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On 26 October 2021, Tuesday, at the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, 8:00pm, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong will take audiences on a fascinating musical journey back to Berlin’s “Golden Twenties” era. Music by three prominent Jewish composers will be featured, all of whom spent a part of their careers in pre-war time Berlin which was the hotbed of literature, cinema, architecture, visual art and theatre in Europe at the time. Schulhoff’s Hot-Sonate for solo saxophone and ensemble, a jazz-classical hybrid piece sizzling with jazz idioms and jaunty rhythms, forms the centre piece of the evening. Alongside it, CCOHK will perform Stefan Wolpe’s sensually charged Tango for Irma (dedicated to his lover Irma Schoenberg) and Kurt Weill’s cabaret inspired Little Threepenny Music which is orchestrated for a heady mix of saxophones, winds, percussion, accordion, piano and banjo. Locally based Welsh saxophonist Joshua Jones and guest conductor Colin Touchin headline this unique concert.
Joshua Jones studied with the great classical saxophonist Johan van der Linden and has performed with the trailblazing Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. Originally from Wales, he is a two-time winner of the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize and a finalist of Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize in the UK for the Most Outstanding Musician. He has performed for HRH The Prince of Wales. In 2017 he moved to Hong Kong and is currently a saxophone instructor at M.int Academy Limited.
Ticket priced at $450, $320, $200 with half-price concessions for full-time students, senior citizens, people with disabilities, and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients, are available from all URBTIX outlets. For ticketing enquiries, call 3761 6661; for credit card telephone booking, call 2111 5999; for internet booking, visit www.urbtix.hk; for programme or other enquiries, call 2864 2151 or email [email protected].
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Further information:www.ccohk.com/ www.facebook.com/ccohk
Programme
Erwin Schulhoff (Arr. Harry White) | Hot-Sonate
Stefan Wolpe (Arr. Geert van Keulen) | Tango for Irma
Kurt Weill | Little Threepenny Music
Guest Artists
Joshua Jones Saxophone
Colin Touchin guest conductor
Joshua Jones
Born in South Wales, saxophonist Joshua Jones received his Bachelor of Music Degree with First Class Honours from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He was then awarded the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Scholarship to complete his Master of Music from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. His mentors include Lara James. Rob Buckland, Gerard McChrystal and Andy Scott. Inspired by the Dutch school of saxophone playing, he undertook a further semester of study with Johan van der Linden at the Utrechts Conservatorium in the Netherlands which led to an invitation to perform alongside the innovative and trailblazing Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. Joshua Jones is a two-time winner of the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize and a finalist of the Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize for the Most Outstanding Musician. He is a founding member of the Adventus Quartet and Chameleon and has appeared as soloist with the RWCMD Symphony Orchestra performing Michael Kamen's Concerto for Saxophone. He has performed for HRH The Prince of Wales and alongside Welsh artists Katherine Jenkins and Dame Shirley Bassey. Joshua Jones came to Hong Kong in 2017 and is currently a saxophone instructor at M.int Academy.
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) holds a unique position as one of Asia’s leading chamber orchestras. Members are professional musicians experienced in playing diverse styles ranging from Baroque and classical to East-West crossover, tango, bollywood and jazz. Since its establishment in 1999 CCOHK has performed with many world-class artists including Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Neville Marriner, Michala Petri, Christian Lindberg, Sarah Chang, Philippe Entremont, Julian Lloyd Webber, Edgar Meyer, Branford Marsalis, Richard Galliano and The King’s Singers. The orchestra has also collaborated with celebrities including Hayley Westenra, Richard Clayderman, Robin Gibb, Dame Edna Everage and Canto-pop stars Sandy Lam, Hins Cheung and Hacken Lee. Additional highlights include collaborations with the Vienna Boys’ Choir, The American Boychoir, the Warsaw Boys Choir, the Swedish Voices Chamber Choir and Choeur Britten. On tour CCOHK has been invited to perform in Italy, Taipei, Beijing, Chengdu and at the 20th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. At home CCOHK is in high demand with performing engagements for Hong Kong Ballet, Le French May Arts Festival, RTHK Radio 4, the World Harp Congress and The Hong Kong International Piano Competition. In support of contemporary music CCOHK has staged world premieres of works by Daniel Binelli, Dobrinka Tabakova, Mao Yuan and Richard Harvey, and by Hong Kong’s top composers at Musicarama and the Hong Kong Contemporary Music Festival. Recordings include four internationally acclaimed releases on the NAXOS, Orchid Classics, Forgotten Records and OUR Recordings labels. CCOHK’s mission to cultivate young audiences for music in Hong Kong has led to the creation of several original and fully-staged productions incorporating actors. These include Magnificent Mozart, The Star Bach, Vivaldi Unmasked and Bug Symphony which won the Public Choice Award at the YAMawards in Portugal 2017. At the helm of CCOHK’s artistic and executive planning is CCOHK’s founder Leanne Nicholls, herself a prize-winning performer who was awarded a commendation certificate from the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2009. French conductor Jean Thorel served as chief conductor from 2008 to 2016 and was succeeded by the Armenian conductor and pianist Vahan Mardirossian in 2019.
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