The Fluteman Show

EVENT DESCRIPTION

City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) collaborates with the sensational Hungarian recorder player and comedian Gabor Vosteen in performances of The Fluteman Show on 27 November 2022, Sunday, at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 2:30pm and 5:00pm. The Fluteman’s unique combination of virtuoso recorder playing and physical comedy has garnered numerous international awards. He plays the simplest instrument – the recorder – with jaw-dropping skill and performs with as many as five recorders at once. Under the baton of Australian conductor George Ellis, the programme will include popular classical hits and recorder concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann, Mozart, Monti and more. Be prepared to watch a master in collaboration with CCOHK, and at the same time, laugh your socks off!

“The fluteman melds musical virtuosity, comedy, bizarre outfits and a startling mastery of wordless vivacity into a sensational performance.” Saarbrücker Zeitung

Gabor Vosteen recorders 

George Ellis guest conductor 

 

Programme 

Fučík | Entrance of the Gladiators 

Mozart | Die Vogelfänger bin ich ja (The Magic Flute) 

Monti | Czardis

Warlock | Capriol Suite (excerpts)

Mozart | Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 (Mov 1)

Telemann | Concerto for Recorder in C Major, TWV 51:C1 (Mov 1)

Gabor Vosteen | Dancing Crocodile

Vivaldi | Concerto for Recorder in C major, RV 443

Arr. Christoph Koenig | Popcorn Music

ABOUT THE ORGANISER

City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) ’s original work WILD (The Musical) won the Public Choice Award at the 2022 YAMawards (Young Audiences Music Awards) held in Bruges, Belgium. The YAMawards is aimed at recognizing the best original musical productions worldwide that inspire young audiences both musically and socially. 

CCOHK holds a unique position as one of Asia’s leading chamber orchestras. Members are professional musicians experienced in playing a diverse range of music styles and genres including Baroque, Classical, Contemporary, East/West Crossover, Tango, Jazz, Cinema and Orchestra Theatre.
Established since 1999, CCOHK has performed with many world-class artists including Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Neville Marriner, Michala Petri, Christian Lindberg, Sarah Chang, Philippe Entremont, Julian Lloyd Webber, Edgar Meyer, Branford Marsalis, Richard Galliano, Sharon Isbin and Dawn Upshaw. The orchestra has also collaborated with celebrities including Hayley Westenra, Richard Clayderman, Robin Gibb, Dame Edna Everage and Canto-pop stars Sandy Lam, Hins Cheung, Hacken Lee and Jacky Cheung.
Additional highlights include concerts with the Vienna Boys’ Choir, The American Boychoir, the Warsaw Boys Choir, the Swedish Voices Chamber Choir, the King’s Singers and the Swingle Singers. On tour CCOHK has been invited to perform in Italy, Taipei, Beijing, Chengdu and at the 20th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. In Hong Kong, CCOHK’s engagements have included Hong Kong Ballet, French May Arts Festival, RTHK Radio 4’s televised Christmas Concerts in the Park, the World Harp Congress and The Hong Kong International Piano Competition.
A keen supporter of contemporary music, CCOHK has performed for Musicarama and at the Hong Kong Contemporary Music Festival, and has commissioned new works by Mao Yuan, Daniel Binelli, Dobrinka Tabakova and Richard Harvey. The orchestra’s CDs include world premiere recordings on four internationally acclaimed releases on the NAXOS, Orchid Classics, Forgotten Records and OUR Recordings labels. CCOHK’s passion for building young audiences for music has inspired the evolution of several new and fully staged musical productions and extravaganzas. Credits include Magnificent Mozart, The Star Bach, Vivaldi Unmasked, The Bonn Man, Haydn & The Prince, WILD (The Musical) and Bug Symphony, winner of the Public Choice Award at the YAMawards in Portugal 2017. At the helm of CCOHK’s artistic planning is CCOHK’s founder Leanne Nicholls who was awarded for Community Service in the HKSAR’s Chief Executive’s 2022 Honours List for her contributions to the development of classical music in Hong Kong. Chief conductors include French conductor Jean Thorel (2008 to 2016) and Armenian conductor and virtuoso pianist Vahan Mardirossian (since 2019).

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Gabor Vosteen is an internationally acclaimed recorder player and comedian. He studied recorder at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover with Professor Ulrich Thieme, clown performance in Budapest and physical theatre at École Lassad in Brussels. His unique mixture of virtuoso recorder playing and physical comedy has brought him to festivals, concert halls, cabarets and circuses around the world. He has collaborated with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Southwest German Philharmonie Konstanz, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra. Gabor Vosteen is the recipient of numerous awards including the Audience Prize at Tuttlinger Krähe, the Kleinkunstpreis Herborner Schlumpeweck, First Prize at the Koblenz Gaukler und Kleinkunstpreis and both the Audience Prize and Second Prize at the European cabaret competition Niederstätter surPrize in Bozen. In recent years he has toured extensively with his solo act The Fluteman Show which received the Best Small Ensemble award at the YAMAwards in Denmark in 2019.