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水藍 Lan Shui

著名指揮家水藍以其帶領管弦樂團的過人能力，以及熱衷於在國際舞台上推廣亞洲和世界各地傑出作曲家的新作品而聞名。自受邀擔任國立臺灣交響樂團首席客席指揮之後，2022/23 樂季水藍也續任亞洲和歐洲各地知名樂團的客席指揮。

    水藍從 1997 至 2019 年擔任新加坡交響樂團音樂總監。《美國唱片指南》評價：「他成功地將一個區域性的管弦樂園轉變為一個世界級的、一個真正能將它的靈魂在每一場音樂會表現出來的管弦樂團。」水藍數次率領樂團赴亞洲、歐洲和美國進行巡回演出，廣受好評，並於 2014 年 9 月首次在 BBC 逍遙音樂節 (BBC Proms) 中亮相。2019 年 1 月，水藍成為新加坡交響樂團桂冠指揮。2007 至 2015 年期間，水藍還出任哥本哈根愛樂樂團首席指揮，目前仍為該樂團榮譽指揮。

    作為客席指揮，水藍曾經和眾多世界級交響樂團合作演出，包括：洛杉磯愛樂樂園、舊金山交響樂團、巴爾的摩交響樂團、底特律交響樂團、柏林德意志交響樂團、 法蘭克福廣播交響樂團、丹麥國家交響樂團、斯圖加特廣播交響樂團、德意志廣播愛樂樂團、瑞典哥德堡交響樂團、法國國家交響樂團、里爾國家交響樂團、香港管弦樂團、馬來西亞愛樂樂團和日本愛樂樂團。他與中國愛樂樂團、上海交響樂園、廣州交響樂團以及杭州愛樂樂團維持著密切的合作關係。

    自 1998 年起，水藍與新加坡交響樂團合作為國際知名唱片公司 BIS 灌錄超過 35 張 CD，錄音包括史上首套齊爾品 (Alexander Tcherepnin) 交響曲全集以及拉赫曼尼諾夫和德布西的交響樂全集。此外，他還曾與瑞典馬爾默交響樂團以及依芙琳·葛蘭妮 (Evelyn Glennie)、林昭亮、吉爾·夏漢 (Gil Shaham) 等獨奏家合作，並與知名豎笛家馬丁·弗洛斯特 (Martin Fröst) 錄製庫普蘭、亨德密特和阿諾德的豎笛協奏曲，他的專輯曾兩度獲得葛萊美獎提名。在水藍的帶領下，新加坡交響樂團已經成為一個世界級的樂團，並與 BIS 唱片公司簽訂了獨家唱片合約。

    水藍曾獲得北京藝術節、紐約齊爾品協會、法國第 37 屆貝桑松指揮大賽等多個國際獎項，此外，他還獲得了波士頓大學傑出校友獎以及新加坡文化藝術界最高榮譽 — 新加坡文化獎。

    水藍出生於中國杭州，早年在上海音樂學院學習作曲，後畢業於北京中央音樂學院。隨後前往波士頓大學繼續深造，並在此期間參加了檀格塢音樂節 (Tanglewood)，與知名指揮家伯恩斯坦密切合作。他曾擔任巴爾的摩交響樂團指揮助理，與大衛·津曼 (David Zinman) 合作共事；在底特律交響樂園擔任尼姆·賈維 (Neeme Järvi) 的助理指揮；還與紐約愛樂樂團的庫特·馬舒 (Kurt Masur) 和克里夫蘭管弦樂團的皮耶·布列茲 (Pierre Boulez) 合作過。

Lan Shui is renowned for his abilities as an orchestral builder and for his passion in commissioning, premiering and recording new works by leading composers from Asia and elsewhere on the international contemporary orchestral scene. Having recently assumed the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, 2022/23 sees Shui continuing to guest conduct eminent orchestras in both Asia and Europe.

Lan Shui served as the Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2019, with American Record Review noting that Shui “turned a good regional orchestra into a world-class ensemble that plays its heart out at every concert”. Together they made several acclaimed tours to Europe, Asia and the United States and appeared for the first time at the BBC Proms in September 2014. As of January 2019, Shui has been appointed SSO’s Conductor Laureate. Lan Shui also held the position of Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Phil from 2007 to 2015, currently serving as the orchestra’s Honorary Conductor.

As a guest conductor, Shui has worked with many orchestras worldwide. In the United States he has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Baltimore and Detroit symphony orchestras. In Europe he has performed with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Gothenburg Symphony, Orchestre National de France and Orchestre National de Lille. In Asia he has conducted the Hong Kong, Malaysian and Japan Philharmonic orchestras and maintains a close relationship with the China and Hangzhou Philharmonic orchestras and Shanghai Symphony.

 Since 1998 Shui has recorded over 35 CDs with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for BIS - including the first ever complete cycle of Tcherepnin’s symphonies – and also works by Arnold and Hindemith with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra featuring soloists such as Dame Evelyn Glennie, Cho-Liang Lin and Gil Shaham. His albums have received twice Grammy nominations.

Lan Shui is the recipient of several international awards from the Beijing Arts Festival and the New York Tcherepnin Society, the 37th Besançon Conductors’ Competition in France and Boston University (Distinguished Alumni Award) as well as the Cultural Medallion - Singapore’s highest accolade in the arts.

 Born in Hangzhou, China, Shui studied composition at the Shanghai Conservatory and graduated from The Beijing Central Conservatory. He continued his graduate studies at Boston University while at the same time working closely with Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has worked together with David Zinman as Conducting Affiliate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as Associate Conductor to Neeme Järvi at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and with Kurt Masur at the New York Philharmonic and Pierre Boulez at The Cleveland Orchestra.

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