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International Arts Carnival 2024

Short-cut to Classical Music

The Instruments of an Orchestra

Music Director Emeritus/Conductor/Presenter Yip Wing-sie
Clarinet Woo Hee-soo
 

Programme

Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake: Scene from Act II

Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker : Dance of the Mirlitons

Dukas

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (excerpt)

Mozart

Clarinet Concerto in A, K622: 3rd movement

Rossini

William Tell Overture

Tchaikovsky

Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture (excerpt)

Britten

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra


The world of classical music, in all its expansive history and immeasurable beauty, can be overwhelming for people who are new to this fascinating world. In this concert, Music Director Emeritus Yip Wing-sie will guide you through how to appreciate classical music, starting from an in-depth introduction of all the instruments in a symphony orchestra, with a video camera showing you close-up how the instruments are set up and played. By the end of the concert, you will learn to recognise the instruments and understand how they combine with each other to achieve different effects and convey emotions, in a selection of well-loved orchestral works.

 

Woo Hee-soo (Clarinet)

  • Principal clarinet, Hong Kong Sinfonietta

 

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Ticketing
Dates & Times:

20 July 2024 (Saturday)
7:30pm

21 July 2024 (Sunday)
3pm

Venue:

HK City Hall Concert Hall

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Price:

$420, $280, $160


  • Tickets at URBTIX
    Credit Card Booking: 3166 1288
    Ticketing Enquiries: 3166 1100
    URBTIX Internet Ticketing Service: www.URBTIX.hk

 

  • Book Online at POPTICKET
    (No service charge, the best available seat will be assigned by the organiser)

A programme of the International Arts Carnival 2024


Half-price tickets available for full-time students, senior citizens, people with disabilities and the minder & Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients

Up to 20% discount for group booking of 4 or more standard tickets

Please refer to the website of International Arts Carnival for more details on booking discounts and packages.

Note: Discounts cannot be used in conjunction of other discounts

More ticketing info
Duration: Approximately 2 hours with a 15 min intermission
Age Limit: 6 (Person below this age not admitted)
Programme Enquiries: 2836 3336 / info@hksinfonietta.org
Remarks: Hong Kong Sinfonietta reserves the right to change the programme and artists

The APPRECIATE concerts are, mainly, classical concerts featuring guest artists and conductors of world renown.  Apart from performing orchestral masterpieces, Hong Kong Sinfonietta regularly commissions new works and introduces to audiences works that are rarely heard in Hong Kong.

Music is good for everyone! The LEARN series takes audiences aged 0 to 88 into the world of classical music through specially designed concert series including Good Music for Babies, Good Music for Kids, Short-cut to Classical Music, Know Your Classical Music and HKS McDull Music Project.

In the light-hearted RELAX concerts, Hong Kong Sinfonietta shares with audiences great music ranging from orchestral favourites to music from movies and musicals.

The ENCOUNTER series offers unique opportunities for audiences to get close to the music and the performers through chamber music concerts, talks, often at unconventional venues or time. These include Good Music This Lunch, Good Music @ The Fringe, Beyond Good Music @ The Fringe, HKS ArtisTree Residency and UpClose Encounters.

Often referred to as “one of the world’s great small orchestras”, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has been invited to go on many TOURS in Europe, Asia, South and North Americas, sharing good music with audiences in over 30 cities.  In 2017/2018, the orchestra will make its début in Germany and perform at festivals in France, Portugal, as well as the Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland.

WHAT ELSE?  Apart from classical concerts, Hong Kong Sinfonietta regularly appears in staged productions by Hong Kong Ballet, Opera Hong Kong and visiting arts groups such as The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. This season, Hong Kong Sinfonietta will also host the 1st International Conducting Competition.