Local emerging artists to showcase their talent

     The "Our Music Talents" Series presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will be held from September to January next year. Local emerging artists will showcase their music talent and offer audiences delightful performances. 
 
     The programmes are as follows:
 
Huqin Concert by Chan Kai-him
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September 30 (Sunday), 8pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $120 and $160
 
     Hong Kong-born huqin player Chan Kai-him graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Bachelor of Music degree in erhu and gaohu under Wong On-yuen and Yu Qiwei and a Master of Music degree in gaohu under Yu Qiwei with the highest honours. He has also benefited from the coaching of many virtuosi such as Xiao Baiyong, Liu Yang, Jiang Cairu and Xue Ke. Chan is currently the acting co-concertmaster of the Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble.
 
Flute Recital by Angus Lee
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October 14 (Sunday), 8pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $120 and $160
 
     Born in Hong Kong, Angus Lee is a versatile performer and composer. Having graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom with the highest honours, Lee is currently a member of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and a regular freelance musician with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. In 2012, Lee was selected as one of the Young Music Makers by Radio Television Hong Kong. In 2016, Lee was invited to perform as a soloist at Lucerne Festival Academy founder Pierre Boulez’s memorial concert in Switzerland. Lee is a self-taught composer, and his works have been commissioned and performed by various international music groups.
 
Vocal Recital by Jasper Sung
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October 27 (Saturday), 8pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $120 and $160
 
     In 2015, Jasper Sung graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a Master of Music degree in singing under Nancy Yuen. In 2016, he studied for the Postgraduate University Course (Voice) at the University Mozarteum Salzburg under Mario Diaz with a Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship. He has also studied with Siegfried Jerusalem and Helen Donath at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg with a Foundation for the Arts and Music in Asia Scholarship. In 2015, Sung was selected as one of the Young Music Makers by Radio Television Hong Kong.
 
Vocal Recital by Alison Lau
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January 5 (Saturday), 8pm
Theatre, Hong Kong City Hall
Tickets: $120 and $160
 
     Alison Lau has won an Outstanding Performance Award at the Metropolitan International Vocal Competition in New York, first prize at the 10th Yokohama International Music Competition (Vocal Category) in Japan, and a Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Special Prize at the 22nd Concorso Internazionale per Cantanti Lirici Spazio Musica in Orvieto, Italy. In 2017, Lau was awarded a Certificate of Commendation by the Secretary for Home Affairs in recognition of her musical achievements.
 
     Tickets are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone credit card bookings, please call 2111 5999. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2268 7321 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/Programme/en/music/groups_530.html.
 
     The LCSD is presenting the "Our Music Talents" Series to nurture and support local emerging artists and groups and provide them with performing opportunities, enabling them to develop and showcase their achievements.