Hong Kong Cellist Society Chamber Concert Series

"CLARA TSANG CELLO RECITAL" on 15th September  2012  (SAT 7:30PM)

Hong Kong Cultural Center 7/F Backstage CR2

Ticket Free seating 不設劃位 : HKD 150 ( HKD 120* Discount ticket for Hong Kong Cellist Society members and full time students) 

Program 節目

L.V. Beethoven Cello Sonata No.5 in D Major, Op.102 No.2
貝多芬 D大調第五號大提琴奏鳴曲, 作品102之2

Sergei Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
拉赫曼尼諾夫G小調大提琴與鋼琴奏鳴曲，作品19

 

Cello - Clara Tsang

Clara Tsang graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Music (Cello Performance). She studied under different cellists, including Richard Bamping and Ray Wang, and attended master classes of Timothy Landuer ,Gerhard Iberer and Martin Menking. She also learnt from Orlando Cole, Bion Tsang,Thomas Gossenbacher and Ariel Barnes. During her study period, she was already actively involved with a variety of musical projects, including working with choreographer and dancer Mui Cheuk-yin.  As a CASH composer, she collaborated with different artists and musicians, such as Jim Tsim Shui-Man.  In 2000 Clara made a recording of Lalo's concerto with RTHK.  She has performed with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the New Philharmonic of Hong Kong, the Pan-Asia Symphony Orchestra, and the Macau Chamber Orchestra. She has played with the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra as the principle cellist.

She was invited to join the Pacific Music Festival (2005) in Japan and performed in major cities such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Sapporo, with conductors Jun Märkl and Nello Santi. In 2012 she was invited by The Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific in Canada and played under the baton of Arthur Arnold. In 2008 she gave her first cello recital.

She has participated in numerous music videos, live shows and CD recordings for pop singers and music groups of different genres.   In 2011 Clara joined Pony Leung at the Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival in an ourdoor concert. Her passion in bringing music to as many people as possible has led her to establish Hong Kong Cellist Society in 2004, which comprised of an annual Hong Kong Cello Festival, Young Musicians Performance Program (YMPP) and Cappuccino Moment. She believes that everyone should have an opportunity to understand and benefit from classical music, and this conviction drives her in the pursuit of finding more ways to connect classical musicians with our society.

Piano鋼琴 - Sheng-zhong Wu 伍盛中 

Chinese pianist Sheng-zhong Wu entered the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatorire specializing in piano performance.  His teachers included world renowned professors such as N. Starkmann, L. Fichtenholz, M. Lidsky, A. Nasedkin, D. Galynin, and V. Chachava. In 2006, Wu was the first musician from Hong Kong and Macau to graduate from the Conservatoire with excellent results.  He was then admitted to the post graduate school of the Conservatoire, pursuing a double aspirantura degree (the highest level of academic qualification for music performance in Russia) in piano performance and chamber ensemble.  Wu is the first foreign student to study two aspirantura programmes at the same time in the Moscow Conservatoire.  Besides, Wu also studied conducting under the former rector of the conservatoire, B. Koulikov. 

Sheng-zhong’s repertoire includes works of Western European and Russian composers of various epochs and styles. He is especially devoted to the interpretation of music by A. Scriabin and K. Szymanowski. He was invited by the famous Russian conductor E. Serov, Shing-chung gave a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto Nr. 25 in Volgograd with the Volgograd Academic Symphonic Orchestra. In 2007 and 2008, he won the 2^nd prize in the third International Festival of Slavic Music in Moscow and 5^th prize in the second Russian Season in Yekaterinburg (Russia), and also the Special Prize for the best performance of A. Arensky’s works. 

 

*Discount ticket for Hong Kong Cellist Society members and full time students.