Surf’s Up! II
Music
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The Chinese music scene in Hong Kong has always been vibrant, with generation after generation of talented musicians emerging, and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra has been actively providing quality opportunities for them to showcase their musical prowess. Surf’s Up! II will be such as platform for the latest talents. Rupert Woo Pak-tuen, first runner-up of the Second International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music, will be conducting the HKCO in some of the most significant works in Chinese music concertos -Mu Guiying Leads Her Army to War, Memories (The 4th Movement of The Desert Smoke Suite) and Silk Road. Famous local percussionist Chau Chin-tung will join the HKCO in performing Ng Cheuk-yin’s The City That Never Sleeps, an original composition that won the “Hong Kong Theme Award” at the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition in 2000. Law Hang-leung, Wu Chun-hei and Ma Wai-him, three suona artists of the Orchestra connected as alumni of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at one time, as mentor-mentee, will be making a world premiere of Suona Guanzi Concerto sānà, written specially for them by Tang Lok-yin, a young composer from Hong Kong. Get ready to meet the new shining stars of Chinese music and see them make waves!
Repertoire：Silk Road
Composer：Zhao Jiping
Repertoire：Memories (The 4th Movement of The Desert Smoke Suite)
Composer：nil
Repertoire：Mu Guiying Leads Her Army to War (Symphonic Poem, Composed collectively by the China Central Orchestra, Arr. by Kuan Nai-chung)
Composer：Tang Lok yin
Repertoire：sānà (Suona and Guanzi Concerto, Commissioned by HKCO, World Premiere)
Composer：Ng Cheuk yin
Repertoire：The City That Never Sleeps (Percussion and Orchestra)
Conductor：Woo Pak-tuen
Suona：Law Hang-leung; Wu Chun-hei; Ma Wai-him
Guanzi：Ma Wai-him
Percussion：Chau Chin-tung
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2015" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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