Jamie Bernstein

 A Acclaimed writer, narrator and broadcaster crafts classic concertnarrations, delights young audiences with her renowned family concert,and celebrates her father's life and legendary music through her"Bernstein on Broadway" symphony concerts.
Inaddition to her work as a narrator and frequent broadcaster, JamieBernstein also presents a coterie of musical concerts for young peoplefrom her acclaimed Bernstein Beat to programs highlighting Copland andMozart. She also appears with symphonies as anarrator for classic works like Walton's Facade, Copland's A LincolnPortrait and Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, Kaddish.
 
Long Yu
CONDUCTOR
Artistic Director, Beijing Music Festival
Music Director, China Philharmonic Orchestra
Music Director, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
One of the most internationally renowned Chinese conductors, Long Yu is Music Director of the China Philharmonic and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras. In addition, he is a co-founder and the Artistic Director of the Beijing Music Festival.
Long Yu has appeared with a prestigious list of orchestras and opera companies outside China, including the Bamberg Symphony, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Hamburg State Opera and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In North America, he has conducted the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Washington National Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony. He has also enjoyed successful collaborations with some of the world’s most renowned soloists, including Mikhail Pletnev, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Lang Lang, and Jian Wang.
Long Yu was born in 1964 into a family of musicians in Shanghai. Musical education in his early childhood came from his grandfather Ding Shande, a composer of great renown, and he later studied at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin.
Long Yu’s career has included both artistic and administrative appointments. In 1992, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Central Opera Theatre in Beijing, and in the same year, he was involved in the planning of the first Beijing New Year’s concert and served as its conductor for three consecutive years. He also produced operas for The Urban Council of Hong Kong for five successive years. In 1998, he led the creation of the Beijing Music Festival and was its Founding Artistic Director. This Festival has now become one of the most significant music events in China and in the world.
The year 2000 witnessed another milestone in Long Yu’s professional career, when he became Founding Music Director of the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Since its inception, this orchestra has performed a regular subscription season in Beijing, as well as undertaking special projects for the Beijing Music Festival.

Bernstein on Broadway
　　Candide Overture
　　Serenade
　　Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town”
　　Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
Jamie Bernstein, narrator
China Philharmonic Orchestra
Long Yu, conductor