For immediate release
5 May 2022

This French May Arts Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Music Director Emeritus Yip Wing-sie will join hands with cellist Jamal Aliyev for the first time, presenting a selection of captivating showpieces by Paganini, Popper, Bach and Handel. Exclusively sponsored by CLP Holdings Limited (CLP), the programme will also feature French composers Berlioz’s exuberant Roman Carnival Overture and Bizet’s inspired Symphony in C.

One of Classic FM’s “30 of the most brilliant young classical musicians playing today” in 2021 and winner of “The Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award”, Aliyev has dazzled with his “enviable technique and a rich broad palette” (Classical Music Magazine) in performances alongside such prestigious orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, and enjoyed recurring collaborations with leading Turkish composer Fazıl Say.

As the Exclusive Sponsor of this concert, CLP Holdings Limited has been supporting Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s concerts in the French May Arts Festival for more than 15 years. With the aim to make classical music more accessible across society and enjoyable, CLP has also sponsored the Student Ticket Scheme of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2013. In enabling more than 9,000 students to enjoy orchestral performances through half-priced student tickets, CLP’s initiatives contribute to the development and appreciation of arts to improve the quality of life and encourage creative thinking.

French May Arts Festival

Hong Kong Sinfonietta: Cellomania with Jamal Aliyev

21 May 2022 (Saturday) 8pm
HK City Hall Concert Hall
$450, $320, $180 (Tickets at URBTIX)

Music Director Emeritus/Conductor: Yip Wing-sie
Cello: Jamal Aliyev

Programme
Berlioz – Roman Carnival Overture, Op 9
Bach – Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068: Air (Adapted for Cello)
Paganini – Variations on One String on a Theme by Rossini
Handel – Rinaldo: Lascia Ch’io Pianga (Adapted for Cello)
David Popper – Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68
Bizet – Symphony No 1 in C

• Half-price tickets available for full-time students, senior citizens, people with disabilities and their minder, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients
• Enjoy 10% off when purchasing tickets to both this concert and Premiere Performance of Hong Kong’s “Rising Star Cellist Jamal Aliyev Recital: 4 Cities” (15 May)
• 10% discount for group bookings of 4 or more standard tickets
• Suitable for 6 years old or above
• Tickets at URBTIX

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Jamal Aliyev                                                                                                                                                                Cello

Rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after cellists of his generation, Jamal Aliyev was featured in 2021 as one of Classic FM’s “30 of the most brilliant young classical musicians playing today”, and has performed widely across the world, highlights including appearing with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (broadcast by Radio 3), Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Turkey and Tomsk Philharmonia at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival.

In 2017, Aliyev made his solo début at the BBC Proms with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, performing for the celebrated film music composer John Williams’ 85^th birthday. In the same year, he won “The Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award” and released his début CD Russian Masters with pianist Anna Fedorova for Champs Hill Records to critical acclaim. Other solo appearances include playing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Kennemer Jeugd Orkest and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He also performs frequently in Turkey with the Istanbul, İzmir, Bursa, Eskisehir and Mersin symphony orchestras, and greatly values the opportunity to collaborate with local musicians, and promote his work through the online release of traditional folk and classical music performances.

This season Aliyev debuts in Hong Kong, Australia and the USA, and records albums with celebrated Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Howard Griffiths. He gave the Turkey première of Say’s cello concerto “Shahmaran” in 2021 and will be touring with him as a duo in 2022.

Aliyev has given recitals and chamber concerts at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall, the Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Athenaeum in Bucharest, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, Presidential Concert Hall in Ankara, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing and Singapore’s Arts Parliament House. He has performed at festivals around the world, including the Menuhin, Kronberg, George Enescu, Ulverston, St Magnus, Fishguard and Gümüşlük festivals.

Aliyev continues his education at the Guildhall School of Music for his artist diploma and at the Hochschule für Musik Köln for his doctorate simultaneously, and plans his projects and career together with Berrin Yoleri. He performs on a 1700 Giuseppe Guarneri “filius Andreae” cello and is generously sponsored by ÇEV Sanat.

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Music Director Emeritus/Conductor: Yip Wing-sie
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Jamal Aliyev (Cello)

Jamal Aliyev (Cello)