Jockey Club Musicus Heritage Stories Concerts at Tai Kwun
$250 HKD
- Fan Hiu-sing, violin
- Francis Chik, violin
- Aurélie Entringer, viola
- Lee Yat, viola
- Jia Nan, cello
- Colleen Lee, piano
- Cheong Hoi-leong, piano
Olivier Messiaen — "Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus" from Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Robert Schumann — Märchenbilder ("Fairy Tale Pictures") for viola and piano, Op. 113
Ernst von Dohnányi — Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1
Trey Lee brings together an outstanding group of musicians for this Jockey Club Musicus Heritage Stories series of concerts in the historic surroundings of Tai Kwun, the former Victoria Prison. The theme of the series is "Perseverance" and features music by a number of great composers who each battled hardship during their lives––Arensky and his addictions to alcohol; Messiaen, who was interned in a prison camp in the Second World War; Schubert and Schumann, who grappled with mental and physical illnesses; and Dohnányi, who went to great lengths to save Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.
Alongside these musical stories from the past will be the premiere of Musicus' Call for Scores winner Eason Chan's new composition, which charts the history of Tai Kwun's prison chapel in various incarnations. The piece showcases the historical setting of Tai Kwun, bringing the former prison to life and serves as a fitting metaphor for Hong Kong's spirit of perseverance.
Join us at Tai Kwun and immerse yourself in some unforgettable musical stories of the past and present.
This series will take place on Saturday, November 12 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, November 13 at 2:30pm and 4:30pm.
About Musicus Society
Musicus Society was founded in 2010 as the vision of cellist Trey Lee to become an international music organization with quality performances and world-class home-grown artists. It is a Hong Kong registered charity with the Hon. Tung Chee-hwa as Honorary Patron.
The Society’s mission is to promote cross-cultural collaboration of music internationally between top local and overseas artists through performances and by nurturing the next generation of talent.
https://www.musicussociety.org/en/index.htmlAbout Fan Hiu-sing, violin
Violinist Fan Hui-sing is the 2021 winner in the Musicus Society’s Young Artist Audition program. Winner of the New York International Artists Violin Competition and the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition, he has established himself as a rising star on the international concert circuit. Institutions and international festivals at which he has performed include the Marvão Music Academy, the Verbier Festival, the Festival e Academia Verão Clássico, the Great Mountains Music Festival and School, and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.
Born in Hong Kong, Fan began violin lessons at the age of four. He was the beneficiary of the Cordelia Lee Scholarship and Betty & Daniel Bloomfield Fund Scholarship while at the Juilliard School, where he earned his bachelor's degree studying under Hyo Kang and I-Hao Lee, before going on to further studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Julia Fischer, Christoph Poppen, and Lena Neudauer.
Fan has collaborated with and been mentored by such renowned artists as Leonidas Kavakos, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Vadim Repin, Itzhak Perlman, Kristóf Baráti, Ferenc Rados, Pamela Frank, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Donald Weilerstein, Aaron Rosand, Pierre Amoyal, Mihaela Martin, the Quatuor Ébène, and the Emerson String Quartet.
He currently plays a 1795 Ferdinandus Gagliano violin from Naples.
About Francis Chik, violin
About Lee Yat, viola
Born in Hong Kong, violist Lee Yat is one of the 2021 honorable mentions of the Musicus Society's Young Artist Audition program. He received a scholarship prize from the Junior Music Program of Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he studied violin and chamber music. At the age of 16, Lee switched to viola.
Lee was admitted at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna at the age of 17, where he studied viola under the tutelage of Professor Wolfgang Klos and Professor Urlich Schönauer. He also took baroque viola lessons periodically from Hiro Kurosaki and Rainer Ingomar. In 2018, he received full scholarship at the International Menuhin Music Academy where he studied under Ivan Vukcevic, Maxim Vengerov, and chamber music from Gabor Takacs Nagy. He took part in masterclasses given by renowned artists including Richard O'Neill, Nobuko Imai, Gérard Caussé, and Pinchas Zukerman.
Lee is the 2nd prize winner of the string competition in University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and a recipient of the Dr. Martha Sobotka-Charlotte Janeczek Stiftung. He has performed in festivals such as Wien Modern, Allegro Vivo, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Megeve Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, and Beare's Premiere Music Festival.
Lee currently plays an 1800 John Betts viola loaned to him by the PostScript Collection through the Beare's International Violin Society.