HK Baptist University Holiday Concert & Carols

A few days after the opera production, another concert at HK Baptist University.
I was glad that this concert was pretty light, my choir, the HKBU Mixed Voice Choir performed three songs in the concert. It's a concert with all choir ensembles in HKBU music department singing, like a showcase concert. We had all groups singing their songs and had a mass sing at the end of the concert, to celebrate the end of Fall semester.

Mini Opera, Carmen

After the Taiwan trip in late October 2011, I immediately got into another big project of the opera "Carmen". Since it was an hour-long performance, the opera was performed with a reduced version, with the narrator based on the original novel written by Prosper Mérimée. It was a tough performance as the budget and resources were very tight, but it's a good experience. It was my first time conducting opera and it took lots of work, yet learn so much!

TaiChung Jazz Festival

Touring with my friends to Taiwan

We had two shows in the Taichung Jazz Festival



And another two in Taipei!

Elijah

Large scale work, it made me super busy this summer. Aquila Music was hosting a concert of Mendelssohn's great oratorio, Elijah.

Featured soloist: Yuki Ip, Carol Lin, Alex Tam, Albert Lim
Choir: Hong Kong Youth Choir

The Hong Kong Children's Choir Gala Concert

Back to choral, with my wonderful kids from the Hong Kong Children's Choir, performing in the Gala Concert 2011.

Senior H, aged 9-11, very young but lovely sound.



Then Chamber Youth, 13+, SATB, more mature and independent! i have so much fun working with them.

BeiShan Jazz Festival

It was my great honor to be invited to sing music that i haven't had much training on. Jazz is one of the genre that i really want to learn yet i've never had a chance to work on. Though I was singing in some vocal jazz group back in the US, it's more like choral thing than real jazz jazz.

A friend of mine approached me and asked me to sing some songs for his band. What a surprise! Didn't have much hesitation, i nodded my head and happily took the invitation.

First performance in Bei Shan, Zhuhai. Nice experience!

Fête de la Musique 2011

My pleasure to be invited to be the music director of La Fete de la Musique on 1 July, 2011.

Fête de la Musique is the largest international live music event in the world, held in 450 cities across the globe on the very same day each year – June 21 –developed by the French Government in 1982. The aim of the event is to make music everywhere, to celebrate music and to expose as many people to music as possible, also promoting free music from local artists and performers. Amateur and professional musicians are encourage to perform in the streets. It began in France and has since spread to many countries.

Fête de la Musique 2011 in Hong Kong was held on 1 July this year since it's a public holiday, so it can reach more people during a non-working day. It took place in Olympic City.

I was helping them to arrange performances by different amateur music lovers, some of my students were participated in the performance too. My job is mainly coaching performers, playing piano for singers, and operating the performance. There was so much fun meeting with different people from different ages, background and interests.

Moi@La Fête de la Musique


French Music Festival 2011, Article from The Consulate General of France in Hong Kong
http://www.consulfrance-hongkong.org/spip.php?article5010