City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong

presents

Hot Music

26.10.2021 (Tuesday, 8:00pm)

Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

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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].

For photos, artist interviews and further MEDIA ENQUIRIES please contact Ms. Grace Wong (Tel: 9766 7826/ Email: [email protected]) or Ms. Mandy Law (Tel: 9611 5027/ Email: [email protected]). 

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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.