Yuki Ip is the foremost soprano of her generation in Hong Kong. Her major credits include her performance with José Carreras in the inaugural season of Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts; her European début at the Basilica di San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, singing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in a special concert commemorating the landmark meeting between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church; Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 in Verona and Cremona, Italy; Bach’s B Minor Mass and Haydn’s The Creation under the baton of Helmuth Rilling; guest solo appearance at the Shanghai Expo with Shanghai Opera House Orchestra; Opera Hong Kong’s La Bohème, Werther, Carmen and Roméo et Juliette; Musica Viva’s Madama Butterfly; Singapore Lyric Opera’s Hansel and Gretel and Street Scene; Suor Angelica at Macao International Music Festival; her New York début concerts in Huang An-lun’s Revelation; and concerts with Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Macao Orchestra and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Her performances have been featured on radio and TV.
Her concert repertoire includes Bach’s B Minor Mass and Cantatas BWV 80 &140, the requiems of Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Fauré, Rutter and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Saint-Saën’s Christmas Oratorio, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate, Mass in C Minor and Missa Brevis, Handel’s Messiah, Dixit Dominus and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed ilModerato, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Missa Solemnis, Bruckner’s Te Deum and Mass in F Minor and Mahler’s Symphony No 8.
Yuki Ip graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) and obtained a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She is currently the adjunct faculty of HKAPA, Hong Kong Chinese University and Hong Kong Baptist University.
