Jockey Club Musicus Heritage Stories Concerts at Tao Fong Shan Christian Centre
$120 HKD ($60 HKD student/senior/disabled/CSSA recipient)
- Elissa Lee, violin
- Fan Hiu-sing, violin
- Blues Zhang, violin
- Aurélie Entringer, viola
- Lee Yat, viola
- Hsin Hou Richard Sun, cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Divertimento in B-flat major, K.137/125b "Salzburg Symphony No. 2"
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.
Schedule:
2:45pm Guided Tour
3:45pm 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 Elissa Lee, violin
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.
About Blues Zhang, 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.
About Hsin Hou Richard Sun, cello
Born and raised in Hong Kong, cellist Sun Hsin-hou, Richard is currently pursuing a Doctor degree in cello performance at Indiana University Bloomington in the studio of Emilio Colón.
In 2011, Sun had performed and given masterclasses on all the 12 Caprices for Solo Cello by Carlo Alfredo Piatti at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Louisiana, University of South Dakota, Dixie State University and California State University, Fresno. Festival participations including New Music Festival at Bowling Green University, Castleman Quartet Program at Fredonia, and Texas Music Festival.
Sun has a passion for contemporary music; he had worked with composers such as Bright Sheng, Émile Naoumoff, and Aaron Israel Levin. A passionate cello teacher, Sun is currently undergoing a project of performing and teaching all the 40 Popper High School Etudes on social media Little Red Book. He is currently playing on a great modern cello by Michael Stürzenhofecker generously on loan from the Elite Music Instrument Collection at the Jacobs School of Music.