Music

Asia-Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival – Opening Concert (25/12/2018)
Last summer, the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra performed side-by-side at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Kuala Lumpur. Naohisa Furusawa and Jeff Leung together with the 100-members orchestra performed to their best, igniting the passion of the young people, and bridging the gap between the two cultures.

To continues the success, the two orchestra will hold their hands again in Hong Kong Cultural Centre. This year, young violin elites from both sides will share the stage and show their talents. The HKCSO violinist Enoch Li plays Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen; the MPYO violinist Low Zi Yang will play the third movement from Dvořák’s A minor Violin Concerto. The Joint-Orchestra will play works of Wagner and Tchaikovsky, to kick off the Asia Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival.

Asia-Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival -Exchange Concert 1 (25/12/2018)
Classical music is a mature media for young people to connect and understand each other’s culture. The chief conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Youth Orchestra – Jacky Wong; and conductor of Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra – Chan Oi-ching, are both native Hong Kongers. Jacky Wong will lead SSYO to perform Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Symphony No.5; Chan Oi-ching and the HKCSO will perform Brahm’s first and fifth Hungarian Dance and Mozart’s The Impresario Overture. On this very Christmas night, you will also hear excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker suite. If you are a fan of the German and Austrian classical music, this concert is your cup of tea!

Asia-Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival -Exchange Concert 2 (26/12/2018)
kid’s Philharmonic@sg, led by young Chinese conductor Luo Wei, brings us various familiar melodies, including the last movement of the Dvořák’s ninth symphony and Offenbach’s Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann. Jeff Leung, the resident conductor of the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra, selected Beethoven’s early work, The Second Symphony in D Major, to showcase the youthful and lively charm of Hong Kong young musicians. The youthful energy that the professional orchestras can’t regain will be presented at this concert!

Asia-Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival -Exchange Concert 3 (26/12/2018)
Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra has been highly acclaimed on their world tour this summer. This winter, the orchestra with conductor Lio Kuokman will bring us a full Mozart program: Marriage Of Figaro Overture and the Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”, bringing us a majestic momentum in a relaxed style. Not to be missed is the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, under the baton of Joshua Tan, featuring Singaporean young composer Lee Jia-yi’s world premiere work Bloom, to define Singapore’s culture with the power of youth. The orchestra also brings us one of the best trumpet artists of Deutsche Grammophon – Pacho Flores from Venezuela will play the Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto. The orchestra will end the concert with Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

Asia-Pacific Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival -Closing Concert (27/12/2018)
Here comes the finale! Over 500 young musicians from four youth orchestras in the Asia-Pacific region with gather in Hong Kong Cultural Centre to share the stage, showing their strength one by one. At the very end of the concert, Dr. Kitty Cheung, the Artist-in-residence of the festival, together with representatives from each youth orchestras, forming a joint orchestra of over 100 young musicans, will perform Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture under the baton of the Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta – Yip Wing-sie. Time to show the power of friendship to wrap-up the 3-days festival.