Led by noted German conductor Jun Märkl, the orchestra’s newly-appointed music director, the Taiwan Philharmonic’s program opens with the U.S. premiere of Ebbs and Flows, by Taiwanese composer Ke-Chia Chen (she/her) – co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts and Muzik3 Foundation, Inc.

Ke-Chia Chen is a frequent collaborator with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music. Other pieces on the program are Max Bruch’s ever-popular Scottish Fantasy, a work for violin and orchestra inspired by Scottish folk songs with Taiwanese-born and much-adored Washington Performing Arts’ violinist Paul Huang.