Music

It is hard to miss the “King of the Instruments” once you are inside the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. With four manuals, 93 stops and 8 000 pipes, the Cultural Centre’s hand-made pipe organ by Austrian manufacturer Rieger Orgelbau is believed to be the largest mechanically operated instrument of its kind in the Southeast Asia.

To expose students to this pipe organ’s amazing power as well as its wide range of sounds and huge variety of tone colours, the Centre has invited two outstanding local organists, Marsha Chow and Gary Tong, to host this education concert. They will illustrate the origin and development, the structure, the comparison with other keyboard instruments, and the different musical styles of pipe organ through live demonstrations with audio-visual displays. The hosts will also demonstrate the beautiful sounds of the pipe organ through lively story-telling to enable students’ better appreciation of organ music and stimulate their interest in this “King of the Instruments”.