HK Phil String Instruments Circle
“HK Phil is blessed to have this new collection of instruments. This will bring our signature sound to a more unique and refined world-class quality.”
- Jing Wang, HK Phil’s Concertmaster
The HK Phil String Instruments Circle is an instrument lending programme for high-quality string instruments which are typically inaccessible to musicians due to their high value. The Circle is formed by members who own, or would like to own, fine string instruments and who want to support the HK Phil by lending them to the orchestra through a professionally managed programme. This initiative allows the HK Phil to attract and retain the best musicians, raise the orchestra’s and Hong Kong’s international profile and enhance music culture in Hong Kong.
The Circle currently comprises a selection of 10 violins by Italian and French luthiers made in the XVIII and XIX centuries, including a striking example by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini kindly loaned to our Concert Master Mr Jing Wang by The Postscript Collection.
The HK Phil is pleased to have partnered with well-known fine instrument experts J & A Beare of London as Principal Instrument Advisor to provide lenders with the best possible maintenance service and support.
The HK Phil would like to thank the following individuals, foundations and corporations for their generous support:
Loaned by The Postscript Collection
G. B. Guadagnini (c. 1760) Violin, played by Mr Jing Wang, Concertmaster
Giovanni Grancino (c. 1715) Violin, played by Mr Wang Liang, Second Associate Concertmaster
Carlo Antonio Testore (c. 1740) Violin, played by Ms Fang Jie, Tutti Second Violin
Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza (c. 1760) Violin, played by Mr Domas Juškys, Co-principal Second Violin
Jean- Baptiste Vuillaume (c. 1867) Violin, played by Mr Ba Wenjing, Tutti First Violin
Donated by The Ladies Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society
Enrico Rocca (1902) Violin, played by Mr Cheng Li, First Violin
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1866) Violin, played by Mrs Bei de Gaulle, Third Associate Concertmaster
Joseph Gagliano (1788) Violin, played by Ms Tomoko Tanaka, Tutti Second Violin
Carlo Antonio Testore (1736) Violin
A loan arranged by P. C. Woo & Co.
Riccardo Antoniazzi (1910) Violin, played by Mr Leung Kin-fung, First Associate Concertmaster
Loaned by Mr Laurence Scofield
Ansaldo Poggi (1910) Violin, played by Ms Zhang Xi, First Violin
Generously loaned by an Anonymous
Stefano Scarampella (1905) Violin, played by Mr Wang Liang, Second Associate Concertmaster
Loaned by Stretton Society
Luigi Fabris (1870) Cello, played by Ms Fang Xiaomu, Co-Principal Cello
Donated by The Ladies Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society
Other instruments donated in support of the “Instrument Upgrade and Enhancement Project”
• Two German Rotary Trumpets
• A set of Wagner Tubas
• A Flugelhorn
A set of Wagner Tubas is loaned by these sponsors in support of the HK Phil premiere of the Ring Cycle
• Mr Pascal Raffy
• Paul and Leta Lau
• Ms Wincey Lam, Mr Raymond Wong, Mrs Rebecca Whitehead, Ms Angela Yau, Mrs Catherine Wong
• Mr Steven Ying