Li Delun Music Foundation

Bridging Cultures With Music
Benestone East-Meets-West New Year's Concert 2025

The Li Delun Music Foundation is proud to present the following music events

  • Benestone East Meets West New Year’s Concert 2025

    Sunday, January 5, 2025, 3:00 pm, George Weston Recital Hall, Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge St.

    $48 - $138

    Celebrate the New Year with international artists and the Toronto Festival Orchestra, performing East-Meets-West classics at the New Year’s Concert 2025. Presented by Benestone Construction, this all-star lineup will be a spectacular treat for all audiences, so don’t miss this inspiring afternoon of music to start the New Year in perfect harmony!

    Conductor: Maestro Lihua Tan, Principal Guest Conductor of China National Symphony

    Clarinet: YaoGuang Zhai, Principal Clarinet of Baltimore Symphony

    Tenor: Kang Wang, one of the most sought-after lyric tenors of the world

    Piano: Ryan Wang, BBC Young Musician

    Concertmaster: Lin He, Associate Concertmaster of Baton Rouge Symphony

    Host: Kemin Zhang

Benestone East-Meets-West New Year's Concert 2025
Toronto Festival Orchestra
Lihua Tan Conducting
  • Dance of the Golden Snake (金蛇狂舞)

    By Nie Er 聶耳, arr. Tang Jianping 唐建平

  • Piano Concerto No.1 In E Minor Op.11

    By Frédéric Chopin - Soloist Ryan Wang

  • Voices of Spring Waltz

    By Johann Strauss II

  • Spring of Pamirs Clarinet Concerto

    by Hu Bijing 胡璧精 - Soloist Yaoguang Zhai

  • De' miei bollenti spiriti

    By Giuseppe Verdi - Soloist Kang Wang

  • E lucevan le stelle

    By Giacomo Puccini - Soloist Kang Wang

  • Mattinata

    Ruggero Leoncavallo - Soloist Kang Wang

  • Symphony No. 4 - IV. Allegro con fuoco

    By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  • "Thunder and Lightning” Polka

    Johann Strauss II

  • Radetzky March

    Johann Strauss I

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