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Starry Concert Series

2024 World Youth & Children’s Choir Festival cum
1st Greater Area Choir Festival Hong Kong

 Opening Ceremony & Concert

Artistic Director: Prof. Leon Tong

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Performers

  • Alan Tam (Singer) 

  • Cantemus Children’s Choir (Conductor:Dénes Szabó)

  • Shenzhen Golden Bell Youth Choir of Shenzhen Middle School (Conductor: LIU Mei)

  • Hong Kong Children’s Choir (Conductor: Kathy Fok)

  • Poya Songbook Choir (Conductor: YE Mingju)​​​

  • Sing Fai Cantonese Opera Promotion Association

  • Taizhou Aiyue Children's Choir (Conductor: LIU Yanling)

  • Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir(Conductors:Ragnar Rasmussen & Urša Lah)

  • Gordon Lee(Harmonica)

  • Host: Astrid Chan

15 / 07 / 2024

20:00 — 22:00

Tickets at art-mate

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Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Concert duration: 2 hours with no intermission

Tickets and Concert Details

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Joint Concert by Cantemus Children’s Choir and
Guangzhou Little Petrel Children's Choir

Joint Concert by

  • Cantemus Children’s Choir (Dénes Szabó)

  • Guangzhou Little Petrel Children's Choir(DIAO Zhijun)

Guest Performance

  • Good Hope School Choir (Melody Tang)

16 / 07 / 2024

20:00 — 21:30

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Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Programme includes works in Chinese, Hungarian and other languages

Concert duration: 1 hour 15 mins with no intermission

Joint Concert by Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir
and Poya Songbook Choir

Joint Concert by

Joint Concert by

  • Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir

  • Poya Songbook Choir

Guest Performance

Conductors

  • Urša Lah

  • Ragnar Rasmussen

  • YE Mingju

  • Stephen LIK-HIN LAM

  • St. Paul’s College School choir

16 / 07 / 2024

20:00 — 21:30

Tickets are available at Cityline

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Telephone booking hotline: (852) 2111 5333

(Monday to Friday: 10am to 7pm, except public holidays)

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Hong Kong Jockey Club Amphitheatre)

Programme includes works by James MacMillan, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, LIU Xiaogeng and others.

Concert duration: 1 hour 15 mins with no intermission

Night in the Greater Bay Concert

Performing Choir

Guangzhou Little Petrel Choir (Conductor: DIAO Zhijun)

Poya Songbook Choir (Conductor: YE Mingju)

Canton Children’s Choir (Conductor: Julia Yu)

CCC Kei Wan Primary School (Aldrich Bay) Senior Choir (Conductor: So Ming Kong)

Children's Choir of Dongguan Yulan Theatre (Conductor: XU Sa)

Colourful Stones Chorus of Shenzhen Shekou School (Conductor: ZHAO Zhi)

Jiangmen Youth Palace Children's Choir (Conductor: LEI Wenxia)

Macau Pui Ching Middle School Choir (Conductor: IP Kin Chun)

The Mad Singers (Hong Kong, China) (Conductor: Christien Wong)

Zhaoqing Duanzhou Haiyun Children's Choir (Conductor: LEI Wenxia)

17 / 07 / 2024

20:00 — 22:00

Tickets at art-mate   Website: art-mate.net

Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Concert duration: 2 hours with no intermission

Joint Concert by Cantemus Children’s Choir
and Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir

Joint Concert by

Joint Concert by

  • Cantemus Children’s Choir

  • Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir

Guest Performance

  • Hong Kong Yuen Long Children’s Choir

Conductor

  • Urša Lah

  • Ragnar Rasmussen

  • Dénes Szabó

  • Grace Yim

17 / 07 / 2024

20:00 — 21:30

Tickets are available at Cityline

Online booking: www.cityline.com

Telephone booking hotline: (852) 2111 5333

(Monday to Friday: 10am to 7pm, except public holidays)

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Hong Kong Jockey Club Amphitheatre)

Programme includes works by James MacMillan, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, LIU Xiaogeng and others.

Concert duration: 1 hour 15 mins with no intermission

Finalists’ Night & Closing Ceremony

Chairman of the Jury

  • Prof. CHAN Wing-wah (Hong Kong, China)

Jury Members

  • Dr. Brady Allred (USA)

  • Dr. Nadezhda Averina (Russia)

  • Prof. Martin Berger (Germany / South Africa)

  • Prof. Cao Guanyu (China)

  • Dr. Lesley Chan (Hong Kong, China)

  • Ms. Yunhong Chen (Chinese Taipei)

  • Mr. DIAO Zhijun (China)

  • Ms. Kathy Fok (Hong Kong, China)

  • Dr. Steve Ho (Hong Kong, China)

  • Prof. Milan Kolena (Slovakia)

  • Prof. Urša Lah (Slovenia)

  • Prof. LEUNG Bo-wah (Hong Kong, China)

  • Ms. Maria Vanessa Leão (Macao, China)

  • Prof. LIU Xiaogeng (China)

  • Mr. Kelvin Lo (Hong Kong, China)

  • Prof. Luigi Marzola (Italy)

  • Mr. Bengt Ollén (Sweden)

  • Prof. Ragnar Rasmussen (Norway)

  • Prof. REN Baoping (China)

  • Mr. Dénes Szabó (Hungary)

  • Prof. Leon Tong (Hong Kong, China)

  • Ms. Kaie Tanner (Estonia)

  • Mr. Xu Xin (China)

  • Prof. Nancy Yuen (Hong Kong, China)

Guest Performance

  • Utopia & Reality Chamber Choir

Conductors

  • Urša Lah

  • Ragnar Rasmussen

18 / 07 / 2024

19:30 — 22:00

Tickets at art-mate

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Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Concert duration: 2 hours 30 minutes with no intermission

Choirs nominated to the Final Round will take turns to perform and compete for the highest awards of the Festival: Choir of the World Award (with a cash prize of HKD 40,000) and Jury's Prize (with a cash prize of HKD 20,000), as well as a number of Special Prizes.

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