Violin Recital by John Lui
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John Lui, aged 17, is currently a Year 12 student studying at Whitgift School in London with a full Headmaster’s scholarship awarded for winning the first runner-up prize in the Whitgift International Music Competition. Besides academic study at Whitgift, John is also receiving musical training at Junior Guildhall School.
John joined the Yip’s Children’s Choral and Performing Arts Centre at the age of six and became a student of Ms. Beedarn Chao at the age of nine. Under Ms. Chao’s tutelage, John passed the Grade Eight violin examination of the ABRSM, and was awarded the Associateship (ATCL), the Licentiate (LTCL) and the Fellowship (FTCL) Violin Recital Diploma by the Trinity Guildhall Examination Board, all with distinction. John is also a holder of the ATCL Piano Recital Diploma.
Over the years John has won championships in many classes of violin and piano competitions of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, which include graded violin and piano solo, violin duet senior, piano duet intermediate, violin concerto age 13 or under and the Tom Lee Prize for piano ensemble. He also won top prizes in violin concerto age 19 or under, violin sonata, the Hong Kong Strings Scholarship for String Instruments Open Class, and in the violin senior group of the Hong Kong New Generation Art Association Music Competition. John also has won the Young Musician of the Year 2008 in violin and piano, and western instrument scholarship age 15 or below of the Hong Kong Student Open Music Competition. In 2016 John won the Special Prize for Intermediate Strings Best Sonata in the Cremona International Music Competition in Italy and in 2017 he won second prize in the 16-17 age group of the Strings Class in the Whitgift International Music Competition in London.
John has participated and performed in various masterclasses with renowned violin professors including Charles Castleman and Felix Andrievsky.
John joined the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and has served as the co-concertmaster. He has joined the concert tours of the Orchestra since 2013 to the USA, Canada, Austria, Italy and Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia for orchestral and solo performances. His solo performances with the HKCSO have included Paganini La Campanella, Ravel Tzigane, and Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor. In November 2017 John made his debut as a soloist to play the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 with the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra. All these performances have earned him high acclaim.
Piano：Maria Jee
Composer：Bach; Beethoven; Dvorak; Waxman; Prokofiev; Mendelssohn; Wieniawski
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$160
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