McDull. Café Carnival à la Hong Kong

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Experience classical music at its most… delicious?!

McDull, an innocent kindergartener piggy and a local cartoon icon, is brought to the concert hall by his mother in hopes of bringing her child up to be the society’s successful and cultured elite. McDull is not sure how much smarter the music is immediately making him, but he can certainly feel how much it is reminding him of the scrumptious, hearty food of good old Hong Kong cafés… and off he drifts to a fantastical world where he and his friends devour great music, dish after dish!

Music Director Emeritus/Conductor: Yip Wing-sie
Concept/Co-directors: Brian Tse & Alice Mak
Piano: Colleen Lee (HKS Artist Associate 2010-2011) *, Mary Mei-loc Wu ^
Special Performance: Ng Cheuk-yin (HKS Artist Associate 2006-2008)
Animation Production: Lunchtime Production Limited
In collaboration with: Chun Tian Hua Hua Foundation Ltd

Programme

Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee

Beethoven
Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68, “Pastoral” (excerpts)

Smetana
The Moldau

Mozart
Piano Concerto No 26 in D, K537, “Coronation”: I Allegro *

Saint-Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals *^

#Some seats may have restricted view in C price zone
##The 14.10.2024 performance is one of the “Expo Programmes” of Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo

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. The orchestra 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, The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

Hong Kong Sinfonietta is a regular guest at international arts festivals and has toured 46 cities around the world. As an avid believer of keeping music alive and contemporary, the orchestra commissions and performs new works every year and ventures into new initiatives, recently receiving wide acclaim for its Back On Stage concert film series and becoming the first local orchestra to appear in cinemas. Following the success of the first edition in 2018, the orchestra organised the 2nd Hong Kong International Conducting Competition in 2023, attracting applications from 45 countries/regions around the world and providing an invaluable platform for young conductors to establish their careers.