Interviews

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Expanding Hong Kong’s Musical Possibilities
An Interview With Rumiko Hasegawa
After first shaking up our entire concept of opera by taking the audience out of its comfortable chairs and putting on a La Traviata that was more like modern life, Rumiko Hasegawa and More than Musical are looking to improving
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Bringing Chamber Music to the World
An Interview With Matthew Tommasini
In a new venture in Asia, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) will be appearing on Hong Kong airways. An addition to the programming on RTHK Radio 4, Hong Kong’s classical music radio channel, is a new 14-episode
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Cultural Development for the International Stage – An Interview with Benedikt Fohr
Benedikt Fohr joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) after 12 years at the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and Ensemble Research Freiburg. Since 2015, he has also been the Artistic Director (Classical)
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Interview with Masato Suzuki
Principal Conductor of Bach Collegium Japan
“Every day presents new and exciting challenges that I look forward to tackling” Bach: Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1062 Your father, Masaaki Suzuki, must have had a major impact on your musical development as a child.
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Long Yu: Guardian of the Orchestral Galaxy
For any music journalist, to nail down an interview with Long Yu would be mission impossible. Not only because the man has an endless line-up of meetings, auditions to attend, rehearsals, concerts to lead who spends his day by minute,
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The Immersive Choir
An Interview with Paul Smith of VOCES8
For his first album as a composer and solo artist, Paul Smith, co-founder with his brother of the a capella group VOCES8, brought together VOCES8, his other group Apollo5, and 2,500 more singers. Simple. Not so simple. The 2,500 singers
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Maestro Vänskä’s Finnish Adventure
Here is an conversation with Osmo Vänskä prior to his 2019 performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.
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A Pianist of the Golden Era: Nelly Akopian-Tamarina
Born in Moscow, the Russian pianist Nelly Akopian-Tamarina carries on an illustrious line of Russian Romanticism going back to Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt. A connoisseurs’ artist, she excels in repertory for which she has received the highest international recognition.
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