Satyajit Ray's fantasy film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne orchestrated by Soumik Datta working with the City Chamber of Hong Kong to convey a message that music and the arts have the power to overcome social barriers, evil deeds and war.

Film projected with English and Chinese subtitles.  Performance lasts 70 minutes without intermission.

Boccherini I Sinfonia in D minor, La Casa del Diavolo
Bottesini I Concerto No.2 for Double Bass
Schnittke I Suite in Olden Style
Edgar Meyer I Concerto No.1 for Double Bass

The music of German Romantic composers, the Schumann interpreted by dashing pianist David Fray (“musically refined and technically elegant” The New York Times). Crowning the concert…selections from Wagner’s Parsifal, the mystical opera about compassion, redemption, and the legend of the Holy Grail.

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Presented by the Consulate Genera of the Republic of Korea in conjunction with HKGNA & the HKAPA, two-time Grammy nominee violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill performs Walton’s Viola Concerto, joined by award winning violinist Hyuna Kim performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Programme also includes cellist Clara Minhye Kim performing Dvorak’s Silent Woods with “Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra” under the direction of 
Dr. Sharon Choa performing Smetana Vltava’s Má vlast: The Moldau.

For Halloween, join the Sinfonietta led by Yip Wing-Sie with guest choreographer Yuri Ng in this concert of  famous ballet death scenes,  including Offenbach, Stravinksy, Tchaikovsky, Adam, Saint-Saens, and Prokofiev.

Founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez, the late composer and contributor to contemporary music, one of the world’s most revered ensembles specialising in music of our time makes its long-due Hong Kong début, performing Schoenberg’s revolutionary Chamber Symphony No. 1, which also serves as an inspiration for Ligeti’s densely constructed Chamber Concerto. Donatoni’s Tema, one of the Ensemble’s favourites, is a powerfully organic work of fragments and their continuity.  Also on the programme are Les Danses interrompues by Mantovani and Whirling Tissue of Light by the Ensemble's music director and conductor Matthias Pintscher.

A long-awaited HK début for Fischer, in a programme of 19th century violin classics: Dvořák’s delightful sonatina, Schubert’s graceful D major sonatina, and the intense D minor sonata, the last of the three great sonatas that Brahms created for violin - accompanied by pianist Martin Helmchen.

Commissioned by Festival Salon de Provence, the programme includes a Hong Kong premiere of Hersant's Sextet plus works by Spohr (Quintet in C Minor, Op. 52), Hindemith (Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2), Poulenc (Trio for Oboe, Basson and Piano, Op. 43; Sextet Op 100) and Saint-Saens (Caprice sur des airs Danois et Russes, Op.79).

Join Hong Kong Sinfonietta in this popular lunchtime chamber concert series - bring your lunch to the concert and relax with Haydn's Piano Trio no 43 in C; Ewald's Brass Quintet No 4 in A-flat Op 8, Wahland's Pegasus for Solo Snare Drum & Percussion Trio and Bela Fleck's Metric Lips (arr Steinquest).

Warren Mok, founder and artistic director of Opera Hong Kong, renders Rossini, Lehar, Puccini, Bizet, Mascagni, Mascagni, Donizetti, Michael Lai, Rodgers & Hammerstein and more (?!?), supported by the Sinfonietta in this celebration of his 30 years as one of China's 'Three Tenors'.