Hong Kong Sinfonietta & Le French May Arts Festival - Cellomania: Edgar Moreau Plays Elgar

Notice: (8 May 2020, 12:55)

As all the performance venues under Leisure and Cultural Services Department are continued to be temporarily closed, this concert at the HK City Hall Concert Hall will be cancelled.

Tickets will be fully refunded to your credit card within 7 working days. If you have any enquiry, please email ask@popticket.hk.

Referred to as le petit prince du violoncelle in the French media, Edgar Moreau won the 2^nd Prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition when he was 17.  In 2014, he became the winner of the 1^st Prize and 6 special prizes at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was named “Soliste Instrumental de l’Année” at Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2015.  He returns to perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto under Chien Wen-pin, who will also conduct the Asian première of Chou Chiu-yu’s The Tongue, commissioned for BBC’s Shakespeare 400 Festival in 2016.

Conductor: Chien Wen-pin
Cello: Edgar Moreau

Programme

Chou Chiu-yu              
The Tongue (2015) (Asian première)

Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85

Beethoven
Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68, “Pastorale”

Duration: Approximately 2 hours with a 15 min intermission
Language: In English
Age Limit: For ages 6+
Programme Enquiries: 2836 3336 / info@hksinfonietta.org

*Hong Kong Sinfonietta reserves the right to change the programme and artists