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Percussion and Guzheng Performance

 

Date/Time: 4/12/2015; 10:30-10:45
Venue: CPD-3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
 
Percussion: Sascia Pellegrini; Guzheng: Chin King

 

Contemporary musician Sascia Pellegrini is no stranger to crossing frontier: bred in Italy and now based in Hong Kong, his music traverses the borders of media and genre. A classically trained percussionist, pianist and composer, with two consecutive scholarships from IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, France).  He has earned the reputation of the percussion wizard not only by his immaculate mastery of traditional percussion instruments but also his uncanny ability to turn most unconventional materials into his music paraphernalia. His composition and performance in recent events such as MOBILE M+ and Sonic Anchor #11 have gained him growing critical acclaims and recognition.

 

Chin King, first honour Bachelors graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for performing arts. She is one of the young guzheng virtuoso active in Hong Kong. Chin has been commissioned as a soloist with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Academy for performing arts symphony Orchestra,United Kingdom Hull Sinfonietta, the Japan Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Contemporary Player and other international professional orchestra. As a guzheng virtuoso Chin has performed with renowned composers, conductors, like Yan Huichang, He zhanhao, Richard Tsang, Christoph Campestrini, Patrick Souillot, Francois Xavier Roth and Zsolt Nagy.

 

 

 

MB Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities

 

Date/Time: 4/12/2015; 18:00-20:00
Venue: Large Moot Court, 2/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU.
 
Speaker: Professor Timothy D. Taylor, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
 
 
Valuing Music

 

How can we understand the value of music? Economic theories of value sometimes help us understand the value of cultural goods such as music, yet there are also non-economic forms of value associated with music. This lecture offers a theory of non-economic forms of value of musical goods.

 

This presentation departs from the common ideas that the labor that produces cultural goods is somehow special, or that cultural goods themselves are special sorts of goods. Instead, it insists that our focus should be not on making taxonomies of labor or types of goods, but, rather on how cultural goods such as music are valued. Drawing on anthropological theories of value, some of which are derived from Clifford Geertz’s demand that analysis should focus on what is meaningful to people, this paper argues that there are different regimes of value in which cultural goods can be located, an older regime that emphasizes the exchange value of cultural goods, and, today, a new regime in which the digital distribution of music has given rise to forms of value that accrue from users’ curation of music, as represented in the creation and sharing of playlists through social media and popularity on YouTube. Following David Graeber, I argue that this sort of value derives from what I call meaningful action.

 

 

 

J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratorio

Conductor: Helmuth Rilling
 
Date/Time: 4/12/2015; 19:30
Venue: Concert Hall, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

 

World-renowned choral-orchestral conductor Helmuth Rilling will take his baton to Hong Kong again this December following his wide-acclaimed “Mass in B Minor” concert with SingFest in August. Returning with five German soloist and instrumentalists, the 82-year-old maestro will conduct Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” in collaboration with SingFest Choral Academy and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) Choir and Symphony Orchestra, bringing a festive warmth to Hong Kong audience.

 

Remarks: 30 tickets are reserved for Conference delegates on a first-come first-served basis.

 

Tickets: $340, $240, $140

Duration: Approx. 2 hours (with 20 minutes interval)

 

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Film Screening: Voluptas Dolendi – Caravaggio’s Gestures

(Limited Seats available on a First-come, First-served Basis)

 

Date/Time: 5/12/2015; 09:45
Venue: Rehearsal Room, LG1/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

 

Introduction by Prof. Dinko Fabris, President of the IMS

 

Voluptas Dolendi – Caravaggio’s Gestures by Deda Cristina Colonna and Mara Galassi, directed by Francesco Vitali. The film was conceived as a synthesis of different artistic expressions such as music, dance, recital and painting, using different editing and filmmaking techniques. This work suggests echoes from the Baroque period, developing like a painting that slowly evolves, through quotations of Caravaggio’s artwork.

 

 

 

HKU Advanced Music Performance Students Recital

(Limited Seats available on First-come, First-serviced Basis)

 
Date/Time: 5/12/2015; 13:00
Venue: Rehearsal Room, LG1, Run Run Shaw Tower

 

Programme:

 

Chin King

Suo-Ma

Grammy Yeung (guzheng) and Cheryl Hui (percussion)

 

Johannes Brahms

“Wie Melodien zieht es mir”

Rosanna Lee (voice) and Jeffrey Lui (piano)

 

Franz Schubert

“Lachen und weinen”

Rosanna Lee (voice) and Jeffrey Lui (piano)

 

F. J. Haydn,

Sonata in E no 52 (I)

Golda Chan, piano

 

W. A. Mozart

“Porgi Amor” from Le Nozze di Figaro

Oliver Kwong (voice) and Jeffrey Lui (piano)

 

W. A. Mozart

“Sull’aria...che soave zeffiretto”, from Le Nozze di Figaro

Rosanna Lee and Oliver Kwong (voices) and Golda Chan (piano)

 

Micheal Spivakovsky

Harmonica Concerto: II. Romance: Andante, dolce III. Scherzo: Allegro ma non troppo

Patrick Yeung (harmonica) and Jeffrey Lui (piano)

 

 

 

Lion Dance

Date/Time: 5/12/2015; 15:45-16:00
CPD-Level 3, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

 

A Chinese custom that marks any celebration, the Lion Dance is the epitome of team building, with a message about working together to match. This 1,000-year-old Chinese custom is most commonly associated with celebrations for the Lunar New Year, although it is performed throughout the year at any significant holiday or festival. The dance is an essential ritual that is believed to bring harmony and prosperity.

 

Lion dancing is a testament to teamwork; everyone has to perform as a unit to succeed. Behind the dazzling, dancing colours and vibrant music is a mastery of coordination.

 

 

 

 

Conference Dinner

 
Date/Time: 5/12/2015; 19:00
Venue: Café Malacca, Hotel Jen Hong Kong

 

The conference diner will be held at the Café Malacca, Hotel Jen Hong Kong, 10 minutes walking distance from the conference venue.  A cash bar will be operating should delegates wish to purchase drinks.  The conference dinner is only available to those who pre-booked and paid for in advance.

 

The details of the restaurant are as follows:

 

Hibiscus Room, Café Malacca

Level 2, Hotel Jen Hong Kong

508 Queen's Road West, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2213 6613

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