Pictures at an Exhibition by Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra
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Pictures at an Exhibition in Concert Hall again!
Scenes in Pictures at an Exhibition to be realized with animated oil paintings and music!
Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Pierné
Concertstück for Harp & Orchestra, Op. 39
Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Running time of each performance is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes including an intermission of 15 minutes.
Audience is strongly advised to arrive punctually.
Latecomers will only be admitted during the intermission or at a suitable break.
The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and artists.
Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra
Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra aims at promoting music among the public, especially the young generation in Hong Kong. The Orchestra has performed in the Hong Kong City Hall, district town halls and civic centres a few hundred times for 40 years.
A number of internationally famous conductors and soloists have been invited to perform with it. By using the idioms of popular music and organising concert talks, the Orchestra has successfully introduced Classical music to the public.
The Orchestra and its Music Director Dr. Yip Wai-hong are committed to cultivate local art talents. Apart from standard orchestral repertoire, the Orchestra has invited local artists from different arts aspects for the collaboration of cross-disciplinary programmes to nurture a new generation of artists, and on the other, creates more possibilities for innovating classical music. The Orchestra has organised many one-of-its-kind concerts and cross-over programmes to promote classical music. These programmes have significantly expanded the audience base of the genre, and at the same time, offered more novel programmes for music lovers.
Dr. Yip Wai-hong (Music Director)
Dr. Yip Wai-hong is an eminent music educator. He served as the Head of Music and Fine Arts Department of the Hong Kong Baptist University for almost 30 years. He founded the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Children's Choir, Yip's Children's Choir, Hong Kong Children's Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Professional Winds with the aim to nourish young talents in Hong Kong.
The honours and accolades bestowed upon Dr. Yip include Hong Kong Art Educator of the Year, the Medal of Honour of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), the Award of Honorary University Fellow of the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Fellows of Wells Cathedral School of the United Kingdom and the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.
In 2011, Dr. Yip was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by The Government of the HKSAR for his valuable contribution to children music education, as well as his dedication in prompting the development of choral and orchestral music.
Andrew Ling (Guest Conductor)
A native of Hong Kong, Andrew Ling is currently the principal violist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also an artist teacher of the Hong Kong Baptist University and a visiting artist of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In the past, he had assumed the role of concertmaster at the Indiana University (IU) Concert Orchestra, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, and the principal violist of the IU Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ling began studying violin at the age of six under the tutelage of the late Professor Lin Yaoji of the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Ling completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the IU, and had further studies at the Rice University in Houston. He had a broad musical education with Henry Kowalski, Ik-Hwan Bae, Alan de Veritch and Cho-Liang Lin. He had also collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and China Film Philharmonic Orchestra. He had also given recitals in Hong Kong, North America and Europe. As an active chamber musician, Ling had performed with Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Trey Lee, Shanghai String Quartet and had been invited as a guest artist at the Chamber Residency of Banff Centre in Canada and The Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival.
Melody Tam (Harp)
Melody Tam is the first harpist from Hong Kong who has won the championship in an International Music Competition. She was a winner of many competitions including the Frist Prize of the 16th Osaka International Music Competition (Harp) and the "Matsuo Hiroshi Award", "Alice Chalifoux Award" in Adelaide Harp Festival and 3rd Place in The 6th France Harp Competition . She joined the influential harpist Judith Liber to play in the concert in Italy
As the Principal Harpist of Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra, she had also worked with The SAR Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong City Pops Orchestra.
Chih Leung (Motion Graphic Designer)
Chih Leung was graduated from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) with a Bachelor of Design in Multimedia Design in 2007. Leung is currently working in EyePress News Agency as a motion graphic designer, and his job duties include the post-production and animation for news videos. In recent years, Leung participates in various multimedia projects, which include producing the visual animation for concerts (such as the animation in the Hong Kong singer Ivana Wong ‘I Am From Mars Live 08’), producing animated music videos and producing animated graphics for local short film Nostalgia. In September 2012, Leung was invited by Dr. Yip Wai-hong to be the Motion Graphic Designer in his artistic work named New ‘Book of Genesis’, and cooperated with Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra in the concert.
Kenneth Tsang (Oil Painting)
Kenneth Tsang graduated from Baylor University in the United States in 2006, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art. He also spent time in Tokyo, Japan and Florence, Italy studying art history, drawing and painting. Tsang had won the best of painting scholarship in the 2006 Emerging Texas Artist Award. Tsang’s first solo exhibition ‘The Story of Art’ was held in 2009. In 2010, MobArt Gallery organized a solo-exhibition ‘We Play Endlessly’ for Tsang’s work. Tsang is one of the founders of ‘light up our heART’, an art-educational project. Through this project, he cooperated with other artists in the fields of drama, installation and music. They have visited various secondary and primary schools to share their works.
Pictures at an Exhibition by Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra
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