Violist

Conductor Junping Qian joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a free afternoon studio concert at Maida Vale.

Stravinsky provides the Fireworks to open the concert, followed by violist Diyang Mei who joins the BBC SO to perform the UK premiere of Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen’s Reflet d’un temps disparu (Reflections of a Vanished time), originally for cello and orchestra but here in an arrangement for viola. The concert ends with Shostakovich's lively First Symphony.

Qian conducts Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Chen

BBC Maida Vale Studios

Foundation Concert

Violist

Diyang Mei

Events

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Feb 8, 2026

Foundation Concert · Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

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Jul 12, 2024

Qian conducts Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Chen · BBC Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Viola in Reflet d'un temps disparu for viola by Chen

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Viola in Symphony Concertante in E-flat major K. 364 by Mozart

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

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