Performance time：Apr 9 to 10,7:30pm

　　Performance place：SHOAC Concet Hall

　　RTS Symphony Orchestra is one of the most representative orchestras in Serbia.Founded in 1937, the RTS Symphony Orchestra is oriented to inheritand nurture national music heritageand excellentworks in theworld.RTS Symphony Orchestra has performed in all major festivals in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and has also made successful tours inEurope and Africa. In the Sound Archive of Radio Belgrade, hundreds of recordings have been permanently archived, many of which had been published on several dozen sound carriers.In 2008, RTS Symphony Orchestra, together with its chief-conductor Bojan Sudjic, received "Extraordinary Golden Link" Award for its great achievements in cultural and artistic fields, and in celebration of the 70th anniversary of its establishment. It also wins Annual Award for Best Orchestrain 2013issued by the magazine " KlasikaMusic".

　　In 36 SSIMF, the Orchestra will present two high-quality performances. Classic masterpieces of orchestra will be performedin the concert held Apr. 9, 2019. It will perform "Creating the World- Chinese Creation Myths"Original Works Concert(opening performance of 35th SSIMF), and masterpieces of other four top composers in China again in the concert held Apr. 10, 2019.

　　It will be completely new attemptto have world-rate orchestra to performChineseoriginal works, intendingto promote music of Chinese nations and drive cultural exchange.

　　Programme

　　                              Apr 9

　　                                  "Ohridskalegenda"(The Legend of Ohrid), music from the ballet

　　                                  Composed by StevanHristic

　　                                  Violin concerto e-moll (soloist Lana Trotov?ek)

　　                                  Composed by Mendelsohn

　　                                  9th symphony The New World

　　                                  Composed by Dvorak

　　                                  My Motherland

　　                                  Composed by Chen Peixun

　　                              Apr 10

　　                                  "Chinese Creation Myths" Original Masterpieces Concert

　　                                  God Pangu Creates the Heaven and the Earth

　　                                  For Bass-baritone and Orchestra

　　                                  Composed by XuShuya

　　                                  Symphonic Tondichtung “Fairy Bird Jingwei Fills the Sea”

　　                                  For Chorusand Orchestra

　　                                  Composed by XuMengdong

　　                                  "Silly" Old Man Moves the Mountain

　　                                  For Piano, Chorus and Orchestra

　　                                  Composed by Chen Musheng

　　                                  Orchestra Music “Cowherd and Weaver Girl”

　　                                  Composed by Ye Guohui

　　                                  The Tripod creates the world

　　                                  For Chorusand Symphony Orchestra

　　                                  Composed by Zhou Xianglin

　　                                  My Motherland

　　                                  Composed by Chen Peixun

　　Maestro Bojan Su?i?

　　The most distinguished Serbian conductor today, has beenMusic Director of the Music Production Department of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) and Chief Conductor of its two renowned ensembles(RTS Symphony Orchestra and RTS Chorus) for more than a decade. As a professor of conducting inFaculty of Music, Belgrade University of Arts, he is also Chief Conductor of Symphony Orchestra of theUniversity.

　　He won first prize in Yugoslav Competition of Music Artists in Zagreb in 1989 (renamed as Lovro fon Mata?i? International Competition of Young Conductors later), and then expanded his professional career to Europe and Latin America, cooperated with more than fifty orchestras and numerous choruses. Besides the cooperationas guest conductorwith Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra,and Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, symphony orchestras from Odense, Turku, Klagenfurt, the Helsinki Opera and other renowned ensembles,Maestro Bojan Sudic has also established and maintained such cooperation with Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and MexicoOFUNAM in the past ten years.

　　Maestro Su?i?has cooperated with numerous world-famous international artists,such as Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Nigel Kennedy, Ivo Pogoreli?, Denis Matsuev, Nikolai Lugansky, Michel Béroff, Shlomo Mintz, Emmanuel Pahud, Placido Domingo,?eljko Lu?i?, Nemanja Radulovi?, etc.

　　Serbian music critics honouredhim as “one of top conductors in Serbian music”(Sonja Marinkovi?, Belgrade), while Finnish critic Mats Liljeros (Huvudstadsbladet, Helsinki)commented Maestro Su?i?that:“...a born talent with exceptional style and perfect virtuosityI have ever seen.”