The mission of our company is to promote fine performing arts to the public, and to broaden the cultural vision of Taiwanese people. In the field of arts and culture, Ars Formosa has gained wide recognition on its efforts to realize this mission by inviting well-known performing arts groups from all over the world to tour round-island in Taiwan. Ars Formosa Company has presented the following pres
tigious western musicians and performing arts groups:
Soloists: Mikhail Pletnev, Ivo Pogorelich, Yo-yo Ma, James Galway, Natalia Gutman, Elisso Virsaladze, Chao Liang Lin, Nai Yuan Hu. Martin in the Fields; Tsarivny Strouny. Choirs: Vienna Boys’ Choir, Les Petits Chanteurs de St. Marc, Les Petits Chanteurs a la Croix de Bois, Choir of Odessa. Orchestras: Marek Janowski/Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Fabio Luisi/Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt/Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig (Soloist: Baiba Skride), Christoph Eschenbach/NDR Symphony Orchestra (Soloist: Tzimon Barto), Yuri Temirkanov/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Soloist: Natalia Gutman), Mikhail Pletnev/Russian National Orchestra, Tamas Vasary/Budapest Symphony Orchestra (Soloist: Yundi Li). Ballet and Modern Dance Companies: Rudolf Nureyev and Friends, Patrick Dupond/ Paris Opera Ballet, Opera Bonn Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Martha Graham Dance Company, Slovak National Folklore Ballet –Lucnica. Concerning the cultural exchange between Taiwan and China, Ars Formosa Company has presented the following performing groups from China:
Peking Opera: China National Peking Opera Company, Tianjin Peking Opera Theater, Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe. Minority Folk Music and Dance Ensembles from Yunnan province, Mukam in Xinjiang, Inner Mogolia, Gansu province, Tibet, and Ningxia (Muslim). Ars Formosa also arranges regular Taiwanese tour for the Masters of Chinese Music Instrumentalists and ensembles.
