Shortlisted candidates for HKMoA’s creative music programme announced

     The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) will reopen this November. As a prelude to the reopening, the "Sig. Tune for HKMoA: Creative Music Programme" will provide a cross-disciplinary learning and creative opportunity for young and talented people to make their debut as composers. The programme has received an enthusiastic response with 194 applications. A total of 21 participants selected by an adjudication panel consisting of the programme's music mentor, Chiu Tsang-hei, and curators of the HKMoA, will take part in the audition in the hope of proceeding to the next stage. They will then become mentees of Chiu and write the signature tunes (Sig. Tunes) for the new image of the HKMoA and its four core collections.
 
     The audition will be held at the HKMoA on March 16 (Saturday). The 21 selected participants will perform or play a two-minute work expressing the theme "world of contrasts". The final result will be announced immediately after the audition, and at least four participants will be selected to join the mentorship programme in the next stage.
 
     The selected participants in the audition will become mentees of Chiu in the half-year mentorship programme and receive professional music training. They will also learn from museum curators about the four core collections, namely Hong Kong Art, Chinese Fine Art, Chinese Antiquities and China Trade Art.
 
     The training will help inspire the participants' creation of Sig. Tunes, which will be played and recorded by professional musicians, and broadcast at the reopening exhibition of the HKMoA and through various media channels.
 
Shortlisted candidates (in alphabetical order of surname):

 
     For details about the programme, please visit the museum's website hk.art.museum/en_US/web/ma/whatsnew06.html or Facebook page www.facebook.com/hkmuseumofart.