Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Concert in Singapore

Director of HKETO, Mr Bruno Luk (first right), exchanges views with Deputy Head of Departments of Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Singapore, Ms Isabel Schmidt (centre), on arts and cultural development of both places.

Director of HKETO, Mr Bruno Luk (second right); Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Singapore, Mr Zhang Xumin (second left); Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of HKCO, Maestro Yan Huichang (first left); and Executive Director of HKCO, Dr Celina Chin (first right), propose a toast at the reception.

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra performed to a full house in Esplanade, Singapore on September 1, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay).

A six-member team of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra brought Chinese music to 80 seniors at Sunshine Welfare Action Mission Home, Singapore, in one of its community outreach activities. (Photo courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay)

Some 100 students of Temasek Polytechnic were captivated by the Chinese music performance by a six-member team of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. (Photo courtesy of Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay)

Director of HKETO in Singapore, Mr Bruno Luk (centre), is pictured with Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of HKCO, Maestro Yan Huichang (first right), and Executive Director of HKCO, Dr Celina Chin, before the concert.

(From left) Executive Director of HKCO, Dr Celina Chin; Director of HKETO in Singapore, Mr Bruno Luk; Chairman of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) Board of Directors, Mr Patrick Lee Kwok Kie; Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of HKCO, Maestro Yan Huichang; and Executive Director of SCO, Mr Terence Ho, at the HKETO’s pre-concert reception.

Director of HKETO, Mr Bruno Luk (first right), addresses some 200 HKETO guests at the reception.

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Concert in Singapore

September 1, 2018

The internationally acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO), with the sponsorship of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Singapore, staged a concert in Esplanade, Singapore on September 1, 2018. Dubbed as “a leader of Chinese ethnic music”, the HKCO performed to another full house of 1,800 audience after its last successful performance in Singapore in 2014.

Themed “Liu Bang, Xiang Yu and the Terra Cotta Warriors” (刘邦·项羽·兵马俑), the HKCO presented an evening of spectacular music, which took the audience through the time tunnel to the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. The concert has won overwhelming response and rounds of appreciative applause from the audience.

Before the concert, the HKETO hosted a reception for some 200 guests, including diplomats, government officials, leading representatives of the arts and cultural sector, academics, media as well as local Hong Kong communities.

The Director of HKETO, Singapore, Mr Bruno Luk, said in his welcoming remarks that the HKCO, together with eight other flagship performing arts groups and a thousand troupes in Hong Kong, offered around 8,000 performing arts shows annually and helped build the vibrant arts scene in the city. Mr Luk also briefed the guests on the progress of the West Kowloon Cultural District and various government initiatives which helped develop Hong Kong into a prominent arts and cultural hub in the world.

Link: Read his full speech here.

Being the “cultural ambassador of Hong Kong”, a six-member team of the HKCO conducted two community outreach performances at Sunshine Welfare Action Mission Home and Temasek Polytechnic a day prior to the concert, sharing the joy of Chinese music appreciation with 80 seniors and 100 students respectively.

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