Artists 表演嘉賓
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Giuseppe ANDALORO
 Giuseppe Andaloro, considered one of the leading international concert pianists of his generation, was born in Palermo in 1982.
Winner of : the Hong Kong International Piano Competition 2011 (Chairman of the Jury: Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy); the Bolzano Ferruccio Busoni Competition (Italy) in 2005; the London World Piano Competition (U.K.) in 2002; and before this: of the Sendai International Piano Competition (Japan), the "Cidade do Porto" International Piano Competition (Portugal), the "Premio Venezia - Teatro La Fenice", the "Premio A. Casella" International Piano Competition of Naples, and recipient of numerous other prestigious international piano music awards.
He studied under Sergio Fiorentino and Vincenzo Balzani and graduated with full marks, full honors and special mention from the Giuseppe Verdi State Conservatory of Music in Milan at a very young age; as Master of the Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg and from a two-year course in Chamber Music at the “Verdi” Conservatory in Milan.
He has performed at renowned festivals, including those of Salzburg, the Ruhr-Klavier, the Due Mondi of Spoleto, the George Enescu of Bucarest, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Young Prague, the Pleven, the Ravello, the Rittergut Bennigsen of Hannover, the Lindau Bodensee, the Duszniki-Zdrój Chopin, the Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, the Jiménez of Morelia, the Liepaja Piano Stars, the Sendai Classical, as well as at some of the most renowned concert halls and auditoria of the world, including the Großes Saal and Wiener Saal of the Salzburg Mozarteum, London’s Royal Festival Hall, the Mansion House, and Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Oxford Sheldonian Theatre, Berlin's KonzertHaus, Paris’ Salle Gaveau, Palais des Arts and Salle Cortot, Tokyo’s Sumida Triphony Hall, Pablo Casals Hall and Metropolitan Art Museum, Singapore’s Esplanade Concert Hall, Rome’s Parco della Musica, the Palazzo del Quirinale and Santa Cecilia Auditorium, Sacile Fazioli Concert Hall, Buenos Aires’ Fernández Blanco Museum, New York’s Klavierhaus, Mexico City’s Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar, the Munich Gasteig, Schloss Elmau in Elmau, Athens’ Byzantine Museum, Toronto’s Walter Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Beijing Bravoce Classical Music, Montevideo’s Auditorio Sodre, the Dortmund Harenberg City-Center, Prague’s Rudolfinum Dvorák Hall, Santiago de Chile’s Oriente Theatre, the Sapporo Kjtara Hall, Palermo Teatro Massimo and Politeama Garibaldi, Tucumán’s San Martín Theatre, Osaka’s Phoenix Hall, Porto Auditório do Rivoli, Rabat Mohamed Théâtre, Kraków Philharmonic Hall, Sendai Grand Hall, Fort Worth Bass Performance Hall, Tel Aviv’s Recanati Auditorium, Novi Sad Synagogue, and Pretoria Old Mutual Hall.
His repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi to Messiaen, Ligeti, Kapustin, Sollima and Cuozzo) and includes his “Transcription for Two Pianos and Two Cellos of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps”.
He has collaborated with internationally acclaimed orchestras and chamber groups, including London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Tokyo, Philharmonische Camerata Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the LCO Chamber Group, Czech Philharmonic orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra National of Porto, Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, and Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.
He has collaborated with famous conductors, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gianandrea Noseda, Tomasz Bugaj, Alberto Martini, Alan Buribayev, Michael Guttler, Donato Renzetti, Andrew Parrot, Umeda Toshiaki, Ola Rudner, Alexander Shelley, Daniele Moles, Peter Altrichter, Gyorgy G. Rath, Gunter Neuhold. Daniele Giorgi, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Ovidiu Balan, Lu Jia, Gustavo Guersman, Maffeo Scarpis, Lothar Koenigs, Pier Carlo Orizio, Johannes Wildner.
He has collaborated in duos and ensembles with various distinguished artists, including Sarah Chang, Giovanni Sollima and Sergej Krylov. He has an ongoing collaboration with the Italian cellist-composer Giovanni Sollima. His performances have been broadcast in several countries and he has a number of recordings to his credit. Giuseppe Andaloro has served on juries for international piano competitions, and given international master-classes.
He is also active as a composer and conductor.
In 2005 he was given the Award of Artistic Merit by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
WHAT HAS BEEN SAID OF HIS PERFORMANCES:
“… Andaloro’s magic touch…” The Times, London
“A player of chiseled brilliance” The Independent, London
“Andaloro’s Rachmaninov sent shivers down the spine” The Daily Telegraph, London
“… Andaloro closed with the fourth Movement of Prokofiev’s Sixth Sonata. Here he did not choose to shock and awe with its fusillades of loud dissonance but rather to dwell on its more witty and sarcastic undertones. He flew with the music, and its many percussive bits were not hammered with brute force but rather chiseled with the skill of a Michelangelo. Andaloro showed that Prokofiev’s music was not all aout violence, but rich with nuances”
“…possesses fingers of steel cushioned by a velvety soft touch. His rendition of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto was to remember. The opening chords were taken expansively, setting the tone for bittersweet melancholy contrasted with high drama. His projection from the keyboard was uniformly excellent, roaring above dense orchestral for ecstatic climaxes yet possessing the lightness of a gentle sigh in quiet solo passages. Prodigious finger technique told not the whole story – the ability to express emotions without words made the performance complete … The finale afforded disply for some of the most lyrical pianism thought possible and the requisite barnstorming, with the audience eating from his hands. The rare encore of Schumann’s Widmung in Sergio Fiorentino’s transcription was further proof that Andaloro was no off-the-assembly-line virtuoso” Chang Tou Liang, The Straits Times, Singapore
Rachel CHEUNG Wai-Ching
 Pianist Rachel Cheung has won numerous prizes and awards in international piano competitions including the '28th Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition' in Italy in 2008; the Fifth Prize at the '16th Leeds International Piano Competition'; a semifinalist at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Most recently in November 2012, she was awarded the Georges Leibenson Prize in the 67th Geneva International Piano Competition.
Rachel was awarded numerous scholarships including 'The Robert H.N.Ho Family Foundation Scholarship', 'The Coutts Bank Scholarship', 'Lee Shuk Chee Memorial Scholarship' , 'Hong Kong Music Scholarship' and was sponsored by the 'Simon K.Y. Lee Foundation' . In 2011, she was awarded the ' Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship', 'Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship', 'Bernard van Zuidan Music Fund Scholarship' and 'School of Music Staff Prize Scholarship'.
As a recognition for making outstanding achievements in the promotion of arts and culture in Hong Kong, Rachel was awarded the 'Certificate of Commendation' by the Hong Kong Government in 2004. In May 2010, she received the 'Award for Young Artist 2009' presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
As an active soloist and chamber musician, Rachel has performed frequently in Hong Kong and overseas. She made her debut at the City Hall Hong Kong and Uruguay through the sponsorship of 'The Hong Kong Chopin Society' . In 2005 Rachel performed a solo recital at the 33rd Hong Kong Arts Festival as the youngest soloist ever of the festival. She was invited to perform in the 'Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Vladimir Horowitz Concert' in Kiev, concert tours of United States for two consecutive years. Rachel was also invited to take part in many prestigious international music festivals including 'The 9th Musical Olympus International Festival' in Russia , 'The International Chopin Festival' in Duszniki, Poland, 'Virtuosos of Planet 2006 ' in Kiev, Ukraine. 'The Festival Transeuropéennes' in Rouen, France. She made her debuts at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris and the Steinway Hall in London in October 2009. In November 2012, she also made her first appearance at the Richmond Hill Centre for Performing Arts in Toronto.
Upcoming engagements include chamber and solo recitals at the 2013 Miami International Piano Festival and the Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival in July, 2013.
Rachel has collaborated with many orchestras including 'The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine', 'St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra' ,'Beethoven Orchestra Bonn' , 'Orchestra at Temple Square' in Salt Lake City, 'Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra' , 'Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra' , ' Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Junior Chamber Orchestra' ,'Hong Kong Sinfonietta' and the ' Hallé Orchestra', conducted by Sir Mark Elder. In October 2009, Rachel performed with the Sydney Symphony under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Rachel's first DVD – 'RACHEL CHEUNG – KEYBOARD PRODIGY LIVE IN RECITAL MIAMI INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL 2005' was released by VAIMUSIC in June 2007; and her first CD, under the Alpha Omega Sound label of the Chopin Society of Hong Kong, was released in 2009.
Born in Hong Kong, Rachel received her first piano lessons when she was four years old, and was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as a junior student at ten studying with Prof. Eleanor Wong. In June 2011, Rachel received her Bachelor of Music Degree with First Class Honours at the HKAPA; she continued her studies with Prof. Peter Frankl and graduated with a Master of Music Degree from the Yale School of Music, where she was awarded the Elizabeth Parisot Prize for outstanding pianists in the 2011/2012 school year.
Rachel became a young Steinway Artist in January 2011.
張緯晴
香港鋼琴好手張緯晴師隨演藝學院駐院藝術家兼高級講師黃懿倫教授習琴。於二Ｏ一一年完成演藝學院學士學位並以一級榮譽畢業。再於二Ｏ一三年五月完成美國耶魯大學音樂系碩士課程並獲學院頒發「全年傑出鋼琴家」獎。
張緯晴在港及國際間屢獲殊榮。為「少年珍娜芭候雅國際鋼琴大賽」、「霍洛維玆國際青少年鋼琴大賽」、「施坦威國際青少年鋼琴比賽」、「英國威爾斯靈閣嶺國際音樂節」及「第28 屆阿萊桑德羅．卡薩格朗德國際鋼琴大賽」的優勝者。更於二○○九年英國舉行的「里茲國際鋼琴大賽」決賽中奪得第五名，這是大賽創辦四十多年來，首次有香港人晉身決賽六強。
張緯晴於「第十六屆蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽」中，晉身準決賽。二Ｏ一二年於瑞士「日內瓦國際音樂比賽」獲頒特別獎。
張氏屢獲頒獎學金，更獲香港藝術發展局頒發「2009 藝術新秀獎」，表揚她積極為本地藝術發展作出貢獻。
張緯晴在本港及海外曾作多次公開獨奏會及與樂團合作演出。其中包括着名之倫敦「史坦威音樂廳」及巴黎「羅浮宮演奏廳」等。除此，張緯晴曾相繼與「烏克蘭國家交響樂團」、蘇聯「聖彼得堡管弦樂團」、「香港管弦樂團」、「香港小交響樂團」、「香港演藝青年室樂團」、鹽湖城「聖殿廣場管絃樂團」、德國「貝多芬波恩交響樂團」、以色列「耶路撒冷交響樂團」及與由艾爾達爵士指揮之著名「Hallé Orchestra」合作演出。 二ＯＯ九年更有幸與指揮大師阿殊堅納西及「悉尼交響樂團」於香港大會堂合作演出拉赫曼尼諾夫之第二鋼琴協奏曲。
張氏於二○一一年一月成為「施坦威少年藝術家」。
Boris GILTBURG
 Born in 1984 in Moscow, Boris Giltburg began his piano studies with his mother at the age of five. He has lived in Tel Aviv since early childhood, where he studied with Arie Vardi. He has received many awards for international competitions, notably at Santander (top prize and Audience Prize, 2002) and the Rubinstein (2nd prize and Best Classical Concerto, 2011). In 2013 he received First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, as a result of which his already flourishing international career has been catapulted to a new level, with a packed diary of additional concert engagements across the globe.
Since his breakthrough appearance with the Philharmonia in 2007 Giltburg has been an annual visitor to the Royal Festival Hall in London, and made his BBC Proms debut in 2010 with the BBC Scottish Symphony. Last season he made his London Philharmonic debut, and is a popular guest with many UK orchestras. He has also appeared with DSO Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Prague Symphony - to name a few.
Having toured the USA as a teenager with the Israel Chamber, he made his North American orchestra debut in 2007 with the Indianapolis Symphony. Giltburg made his debut with the Israel Philharmonic in February 2005, and regularly appears with all the major orchestras and in the leading recital series in Israel. He made his Tokyo debut in 2005, toured China for the first time in 2007 and played with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 2010. He has toured South America several times a season since 2002.
He has collaborated with conductors such as Alsop, Brabbins, Dohnanyi, Entremont, Neeme Jaervi, Karabits, Lintu, Luisotti, Petrenko, Pletnev, Saraste, Segerstam, Sinaisky, Sokhiev and Soustrot.
Giltburg has played recitals to audiences across Europe in major venues such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Munich Herkulessaal, Paris Louvre, Zurich Tonhalle, Wigmore Hall, London's Southbank Centre, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and Madrid Sony Auditorium. Festival appearances have included the Klavierfest am Ruhr, Schwetzingen, Luzern, Piano aux Jacobins and Cheltenham. Last season he made his recital debuts at the Beijing NCPA and New Zealand Piano Festival. He regularly plays chamber music with members of the Israel Philharmonic.
In August 2012 Giltburg released the Prokofiev "War" sonatas on the Orchid label, appearing in Gramophone as 'Editor's Choice' and receiving 5 stars in the Daily Telegraph: "These performances of Prokofiev's three 'War' Sonatas eclipse all others on record - even those tirelessly and justifiably celebrated performances by Richter and Gilels" (Gramophone, Oct 2012, Editor's Choice). In March 2013 the disc was the first release on the Orchid label to make it into the Specialist Classical Album Chart.
Giltburg has previously recorded for the EMI Debut label and has a live recital DVD available on VAI. He was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2008.
Colleen Lee
 Hailed by the New York Concert Review Inc. as "an extraordinarily talented young pianist" and for "the sort of interpretive ability rare in any pianist," Colleen Lee is one of the most brilliant pianists of the younger generations from Hong Kong and China. Since winning the 6th Prize at prestigious International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005, she has performed extensively around the world, in cities including New York, Boston, London, Warsaw, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna, Tokyo, Tele Aviv, Beijing, Xian, Yi Chang, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shantou.
She has also been a featured artist at several international music festivals in recent seasons including the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki and Gdansk in Poland; the Assisi International Piano Festival in Italy; Meissen Pianoforte Festival in Germany, International Keyboard Festival in New York, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the 2007 Hong Kong Arts Festival. She performed with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Italy in 2009, at Festival Pianistico Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Bergamo and Brescia and Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza with critical acclaim. She was the Artist Associate/Piano of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta for the 2010/2011 Season and went with the orchestra on its tour to South America, performing in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
Colleen has collaborated with major international orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Galacia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Gui Yang Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and The Hong Kong Sinfonietta. She is also an avid chamber music lover and engages regularly in chamber music concerts including the Hong Kong International Chamber Festival.
Born in Hong Kong, Colleen started her piano lesson at the age of four. Subsequently she was trained at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the celebrated pedagogue Ms Eleanor Wong since she was seven. After completion of her Bachelor of Music Degree in 2003, she was awarded scholarship from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund and the Bernard Van Zuiden Scholarship to further her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover under Professor Arie Vardi. Colleen was the recipient of many international awards besides her success at the Chopin Competition, including First Prize at the 3rd Seiler International Piano Competition in Kitzingen, Germany, the 2003 Dorothy Mackenzie Artist Recognition Award, Third Place and Critic and Audience Prizes at the 15th International Competition for Piano and Orchestra in Cantú, Italy, Price Winner of the 1st Hong Kong International Piano Competition, the Pro Musicis International Award, Gina Bachauer International Artist Competition Award, Sendai International Music Competition award, and was Laureate of the 16th Santander International Piano Competition in Spain.
Colleen has recorded regularly for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) for both recital and chamber music programmes and was featured in the acclaimed Outstanding Young Chinese Musicians documentary Series 2006, and in the programme and CD "Gifted". In 2006 the Fryderyk Chopin Institute released Colleen's all Chopin album recorded with the Pleyel Piano, and an all Scarlatti Sonata CD was released by Naxos in August 2008.
In recognition of her outstanding achievements in music and in the promotion of arts and culture, Colleen has been awarded Certificate of Commendation by the Secretary of Home Affairs in 2004, Commendation for Community Service by the Hong Kong Government in 2006 and Young Artist Award by the Hong Kong Art Development Council in 2008.
She has just been appointed Honorary Artist-in-Residence of the Hong Kong Institute of Education for 2012 – 2014.
李嘉齡
李嘉齡被紐約音樂評論讚譽為「一位才華洋溢和擁有難得的音樂詮繹能力的年輕鋼琴家」，是同輩中最耀目的演奏家之一。
自2005年獲得波蘭第十五屆蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽獎項後，李嘉齡在國際音樂舞台上非常活躍。她曾於世界各地多個城市演出：包括紐約、波士頓，倫敦，馬德里，華沙，巴黎，柏林，阿姆斯特丹，布拉格、維也納，台拉維夫，東京，和中國的北京，長春，天津，上海，西安，宜昌，廣州，汕頭等地。她參加過為數眾多的音樂節，如波蘭蕭邦國際音樂節及格旦斯克音樂節，意大利阿西西音樂節，德國麥森鋼琴音樂節，紐約國際鍵盤音樂節，美國緬因州包登國際音樂節, 及香港藝術節等。
除獨奏外，嘉齡亦經常參與室樂演出，包括2010香港國際室內樂音樂節。她曾與多個著名樂團合作，包括英國廣播公司威爾斯管弦樂團，中國愛樂樂團，上海交響樂團，貴陽交響樂團，廣州交響樂團，深圳交響樂團，日本仙台交響樂團，以色列愛樂樂團，華沙管弦樂團，昆士蘭管弦樂團，曼谷交響樂團，波蘭電台阿瑪狄斯室樂團，匈牙利交響樂團，西班牙加利西雅皇家愛樂樂團，香港管弦樂團及香港小交響樂團等。2009年隨香港小交響樂團在意大利米開朗幾利和維琴察音樂節演出後，大獲好評。2010 - 2011年樂季她被委任為香港小交響樂團之駐團藝術家再與樂團遠赴南美四大城市演出。
李嘉齡出生於香港，四歲跟隨陳柏賜老師學習。七歲獲演藝學院取錄為初級生，師隨鍵盤系高級講師黃懿倫教援。 在她的悉心指導下完成音樂學士課程。李嘉齡於2003年獲頒賽馬會音樂及舞蹈信託基金及萬瑞庭獎學金，前往德國漢諾威音樂及戲劇學院深造， 師隨瓦里瓦德。 嘉齡曾獲取的獎項包括2003年第三屆薛勒 (Seiler) 國際鋼琴比賽冠軍及美國多羅菲．麥康西藝術家成就獎, 2005年獲得國際樂府大獎，第15屆意大利國際協奏曲比賽季軍及樂評和觀眾獎，美國珍娜芭侯雅國際鋼琴藝術家及日本仙台國際音樂大賽及第16屆西班牙桑坦德國際鋼琴比賽等之獎項。
嘉齡亦多次為香港電台第四台獨奏及室樂節目錄音。在香港電台電視部製作廣受好評的{華人青年演藝家系列 2006}，嘉齡是其中一位獲專題介紹的傑出華人青年音樂家。2007年，她獲邀參與灌錄香港電台第四台為慶祝香港回歸十週年制作CD{非凡嚮}及在同系列節目中接受訪問和演出。 嘉齡於2004年獲香港民政事務局局長頒發嘉許狀及2006年獲頒行政長官社區服務獎狀，以表揚她在音樂上所取得的成就及在推動藝術文化活動方面的傑出表現，並於2008年獲香港藝術發展局頒發藝術新秀獎。
李嘉齡第一張鐳射唱片(全蕭邦) 是2005年底在華沙灌錄，2006年由波蘭之國立蕭邦學社發行。她第二張鐳射唱片(全史格拉蒂奏嗚曲)於2007年2月由拿索斯唱片公司灌錄並於2008年8月中發行。
她獲香港教育學院委任為2012-2014榮譽駐院藝術家。
JINSANG LEE
 Born in Seoul, South Korea, Jinsang Lee started his musical education with Daejin Kim and continued his studies in Germany with support of Wolfgang Manz and Julia Goldstein and completed his studies under guidance of Pavel Gililov.
Jinsang has won prizes in several competitions including the 1st Prize, Scarlatti Prize and Orchestra Prize at the International Pianoforte Competition in Cologne in 2005 and in October 2008, the 1st Prize at the 2nd Hong Kong International Piano Competition, an event organized by the Chopin Society of Hong Kong. Following this success, Jinsang won the 1st Prize at the 2009 Concours Geza Anda (Zurich) including the Mozart, Schumann and the public prizes.
He has played with various orchestras including The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne.
Conductors he has worked with include: Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Effron, Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Peter Gülke, Theodor Guschlbauer, Antony Hermus, Heinz Holliger, Michail Jurowski, Roman Kofman, Christian Ludwig, Jonathan Nott, Ola Rudner, Muhai Tang and Christopher Warren-Green.
His concert activity has taken him to various countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, England, France, Italy, Russia, Greece, Spain, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore as well as North and South America. He presents his impressive, profound music world at the various festivals, e.g. Busoni Festival (Italy), Cervo Festival (Italy), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Menton Festival (France), Menuhin Festival (Switzerland), Festival Musikdorf Ernen (Switzerland), Montreux Festival (Switzerland), Piano Festival Ruhr (Germany) and the Joy of Music Festival (Hong Kong). Numerous invitations led him on the international concert stage, e.g. Berliner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Louvre Museum, KKL Lucerne, Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg, Tonhalle Zurich and Konzerthaus Vienna.
Monika LESKOVAR
 Croatian cellist Monika Leskovar (born Kreutztal, Germany, 1981), studied with Dobrila Berkovic-Magdalenic at Elly Bašic Music School in Zagreb and later with Valter Dešpalj. In 1996 she became a student of David Geringas at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where - from 2006 to 2011 - she was an assistant.
From October 2012 she teaches cello at Lugano Conservatory of Music in Switzerland.
In masterclasses she worked together with Mstislav Rostropovitch and Bernard Greenhouse.
Winner of several prizes at international cello competitions - International Tchaikovsky for Young Musicians (Sendai, 1995), Antonio Janigro (Zagreb, 1996), Rostropovich (Paris, 1997), Eurovision Grand Prix (Vienna, 1998), Roberto Caruana "Stradivari" (Milano, 1999), International ARD (Munchen 2001), 5th Adam (New Zealand, 2003). Sofia Gubaidulina says of her: "Monika perfectly performed my Preludes for solo violoncello… She is truly remarkable, and simply I adore her… Monika is the sort of talent that only appears by the Grace of God".
She performed as soloist with orchestras such as Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic, Essen Philharmonic, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Zagreb Soloists, with conductors such as Valerij Gergiev, Thomas Hengelbrock, Krzysztof Penderecki, and in solo recitals, chamber music projects and noted festivals like Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Dubrovnik, Casals Festival (Tokyo), Rostropovich Festival (Riga), Zagreb International Music Festival collaborating with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Berezovsky, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Tabea Zimmermann, Sofia Gubaidulina, Mario Brunello, Nikolai Zneider, Jeanine Jansen and Kolja Blacher, among others.
Since 2005 she collaborates with the cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima, with whom she recorded the album "We Were Trees", recently published by Sony/BMG.
In 2008 she recorded the G-major Cello Concerto of Stamitz and the Danzi Variations on a theme from "Don Giovanni" for the label OEMHS classics.
Monika Leskovar plays a cello by Mantegazza, Milano 1765 loaned to her by Kronberg Academy.
Zhong Xin LI, Johnson
 Johnson is studying at the Hong Kong Yew Chung International School. He is a junior music student at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, studying under Professor Eleanor Wong. Johnson was the recipient of the Lang Lang Music Foundation scholarship in August 2011 and has also participated in master classes held by Lang Lang and Kaplinsky, the head of the Piano Department of the Juilliard School in USA.
He has also performed piano duets with Lang Lang at the Hong Kong UNICEF's twenty-fifth anniversary concert; played for the Special Program of CCTV1"The First Lesson of the Term", and also at the Shenzhen New Year Concert of 2011. Johnson has also performed with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra、Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and HK Philharmonic Orchestra. He has played at "The Joy of Music Festival 2012".
Johnson is 10 years old.
李仲欣
李仲欣今年十歲，現就讀於香港耀中國際學校, 香港演藝學院 Junior Music, 是黃懿倫教授的學生。
2011年8月獲得 “益田杯” 郎朗音樂世界青少年鋼琴賽幼兒組第一名，同時在各年齡組表演賽中奪得總冠軍。 2011年8月獲“郎朗音樂獎學金”,
李仲欣先後多次參加國際鋼琴巨星郎朗、美國茱莉亞音樂學院鋼琴系主任卡布琳斯基的鋼琴大師班。
李仲欣于紀念香港聯合國兒童基金會成立二十五周年音樂會, CCTV1特別節目《開學第一課》; 2011年深圳新年音樂會上多次與國際鋼琴大師郎朗合作。與廈門愛樂樂團、深圳交響樂團和香港管弦樂團合作演出並參與香港蕭邦社2012“美樂聚”的演出。
Alvaro PIERRI
 Alvaro Pierri is internationally acclaimed as a leading personality in the world of the guitar. Press reviews around the world praise "his masterly thought-out interpretations"... "the breathtaking phrasing"...and "the unmatched musical colour spectrum that he creates on the guitar" . Alvaro Pierri was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, into a family of musicians. He received his early musical education from his mother, Ada Estades, on the piano and his aunt, Olga Pierri, on the guitar. Later he studied with Abel Carlevaro, the composer Guido Santorsola and also at the Uruguayan National Institute of Musicology.
From the age of 11 he was already winning prizes in international guitar competitions, including 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1st Prize in the International Guitar Competition in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Gold Medal at the 18th International Competition by France Musique/Radio France in Paris.
Pierri’s debut in the USA took place in New York and received outstanding reviews: … "Mr. Pierri revealed an artistic maturity not commonly encountered” … "compared to artists as Segovia, Bream, Williams” … "brilliant, sensitive, versatile, breathtaking” (New York Times & Continental Reviews). In 1983 he made his debut in Germany with the string soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and he subsequently appeared on numerous radio and television programmes in Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Denmark, Canada, Korea and Japan.
As a musician popular with both the public and the critics, Pierri is a regular guest at the major concert houses of Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Contemporary composers such as Leo Brouwer, Guido Santorsola, Jacques Hétu, Astor Piazzolla, Abel Carlevaro, Carlo Domeniconi and Terry Riley have written major works for Alvaro Pierri and in each case he has premiered them brilliantly.
His manifest love of chamber music has resulted in collaborations with major musical figures including Astor Piazzolla, Hatto Beyerle, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Ernö Sebestien, Regis Pasquier, Philippe Müller, Leo Brouwer, Alcides Lanza, Terry Riley, Tracy Silverman, Maureen Forrester, Eduardo Fernandez, the Cherubini Quartet and the Turtle Island String Quartet, and he has also worked with conductors such as Pinchas Steinberg, Charles Dutoit, Wojciech Rajski, Mario Bernardi and Yannick Nezet-Séguin.
Alvaro Pierri’s CDs have been released by Metropole-Polydor (France), Blue Angel-2001 (Germany), Milan Records (Canada), Analekta (Canada), Amplitude (Canada), Madacy (Canada), HOMA (Japan) and The Alpha Omega Sound (Hong Kong). His discography includes solo recordings, chamber music, guitar concerts and electro-acoustic music. Several of his CDs have been honoured with prices and nominations and he has already received twice the coveted Canadian FELIX award for the best classical CD of the year. Recently "Pioneer Classics Japan” brought out a DVD featuring Spanish and South American guitar music, and "Deutsche Grammophon” re-issued a DVD of Astor Piazzolla’s Double Concerto with Alvaro Pierri performing in duo with Astor Piazzolla.
Alvaro Pierri is also an internationally acclaimed teacher. Many of his students have won major international guitar competitions. He was professor at the University of Santa Maria in Brazil and subsequently ran a guitar class at McGill University and the UQAM (Academy of Music) in Montreal. In 2002 he was appointed professor at the famous Academy of music in Vienna (today University of Music and Performing Arts).
Pierri gives master classes at major music festivals such as the New York Manhattan Masters, GFA Guitar Foundation of America, Québec FIG, the SIG Séminaire International de Guitare in Paris and Bordeaux, in Barcelona, at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, the Wiener Meisterkurse, the Villa Musica in Mainz, and also in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and at The Joy of Music Festival in Hong Kong.
In recognition of his outstanding artistic talent and career and his permanent enriching contribution to the culture, in 2008, Alvaro Pierri was awarded the honorary citizenship of his hometown Montevideo.
The Alpha Omega Sound, the recording label of The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd., has released Alvaro Pierri’s first of a series of recordings he is planning to record under this label. The CD has been entirely recorded by Mr. Pierri at Abbey Road Studios in London.
With the present CD, Alvaro Pierri is embarking on a long term project with The Alpha Omega Sound, to record a comprehensive series of sonatas specifically composed for guitar and spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries. The collection, which will not necessarily be issued in chronological order of the compositions, will not contain transcriptions or shorter pieces but will focus exclusively on the superb body of music specifically composed and developed in a sonata form for the guitar.
Alvaro PIERRI - some reviews:
"Alvaro Pierri wonderfully combines the shadings of the orchestra, adding to them even more ingredients than Segovia and Bream. He is a master of colours, a genuine innovator of interpretation." (Leo Brouwer)
"Alvaro Pierri carries music in his blood ... an artistic maturity not commonly encountered ..." (New York Times)
"Alvaro Pierri sets new standards. His fascinating and vivid interpretations are completely fresh ... he brings extraordinary new life to the guitar repertoire." (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich)
„Fluent technique, golden tone and singing musicality poured from his guitar. Pierri matched panache with reflectiveness and superb rhythmic flexibility." (Vancouver Sun)
" ... a fantastic musician, a leading personality in the guitar world, a phenomenal virtuoso who uncompromisingly puts his art to the service of music ..." (J.R.S., Guitare Classique, Paris)
Ilya RASHKOVSKIY (Piano)
 Born in 1984 in Irkutsk, Russia, Ilya Rashkovskiy studied with Vladimir Krainev at the Hanover Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Since October 2009, he continues his studies at l’Ecole normale supérieure de musique in Paris with Marian Rybicki. He is the laureate of the 2001 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris(second prize), the 2005 Jaén Competition(Spain) and the Hong Kong International Piano Competition(first prizes), the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (fourth prize), the 2010 Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon(second prize), the 2011 Artur Rubinstein Competition(third Prize) and the 2012 Hamamtsu International Piano Competition (first prize).
Ilya Rashkovskiy has performed in several important concert venues throughout the world as well as in festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron, the Duszniki Zdroj Chopin Festival in Poland and the Joy of Music Festival in Hong Kong. He has collaborated with the Russian State Symphony, the Kiev national Philarmonic, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony and the New Japan Symphony.
He recorded the Seasons and Sonata in c-sharp minor by Tchaikovsky for the Naxos Label (2008) as well as Fantasies for piano by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin for the Alpha Omega Sound, the recording label of The Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd.(2009).
Jeremy SIEPMANN
 Jeremy Siepmann is an internationally acclaimed writer, musician, teacher, broadcaster and editor. In recent years his series for Naxos Records – 'Life and Works' and 'Classics Explained' – have received exceptional accolades from critics and listeners on both sides of the Atlantic.
Though long resident in England, he was born and formally educated in the United States. On completing his studies at the Mannes College of Music in New York, he moved to London, at the suggestion of Sir Malcolm Sargent. After several years as a freelance lecturer he was invited to join the staff of London University. For most of the last thirty years he has confined his teaching activity to the piano. His pupils, many coming from abroad for purposes of study with him, include pianists of worldwide repute. He has also given numerous masterclasses on both sides of the Atlantic, joining the regular staff of the Chethams International Summer School and Festival for Pianists in 2002. In January 2004 he was appointed Professor of Musical Aesthetics and the History of Piano Performance at the International Piano Academy, Lake Como, Italy, and six years later joined the panel of lecturers at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. His public lectures have become an annual fixture at the Hong Kong 'Joy of Music' Festival.
As a writer he has contributed articles, reviews, interviews and programme notes to numerous journals, recordings and reference works (including The New Statesman, The Listener, Encounter, The Musical Times, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music, Piano magazine, Slavic Review, International Piano and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) some of them being reprinted in book form (Oxford University Press, Robson Books). His books include highly acclaimed biographies of Chopin, Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, two volumes on the history and literature of the piano, and an introductory survey of chamber music. From December 1997 to February 2010 he was the editor of Piano magazine, whose regular contributors included many of the world's greatest pianists.
His career as a broadcaster began in New York in 1963 with an East Coast radio series on the life and work of Mozart, described by Alistair Cooke as "the best music program on American radio". On the strength of this, improbably, he was hired by the BBC as a humorist, in which capacity he furnished weekly satirical items on various aspects of American life. After a long break he returned to broadcasting in 1977, and has devised, written and presented more than 1,000 programmes, including the international-award-winning series The Elements of Music.
In 1988 he was appointed Head of Music at the BBC World Service, broadcasting to an estimated audience of 135 million. He left the Corporation in Spring 1994 to form his own independent production company.
Giovanni SOLLIMA
 Born in Palermo into a family of musicians, Giovanni Sollima studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and Antonio Janigro and composition with his father Eliodoro Sollima and Milko Kelemen.
He began an international career as cellist, collaborating among others with Claudio Abbado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Jörg Demus, Martha Argerich, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Bruno Canino, DJ Scanner, Victoria Mullova, Riccardo Muti, Ruggero Raimondi, Patti Smith, Philip Glass and Yo-Yo Ma.
Sollima performed in prestigious places, but also in alternative venues: Carnegie Hall, BAM, Alice Tully Hall, Knitting Factory in New York, Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Musicgebouw in Amsterdam, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Kunstfest in Weimar, La Scala in Milan, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Festivals of Kronberg, Kuopio, Istanbul, Tokyo, Venice, Ravenna, Spoleto, Shanghai (Expo 2010).
As composer, Sollima has been captivated by every kind of languages and has thought to create new blends among the most diverse genres by combining elements of classical and rock music, as well as of music of all the Mediterranean area. He composes for acoustic and electric instruments, and others invented by himself or created for him.
Besides he composed music for directors and choreographers, such as Peter Greenaway, Bob Wilson, Peter Stein, John Turturro, Karole Armitage and Carolyn Carlson. With the videographer Lasse Gjertsen he realized Daydream.
Among the CDs worth mentioning is Aquilarco, Works and We Were Trees recorded in 2008 together with the cellist Monika Leskovar and the Solistenensemble Kaleidoscop from Berlin.
In September 2009 he performed in Budapest, Linz and Koln, his new cello concerto Folktales commissioned by the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Sollima teaches at the Romanini Foundation in Brescia and starting 2010 he will be teaching at the Accademia of Santa Cecilia in Rome where he was appointed Member of the Academy, the highest honour in Italy for a musician.
He plays a cello by Francesco Ruggeri (Cremona, 1679).
Hin Yat TSANG
 Born in Hong Kong in 1993, Tsang Hin Yat started learning the piano at the age of 4. He was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts as a Junior Student under the tutlege of Professor Eleanor Wong. A Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholar, Hin-Yat obtained his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Academy, graduating with first class honours.
In past years, Hin-Yat has won international prizes including: the Fourth Prize of the 2008 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition, First Prize and Audience Prize at the 3rd Manchester International Concerto Competition as well as the First Prize at the 73rd Steinway & Sons International Children & Youths Competition. He was also granted the Special Prize in addition to the First Prize, representing China at the biannual ‘14th International Steinway Festival’ in Hamburg.
In December of 2010 Hin-Yat won 'The Hong Kong Young Musician of the Year', making his debút with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Perry So. In the same month, he was also the recipient of the inaugural 'Zhou Guangren Young Pianist Award'. Hin-Yat has also collaborated with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Manchester Camarata as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He has also performed extensively in the United Kingdom as well as Germany and various cities in China including Beijing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Xiamen.
During 2012, Hin-Yat collaborated with Maestro Trevor Pinnock in an all-Mozart programme with the Academy Symphony Orchestra. He was the joint Second Prizewinner in the Senior Category of the 3rd James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester.
Hin-Yat is currently supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund in pursuing his Masters studies at the Royal College of Music in London.
曾憲逸
曾憲逸出生於一九九三年，於四歳開始學習鋼琴，其後入讀香港演藝學院初級音樂課程，師隨黃懿倫教授。二〇一〇年獲賽馬會獎學金在香港演藝學院修讀音樂學位課程。於二〇一三年以一級榮譽學位畢業。
曾憲逸曾獲得多個本地及國際大獎，包括2008年在美國盐湖城舉行的珍娜芭侯爾青少年鋼琴比賽獲第四名，第三屆英國曼徹斯特國際鋼琴協奏曲大賽中獲第一名，於二〇〇九年在北京擧辧的史丹威青少年國際鋼琴比賽中贏得冠軍及特別大獎，並代表中國在二〇一〇年出席在德國漢堡擧辧的的史丹威音樂節。
曾憲逸亦是二〇一〇年香港青年音樂家大獎得主，在決賽及頒獎典禮上，與香港管弦樂團在指揮家蘇拍軒先生指揮下演出。 同月，他並獲得周廣仁鋼琴藝術新人獎。曾憲逸曾與深圳管弦樂團， Manchester Camerata及皇家利物浦爱乐樂團多次演出。他曾在世界各地演奏，包括英國和德國等地。而在中國方面，包括北京丶天津丶上海丶廈門及深圳。
去年九月他與香港演藝學院交響樂團合作，在著名指𢳂大師比洛克領導下彃奏莫扎特鋼琴協奏曲。他最近一次的獎項，是在英國曼徹斯特擧辦的第三屆James Mottram國際鋼琴比賽第二名。
曾憲逸獲香港賽馬會海外獎學金，現於英國皇家音樂學院修讀碩士課程。
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