Established in 1978, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra (HKYSO) is one of the flagship music groups managed by the Music Office.

 

Many of its former members have pursued careers in music, becoming eminent performers or music educators. The HKYSO has worked with many internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists, such as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Fou T’song, Georg Tintner, Sir David Willcocks, Tang Muhai, Kenneth Jean, Yeh Tsung, Yip Wing-sie, Timothy Landauer, and Edward Grach. At the invitation of UNICEF, the HKYSO performed with world-class pianist Lang Lang at a fundraising concert in 2010. It also performed in the “Caritas Charity TV Show” with pop singers in 2013, 2015, and 2023.

 

The HKYSO has served as a music ambassador for Hong Kong, completing successful concert tours to France, Israel, Cyprus, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Singapore, and the Chinese Mainland. In 2010, the orchestra toured Shanghai, China, to perform at the “Hong Kong Week” of the Shanghai Expo and participated in exchange programs with local young musicians. In 2015, the HKYSO participated in the International Music Festival “EURASIA” in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where members attended training sessions at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire and performed with the Ural Youth Symphonic Orchestra. Most recently, the HKYSO participated in the 30th Australian International Music Festival in Sydney in 2019, winning the Gold Award in the Instrumental Category and being named a “Command Ensemble” by the adjudication panel—an honor that allowed the orchestra to perform at the Festival Closing Concert.

 

With members aged between 12 and 25, recruitment for the HKYSO is conducted via open auditions every year.

 

Conductor(s)/ Instructor(s)：	Dr KAM Ho-pang Joseph, LEE Sing-wan, TSANG Yin-yu, LEUNG Wing-kin and Lawrence WONG
Manager：	TSANG Yin-yu