Presented as part of Carnegie Hall’s World Orchestra Week (WOW!), this concert will feature the Beijing Youth Orchestra, an ensemble newly created by China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Lü Jia, who has performed at Carnegie Hall as conductor of the renowned China NCPA Orchestra, leads this exceptional youth orchestra and the inimitable pipa virtuoso Wu Man in a program that includes both Western and Chinese orchestral works.

Program:
- B. Yuankai, Selections from Chinese Sights and Sounds
- Z. Jiping, Pipa Concerto No. 2 (NY Premiere)
- P. I Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5