The three young musicians Catharina Chen (violin), Joachim Knoph (piano) and Bo Jing Li (double bass) has been invited to Shanghai to give an official concert in the well-kown concert hall “Jin Mao”.

8th June they will perform music by Edvard Grieg; The ”Norwegian Peasant dances” for piano, and the ”Sonata in G Major Op.13” for violin and piano.

Also, the three musicians will perform compositions by Bottesini, Saint-Saens and Sarasate

About the perfomers:

Catharina Chen (1985) has performed as a soloist since the age of eight and has already been accompanied by several professional orchestras both in Norway and elsewhere. These have included the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Tromso Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Camerata,  ZKO-Zuricher Chamber Orchestre. Newly, she was a soloist with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in their brand-new Oriental Concert Hall and with Beverly Hills Symphony Orchestra in L.A. Summer 2005 and 2006. And Dallas Symphony orchestra November 2006. In spring 2007, she will have concert in Carnegie Hall in New York as soloist and chamber musician.

Catharina’s status as one of Norway’s most promising young classical musicians has earned her several major awards such as: The Norwegian Music Publishers’ Union “Prize of Honour” in 2002 and the 2003 “Karoline Prize” for high achievement by a Norwegian high school student in sport, art or culture. She has won first prizes in national violin competitions in Norway in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 and has also been awarded scholarships in Norway (Anun Lund Rej Memorial Foundation for Young Talents), Switzerland (Margess International), America (I Palpiti) and one of Norway’s most prestigious prizes from Oslo Municipal: Artist Prize for 2003! In December 2003, Catharina was awarded 1. Prize at the prestigious “Gnessin International Competition for young violinists” in Moscow. In this competition she was also awarded the prize of “Best Artistic Performance”. Besides she also won a CD recording, and a prestigious invitation to the “Young Artists International” in Los Angeles.

The Norwegian pianist Joachim Knoph has in recent years been a soloist on CD with The Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Ari Rasilainen, and participated in several prestigious Scandinavian music festivals, like Staffan Scheja´s “Gotland Chamber Music festival” and at the “Summer concerts” at Troldhaugen, Bergen. Among other projects in 2006, he performed the Grieg concerto in Oslo Concert Hall.

He has participated at numerous concerts in Norway and abroad, including France, Germany, England, Belgium, Austria, Italy and Sweden. Knoph has also cooperated with a large number of renowned Scandinavian musicians and singers, and has additionally participated in masterclasses with Aldo Ciccolini, Philippe Entremont, Roberto Szidon, Staffan Scheja and Hans Leygraf.

Joachim Knoph has won a large number of prizes and scholarships, including the YAMAHA prize.

Bojing Li started to learn piano at eight years old and to learn double bass at eighteen years old follow her father. She entered Shanghai conservatory of the Music in 1990 and graduated in 1994. After graduation, she worked in Shanghai Opera House as a principle double bass player. She has a lot of performance experiences all over China and Asia.

When she was a student in Shanghai conservatory of Music, she took part in Asia Youth Orchestra, with which she performed in Hongkong, Japan, South Korea, Taibei, Marco and Singapore.

In 2005, Bojing Li got the chance to study doublebass as a Master student in Norwegian Academy of Music, following Dan Stefen Steffy, who is a principle double bass player at Oslo Fiharmonien Symphony Orchestra.

She hold her solo concert at Sofienberg kirke 0n Oct, 2006, which got high review from her teacher and audience.She have played as principle double bass with NMH symfoniorkester & Oslo Symfoniorkester.

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