41st Orchestral Season

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Strings to Remember-An Evening with the HKCO Huqin Principals

Date and Time
6/1/2018 (Sat)
8:00 pm
Venue
HKCO Recital Hall
Ticket Fee
$250
Performed by
Eco-Gaohu: Wong Lok Ting
Eco-Erhu: Zhang Chongxue, Zhou Yi
Eco-Zhonghu: Mao Qinghua
Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo
Eco-Bass Gehu: Qi Hongwei
Remark
Programme Coordinator: Zhang Chongxue

A bravura performance by six virtuosi on the strings

You would not know it until you see it! Expect pyrotechnics when our six huqin principal wield their best on their instruments in a programme that features both classics and newly commissioned works, as quartets and sextets. Each piece is a challenge to their virtuosity, and together, they make an exciting feast for the eye and the ear!



Programmes
Dialogue for Erhu and Gehu, Accompanied by Huqin Quintet
Hopping Rotation Joshua Chan
Eco-Erhu: Zhang Chongxue   Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo

Huqin Quartet Red Candles Ng King-pan
Eco-Gaohu: Zhou Yi   Eco-Erhu: Zhang Chongxue
Eco-Zhonghu: Mao Qinghua Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo

Huqin Quartet Skyland Ascended (Excepts) Joshua Chan
Eco-Gaohu: Wong Lok Ting      Eco-Erhu: Zhou Yi
Eco-Zhonghu: Mao Qinghua    Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo

Huqin Quartet The Four Cheng Baohua
Eco-Gaohu: Zhou Yi        Eco-Erhu: Mao Qinghua
Eco-Zhonghu: Zhang Chongxue         Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo

The HKCO commissioned Chew Hee Chiat* & Chow Jun Yi (awardee for Original Composition - Best Orchestra Work at the Chinese Music Without Bounds - International Composition Competition) to create

world premiere of works for huqin sextet


Huqin Sextet The Rainbow Pinwheel Chow Jun Yi (Commissioned by the HKCO / World Premiere)


Huqin Sextet Flights of Fancy* Chew Hee Chiat (Commissioned by the HKCO / World Premiere)
Eco-Gaohu: Wong Lok Ting     Eco-Erhu: Zhang Chongxue, Zhou Yi
Eco-Zhonghu: Mao Qinghua    Eco-Gehu: Tung Hiu Lo

Eco-Bass Gehu: Qi Hongwei


*This new work is commissioned by Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Limited in 2017 with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund.