Young music campers to showcase achievements in concerts

     The young musicians who participated in the 2021 Hong Kong Youth Music Camp will perform a Chinese and Western music repertoire in a concert to be held in August to showcase their musical achievements.
 
     Presented by the Music Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the 2021 Hong Kong Youth Music Camp Concert will be held at 7.30pm on August 1 at the Concert Hall of Hong Kong City Hall. The camp resident musicians, including Assistant Professor in the Department of Music of Hong Kong Baptist University and Doctor of Musical Arts from State University of New York at Stony Brook, Patrick Yim; the Principal Yangqin of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and renowned yangqin performer, Lee Meng-hsueh; and famous erhu player and tutor of the Chinese ensemble at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wong Chi-chung, will conduct and lead the String Orchestra, Chinese Orchestra, Junior Yangqin ensemble and Youth Yangqin ensemble of the music camp for the performance.
 
     Highlights of the concert include "Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297, Winter" from one of the best-known violin concertos of Vivaldi, "The Four Seasons"; Jiangnan folk tune, the brisk and joyous "Tanci Three-six"; "Spring", a yangqqin duet adapted from Romanian dance music; and "Sending the Tiger Back to Its Mountain Hideout" adapted from the modern Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Stratagem", which showcases a blend of the kaleidoscopic Chinese orchestra and the traditional style of Peking operas.
 
     The Hong Kong Youth Music Camp is a major annual summer activity held by the Music Office, providing intensive training to young musicians in a relaxed setting.
 
     Tickets for the concert priced at $55, $75 and $95 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 2796 1003 or 3842 7784 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/mo/activities/upcoming/2021hkymcc.html.
 
     In view of the latest COVID-19 situation, visitors to the performance venue are required to scan the "LeaveHomeSafe" QR code or register their name, contact number and the date and time of the visit before being allowed to enter. They will also be subject to temperature checks, as well as needing to wear their own masks and use hand sanitiser.