Good Music This Lunch Chamber Concert @ HK City Hall Concert Hall

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Recharge yourself with a little chamber music in the afternoon at Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s free lunchtime concert series “Panasonic Proudly Sponsors: Good Music This Lunch”, supported by Title Sponsor Shun Hing Group!

 

Programme

Alan Schmitz
Spiritual Excursion (1990, rev 1995)
for Viola, Vibraphone & Timpani

Viola: Ringo Chan
Vibraphone: Rieko Koyama
Timpani: Akihiro Muramoto

 

Sergei Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op 34
for Clarinet, String Quartet & Piano

Clarinet: Andrew Simon *
Violin: Kim In-sun, Kiann Chow
Viola: Meidad Yehudayan **
Cello: Park Si-won
Piano: Alan Chu

 

Eugène Bozza
Sonatine for Brass Quintet

Trumpet: Huang Shan, Man Hay
Horn: Paw Man-hing Hermann
Trombone: Christopher Rodgers
Tuba: Lam Wing-tsan

 

Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15

Piano: Colleen Lee ** (HKS Artist Associate 2010-2011)
Violin: Hannah Tam **
Viola: Christina Bean
Cello: Laurent Perrin

 

* With kind permission of the Hong Kong Philharmonic
** Guest performer

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

One of Hong Kong’s flagship orchestras, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has brought music closer to the community, and achieved significant local and international recognition for its passionate performances and innovative programming. Since 1999, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has collaborated with an illustrious array of international musicians and groups, including in recent years Ilya Gringolts, Martin Helmchen, Sergei Nakariakov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mariinsky Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

The orchestra is a regular guest at international arts festivals and has toured 41 cities around the world. As an avid believer of keeping music alive and contemporary, Hong Kong Sinfonietta commissions and performs new works every year and ventures into new initiatives, recently receiving wide acclaim for its Back On Stage concert film series, as well as the Tiny Galaxy Concerts online series featuring performances recorded at a fascinating hostel in Hong Kong. In 2021, the orchestra co-curated the “Life is Art” film festival with MOViE MOViE, while continuing to break down barriers between music and audience with free chamber concerts held regularly at Hong Kong City Hall.