NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

EVENT DESCRIPTION

It’s nearly 2022 – and here at the HK Phil, we’re cracking open a bottle of musical champagne and serving up a sonic celebration banquet! We’ve got Viennese waltzes and sparkling polkas, stirring marches and beautiful love-songs. There’s Spanish passion, French elegance, British pageantry and of course a generous selection of Hong Kong favourites too. It’s all there for you to enjoy, stunningly performed by Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long and the HK Phil, plus our special guests – two of Hong Kong’s very finest vocalists, Yuki Ip and Samantha Chong, guitarist Xuefei Yang, and Yiwen Lu plays erhu. Join us, as we toast a new year with melodies that never get old.

Programme includes music by J. Strauss II, Saint-Saëns, Lehár, Ravel and others. This New Year’s concert promises to be a spectacular treat with Maestro Yu Long.

The concert runs approximately 1.5 hours with an intermission.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

To inspire through the finest music-making
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is one of the leading orchestras in Asia. The annual schedule focuses on symphonic repertoire, with conductors and soloists from all over the world. The HK Phil runs an extensive education programme, commissions new works, and nurtures local talent. The most recent recording project is Wagner’s Ring Cycle following the first-ever performances in Hong Kong of these four operas. In 2019, the HK Phil received the prestigious Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award – the first orchestra in Asia to receive this distinction. With Music Director Jaap van Zweden since 2012, the HK Phil has toured to Europe, Asia, Australia, and on numerous occasions to Mainland China. Yu Long is the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, while Lio Kuokman is the Resident Conductor of the HK Phil.