Shanghai Chinese Orchestra

Ticket price:

• Regular: $45
• Subscriber / UMD Faculty & Staff: $36
• Senior Citizen / UMD Alumni Association: $40
• Students / Youth: $9
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CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF THE SHANGHAI CHINESE ORCHESTRA

Classical music lovers know all about the violin, flute and timpani. But what about the erhu, xiao and dagu?

The Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra gives us a chance to discover a new musical vocabulary in a concert of historical and contemporary Chinese music played on traditional Chinese instruments.

The orchestra's instrumentalists perform large-scale Chinese orchestral works as well as chamber and solo pieces in this authentic expression of Chinese musical culture.

The 2012 national tour of the Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra is part of a major, multi-year cultural exchange with Minneapolis-based Arts Midwest, the Chinese Ministry of Culture, and the US Major University Presenter’s consortium. Support for the tour has been provided by the Ministry of Culture, People’s Republic of China.