Orpheus Chamber Orchestra made China debut with show in Tianjin

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra made its debut in China with a performance at the Tianjin Grand Theater on April 12.

The Tianjin performance, which is part of its Asian tour, featured pieces with Russia as the theme, including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48 and Anton Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, according to Christof Huebner, viola player and one of the three artistic directors of the orchestra.

A self-governing organization, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra was founded in New York in 1972 by a group of fellow musicians who aspired to apply the chamber music principles of individual participation and personal responsibility to an orchestral setting. And central to the orchestra's founding principles was the musicians' commitment to rehearse and perform without a conductor.