HK Phil News

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is proud to present a concert in which East meets West on 18 & 19 January in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Our Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, who is an ambassador for contemporary Chinese music, will open the concert with The Five Elements by renowned Chinese composer Chen Qigang. Zhang Haochen, winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will then take the stage for Rachmaninov's lyrical Piano Concerto no. 1. The programme closes with Rachmaninov's last composition, a magnificent showpiece for the orchestra, Symphonic Dances.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is proud to present a concert in which East meets West on 18 & 19 January in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Our Principal Guest Conductor Yu Long, who is an ambassador for contemporary Chinese music, will open the concert with The Five Elements by renowned Chinese composer Chen Qigang. Zhang Haochen, winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will then take the stage for Rachmaninov's lyrical Piano Concerto no. 1. The programme closes with Rachmaninov's last composition, a magnificent showpiece for the orchestra, Symphonic Dances.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is proud to present a concert that features Michael Wilson, Andrew Simon, Benjamin Moermond and Lin Jiang, four of the principal players of the orchestra. In this only performance on 11 January 2019 in the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium, conductor David Stern will return to direct the orchestra for the first time since 2017.

Every year, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) brings the Viennese tradition of the New Year Concert to Hong Kong to ring out the old year and herald in the new. This year on the 30 & 31 December in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall, star trumpet soloist Tine Thing Helseth, and German conductor Christian Schumann, who has been labelled by Die Neue Zuricher Zeitung "a shining star of the new German conductor generation", will join us for the festivities. Tickets going FAST!

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) today announced the appointment of Mr Benedikt Fohr as its new Chief Executive following an international search. Mr Fohr will take up the position on 1 April 2019 to succeed the retiring Michael MacLeod, who has served the HK Phil for eight years.

As summer makes way for fall, Swire Symphony Under The Stars, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's (HK Phil) free annual outdoor mega-concert is back again! This year, we are excited to welcome our Music Director Maestro Jaap van Zweden, along with the HK Phil's talented musicians- Jing Wang (Concertmaster), Richard Bamping (Principal Cello), Fang Xiaomu (Co-Principal Cello), Andrew Simon (Principal Clarinet) and Esteban Batallan (Principal Trumpet). They will be joined by the crowd favourite Harry Wong (or Harry Gor Gor) as host. So come and be inspired by the finest music-making under the stars on 24 November (Today) at the Central Harbourfront!

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is honoured to welcome Max Richter, the pre-eminent Neo-Classical/Ambient composer of our era, to perform on the Hong Kong stage for the first time, with conductor Robert Ziegler, violinist Mari Samuelsen, soprano Grace Davison and the orchestra. They will perform two of his best-known compositions - Recomposed and Memoryhouse.

The 2018/19 season marks the 45th professional season of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil). Our Music Director Jaap van Zweden, acclaimed as "A Great Mahler Interpreter" by D Magazine, continues the Mahler cycle with a project dedicated to this celebratory season - Mahler $200, at which all seats for the Mahler symphonies no. 7 and no. 9 are available at a uniform price of HK$200. Members of the audience can sit somewhere new to enjoy a different acoustical and visual experience.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) will welcome recorder virtuoso - the first recorder player to be signed to the Decca Classics label and the prestigious Concertgebouw Young Talent Award winner - Lucie Horsch, still in her teens but already in demand internationally. She will be sharing the stage with conductor Benjamin Bayl and the HK Phil to reveal the full range of the recorder in a delightful evening of 18th century music. The magic begins at 8pm on 9 & 10 November 2018 in the Sha Tin Town Hall Auditorium.

"Trick or treat?" It's time to party in the wicked fun Halloween feast hosted by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil)! On 27 & 28 October, "magician" Harry Wong (or Harry Gor Gor) and conductor Lio Kuok-man will conjure up some of the creepiest classical music and also spooky theme songs from all-time favourite movies, taking us to a wild and bizarre world of mischievous witches, orgiastic goblins, grinning pumpkins, headless horsemen and dangling skeletons in the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) announced at a press conference today "The Man Behind The Piano Concert" featuring Anthony Lun to be held in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall on 25 & 26 January 2019 (three performances).

As summer makes way for fall, Swire Symphony Under The Stars, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's (HK Phil) free annual outdoor mega-concert is back again! This year, we are excited to welcome our Music Director Maestro Jaap van Zweden, along with the HK Phil's talented musicians- Jing Wang (Concertmaster), Richard Bamping (Principal Cello), Fang Xiaomu (Co-Principal Cello), Andrew Simon (Principal Clarinet) and Esteban Batallan (Principal Trumpet). They will be joined by the crowd favourite Harry Wong (or Harry Gor Gor) as host. So come and be inspired by the finest music-making under the stars on 24 November (Saturday) at the Central Harbourfront!

"Trick or treat?" It's time to party in the wicked fun Halloween feast hosted by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil)! On 27 & 28 October, "magician" Harry Wong (or Harry Gor Gor) and conductor Lio Kuok-man will conjure up some of the creepiest classical music and also spooky theme songs from all-time favourite movies, taking us to a wild and bizarre world of mischievous witches, orgiastic goblins, grinning pumpkins, headless horsemen and dangling skeletons in the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil), its Music Director Jaap van Zweden and its Concertmaster Jing Wang proudly present the first programme of the Swire Maestro Series in the season, bringing two 19th century masterpieces - Brahms's legendary Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's life-affirming Fourth Symphony - on 19 and 20 October at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall.

HK Phil needs your help in the concert hall to find who killed the composer! The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is going to reveal the mysterious world of the orchestra by dissecting the instruments and sections with Nathaniel Stookey's entertaining whodunit The Composer is Dead and also soundtracks from the best-loved BBC TV drama series and movies of legendary detective Sherlock Holmes on 21 & 22 September 2018 in the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium.

Under the baton of Huang Yi, one of the brightest young conductors in China, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) will celebrate the National Day on 28 & 29 September 2018 with two great Chinese symphonic works - the romantic Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao featuring violinist Wang Zhijong, and the heroic Long March Symphony by Ding Shande, the former mentor of Chen and He - in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall.

HK Phil needs your help in the concert hall to find who killed the composer! The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is going to reveal the mysterious world of the orchestra by dissecting the instruments and sections with Nathaniel Stookey's entertaining whodunit The Composer is Dead and also soundtracks from the best-loved BBC TV drama series and movies of legendary detective Sherlock Holmes on 21 & 22 September 2018 in the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium.

To mark the grand opening of the 45th anniversary of the finest music-making, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) and its Music Director Jaap van Zweden are joined by two renowned violinists - Leila Josefowicz (31 August & 1 September) and Joshua Bell (7 & 8 September) - in two consecutive weeks, to thrill the audience with two stunning programmes. Single tickets for both programmes are now available at URBTIX.

To raise excitement levels for our 2018/19 season, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) has curated an interactive music installation in the foyer of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. This will last until 10 July (Tuesday).