Opus One Piano Quartet to perform in May
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The programme includes Schumann's "Piano Quartet, Op.47" and Brahms's "Piano Quartet No.1, Op.25".
Praised by the Straits Times as a musician with "a wonderful sense of colour and impeccably controlled articulation", Warren Lee is a scholar graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Yale School of Music. He has won various awards including first prize at the 1995 Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition and the Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich. Lee 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 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 from the Yale School of Music in 2017.
Acclaimed Canadian violinist Jing Wang made his first public appearance in Marseille at the age of six. He made his concerto début aged nine with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. In 2003, Wang was awarded the Young Soloist of the Year by Les Radios Francophones Publiques. Subsequent engagements have taken him across North America and Europe and include concerto appearances with the Czech Radio Philharmonic, the Moscow State Symphony, the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal and the Montreal Symphony orchestra. Wang is currently the Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Before that he was Concertmaster of the Dallas Opera Orchestra for three years. Additionally, Wang is one of the founding members of Ensemble75, a chamber music series based in Dallas, Texas.
Hong Kong-born Andrew Ling is currently the principal violist of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Previously he was concertmaster at the Indiana University (IU) Concert Orchestra and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, and 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. As a child he gave recitals in Europe, North America and Asia-pacific region as a violin soloist. He has also collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the China Film Philharmonic Orchestra, and has given recitals in Hong Kong, North America and Europe.
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, including Yehudi Menuhin, Leonidas Kavakos, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Maria Guilini, Valery Gergiev, Leonard Bernstein, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis and Claudio Abbado. Bamping has performed many of the staples of the solo cello repertoire with orchestras from Europe to the Far East, and has a great passion for playing chamber music with friends and colleagues.
"City Hall Virtuosi Series: Opus One Piano Quartet" will be held at 8pm on May 11 (Thursday) at the Theatre of Hong Kong City Hall. Tickets priced at $150 and $200 are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/music/programs_205.html.
Ends/Thursday, March 30, 2017
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