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水藍 Lan SHUI

指揮家水藍以管弦樂創作家身份聞名，他熱衷於委託、首演和錄製亞洲及世界各地優秀當代管弦樂作曲家的新作品。

水藍於2025/26音樂季中繼續擔任國立臺灣交響樂團首席客座指揮，並將指揮數場演出，包括NTSO 2025/26開季音樂會「水藍，王健與國臺交」的理查．史特勞斯《唐吉訶德》與西貝流士的降E大調第五號交響曲。2024/25樂季是他擔任中國國家交響樂團藝術顧問的第一個樂季。開季音樂會中他將指揮布魯克納的第七號交響曲，同時向拉威爾和申伯格週年紀念致意－演出兩位作曲家的作品。

在2023/24樂季中，水藍與國臺交定期合作之餘亦往返於中國愛樂樂團、上海交響樂團、廣州交響樂團和杭州愛樂樂團。上一季的重要亮點之一是2024年1月水藍攜手愛樂管弦樂團在中國展開共七場的巡演，其中包含北京表演藝術中心新大樓的開幕盛會。巡演曲目涵蓋莫札特、貝多芬、孟德爾頌、艾爾加及德弗札克等大師作品。

水藍於1997至2019年間擔任新加坡交響樂團的音樂總監，《美國唱片評論》雜誌（American Record Review）說水藍「成功將一個不錯的地區管弦樂團轉型為每場演出都全力以赴的世界級樂團。」 他們一起在歐洲、亞洲和美國進行多場極受歡迎的巡演，並於2014年9月首度在BBC英國逍遙音樂會演出。水藍自2019年1月起被任命為新加坡交響樂團的桂冠指揮。2007至2015年間水藍擔任哥本哈根愛樂樂團的首席指揮，目前任該樂團的榮譽指揮。2019年1月起為國立臺灣交響樂團首席客座指揮。

水藍在美國曾與洛杉磯愛樂樂團、舊金山交響樂團、巴爾的摩交響樂團和底特律交響樂團合作。在歐洲曾與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、德國廣播愛樂樂團、哥德堡交響樂團、法國國家交響樂團、瑞典皇家交響樂團和里爾國家管弦樂團合作演出。在亞洲地區曾指揮香港、馬來西亞和日本愛樂樂團，並與中國和杭州愛樂樂團以及上海和廣州交響樂團維持密切合作關係。

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40張專輯，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。他也與哥本哈根愛樂合作錄製貝多芬的完整交響樂全集。諸多專輯中曾獲兩次葛萊美提名。

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、波士頓大學（傑出校友獎）等多個國際獎項，此外，他還獲得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.

In the 2025/26 season Shui continues as Principal Guest Conductor of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra where he returns for several performances including the season opening with Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major and Richard Strauss Don Quixote. 2024/2025 is also the inaugurating season for him as Artistic Advisor of China National Symphony Orchestra with whom he opens the season with Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 and pays tribute to anniversaries of Ravel and Schönberg by featuring their music later in the season.

Shui’s 2023/24 season included regular appearances with the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, as well as returns to China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, Guangzhou Symphony and Hangzhou Philharmonic orchestras. A highlight of the season included a tour of China with the Philharmonia Orchestra in January 2024, with seven performances including one inaugurating the new hall of Beijing Performing Arts Centre, of varied repertoire, including music by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Elgar and Dvořák.

Shui served as the Music Director of 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. Shui Shui also held the position of Chief Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic from 2007 to 2015, currently serving as the orchestra’s Honorary Conductor. From January 2019, he is the principal Guest Conductor of Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.

In the United States he has appeared with 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, Royal Swedish Orchestra and Orchestre National de Lille. In Asia he has conducted the Hong Kong, Malaysian and Japan Philharmonic Orchestras and maintains a close relationship with China and Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestras and Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras.

Since 1998 Shui has recorded over 40 CDs with Singapore Symphony Orchestra for BIS — including the first ever complete cycle of Tcherepnin’s symphonies plus complete orchestra works of Rachmaninov and Debussy. He also recorded Beethoven’s complete symphonies with Copenhagen Philharmonic. His albums have received Grammy nominations twice.

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 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as Associate Conductor to Neeme Järvi at Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Kurt Masur at New York Philharmonic and with Pierre Boulez at The Cleveland Orchestra.

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