Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band Annual Concert – Architecture of a Dream
5.5.2019 (Sun) 3pm
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall
The Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band will join hands with the US percussionist Dr. Erik Forst and five vibrant MO percussionists to present a ravishing and colorful band repertoire featuring the Hong Kong première Kevin Bobo’s Architecture of a Dream for marimba and wind ensemble. A fascinating concert programme that shouldn’t be missed!
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Conductors & Guest Performers
Lee Sing-wan (Conductor)
Pak Wing-heng (Guest Conductor)
Dr. Erik Forst (Guest Percussion Soloist)
Tsang Shun-han (Percussion)
Ho Shing-chung, Danny (Percussion)
Ho Tse-fai, Sunny (Percussion)
Leung Nim-cho,Victor (Percussion)
Lo Tak-chun, Jovi (Percussion)
Tickets: $95 $75 $55
Tickets available at URBTIX from 5 April 2019
Half-price tickets are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients
For ages 6 or above
Ticketing Enquiries：3761 6661
Credit Card Booking：2111 5999
Internet Booking：www.urbtix.hk
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Programme
| American Overture for Band | Joseph Willcox Jenkins | |||||||||
| Hymn to a Blue Hour | John Mackey | |||||||||
| Architecture of a Dream (for Marimba and Wind Ensemble) (Hong Kong Premiere) | Kevin Bobo | |||||||||
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| ----- Intermission----- | ||||||||||
| Black Rainbow (for 6 Percussionists & Symphonic Band) | Nathan Daughtrey | |||||||||
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| La Fiesta Mexicana I Prelude and Aztec Dance II Mass III Carnival |
Herbert Owen Reed | |||||||||
| The Last Centaur | Rossano Galante | |||||||||
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| Music Office reserves the right to change the programme and artists | ||||||||||
| The Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band, trained and managed by the Music Office, was established in 1978. The Band has been successfully nurturing generations of young eminent musicians, and proactively introducing band music to the public in Hong Kong. In 1978, the Band debuted with the County of Avon School Orchestra, which was visiting from the UK. Since then, the Band has enjoyed the privilege of performing with a number of visiting music groups, including the Central Band of the United Kingdom Royal Air Force, the Tanunda Band of Australia, the Regimental Band of the Green Jackets, the Scots Guards of the United Kingdom, the Narashino Girls’ High School Band from Japan, the Baden-Württernberg Youth Wind Ensemble. Distinguished conductors who collaborated with the Band include Bruce Pearson, Dr. Vondis Miller and Robert Lutt from the USA, Eric Banks from the UK, Felix Hauswirth from Switzerland, Russell Hammond from Australia and Li Fang-fang from Beijing. The Band went on overseas tours to regions like Kagoshima in Japan, Australia, and Hawaii in the USA. In 2013, the Band visited Jeju in South Korea again to participate in the Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival, and gave joint performance with local bands and choirs. In 2015, the Band took part in the 24th Chiayi City International Band Festival. In 2018, the Band visited Hamamatsu in Japan for the 20th APBDA Band Festival, and performed with the band of Saitama Kenritsu Shiraoka High School in Tokyo. With a total of 70 members, the Band is currently trained and managed by Lee Sing-wan, Palas Chan, Dickson Lam and Mandy Kwan. Recruitment is held annually through open audition. |
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Lee Sing-wan (Conductor)
| Lee Sing-wan earned a Master degree of Education (Music) and a Master degree of Music in Conducting (Wind Conducting) respectively from the Education University of Hong Kong and the Messiah College of the USA. He joined the Music Office in 2006. Lee has extensive coaching and performing experience in lower brass instruments and symphonic wind ensembles. His students have been receiving superior ratings at various music competitions. Lee has also led outbound tours of music groups to Australia, China, Japan, Macao, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and the USA, and gave critically acclaimed performances in major events such as the Hong Kong Week of Shanghai Expo 2010, Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival, Qingdao International Horticultural Exposition, Asia and Pacific Band Directors’ Association Conference, and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference. Lee is currently Senior Music Officer of the Wind Section of the Music Office, and conductor of Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and New Territories Youth Symphonic Band. He is also lower brass instructor in the Music Office. |
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Pak Wing-heng (Guest Conductor)
| Pak Wing-heng joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1976 as a full-time trombone player, and was awarded the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship to further his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the following year and to learn from Denis Wick, Eric Crees and Peter Gane. Pak joined the Music Office in 1981, and completed his bachelor’s degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during the course of his work. Pak led Music Office orchestras and bands to participate in numerous major events, including the performances in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Hong Kong in 1986 and the Music Office Spectacular in 2000, and to conduct outbound performance tours to regions like Guangzhou, Macao, Shanghai, Daqing, Harbin, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Russia. In 2018, he led the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band to Tokyo, Japan for music exchange, and to Hamamatsu for the 20th APBDA Band Festival. Apart from being an instructor, performer and conductor, Pak frequently serves as guest speaker at band clinics, adjudicator at music festivals, and guest conductor at performances in Hong Kong and abroad. |
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Dr. Erik Forst (Guest Percussion Soloist)
| Dr. Erik Forst is the Director of Percussion Studies at Messiah College, where he oversees all aspects of the percussion area, including teaching Applied Percussion, directing the Messiah College Percussion Ensemble, and teaching both graduate and undergraduate percussion methods. In addition to his duties at Messiah, he has maintains a healthy performing schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician, giving several recitals and clinics each year, as well as performing with various performing organizations, including the Harrisburg Symphony, the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet, and the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Principal Percussionist from 2011 to 2013. He is also a founding member of the Rivet Duo, a new music collaboration with clarinetist Elisabeth Stimpert, which maintains an active performing schedule throughout the region. An ardent supporter of new music, Dr. Forst has been involved in the commissioning of several new works by composers such as Ivan Trevino, David Litke, Bruce Yurko, and Robert Pound. In November of 2016, Dr. Forst gave the world premiere of Kevin Bobo’s new concerto for marimba and wind ensemble, entitled Architecture of a Dream, a piece he commissioned with the assistance of a consortium of schools from across the country. Prior to his appointment at Messiah College, Dr. Forst spent 15 years working in the public schools as a marching percussion coordinator, percussion ensemble director, and band director at several schools in the Metro Atlanta area. Dr. Forst received his Bachelor degree of Music in Music Education from the University of Georgia in 2003, his Master degree of Music in Performance from the University of Kansas in 2005, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance from the University of Georgia in 2015. His teachers include Timothy K. Adams Jr., Kevin Bobo, and Dr. Thomas McCutchen. |
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Tsang Shun-han (Percussion)
| Tsang Shun-han received his Master of Social Science and Master of Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Music from The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). He studied percussion and timpani under the tutelage of Luk Kin-bun and James Boznos. He joined the Music Office in 2013. Before joining the Music Office, Tsang had worked in various primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong as well as EdUHK. He is passionate about music research throughout his tenure in EdUHK, Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and Quality Education Fund. His researches covering the field of community music education, entrepreneurship, music curriculum of the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE), etc. Tsang is currently Assistant Music Officer of the Wind Section of the Music Office, serves as instructor of Western percussion as well as the conductor of Kowloon Youth Symphonic Band and Music Office Youth Brass Band. |
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Ho Shing-chung, Danny (Percussion)
| Ho Shing-chung, Danny joined the Music Office Instrumental Music Training Scheme and learnt percussion under Carmen Au at the age of 8. He presently serves as a percussionist of Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Wind Symphony and HKBU Symphony Orchestra. Ho has also been selected to participate in percussion masterclasses of Jeff Stern, David Herbert and Kana Omori. Ho is currently a second-year undergraduate student in HKBU, majoring in percussion performance under the tutelage of Sophia Woo and James Boznos. |
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Ho Tse-fai, Sunny (Percussion)
| Ho Tse-fai, Sunny started learning Western percussion in Music Office at an early age. He was the member of the Hong Kong Children Symphonic Band, Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Ho has been selected to participate in Berliner Philharmoniker Timpani Masterclass with Rainer Seegers. In 2018, he joined the Asian Youth Orchestra. In 2019, Ho participated in the Hong Kong Arts Festival - Young Friends Special “From Classic To Future” with Li Biao Percussion Group to perform Varèse's Ionisation. Ho has received many prizes including the 3rd Prize Winner of the 2016 Parsons Music Scholarship for Wind, Brass and Percussion Instruments (Open class competition of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival), Cecil Leong Scholarship and The Hong Kong Children’s Choir Chan Ho Choi Memorial Scholarship in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Ho is currently a student of Bachelor of music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the guidance of Choy Lap-tak and James Boznos, the Principal Timpanist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Leung Nim-cho, Victor (Percussion)
| Leung Nim-cho, Victor started learning Western percussion in the Music Office at the age of 15 under the tutelage of Tsang Shun-han and Stephen Lee. Leung joined the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and he is currently the Principal Percussionist. Leung has joined the concert tour of Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band to Taiwan and Japan tour. He has been the percussionist in The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) Symphonic Band, EdUHK Orchestra, Sha Tin Symphony Orchestra, etc. Currently, he is a four-year music student in EdUHK, majoring in percussion under the tutelage of Rebecca Ng. |
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Lo Tak-chun, Jovi (Percussion)
| Lo started learning Western percussion in the Music Office under the tutelage of Tsang Shun-han. He was the Principal Percussionist of Hong Kong Children Symphonic Band and Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band (HKYSB). Lo participated in the 20th Asia Pacific Band Directors Association performance with HKYSB in Hamamatsu, Japan. In 2017, he received training from Don S. Liuzzi (Principal Timpanist of Philadelphia Orchestra) and Liu Kwok-man (Former Assistant Conductor of Philadelphia Orchestra). Lo is currently studying course of the Bachelor of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), majoring in percussion under the tutelage of Sophia Woo. He is also the percussionist of Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and the CUHK Chung Chi Wind Orchestra and also serves as the conductor of the CUHK Student Orchestra. |
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