China Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra

As of 2007, famous Chinese conductors Yao Guanrong, Zhang  Guoyong and Yu Feng have served as principal conductors and music directors of the orchestra. From 2008 to July 2016, Professor Christian Ehwald, a famous German conductor and director of the Conducting Department of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, served as the music director. Since August 2016, the famous young conductor Daye Lin has served as the music director.

Throughout the years, the orchestra has cultivated long lasting collaborations with great artists and orchestras at home and abroad; composers such as Chen Gang, Huang Anlun, Lü Qiming, Tan Dun, Tang Jianping, Wang Danhong, Wang Ning, Ye Xiaogang, Zhang Qianyi and Eric Kunzel; conductors such as Chen Xieyang, Chen Zuohuang, Huang Xiaotong, Hu Yongyan, Li Delun, Lü Shao-Chia, Li Xincao, Shui Lan, Tang Muhai, Zheng Xiaoying, VIadimir Fedoseev, Daniele Gatti, Günther Herbig, Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Oren, Edvard Tchivzhel, Guido Johannes Rumstadt, Lior Shambadal and Michael Foster; famous performers such as Chen Sa, Lang Lang, Lü Siqing, Nie Jiapeng, Ning Feng, Qin Li-Wei, Qian Zhou, Wang Jian, Xue Suli, Yuan Fang, Zhu Dan, Zuo Zhang, Arto Noras, Oxana Yablonskaya, Paik Kun Woo, Antje Weithaas, Midori, Renaud Capuçon and Diana Tishchenko as well as famous singers Dilber Yunus, Dai Yuqiang, He Hui, Huang Ying, Liao Changyong, Lei Jia, Shen Yang, Shi Yijie, Wu Bixia, Wang Lida, Yin Xiumei, Zhang Liping, Jose Carreras, Carlow Struly among others.

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In 2009, Lin Daye was the resident conductor of Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 2009 to 2015, he was appointed as permanent conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (GSO) and made several concert tours with the GSO in homeland and overseas. In 2012, he won the first prize at the 6th Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition which held in Frankfurt, Germany and being the first Chinese recipient of this competition. Same year, he has awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by Guangdong Musicians Association.

In September 2015, Lin Daye has returned to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and currently is the associate director of Composition & Conducting department.

In May 2016, Lin Daye has officially appointed as music director and principal conductor of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO). 

Up to now, Lin Daye has led the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra to tour   around China and countries such as the Germany, United States, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and other countries. He has conducted SZSO at the Ljubljana Festival, Radiro – International Radio Orchestras Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, Merano Festival, Donizetti Festival, Festival delle Nazioni, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival among other international music festivals. Moreover, Lin Daye is often invited to conduct many well-known orchestras at home and abroad.

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With her sister, composer Freya Waley-Cohen, and architects Finbarr O’Dempsey and Andrew Skulina, she held an Open Space residency at Aldeburgh, culminating in the 2017 premiere of Permutations at the Aldeburgh Festival, an interactive performance artwork synthesising music and architecture. Her love of chamber music led her to start the Honeymead Festival, now in its fifteenth year, from which all proceeds go to support local charities.

Tamsin was a founding member of the Albion Quartet, disbanded in 2023, and appeared regularly with them at venues including Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, and the Concertgebouw. In 2016-2017 she was the UK recipient of the ECHO Rising Stars Awards, playing at all the major European concert halls and premiering Oliver Knussen’s “Reflection”, written especially for her and Huw Watkins. In the 2018-19 season she toured Japan and China, and gave her New York Debut recital at the Frick.

She is Artistic Director of the Two Moors Festival, and has previously been Artistic Director of the Music Series at the Tricyle Theatre, London, and the Bargello festival in Florence. She studied at the Royal College of Music and her teachers included Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ruggiero Ricci and András Keller.

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