Warren Lee (Piano)
Jing Wang (Violin)
Andrew Ling (Viola)
Richard Bamping (Cello)
Warren Lee (Piano)
Hailed by The Straits Times as a musician with “a wonderful sense of colour and impeccably controlled articulation”. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and the Yale School of Music. He was the first-prize winner of the 1995 Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition and the “Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich”. A Steinway Artist since 2009, Lee was among the first featured artists to record on Steinway’s Spirio upon its launch in 2016. Lee is currently the music director of St. Paul’s Co-educational College. He is concurrently the Hong Kong Representative of the Royal Academy of Music and the host of the Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 4, as well as a guest speaker and visiting artist in various institutions around the world.
In recognition of his significant contributions to the music profession, Lee received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong Kong in 2012, an Associateship from the Royal Academy of Music in 2015 and the Ian Mininberg Distinguished Alumni Award by the Yale School of Music in 2017.
Jing Wang (Violin)
Acclaimed Canadian violinist Jing Wang is one of the most versatile and dynamic violinists of his generation. Since his solo recital debut in Marseilles, France at the age of six, Wang has garnered prizes in top international competitions, including the first prize at the 2007 Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition. In 2003, Wang was awarded the “Young Soloist of the Year” by Les Radios Francophones Publiques, a broadcast network of four countries including France, Canada, Switzerland, and Belgium.
Wang has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras in Europe and North America, including Czech Radio Philharmonic, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre National de Lorraine, l’Orchestre de Picardie, the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Wang has collaborated with renowned conductors such as James DePreist, Claus Peter Flor, Yoav Talmi, Jacques Lacombe, Joseph Rescigno and Anne Manson.
Wang is currently the concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Before that, he has been appointed as concertmaster of the Dallas Opera Orchestra for three years. Wang is also one of the founding members of ‘Ensemble75’, a chamber music series based in Dallas, Texas. From 2012-2015, Wang played a violin made in 1700 by Giovanni Tononi, on loan from the Canada Council’s Musical Instrument Bank.
Andrew Ling (Viola)
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 visiting artist of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. 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 collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and China Film Philharmonic Orchestra. He gave recitals in Hong Kong, North America and Europe. As an active chamber musician, Ling 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.
Richard Bamping (Cello)
Richard Bamping has been the principal cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since 1993. He has performed with many of the finest musicians of recent history, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Leonidas Kavakos, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Maria Guilini, Valery Gergiev, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis and Claudio Abbado, to name but a few.
Bamping has performed many of the staples of the solo cello repertoire with orchestras from Europe to the Far East. He has a great passion for playing chamber music with friends and colleagues whenever he gets the chance.
Bamping's cello, dated 1674, was made in Cremona by Andrea Guarneri and is one of only nine surviving examples of his work.
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Half-price tickets available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities and the minder, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients. (Limited tickets for full-time students and CSSA recipients available on a first-come-first-served basis.)
‘City Hall Virtuosi Series’ Package Discount
10% off for each purchase of standard tickets for both ‘Opus One Piano Quartet’ and ‘Violin and Piano Duo Concert by Tasmin Little and Mary Wu’.
Group Booking Discount
10% off for each purchase of 4-9 standard tickets, 15% off for 10-19 standard tickets, 20% off for 20 or more standard tickets.
Patrons can enjoy only one of the above discount offers.
The performance will run for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, including a 15 minutes intermission. Audience is strongly advised to arrive punctually. Latecomers will only be admitted at a suitable break. Presenter reserves the right to change the programme and artists.
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