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.