Conducted by young Singaporean master Darrell Ang, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO) will perform the works of a contemporary Chinese musician as well as those by Hector Berlioz, Max Bruch and César Franck. Performing solo will be SZSO’s concertmaster Wu Qian and young suona (Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument) player Zhang Weiwei.

Opening the concert will be Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival Overture,” one of the composer’s most popular pieces.

Zhang will be the soloist for composer Shi Fuhong’s concerto “In and Out of the Light Cone.” Using the suona as the solo instrument, the piece is a romantic quest of an individual for the mysteries of the universe and outer space.

Shi is an active composer and curator of musical activities whose compositions have been performed at home and abroad. She earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Toronto in 2009, and is currently an associate professor of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She has collaborated with many prominent orchestras, including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

Zhang has been teaching suona at the Central Conservatory of Music since he graduated from the school with a master’s degree.

With Wu as the violin solo, the SZSO will also perform Bruch’s “Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26.” A perennial audience favorite, the piece is admired especially for its lyrical melodies, which span nearly the entire range of the violin. The piece also demonstrates the composer’s firm adherence to the rich, mostly orderly sound of mid-19th-century Romanticism.

Wu, born in 1995 in Shenzhen, started to play the violin at 5 and the piano at 6. After graduating from Shenzhen Arts School in 2014, she studied violin at the Berlin University of the Arts (BUA). In 2018, she collaborated with Albrecht Mayer, principal oboist with the Berlin Philharmonic, in his “New Seasons” project. In that same year, Wu was accepted into the master’s program at BUA. She has also performed many solo and chamber music concerts.

The final piece of the program will be Franck’s “Symphony in D Minor,” a highly popular piece by the French composer. With influence from Lizst, Wagner and Beethoven, the composer meshed Liszt’s technique of thematic transformation with his own skills in improvising, and developed the cyclical structure pioneered by Beethoven. In a cyclical form, the themes of early movements recur throughout and return, transformed in the finale in this three-movement symphony.

Being artistic director of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra since December 2016, Ang is a Grammy-nominated conductor and regular guest with some of the world’s major orchestras. In 2019, he opened the London Philharmonic’s season at Eastbourne, conducted the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris and made his debut with the Japan Philharmonic. He also released several albums on the NAXOS label to rave reviews from international press and critics.

Time: 8 p.m., April 30

Tickets: 50-880 yuan

Booking: WeChat account “szyyt_piao”

Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, Futian District (福田区深圳音乐厅)

Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D(Li Dan)