Taipei Music Academy & Festival Orchestra. National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.

Encore (following the Dvořák)…

TMAF Professors/section principals for 2024*…

VIOLIN|Ju-Young Baek (Seoul National University), Nurit Bar-Josef (National SO [Washington DC]), David Chan (Metropolitan Opera), Koichiro Harada (ex-Tokyo SQ; Manhattan School of Music), Frank Huang (New York Phil)

VIOLA| Wesley Collins (Cleveland O), Eric Nowlin (Detroit SO)

CELLO|Mark Kosower (Cleveland), John Sharp (Chicago SO)

BASS|Peter Lloyd (formerly Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras)

FLUTE|Emily Beynon (Concertgebouw)

OBOE| Jelena Dirks (St. Louis Symphony)

CLARINET|John Bruce Yeh (Chicago)

BASSOON|Stephen Paulson (San Francisco Symphony)

HORN| Lin Jiang (Hong Kong Phil), Katy Woolley (Concertgebouw)

TRUMPET|Thomas Hooten (Los Angeles Phil)

TROMBONE|Kenneth Thompkins (Detroit SO)

*Accreditations added by me; apologies for any errors. See below for TMAF 2023.

Leonard writes about TMAF 2024 here…

‘Nimrod’ from the above performance…