昆明聂耳交响乐团成立于2010年3月，是中国唯一一支以人民音乐家“聂耳”命名的交响乐团，是云南唯一拥有独立建制的交响乐团，隶属于昆明市文化和旅游局。由原云南省歌舞剧院交响乐团（1997年组建）与昆明交响乐团（1987年组建）整合而成，乐团至今已有30多年的历史。2016年昆明聂耳交响乐团聘请著名指挥家黄屹先生担任乐团首任艺术总监兼首席指挥，努力把昆明聂耳交响乐团打造成一支一流水平的职业化交响乐团，打响最具昆明文化特色、艺术品位的昆明城市名片。

多年来，昆明聂耳交响乐团在昆明市委、市政府的关心帮助下，坚持以业务建设为中心，抓训练、抓管理、抓作风，不断提升演出水平，把交响音乐民族化作为己任，组织创作了大量云南原创交响乐作品。乐团每年公益演出达100多场（每年举行20多场重要音乐季演出），在社会交响音乐文化普及方面取得了丰硕的成果，深受春城人民和广大乐迷的欢迎。2012年人民音乐家聂耳诞辰100周年，以人民音乐家命名的昆明聂耳交响乐团，在玉溪掀起了纪念聂耳的活动，同时远赴北京、上海进行巡演；同年6月，参加中央电视台音乐频道举办的“纪念毛泽东在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话发表70周年”全国交响乐电视展播并获得好评；为了宣传美丽的昆明，乐团连续五届于重庆、银川、乌鲁木齐、内蒙古、成都参加中国西部交响音乐周；2013年新创作推出《高原情怀》《丽江风》《拉祜野阔》，在银川、成都、贵阳等地巡演获得巨大成功；2014年1月乐团携《高原情怀》《丽江风》《拉祜野阔》参加“云南省第十二届新剧目展演”取得了音乐创作两个“一等奖”、演奏“新剧目优秀奖”的好成绩；2014年创作推出交响组曲《滇池——母亲湖之恋》在昆首演获得一致好评；2014年乐团携云南新原创作品参加“中国第五届中国重庆音乐季”演出获得广泛赞誉；2014年8月乐团远赴新加坡参加国际比赛获两个金奖、五个银奖；2016年7月又斩获四个金奖，受到了大赛组委会和新加坡观众的好评，实现了云南国际比赛获奖零的突破。2015年在参加厦门国际低音提琴艺术节中，乐团获得两金的好成绩。2016、2017年连续两年参加“文化大篷车·千乡万里行”文化进万家惠民活动，每年公益演出10场。

2017年10月，乐团作为中国西部唯一一支交响乐团受邀参加了第二十届北京国际音乐节，并世界首演了管弦乐作品《阿诗玛》组曲，该作品由乐团委约著名作曲家邹野先生根据电影《阿诗玛》（原作者：罗宗贤、葛炎），改编创作。

2018年委约著名作曲家崔炳元先生以讲武堂军歌为基本素材改编创作交响曲《讲武堂记忆》。同年，交响组曲《阿诗玛》专辑荣获十大发烧唱片榜“2018年度十大发烧唱片奖”和“年度最佳交响组曲专辑奖”两项大奖。2019年，交响组曲《阿诗玛》专辑荣获第三届唱工委音乐奖“最佳古典原创专辑”。乐团在2019-2020音乐季中委约著名作曲家邹野先生以庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年为主题，根据聂耳作品改编创作了大型交响合唱《启鸣之声》；以云南少数民族音乐为题材创作了交响乐《彩云之南》。

2019年10月1日，在中华人民共和国成立70周年之际，昆明聂耳交响乐团和艺术总监兼首席指挥黄屹受邀前往北京参加“国庆70周年联欢活动-千人交响乐”，与16支乐团共同在天安门广场奏响中国交响最强音。

2020年，乐团携交响组曲《阿诗玛》赴沪参加“上海夏季音乐节”，深受当地群众好评。

2021年，创作交响套曲《彩云之诗》，在“第十六届云南省新剧（节）目展演”中一举拿下“优秀剧目奖”和“优秀演员奖”两大奖项。同年打造《“听音乐·学党史”让党史学习教育“声”入人心》活动，取得良好的社会效果。6月，参加省市“庆祝中国共产党成立100周年文艺晚会”。10月，参加COP15《“春城之邀”— COP15招待会》。

2022年，乐团参与中国音乐家协会交响乐团联盟集体委约创作交响音诗《千里江山》。3月，创新推出“鲜花音乐会”品牌演出活动；7月，参加“2022年中国国际旅游交易会昆明推荐会”，广受好评，进一步丰富城市文化内涵，促进文旅融合发展。8月，携手著名指挥家于海共同打造“我们的国歌”主题演出活动。

昆明聂耳交响乐团长期坚持“引进来，走出去”的指导思想，为提高乐团整体业务能力，与国内外著名指挥家：余隆、克里斯蒂安·艾华德、米哈尔·盖兹、唐纳德·波特内尔、卞祖善、张国勇、吕嘉、杨洋、李心草、林大叶、夏小汤、朱其元、黄佳俊、洪毅全等人合作演出。邀请了国内外著名钢琴家：张昊辰、刘孟捷、宋思衡、黎卓宇、王雅伦等；小提琴家：吕思清、宁峰、黄蒙拉、王晓明、约瑟夫·伊万诺、木岛真优等；大提琴家：秦立巍、田博年、赵静等；歌唱家：戴玉强、么红、宋元明、沈洋等，并且得到了刘云志、陈允、徐东晓、金辉、王琳琳、肖超、司马健楠等专家的帮助。为了进一步开拓视野，2016年我团举办了首个音乐季，通过音乐季既锻炼了队伍，促进演奏家增长见识，又提高了乐团的演奏技能和经验。

昆明聂耳交响乐团一直把交响音乐民族化、普及交响乐、提高群众文化素质作为义不容辞的工作。乐团着力挖掘云南民族音乐元素，创作大批精品交响乐，发扬艰苦创业、自强不息的精神，排演更多高质量的交响音乐作品来服务群众。

KUNMING NIE ER

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra, founded jointly in March 2010 by the former Yunnan Opera and Dance Drama Theater Symphony Orchestra and the Kunming Symphony Orchestra (respectively established in 1997 and 1987, more than three decades ago, is the only symphony orchestra in China named after the people’s musician, Nie Er. Among the five still existing and state-owned theaters and orchestras which are under the governance of Kunming Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, it is the only one which has an independent organizational structure in the Yunnan Province and is a public welfare institution wholly funded by the government. In 2016, Mr. Huang Yi, a well-renowned conductor, was hired by Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra as the first artistic director and chief conductor. Since then, great efforts have been made to help this orchestra grow into a professional symphony orchestra with first class standards to act as a city visiting card featuring the most inspiring cultural and artistic attributes of Kunming.

Over the years, thanks to the support of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal government, the Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra has been committing itself to building up a business. It has been focusing on training and managing their staff as well as improving their working methods in order to improve its performance. It has produced numerous original symphony works of Yunnan, taking the nationalization of symphony as its own mission. With more than 100 performances during every annual music season which included more than 20 significant concerts, our Orchestra can boast great achievements, such as promoting symphonic music culture among Kunming citizens and a vast number of music lovers. In 2012, on the 100th Birth Anniversary of Nie Er, Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra which was named after the People’s Musician held activities in Yu Xi in memory of Nie Er and went on a tour in Beijing and Shanghai. In June of the same year, the Orchestra participated in the national symphony TV exhibition show for “the 70th Anniversary in Memory of the Publication of Talks at the Yan An Forum on Literature and Art by Mao Tse-tung” held by CCTV Music Channel and received favorable reviews. In order to promote the beauty of Kunming, the Orchestra took part in five consecutive Western China Symphony Music Weeks. It introduced new works in 2013 including Plateau Feelings, Lijiang Style and Yekuo Mountain of Lahu and achieved a roaring success when going on tour in Yinchuan, Chengdu, Guiyang and other places. In January 2014, the Orchestra took part in “the 12th Yunnan New Repertoire Performance” with Plateau Feelings, Lijiang Style and Yekuo Mountain of Lahu, which allowed it to win two “First Prize” for Music Creation as well an “Award of Excellence for a New Repertoire”. In 2014, the Orchestra composed and introduced the symphony suite, Dianchi Lake-Love to the Mother Lake, which first debut won an unanimous praise. In the same year, the Orchestra performed new original works of Yunnan in “the 5th China Chongqing Music Season” and was also widely praised. In August 2014, the Orchestra went to Singapore and took part in an international competition, where it allowed the province of Yunnan to win its first ever two Golden awards and five Silver awards. In July 2016, it was awarded four Golden medal，and enjoyed favorable reviews from the Competition Committee and the Singapore audience. In 2015, the Orchestra won two Golden Awards in Xiamen International Double Bass Art Festival. It participated in the “Caravan of Culture - A Long Journey to Thousand Villages”, an event organized for “bringing cultural benefits to people” for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017, with 10 charity shows per year.

In October 2017, it was the only symphony orchestra in Western China to participate in the 20th Beijing International Music Festival, in which it performed the orchestral suite “A Shi Ma”, a Yunnan’s local folk music work, which was adapted by the renowned commissioned composer Mr. Zou Ye from the movie “A Shi Ma”, originally composed by Luo Zongxian and Ge Yan.

In 2018, we invited Mr. Cui Bingyuan, a famous composer, to write a “Symphony of the Comrades” by adapting the military songs of the Military School in Kunming in its memory. In 2018, the album featuring the Symphonic Suite A Shi Ma won the“Top 10 Hi-Fi Albums Award 2018 and ranked the“Best Symphonic Suite Album of the Year”in the Top 10 Records List.

In 2019, the Symphonic Suite A Shi Ma album won the honorary title of the“Best Original Classical Album”in the 3rd Cmic Music Awards.

For the 2019-2020 music season, in order to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the orchestra commissioned the famous composer Mr. Zou Ye to write a large-scale symphonic chorus based on Nie Er’s works called “The Inspiring Sound” and the symphony Colorful Yunnan on the theme of this province minorities’ music.

On the first of October 2019, for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra, our artistic director and Chief Conductor Huang Yi were invited to go to Beijing on Tian An Men Square to take part in the event called “Thousand People Symphony”, together with 16 further Chinese orchestras.

In 2020, our Symphony Orchestra took the Symphonic Suite A Shi Ma to Shanghai to take part in the Shanghai Music in Summer Air event. The reception was excellent.

In 2021, our Orchestra created a symphonic poem entitled “Poem of Colored Clouds” for which it won two big awards – “The Excellent Play Award” and “The Excellent Actor Award” in the “16th Yunnan New Play Festival”.  In the same year, we focused on different themes, such as “Learning the history of the Party while listening to music”. That initiative had a good social impact since it helped teach the history of the Party while instilling it in every single mind. In June, we participated in the provincial and municipal “Gala to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China” . In October, we contributed to the in COP15 “invitation to spring city” - reception.

In 2022, we participated in the collective commission of the Symphony Orchestra Alliance of the Chinese Musicians Association and composed the poem entitled “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”. In March, it launched a novel series of musical performances called “Blooming Concerts”. In July , we took part in the Recommendation Meeting of  China International Travel Mart 2022. It was widely praised and contributed to further enrich the city cultural idiosyncrasies, while promoting the combined development of culture and tourism. In August 2022, we cooperated with the famous conductor Yu Hai to put together a performance around the“Story of Nie Er and our Chinese National Anthem”.   

Having long been committed to the “Bringing in and Going out” policy, Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra has been cooperating with a large number of well-known conductors from home and abroad, such as Long Yu，Christian Ehwald, Mihhail Gerts, Donald Portnoy, Bian Zushan, Zhang Guoyong, Lu Jia, Yang Yang, Li Xincao, Lin Daye, Xia Xiaotang, Zhu Qiyuan, Kahchun Wong and Darrell Ang to help enhance its overall professionalism. To that end, it also has invited renowned Chinese and foreign pianists, such as Haochen Zhang , Meng-Chieh Liu, Siheng Song, George Li and Serena Wang; violinists such as Siqing Lu, Ning Feng, Mengla Huang, Xiaoming Wang, Yossif Ivanov and Mayu Kishima; cellists such as Li-Wei Qin, Bonian Tian and Zhao Jing; singers such as Dai Yuqiang, Yao Hong, Yuanming Song and Shen Yang. During this period, it has received the support from great experts in the field of classical music, such as Liu Yunzhi, Chen Yun, Xu Dongxiao, Jin Hui and Linlin Wong, just to mention a few. The year 2016 saw the Orchestra host its first music season, where it enhanced the performers skills and experience while enlarging their perception of music.

The Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra has always taken the promotion of the symphonic music among people and the improvement of mass culture as an obligation. Drawing upon the elements of the Yunnan Folk music, it is putting a lot of efforts to deliver symphony works of high quality to cater well for the public and carry forward the spirit of unremitting self-improvement and hard work.