Tan Dun Artist in residence Amsterdam Cello Biennale

That Tan Dun (China’s best-known contemporary composer) is particularly fond of the cello, is the reason for inviting him to be the Artist in Residence at the Biënnale 2012. In this programme he conducts his own Four Secret Roads to Marco Polo with eight cellists of the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orchestra in playing the leading part. Other important roles are assigned to the Scandinavians, Truls Mørk and Andreas Brantelid in Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s  Pezzo Capriccioso.

For information about the opening performance of Tan Dun's Snow in June, together with the dance performance by LeineRoebana please click here