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The world renowned St Petersburg Chamber Choir will perform in Hong Kong next month (December).
The performance will be at 8pm on Wednesday, December 20, at the Auditorium, Shatin Town Hall, featuring all-Russian Christmas music. The choir will also showcase an array of Russian tunes at 8pm on Thursday, December 21, at Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall.
The artistic director, Nikolai Kornev, will conduct the choir to perform works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and other Russian composers.
Founded in 1977, the St Petersburg Chamber Choir is one of the leading choirs in Russia and is actively involved in continuing the rich traditions of Russian and European vocal music. It is made up of professional musicians who graduated from Russia's top musical institutions.
The choir's broad repertoire includes Renaissance music, Bach's sacred compositions, nineteenth-century music and contemporary works, many of which were composed for the choir. In this way the choir has attracted the attention of many well-known conductors and soloists and received numerous national awards. The choir has launched an extensive international touring career, and has received critical acclaim in the US, the UK and continental Europe.
Tickets priced from $100 to $250 are now available at URBTIX outlets, while senior citizens, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients may have 50% off (limited quotas for CSSA recipients on a first-come, first-served basis). A 10% discount applies to Friends of LCSD performing venues. There will be a maximum of 20% off for a single purchase of different programmes in the series. Please see the programme leaflets for details.
Concert by the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir is one of the entertaining programmes in Cheers! Series 2006 presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Other attractions of the series include "Space Little Prince" by Ming Ri Institute for Arts Education; "Little Fish" by Make Friends with Puppet; "The Animal World" popular concert by the Hong Kong YWCA Chinese Orchestra; "Magnificat Spanish Delights" by Hong Kong Oratorio Society; "The Nutcracker" by the Hong Kong Ballet; "A Little Night Music (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)" and "Johann Strauss and the Danube Maid" by the Marionettentheater Schloss Sch?nbrunn; "Magical Christmas with Piano Seven" (Switzerland); "Magic Beyond Belief" by the Spencers (USA) and the acrobatic shows by the Tweaksters (USA). Please refer to individual programme leaflets for details.
The concert is also a programme in support of "The Year of Russia in China".
For enquiries about the programmes, call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/cp. Ticketing enquiries and reservations can be made on 2734 9009 and credit card telephone bookings on 2111 5999. Tickets can also be booked online at www.urbtix.hk.
Ends/Monday, November 6, 2006
Issued at HKT 17:43
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