An Ode to Home and Motherland with Long Yu, Jing Wang and Aristo Sham

EVENT DESCRIPTION

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, this concert features a selection of Chinese and international works that pay tribute to their home countries, highlighting Hong Kong’s unique status of East-meets-West cultures. Aristo Sham, winner of the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and praised for his “dapper, aristocratic” stage presence, performs the virtuosic Yellow River Piano Concerto, bringing his distinctive voice to this iconic work. Zhao Jiping, internationally known for film scores such as Red Sorghum, blends Western concerto form with Chinese melodic idioms in his First Violin Concerto, performed by HK Phil Concertmaster Jing Wang. Principal Guest Conductor Long Yu also leads Sibelius’s Finlandia and Smetana’s The Moldau, evoking Finnish and Czech national identities.

Artists

Long Yu (Conductor)
Jing Wang (Violin)
Aristo Sham (Piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme

SIBELIUS
Finlandia, op. 26

ZHAO Jiping
Violin Concerto no. 1

arr. YIN Chengzong, LIU ZHUANG, CHU Wanghua, SHENG LIHONG, SHI Shucheng, XU Feixing
Yellow River Piano Concerto

SMETANA
Má vlast: The Moldau

Side-by-side Performance with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
The concert runs approximately 1 hour 20 minutes without an intermission.