Jockey Club Musicus Heritage Stories Concerts at Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre
$250 HKD ($125 HKD student/senior/disabled/CSSA recipient)
- Angela Chan Sin-ying, violin
- Fan Hiu-sing, violin
- Elissa Lee, violin
- Aurélie Entringer, viola
- Trey Lee Chui-yee, cello
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"
Hong Kong has caught the imagination of many a traveler, but few as much as that of the Norwegian missionary Karl Ludvig Reichelt (1877–1952), who came to China and founded the celebrated Christian center Tao Fong Shan in Sha Tin.
Inspired by the fascinating history of Tao Fong Shan, Musicus presents an unprecedented series of concerts at the celebrated heritage site. The series features pieces by the greatest composer of Reichelt's homeland, Edvard Grieg, whose work Peer Gynt chronicles a journey from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert. Musicus' Artistic Director, cellist Trey Lee, and his award-winning international musicians from Canada, France, and Hong Kong will also perform other works inspired by travel––Dvořák’s journey to America, and Kodály's expeditions around rural Europe collecting examples of folk music.
It promises to be a remarkable experience, also featuring an exhibition of porcelain specially made for this concert series by a veteran porcelain master, and a pre-concert guided tour of the complex. Don't miss this opportunity to experience incredible music in a setting that resonates with the perseverance of the Norwegian missionary who built this Hong Kong institution.
Includes a 1-hour performance and a 45-min heritage guided tour.
Schedule:
4pm Guided Tour
5pm Concert
Half-price discounts are available for full-time students, senior citizens, people with disabilities and their accompanying persons, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients.
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 Angela Chan Sin-ying, violin
Angela Chan Sin-ying was born in Hong Kong, and started to learn the violin at the age of three from her mother. She continued her studies under Professor Michael Ma at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Professor Vera Tsu Weiling at the middle school affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is currently pursuing her master's degree with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory.
Chan has taken part in numerous violin competitions, winning first prize and the Concerto Performance Award at the 8th International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists; second prize in the violin section of the Harbin International Music Competition; and Laureate at both the Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition.
She has appeared as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Weimar Orchestra of Germany, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the EOS Orchestra of Beijing, and the Hong Kong Symphonia. In 2016 she was chosen to tour the United States with The Curtis Chamber Orchestra as a soloist. She was also featured in nine concerts with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra during their 2017 tour of Europe. She has given recitals in Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Xiamen.
Chan has performed in the Academy of the Verbier Festival and at The Heifetz International Music Institute, where she was invited to play with famed violist Nobuko Imai.
Chan is also a founder member of the AYA Piano Trio, winner of first prize at both the WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition and the Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition.
Chan has been awarded Honorable Mention of Musicus Society 2019 Young Artist Audition.
About 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.