ZHANG Guoyong
Principal Conductor
Zhang Guoyong began his study in conducting at the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music under the direction of the famous conductor,
Prof. Huang Xiaotong. After graduation in 1983, he remained
as a teacher there until 1993, when he was sponsored by the Chinese
government for a four years’ study at the Moscow State Conservatory
named after Tchaikovsky, where he studied under the
world-famous conductor G. Rozhdestvensky.
Zhang Guoyong is now the Professor and the Dean of Conducting
Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Principal Conductor
of Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, and Vice Chairman
of China Musicians Association. He has cooperated with many
well-known orchestras including Russian State Orchestra, Russian
Philharmonic, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic,
Hong Kong Philharmonic, Macau Symphonic Orchestra,
Kuopio Symphony Orchestra (Finland), Cannes Symphony Orchestra,
Theatre Colon, etc. Zhang Guoyong specializes in Russian
works.
Apart from the symphony orchestras, he also worked with opera
houses both at home and abroad in numerous operas, such as
Turandot, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliac-
Otello, Pearl Fisher, the Nose, ballets like Swan Lake, Giselle, Don
Quixote. Nutcrackers, symphonic choruses like Beethoven’s Symphony
No.9, Mozart’s Requiem, Song of the Forest, Stabat Mater,
Carmina Burana and so on. In 2006, he was invited to judge the
8th Cadaques International Conducting Competition in Spain.
Same year. He led the opera Thunderstorm adapted from a famous
Chinese novel, which caused tremendous response in the music
industry.
Zhang Guoyong is a master of symphonies with Russian style and
he has also conducted many works composed by Russian musi-
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tra of China National Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2016 and
2017, he also respectively led concerts for Russian music and
Tchaikovsky in Macau and Shanghai, which both received great re-
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