The Score | Shanghai-New York Connection

As part of the New York Philharmonic’s Global Academy Fellowship Program, four musicians from the Shanghai Orchestra Academy traveled to New York City in June, where they received individual lessons and performed alongside Philharmonic musicians in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 at the Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks. The two-year fellowship program, launched in 2014 as a joint endeavor of the Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, is designed to address the need for advanced, post-graduate orchestral training in China. In July, the Philharmonic traveled to Shanghai for a second performance residency there, which included a Young People’s Concert, a Very Young Composers workshop and performance, and a free outdoor concert by the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet. Previous participants in the New York Philharmonic’s Global Academy Fellowship Program have come from Music Academy of the West in California and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Texas.