Music Office

The Music Office promotes knowledge and appreciation of music in the community, especially among young people. The office provides instrumental and ensemble training, and organises a variety of music appreciation activities for the public.

During the year, the Music Office ran an Instrumental Music Training Scheme for 4 578 trainees, along with 18 youth orchestras, bands and choirs with 1 392 members. It also organised 243 short-term music interest courses for 2 534 participants, and another 385 music-related activities which together attracted around 175 000 people. These included a music camp, several youth music events, and a variety of educational programmes for students and the community.

The office also arranged several cultural exchange events during the year. The Hong Kong Youth Strings participated in the Summa Cum Laude – International Youth Music Festival Vienna in Vienna and Prague in July 2012. It also sent a youth chamber choir to Kagoshima at the invitation of the Kagoshima Prefectural Government in October, and organised various exchange activities in Hong Kong for youth music groups from Tianjin, Singapore, and the USA.