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András Schiff – More of a Pianist Than a Conductor
Sir András Schiff returned to Hong Kong after 11 years, this time with his “family”, Cappella Andrea Barca, and performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mozart’s Symphony No.39 for the first half of the programme, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto
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Equal Sides of the Musical Triangle
David Ludwig about IC2019
When we last spoke with David Ludwig, he was about to head off for Hong Kong to participate in the 2019 Intimacy of Creativity – The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong (IC) festival held by the
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Directing on the Global Stage
An Interview with Leonard Slatkin
At the end of his Asia tour, conductor Leonard Slatkin is coming to Hong Kong to conduct a century’s worth of music: from a work that will be receiving its Southeast Asian premiere to a late 19th-century warhorse. The first
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The Beauty of the Instrument
An Interview With Riyehee Hong
Making her first appearance at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March, organist Riyehee Hong is looking forward to bringing a wealth of Spanish and European organ music to a new audience. The appearance of an organist in a general
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The Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition 2018
The Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition 2018 starts on 29 June, after more than two years spent in establishing this new competition. It began with an idea from the offices of Musica Viva, a Hong Kong-based music institution better
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Meet the Artist – François-Frédéric Guy
“Playing a concerto with orchestra is the utmost gift a pianist can receive!” Ahead of his Hong Kong Sinfonietta début under Gabor Kali in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3, French pianist François-Frédéric Guy talks to Frances Wilson about influences and
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Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Götterdämmerung: Dawn of a Wagnerian Orchestra
The sense of achievement at this Götterdämmerung was palpable. The Hong Kong Philharmonic has now completed, over four years, a full Wagner Ring Cycle. It is fair to say that what started as a very competent sounding orchestra in 2015
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The Music of Angels: World Harp Congress
What could be better than one harpist? —nine-hundred and fifty-seven harpists! Of all ages and backgrounds, they descended upon Hong Kong in July, to attend this years’ thirteenth World Harp Congress—the first time the congress has been held in Asia.
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