2024 Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra Annual Concert “Voyage．Rainbow．Dream of Red Chamber”
Setting Sail for a Kaleidoscopic Realm of Sonorous Fantasies
1 December 2024 (Sunday) 7:30pm
Sha Tin Town Hall Auditorium
The Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra (HKYCO) will embark on its flagship musical expedition presented by the Music Office. Programmes include the grandiose movement “The Voyage”, from Admiral of the Seven Seas, and an epic suite inspired by the Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, for music aficionados to traverse the millennium-spanning prosperity of our ancient country, together with renditions of two Music Office commissioned Chinese music favourites Festival Overture and The Night of the Torch Festival. Hua Yijie, studying in the Department of Chinese Music of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, will also join hands with the HKYCO and serve as guest sheng solo in the concerto Rainbow to manifest the polychromic splendour of Chinese culture.
| Conductors Kwok Kin-ming Cheung Wai-fung |
Guest Sheng Solo Hua Yijie * |
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The concert is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. | |||
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* Master’s student from Department of Chinese Music, School of Music, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
$115 $90 $70
Available at URBTIX from 1 November
Half-price tickets are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients
For age 6 or above
Enquiries
| Ticketing Enquiries: | 3166 1100 |
| Telephone Booking: | 3166 1288 |
| Internet Booking: | www.urbtix.hk |
| Programme Enquiries: | 2796 1003/ 3842 7784 |
| Festival Overture (Music Office Commissioned Work) | Kuan Nai-chung |
| The Dream of the Red Chamber Suite I The Red Chamber Lament II The Song of Qingwen III The Funeral Procession IV Grannie Liu V The Love between Baoyu and Daiyu VI The Lantern Festival VII Dear Ones Parted VIII Burying the Flowers |
Wang Liping |
| Conductor: Cheung Wai-fung | |
| ～ Intermission ～ | |
| The Night of the Torch Festival (Music Office Commissioned Work) | Kwok Hang-kei |
| Conductor: Kwok Kin-ming | |
| Rainbow (Sheng Concerto) I Life II Wind and Rain III Rainbow |
Liu Wenjin |
| Sheng: Hua Yijie * Conductor: Kwok Kin-ming |
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| The Voyage, from Admiral of the Seven Seas | Law Wai-lun |
| Conductor: Kwok Kin-ming | |
Music Office reserves the right to change the programme and artists
* Master’s student from Department of Chinese Music, School of Music, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Kwok Kin-ming
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Kwok Kin-ming is currently Senior Music Officer of the Chinese Music Section of the Music Office. He is also the conductor of the HKYCO and Music Office Instructors’ Chinese Orchestra.
Kwok obtained his Master of Music degree from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Chinese orchestra conducting, under the tutelage of renowned conductor Professor Yan Huichang. In 2011, Kwok was the second runner-up in the first Hong Kong International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music and awarded “Outstanding Young Conductor”.
As a conductor, Kwok has collaborated with many renowned orchestras, including Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Jilin Chinese Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra, Wuxi Chinese Orchestra, Feiyun Chinese Orchestra and the Chinese Orchestra of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
In 2016, Kwok led the HKYCO to tour in Shanghai and Shenyang, where the Orchestra jointly performed with the Chinese Orchestra of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. In 2018, under Kwok’s baton, the HKYCO and Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra jointly presented a concert titled TOGETHER with in the Lion City. In 2023, he led the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra to Xi’an for music exchange, and conducted an exchange concert jointly presented by the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra and the Xi’an Conservatory Chinese Orchestra. |
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Cheung Wai-fung
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Cheung Wai-fung is currently Assistant Music Officer of the Chinese Music Section of the Music Office, and conductor of the HKYCO.
Cheung started studying erhu with Lai Siu-ming at an early age, and other huqins with Ng Kwok-kwong and Hou Shih-chieh during his secondary school years. He was later admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with a double major in erhu and banhu under the tutelage of established erhu educator Professor Wang Guotong and renowned banhu player Ngai Kwun-wa. During his studies, he also travelled to Shanghai and Beijing to study with several huqin masters.
Cheung received conducting training by Liang Di and Ho Man-chuen. Since joining the Music Office in 2005, he has participated in a number of Chinese music conducting masterclasses organised by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Taipei Chinese Orchestra. and received guidance from several leading conductors, including Professor Yan Huichang, Professor Xia Feiyun, Professor Chen Tscheng-hsiung and Tsung Yeh. Cheung was also an erhu instructor and orchestra conductor for a number of primary and secondary schools, as well as an erhu instructor for the Junior Music Programme of HKAPA Junior Course. |
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Hua Yijie
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Hua Yijie is currently a second year Master of Music student under the tutelage of Chen Yiwei, Principal Sheng of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO). As a student of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2024, Hua has been recruited by the HKCO's internship program and joining their performances.
In 2012, Hua became the Principal Sheng of the Chinese orchestra of The High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University. In 2015, Hua was admitted to The Affiliated High School of Xi'an Conservatory of Music, where he studied sheng performance with Zhao Hongbin, and became the Principal Sheng of its Chinese orchestra. In 2018, he was admitted to the undergraduate program of Xi'an Conservatory of Music, successfully held a solo recital in 2020, and admitted to the HKAPA in 2023.
Hua won prizes in numerous competitions, including first places in both the 2007 First Shaanxi Wind Music Competition and the 2017 “Asian Music Competition” Western China Division Finals, Silver Prize of the 2019 West Lake International Youth Music Festival Chinese Instruments Festival Higher Education Institutions Professional Division, and the Outstanding Performer (The Highest Award) of the Youth Division of the 2020 Shaanxi Ethnic Instrumental Competition. |
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