own concert series by the name of “China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra.”(Chinese: 国家大剧院音乐厅管弦乐团)
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) of the National Centre for the Performing Arts