高雄市交響樂團簡介

樂在，你也在。

——年輕的樂團 堅定向前行

對一個城市而言，有專屬的樂團是難得珍貴的。高雄市交響樂團是一個年輕有活力的樂團，勇於嘗試多元型態的演出，兼具古典與跨界是樂團發展的主軸，為樂迷創造更多優質的音樂饗宴，也培育無數表演與欣賞的種子，延展古典音樂創新的鴻翅。

1981年成立，2009年與高雄市國樂團基金會整併為「財團法人高雄市愛樂文化藝術基金會」，由時任文化局長史哲出任首屆董事長。現任董事長為高雄市文化局長王文翠，執行長為朱宏昌，駐團指揮吳曜宇。

十餘年來，樂團不斷的與國際級指揮及名家大師們合作聯演，如：指揮家馬卡爾、譚盾、簡文彬、呂紹嘉、陳美安、莊東杰、林勤超、廖國敏等；演唱家卡列拉斯、海莉；小提琴家列賓、明玆、諏訪內晶子、林昭亮、胡乃元、曾宇謙、伊利亞．葛林戈斯、庄司紗矢香、林品任；大提琴家麥斯基、堤剛、楊文信；鋼琴家白建宇、布赫賓德、波哥雷里奇、陳毓襄、小曾根真、角野隼斗；小號演奏家納卡里亞可夫；單簧管演奏家保羅梅耶，以及管風琴演奏家伊維塔．艾普卡娜、菲利克斯．黑爾等。

2009年起迄今，高雄市交響樂團擔任高雄春天藝術節重要演出角色，成功打響「高雄春天藝術節草地音樂會」品牌，亦參與藝術節全本自製歌劇：《魔笛》、《茶花女》、《卡門》、《波希米亞人》、《蝴蝶夫人》及《愛情靈藥》演出，皆獲得觀眾廣大的迴響與讚譽。

在國際舞台上，高雄市交響樂團先後訪演美國、澳門、南京、上海、青島、蘇州、新加坡及北京；近期亦受邀赴日本金澤參加貝多芬音樂節及香港「台灣月-樂見台灣」音樂會演出。高雄市交響樂團將以國際級樂團為自我提升與成長目標，逐步跨越城市與國界，堅定向前。

Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra (KSO)

Wherever there is music, there is you.

- A young orchestra moving forward with determination

A city’s orchestra is a rare and precious attribute for any place to have. The Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra is a young, talented and energetic orchestra that strives to incorporate classical and cross-border performances into their repertoire, permeated with their unique passion. KSO creates high-quality themes for the fans of music; they cultivate countless seeds of appreciation in every person who sees them perform and thus extend the wings of classical music innovation.

Founded in 1981 and merged with the Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra Foundation in 2009 to form the “Kaohsiung Philharmonic Cultural and Arts Foundation,” with the current Kaohsiung City Deputy Mayor, SHIH Che, took up the post of the first President. The present chairperson of Foundation is WANG, Wen-Tsui, Director of Kaohsiung City’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs. CHU Hung-Chang is the CEO of Foundation and the resident conductor is WU Yao-Yu.

Over the past decade, KSO has continued to create a series of concerts performed jointly by famous domestic and foreign artists, including Conductor Zdenek MACAL, TAN Dun, CHIEN Wen-Pin, Shao-chia LÜ, CHEN Mei-Ann, CHUANG Tung-Chieh, LIN Chin-Chao and LIO Kuokman; Vocalists Jose CARRERAS and Hayley WESTENRA; Violinist Vadim REPIN, Shlomo MINTZ, Akiko SUWANAI, LIN Cho-Liang, HU Nai-Yuan, TSENG Yu-Chien, Ilya GRINGOLTS, Sayaka SHOJI and Richard LIN; Cellists Mischa MAISKY, Tsuyoshi TSUTSUMI and YANG Wen-Sinn; Pianist PAIK Kun-Woo, Rudolf BUCHBINDER, Ivo POGORELICH, Gwhyneth CHEN, Makoto OZONE and Hayato SUMINO; Trumpeter Sergie NAKARIAKOV; Clarinetist Paul MEYER, and Organist Iveta APKALNA and Felix HELL.

Since 2009, the orchestra has played a pivotal role in the Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival and successfully established the reputation of the “Kaohsiung Spring Arts Festival Grassland Concert.” KSO also took part in full opera production in Kaohsiung Spring Art Festival—Magic Flute, La Traviata, Carmen, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and L’elisir d’amore which all have gained significant resonance and praise from the audience.

On the international stage, KSO has been successively invited to perform in the USA, Macao, Nanking, Shanghai, Qingdao, Suzhou, Singapore and Beijing. Lately, KSO was invited to the Beethoven-themed Spring Green Music Festival in Kanazawa, Japan, as well as Hong Kong’s Taiwan Culture Festival. KSO will keep taking the international-level orchestra as the goal of self-enhancement and growth, steadily stepping beyond countries and borders, and moving forward firmly