CHEN Xieyang －
Music Director & Principal Conductor Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Chen Xieyang had his musical training at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music where he studied conducting with Prof. HUANG Xiaotong.

　　In 1965, he became Resident Conductor of Shanghai Ballet Orchestra and led its tour to North Korea, Japan, Canada and France in the 1970s. In the 1980s he presided over the production of the Song Cycle of Chinese Revolutions . In the last 20 years, he has earned great honors on his tour to North America, Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia. In 1998, 1999, and 2000 he led the Central Chinese Traditional Music Orchestra on tours to many cities in Austria, Germany, Denmark, France and the United States. The concerts at Grosser-Saal, Wien and Lincoln Center, New York were he conducted received great reviews.

　　Chen has recorded scores of Chinese and western orchestral works including the complete symphonies by Beethoven and works of DING Shande. The recording of Violin Concerto The Butterfly Lovers was awarded “Gold Record” Prize by the China Records Co. in 1987. Since then his name has appeared many times in Who's Who in the World of Music by Cambridge Biographic Center.

　　A first rank conductor of China,CHEN Xieyang holds the position of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra's Music Director. He is vice chairman of the Shanghai Musicians Association, member of China Musicians Association's Standing Committee, and chairman of Shanghai Symphonic Music Lovers Society.

Terje Mikkelsen

　　Terje Mikkelsen was born in Norway in 1957. He studied at the Norwegian State Music Academy and with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he received his diploma in orchestra conducting in 1989.
From 1984 he also studied with Mariss Jansons, with whom he collaborated closely both in St. Petersburg and Oslo until 1991. Terje Mikkelsen conducted the Ukrainian State Orchestra in Kiev from 1989-95. In 1993 the orchestra appointed him Chief Conductor and Music Director. From 1990-1995 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Besides the usual concert schedule, he undertook tours with this orchestra and recorded for television and radio. In addition, three CDs with works by Edvard Grieg resulted from this collaboration.
In 1997 Terje Mikkelsen became the Chief Conductor and artistic leader of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Riga. This collaboration has resulted in 17 CD recordings including three discs of music by Johan Svendsen, as well as three discs by Johan Halvorsen. Several disc are in production consisting of Latvian and international music. Together they have been touring Germany, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Norway, and for the next season tours to Japan, Spain, Belgium and Germany are planned.
At present Mikkelsen is chief guest conductor of the orchestra.
In 1999 Terje Mikkelsen was appointed the Chief Conductor and GMD of the Thuringen Philharmonie Gotha-Suhl. With this orchestra he has toured France, Spain, Thailand and Germany.
From 2001 Mikkelsen is professor at the College of Music, the Mahidol University in Bangkok.
Mikkelsen appears regularly with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Radio Orchestra. He has conducted such renowned orchestras as the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Cologne Radio Orchestra (WDR), the Hamburg Radio Orchestra (NDR), the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Belgian Radio Orchestra, the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Hungarica. He has conducted in most of the important halls in Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw, Munchen Philharmonic, Kolner Philharmonic, Auditorium National (Madrid) etc.