Mozart and More in the Museum
Programme
HKPO Concertmaster John Harding will lead young talented string players to play in the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong at Friday lunch time, and twice in the Museum of Art in Tsimshatsui on Saturday afternoon. The programme will include selected movements from Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor, as well as Schubert’s A Minor String Quartet and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings. Audiences are invited to enjoy the performances free of admission charges.
John is a brilliant violinist, a superb leader and an inspiring teacher. He has led an extremely successful musical career, performing and leading orchestras all over the world. He was invited by Edo de Waart to join HKPO as Concertmaster from September 2006.
John is also responsible for coaching the talented string players who were selected as The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Orchestral Fellows. They include violinists Jia Ding Ding, Wang Liang, Wang Peng, violinist/violist Xia Chun-yu, violist Bu Hong, all from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing; violinist Gui Li from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and cellist Chang Pei-chieh from the National Taiwan Normal University. In the Mendelssohn Octet, they will be joined by HKAPA student Cara Cheung, a cellist.
* The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Orchestral Fellows** Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts student
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