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Performances Search Date: Category: ALL Chinese Opera Comedy Dance Drama Film Masterclass Music Concert Seminar Stage Musical Variety Show Western Opera Keywords: Select by Event Title: [Select One] Academy Aaron Chan Academy Brass Conc Academy Brass Conc Academy Cello Reci Academy Chinese Mu Academy Chinese Mu Academy Compositio Academy Concert Ba Academy Junior Con Academy Piano Conc Academy Piano Conc Academy Strings Co Academy Strings Co Academy Vocal Depa Academy Woodwind C Academy Woodwinds Betrayal GREASE High School Musica Public Lecture Ser STICK MAN Stravinsky's A Sol The Bible: The Com The Complete Histo Performance Details   School/Department: School of Music Type: Music Concert Title: Academy Helmut Sohmen Haydn Composition Prize Concert Date/Time/Venue: Language: Cantonese Category: Dance Description: Programme Tang Lok-yin -- Movements - Homage to Joseph Haydn Thomas Wally -- ...und ein einziger Ton weinte in einem Fruhling...(... and a single note was crying in the spring ...) Haydn -- String quartet op.20 no 5 To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the composer Joseph Haydn, Dr Helmut Sohmen generously donated two prizes of GBP 15,000 to commission two new symphonic compositions, one from a young composer in Vienna and the other from a young composer in Hong Kong. The prize winning compositions will receive their Asian premieres on 1 February in the Academy Concert Hall in a performance by the Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Professor Uros Lajovic. As part of the Academy's 25th anniversary celebration, this concert will also feature a performance of Haydn's string quartet op.20 no 5 performed on a quartet of instruments that has generously been loaned by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to the School of Music. The award-winning piece by HONG KONG composer Tang Lok-yin entitles Movements - Homage to Joseph Haydn. Inspired by Haydn's simplicity, Movements includes quotations from Haydn's music. Tang noted that these references aim to create a balanced mixture of classical and modern flavours. A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Tang has a brilliant record of awards to her credit. She was the first female Hong Kong composer to win the ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize when it was awarded by the Asian Composers' League in 2007. She was also the first Hong Kong musician to receive a Fulbright Scholarship as a visiting scholar at Columbia University (USA). Other awards include the First Prize of the 2007 Asian Pacific Festival Young Composer Composition Competition (New Zealand); the 2006 Young Composer Award of the International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition (Singapore); Outstanding Award of the 2007 'Palatino' Piano Composition Competition (China). Entitles ...und ein einziger Ton weinte in einem Fruhling...(... and a single note was crying in the spring ...), the composition by VIENNA winner Thomas Wally is written for solo violin and orchestra. The composer himself will perform the solo violin part with the Academy Symphony Orchestra. Born in 1981, Thomas Wally graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, majoring in violin and composition. He has been an active composer since 2003. His composition 4 Bagatelles (2003) was presented in the 2004 International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition; Ramifications (2004) made him the finalist of the 2005 Composition Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest, impressions... en relief (2005) won the Third Prize in the international competition for composers '2008 music + culture'. Professor Uros Lajovic and Thomas Wally's air tickets are sponsored by Austrian Consulate General Hong Kong   Back to Performance Main