From 2016-2019, the Swiss artist/researcher Catherine Gfeller travelled several times to different cities in China, where she met quite a lot of women with various background. She spent days or nights talking with them, taking their photos and videos, getting to know their working environment or favourite places for entertainment, etc., in order to understand their personal point of view when they are immersed in the city with all their senses. An exhibition with all those materials will be open to the public at the Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing, China.
Winner of the ARD and Prague Spring International Music Competitions, virtuosic German bassoonist Matthias Rácz is currently Principal Bassoon of Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He has performed with many renowned orchestras including Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Berliner Symphoniker, and has appeared as guest soloist at prestigious festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals.
Location: Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, 5 Edinburg Place, Central
Come and take a seat on stage! Acclaimed bassoon player Matthias Rácz will be performing with Hong Kong Sinfonietta musicians, guest pianist Anna Bertogna and oboist Yiu Song-lam right in front of you. He will also share with you his own musical encounters.
Location: HK City Hall Concert Hall, 5 Edinburg Place, Central
Matthias Rácz (Bassoon), Principal Bassoon, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Winner, ARD International Music Competition 2002 and Winner, Prague Spring International Music Competition 2002 will be conducting a Master Class at HKAPA.
Location: Recital Hall, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Upon the invitation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Military Small Band, consisting of 14 finest young military musicians, will be touring Seoul, Beijing, Manila and Singapore from July to August. Besides performing at the Swiss Embassy for the National Day Celebration on August 1, the ensemble will also have a public performance at the Swiss Taste restaurant on the evening of July 30, and share the stage with the military band of China’s People’s Liberation Army during their stopover in Beijing.The repertoire of the band includes not only traditional songs like “L'Inverno e passato” (“The Winter is over”) and various Swiss marches, but also all the national anthems of the host countries and favorites such as River Dance by Bill Whelan or classical pieces such as the “Toccata in d minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Four talented Swiss pianists on four grand pianos will play, arrange and improvise some of legendary US composer George Gershwin’s most popular songs and orchestral works, such as “Rhapsody in Blue,” “An American in Paris,” and “I Got Rhythm.” In its new program, the quartet – Mischa Cheung, André Desponds, Benjamin Engeli, and Stefan Wirth – also expand to Gershwin’s contemporaries, including Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Maurice Ravel’s La Valse. Don’t miss this lively concert poised to entertain every concertgoer!
Monday, 18.07.2016
Wednesday, 03.08.2016,
Pro Helvitia
Theater
The Cie zeitSprung dance group was founded in Zurich in 2013 by Meret Schlegel and Kilian Haselbeck, distinguished dancers and choreographers who have performed on the international stage. In July, the duo will perform at dance festivals in Taiyuan, Beijing, and Shanghai, bringing their award-winning pieces To be or Orthopädie and Komplizen to Chinese audiences. They will also hold workshops during their stay in China.
Co-presented by Modern Academy, Connecting Space HK-ZH and collaborated by Department of Music of Hong Kong Baptist University, this telematic concert is a live performance via high-bandwidth Internet by musicians playing simultaneously in Zurich and Hong Kong.
Location: AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Hong Kong Baptist University
As Switzerland’s oldest symphony orchestra, the LSO’s concerts have long featured soloists of international renown – these include Hilary Hahn, Nelson Freire, Lang Lang, Krystian Zimerman etc. The LSO has, in recent years, been invited to perform at George Enescu Festival, Bucharest; the Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow; and the Locarno-Ascona Festival. The orchestra has also been invited back to appear at the Kissinger Sommer festival.
Currently Music and Artistic Director of Geneva Camerata, David Greilsammer, deemed “One of the most accomplished and adventurous musicians of his generation” (The New York Times), will be performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 17 with Hong Kong Sinfonietta on 25 June.
Location: Concert Hall, HK City Hall, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong
Friday, 24.06.2016
Sunday, 07.08.2016,
Pro Helvetia
Exhibition
The exhibition features 100 classical books published by the internationally renowned Swiss publisher and designer, Lars Müller. Since 1983, the graphic artist has been presenting books on architecture, design, typography, photography, and social issues that are of high design quality, state-of-the-art style and materials.