In May 2006, he collaborated with Cuba Symphony Orchestra to present a concert as the opening of Cuba Arts Festival.

In 2007 and 2008, he led the Lanzhou Opera House Symphony Orchestra to The Golden Hall of Vienna and Palais des Congrès de Paris to present concerts and the opera A Big Dream of Dunhuang.

In July 2007, he participated in the performance of celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong coming back to China.

In June, 2008, he conducted the tour performance of Royal Swedish Ballet in China.

In 2008, he conducted for the recording of most musical pieces for the opening ceremony of 2008 Olympic Games, including the song You and Me.

In July 2008, touring with the National Ballet of China he performed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London.

In January 2009, as the conductor of the company he collaborated with Orchestra Colonne for the company's performance at Opera National de Paris.

In February 2010, he collaborated with Kungliga Operan in Stockholm.

In April 2012, he successfully conducted the premiere of Mass in C Minor by Mozart with Macau Symphony Orchestra in Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Macao.

As a conductor, Zhang Yi has been fond of modern music and conducted many premieres of works by modern composers. In May 2012, he was given the award of Outstanding Contribution at the Beijing Modern Music Festival for his numerous performances of Chinese and western modern music pieces.

Artist

Gerhard Oppitz Piano

Gerhard Oppitz is a German pianist with an unusually broad repertory, encompassing not only a vast range of traditional works -- the complete output of Brahms and Grieg, and whole chunks of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann,Ravel, Liszt, and von Weber -- but also a large portion of the modern repertory, including works by Boulez, Henze, Ligeti, Messiaen, and others. He has also been prolific in the recording studio with numerous multi-disc sets of music by Brahms, Grieg, and Beethoven, as well as a vast number of individual CDs and various recordings involving accompaniment in chamber music and songs. Not surprisingly, the gifted Oppitz is multi-lingual, with fluency in seven languages, and has a passion for flying, often taking his plane to concert locales.

Oppitz was born in the Bavarian town of Frauenau on February 5, 1953. He began playing the piano at the age of five and by 11 gave his first public concert, an event attended by Paul Buck, professor of piano at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. Oppitz then studied with Buck in Stuttgart and later with Hugo Steurer in Munich.

In 1973 Oppitz met renowned German pianist Wilhelm Kempff, who became a mentor. From master classes held by Kempff in Positano, Italy, Oppitz acknowledged he gained valuable interpretive insights into the piano works ofBeethoven. In 1977 Oppitz won first prize in the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, the first German pianist to achieve this distinction.

Four years later, Oppitz was named music professor at the Munich Musikhochschule, becoming, at 28, the youngest musician ever appointed to the faculty. By this time his career as a soloist was in full swing, with appearances at the most prestigious recital halls and with major European orchestras and conductors. His first recordings now were drawing critical praise and finding a wide audience.

Over the next two decades Oppitz established an international reputation as one of the most talented and versatile pianists before the public. He has recorded for a variety of labels, including Tudor and Bayer, but most prominently for RCA and Hanssler Classics. In 2004 RCA released a compilation by Oppitz of the complete solo works of Grieg, and followed the next year with the complete solo output of Brahms. By 2006, Oppitz was nearing completion of a cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas on the Hanssler Classics label.