Current Season
Tai Kwun Prison Yard Festival: FUSE-IN by HKNME and PUMHKA
Running in counterpoint with this year’s featured juxtaposition of Vivaldi’s Venice with the neighbouring Ottoman empire is a cross-cultural look at Hindustani vocal stylings marked by virtuoso rhythmic interplay. The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, following last season’s 100th birthday tribute to composer György Ligeti, joins forces with the Padmabhushan Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan Association, Hong Kong’s premier Indian arts organisation, in presenting six short performances at Tai Kwun’s Laundry Steps. Three concerts feature Hong Kong-based father-and-son vocalists Ghulam Siraj and Mehdi Hasan as well as Najmi Khan, all esteemed practitioners of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, a vocal style tracing its lineage back 400 years to the reign of the Mogul emperor Akbar. Three additional concerts will pair Shehzad Khan, an accomplished Bollywood musical figure, with Indian instrumentalists and members of the HKNME to create a singular fusion of Indian, Chinese and Western Classical traditions.
Programme
05.12.2024 (Thu) 6pm-6:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Najmi Khan
07.12.2024 (Sat) 5pm-5.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Sitar, Tabla and Harmonium
08.12.2024 (Sun) 1pm-1.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Sitar and Tabla
08.12.2024 (Sun) 5pm-5:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Mehdi Hasan
09.12.2024 (Mon) 6pm-6.30pm Fusion Performance by HKNME with Tabla and Harmonium
15.12.2024 (Sun) 5pm-5:30pm Indian Vocal Performance by Ghulam Siraj
https://www.taikwun.hk/en/programme/detail/prison-yard-festival/1464
CD RELEASE CELEBRATION CAMILO MENDEZ'S DISTANT FRAGMENTS
Camilo Mendez's CD Distant Fragments was recently released on Austrian record label KAIROS, one of the world's leading labels for contemporary music. This album of solos and duos showcases Mendez's most intimate and reflective works, performed by soloists from the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and violinist Roberto Alonso Trillo. Three works from the CD will be performed to celebrate the release on 30 November at Osage Gallery, followed by a discussion with the composer and musicians. CDs to be available on the day for the special price of $100.
Programme:
Camilo Mendez: Cancion de la Distancia I (2011) for solo flute
Camilo Mendez: Five Fragments (2019) for prepared clarinet
Camilo Mendez: Mechanical Resonance I: Iridescent Resonance (2019) for prepared violin and prepared viola
Artists:
Roberto Alonso Trillo, violin
Linus Fung, clarinet
William Lane, viola
Angus Lee, flute
Camilo Mendez (composer)
Tickets: FREE
Music in Mind (MiM)
Enable Foundation, a Hong Kong-based design and education charity, had invited HKNME to collaborate with Manchester Camerata (UK) on the first Music in Mind prototype in Hong Kong for the British Council’s Spark Festival 2024.
Created by Manchester Camerata with the University of Manchester as its research partner, Music in Mind was devised from the foundations of some of the world’s leading dementia experts and their research. It was a programme that uses the principles of music therapy to improve the well-being of people with dementia.
HKPAX Ground Search
HKNME was at the inaugural Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo! We had an Exhibition Booth and also did a short presentation about our education project shapes songs as part of "Ground Search 3".
To encourage East-meets-West exchanges between arts institutions and practitioners in the region and beyond, HKPAX offered opportunities for professionals to meet and exchange ideas. From 14 to 18 October 2024, a series of Expo Programmes, International Showcases, Pitch Sessions, Talks, Exhibition and Networking activities fostered artistic dialogue in China including Hong Kong and around the globe. The key programmes of HKPAX demonstrated our mission to encourage the arts practitioners to explore, experience, express, exhibit and exchange the art of interactions.
Tai Kwun: BOOKED
The launch of HKNME new scorebook, shapes songs at BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair.
Booth: #1F-F, 1/F, Galleries, JC Contemporary
Exhibitor: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Exhibition Periods
30 Aug 2024 2pm – 7pm
31 Aug – 1 Sep 2024 12pm – 7pm
Organised by
Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair, Tai Kwun
Lychee Goklok
Clarinetist Linus Fung invites you on an immersive sonic journey through the diverse environments of Lai Chi Kok.
Kaleidoscope: Electrifying Contemporary Classics
Discover the playful and accessible side of contemporary chamber music as HKNME takes the stage. This captivating programme showcases works by acclaimed American composers, blending live instruments with engaging electronic elements.
Echoes: Kaija Saariaho Tribute
In memory of the late, renowned composer Kaija Saariaho, HKNME presents an electroacoustic chamber concert celebrating her extraordinary artistic legacy.
At The Crossroadsof Composing and Romanticism
Composer Symposium 2024 - At The Crossroads of Composing and Romanticism
Hong Kong Arts Festival - Young Composer Showcase: When Music Flows
Young Composer Showcase: When Music Flows
shapes songs III - Print Exhibition
This exhibition features prints by local artists Lam Kin Choi, Florence Lee, Eugene Lun, and Hannah Shieh, who created striking illustrations in response to original music from HKNME’s “shapes songs” project. Incorporating graphic scores, game pieces, and traditionally notated works, musical compositions from shapes songs bring together musicians of all levels through a unique journey into contemporary music and art. An exhibit of original prints, which have been lovingly hand-printed by the team at the Hong Kong Open Printshop accompanies live duet performances by members of the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and their young students.
PROGRAMME
Eagle Wu (AQ): Red Light, Green Light for 2 Soprano Shengs
Stephen Yip: Cicadas Chirping For 2 Shengs
Santa Bušs: From Affectionate to Zealous for 2 (or more) cellos
PERFORMERS
Loo Sze-wang, sheng
Loo Irwin, sheng
Loo Ingrid, sheng
Pun Chak-yin, cello
So Wang Kok, cello
NME15 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Disclaimer: The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong Arts Development Council fully supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
Final Concert by CUHK’s Ensemble-in-Residence: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
CUHK's Ensemble-in-Residence 2023-24: Final Concert
Hyperspace
Hyperspace is an installative telematic performance that speculates a possibility for simultaneous acoustics. Four performers, from Oslo, Montreal, Mexico City and Hong Kong, with each of them performs a feedback turntable developed by Viola Yip. The instrument highlights the acoustics of each performing space, which will be simultaneously transmitted, juxtaposed and spatialized as a performative hyperspace in the Multimedia Theater of the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.
Sonic Visual Interplay
Sonic-Visual Interplay aims to encourage creative exchanges and dialogues between composers, sound artists and visual artists.
Sound Astronauts
In a foreign land, where light waves and electrons intersect, where sound frequencies collide with micro-dust, amidst continuous coupling, spinning, and chaos, are we merely following predetermined paths? Are we forging a new landscape? Or...?
身處異域,
光波與電子交疊,聲頻與微塵碰撞,
延綿不斷的耦合、迥旋、混沌,
只能按既定軌跡行走?另闢風景?
還是......
Prelude: To Listening
The work invites the audience to embark on an exercise into listening: listening in the present, but to the past and the future, and listening across time. Through audio, video and text, it gradually guides the listener and the viewer to traces of history that may or may not be evident in sound: acoustic resonance caused by material remnants from World War II in Hong Kong; the ringing of the three metal strings of the sanxian morphing into the three nylon strings of its slightly smaller cousin: the sanshin from Okinawa, Japan; echoes of sounds from instruments which are no longer in Hong Kong. A neural network attempts to sift through and make sense of these dislocations in time and space.
該作品邀請觀眾進行傾聽的練習：傾聽當下，同時思考過去和未來，跨越時間地傾聽。 通過音頻、視頻和文字，聽眾和觀眾發現聲音中可能明顯或不明顯的歷史痕跡：二戰時期被遺留在香港的物件所引起的聲學共振； 三弦金屬弦的聲音變成了其稍小的表親：已在香港絕跡的日本沖繩三線尼龍弦。 作品試圖篩選並理解這些時間和空間的錯位。
Ligeti 100
There is no work more fitting for the birth centenary of composer György Ligeti (1923–2006) than his own Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes. Presented in collaboration with the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, 100 mechanical metronomes will be mounted at Tai Kwun’s Laundry Steps throughout the Prison Yard Festival period to perform this monumental work as a tribute to the composer’s provocative artistry. It will be performed at Laundry Steps multiple times over the festival week alongside his delightful Six Bagatelles and his son Lukas Ligeti’s Lakoni in Kazonnde for two drums as the opener of other Prison Yard Festival programmes.
Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival
Presented by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music
EVENTS
14 Oct 2023| SAT | 3PM
Press Conference and Opening Ceremony
Venue: Artinno Town Phoenix Creative Building
14 Oct 2023 | SUN | 7:30PM
Festival Opening Concert
Venue: Concert Hall
Programme
Francesco Filidei: Love Story for 7 Musicians
Yuan Guo: Permeation III for nine instrumentalists
Fang Man: Song of Sorrow for bass-baritone and sextet
Deqing Wen: Quatre Poésies for chamber orchestra
Toshio Hosokawa: Drawing for eight players
George Benjamin: At First Light for fourteen players
Performers
Bobby Cheng, oboe*
Angus Lee, flute
Linus Fung, clarinet
Leung Tak Wing, bassoon
Alfred Lee, French horn^
Edwin Wong, trumpet
Ben Pelletier, trombone
Elizaveta Koshkina, violin*
Vanessa Chan, violin*
William Lane, viola
Pun Chak Yin, cello
Kelvin Ng, double bass
Jenny Ng, piano*
Shelley Ng, piano
Amy Tam, harp*
Samuel Chan, percussion*
Vicky Shin, conductor
15 Oct 2023 | SUN | 3PM
Helmut Lachenmann & Beat Furore Concert Portrait
Venue: Standard Music Hall
Programme
Helmut Lachenmann: Dal Niente (Intérieur III) for solo clarinet (1970)
Helmut Lachenmann: Toccatina for solo viola (1986)
Helmut Lachenmann: Guero for solo piano (1970/1988)
Beat Furrer: Voicelessness (The Snow Has No Voice) for solo piano (1986)
Helmut Lachenmann: Pression for solo cello (1969/70)
Helmut Lachenmann: Trio fluido for clarinet, viola and percussion (1966/1991)
Performers
Linus Fung, clarinet
Elizaveta Koshkina, violin*
William Lane, viola
Pun Chak Yin, cello
Shelley Ng, piano
Samuel Chan, percussion*
Vicky Shin, conductor
* guest musician
^ The Artistic Internship Scheme is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Our Dream 2023
Presented by the Chinese Women Composers' Association, NME musicians will perform works by 9 Chinese women composers in 'Our Dream 2023', including works by Lam Shun and Julie Kuok from Hong Kong.
Teatro dei Portali
This is a show designed for VR/AR performer, ensemble, live-electronics, spatial audio and multiple projections. The show explores new ways of artmaking by connecting virtual and real spaces: how can we bring virtual worlds on stage? How are music notation and embodied interactions affected? What new aesthetic dimensions can we embrace?
這是一場為 VR/AR 表演者、弦樂、現場電子音樂、空間音頻和多重投影而設計的表演。通過連接虛擬和現實空間, 該表演志在探索新的藝術創作方式：我們如何將虛擬世界搬上舞台？ 音樂符號和具身互動(embodied interactions)如何受到影響？ 我們可以接受哪些新的審美維度？
shapes songs ii
Artist Samson Young curates a series of new duets for teachers and their young students. Incorporating graphic scores, game pieces, and traditionally notated works, shapes songs brings together musicians of all levels through a unique journey into contemporary music and art. Join us for an afternoon of inspiring music fresh off the press!
Paper Boxing
Used for moving, decluttering and packing, paper boxes are nothing foreign to Hong Kongers. What does this accessible and versatile material have to do with music? You are invited to experience how the composer Rita Yung, artist Hoi9 and HKNME musicians paint the soundscape of a warehouse and what’s left from our storage.
Sounding Tomorrow Workshops
Sounding Tomorrow Workshops
A programme of NME15
Free Admission | REGISTER HERE
2 AUG 2023 | WED | 3PM
Prelude: To listening (2023)
Ambisonics field recording, video and text
Artist: Ryo Ikeshiro
Prelude: To listening introduces the work to be performed in November. Consisting of Ambisonics field recordings, video and text, it takes the audience on a journey around sites of historical and cultural significance in Sok Kwu Wan, Lamma Island. It considers different scales of time found in music and the act of listening, and the possibility of seeing and hearing traces of the past and the future in audiovisual footage.
Green Mok 莫育權 (video)
Longman Luk 陸朗文 (audio)
Gui Ren 桂仁 (assistance and translation)
3 AUG 2023 | THU | 3PM
VR & AR with string instruments
Artist: Giovanni Santini
Credits
Venue supported by: West Kowloon Cultural District
NME15 is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Lost Dreams Brass Trio Recital
From blurred sonic landscapes to soaring melodies, virtuoso hornist Alfred Lee curates an exciting programme for brass trio featuring two world premieres. Exploring the spectrum of colours, time, and space on these malleable instruments, lost dreams may emerge from the distant past
Chamber Opera in Cantonese: Kungfood
An Original Cantonese Comic Opera A Tribute to the World of Kungfu