An award winning show, a silent evolution of love interpreted by a soul-connecting duo of 15 years
Days of occupancy and escaping follow each other, full of angst and remorse, of lies and disputes. The tenderness will for ever have the upper hand on distress, dreams will always colour life, and regardless love retains a magical force that closely engages two creatures. Together, we end up weary, apart we found ourselves alone. It is the only true aspect of true love, and it is also the loneliness and the dignity deepest to the human heart. It is always necessary to experience such confusion, such difficulties, to be able to understand the meaning of life.
The show « Les Aimants » won the Interpretation price at Roma Fringe festival 2015.

Ten fingers for twenty-one strings, and magic takes place, surely, calmly. Ballaké Sissoko enlaces us in his suave and crystalline sonority and his kora, magnified by his talent as a melodist and an improviser.
Ballaké Sissoko is the son of Djelimady Sissoko, a great master of the Manding Kora, a twentyone-stringed harp whose crystalline sound has conquered the international public. Ballaké is one of the best Kora players of the new generation. He started learning the instrument at a very young age with his father. Having played with the prestigious Ensemble Instrumental du Mali and accompanied many female Malian singers, he earned his reputation by performing solo, in a duo with Toumani Diabate, with Taj Mahal, and with a number of other musicians, since 2009 with Vincent Segal on the album “Chamber Music” and the new one “Musique de Nuit” both released on No-Format label.
Open to all adventures and encounters Ballaké is an over-talented instrumentalist who, drawing on tradition for inspiration, has forged his own personal style. An inspired improviser and a subtle melodist, he is a marvellous accompanist and an excellent composer.
Emotion, elegance, freshness and inventiveness make up some of the world’s best music.

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The Opera Society of Hong Kong’s “Opera Fever Seven” Concert presents a concert of musical & opera educational program to showcase our passionate singers and young professionals to Le French May 2019. The opera repertoire is rich and fiery – singers of opera could hardly quench their fever of singing by singing more. In this concert, we will bring our audience an excited”voyage” through the famous French opera ‘Les contes d’Hoffmann’ by Offenbach.

Jacques Offenbach was born on 20 June 1819. Born in Cologne, the composer studied cello at the Paris Conservatoire and then became a composer who is famous for his operettas (light opera). The composer had composed more than 100 operettas and was known for the famous opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), which was left unfinished at his death.
The concert celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Offenbach birth in 2019 with a programme of the great composer’s operettas Orphée aux Enfers, La Belle Hélène, La Périchole, La Vie Parisienne; opera Les Contes d’Hoffmann; songs from Fables de La Fontaine and Les Voix Mystérieuses; and cello masterpiece.

Tonight we gather together to bring you a Rendezvous of chamber music feast that voyage through time and space while the East meets the West. A musical sojourn which accentuates the classical rhymes whimsically with the contemporary. An ultimate moment for you to get enthralled by these prominent musicians. With an intimate Rendezvous like this, who needs a destination? STAY and be mused!

Laïka and The Unit: The Women I Grew Up With…
The 1st night is an homage to “The Women I Grew Up With…”. Billie, Abbey. Shirley, Carmen & Nina.
LAÏKA dedicates her singing to the voices who have had a great influence on her subtile sence of phrasing, elegant interpretation and intimate stage presence.

The second night features Samy Thiébault’s “Caribbean Stories”. Caribbean Stories is all about this ton of bricks: an incredible mixing of music that reveals how each tradition is linked, intertwined, related. Jazz, calypso, merengue, waltz, bolero, cha-cha-cha, and a hundred other genres in a massive tornado at once profound, hedonistic, moving and poetic.

Philippe Entremont & City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
For more than 40 years, the legendary Philippe Entremont has pursued a top international career as a pianist and conductor and is unrivalled as one of the most recorded artists of today. During the month of his th birthday, he returns to Hong Kong to perform a special all-Beethoven programme with CCOHK as part of the Le French May Arts Festival 2019.

[1]. Gilbert Amy: En-Suite (2006)
[2]. Bach: Suite No 4 in E-flat for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV1010
[3]. Misato Mochizuki: Pré-écho (2005)
[4]. Bach: Suite No 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV1011
[5]. Ichiro Nodaira: Enigme (2006)
[6]. Bach: Suite No 6 in D for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV1012

Called by The Strad as “a remarkable artist who breathes new life into well-worn repertoire”, Jean-Guihen Queyras is a true master who embraces the old and the new. Whereas his recording of Bach’s complete Cello Suites has won him such accolades as Diapason d’Or of the Year 2008 and CHOC du Monde de la Musique, he is also a champion of contemporary music and has premiered works by leading composers including Michael Jarrell, Thomas Larcher and Bruno Mantovani. He returns to Le French May with the second part of his acclaimed “Six Suites, Six Echoes” project, for which he commissioned six new works to accompany each of Bach’s six monumental Cello Suites. Surely a feast for the ears and soul!