“Shine” – Roberto Cherillo & Kekko Fornarelli – Piano and Voice Concert – FREE EVENT
“Shine” is a brand new project born from the collaboration of these two uniqueartists. A Duo melting in a extraordinary bond two different personalities, creating a sound which ranges from classical piano to electronics, from Northern European influences to Anglo Saxons contaminations, to Eastern ideas. Voice and piano are perfectly harmonized and they sustain each […]
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Concert in commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi
2013-11-23 Saturday, 8pm 星期六, 晚上8時 Hong Kong City Hall, Theatre 香港大會堂, 劇院 $150, $100 Musica Viva presents this programme of rarely performed non-operatic music by Giuseppe Verdi including his two volumes of 12 songs published under the title of Romances of 1838 and 1845, his four individual art songs dated between 1839 and […]
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Rodolfo Matulich – Piano Concert – FREE EVENT
Rodolfo Matulich got his diploma in piano at the Music Academy of Alessandria, then he got a degree (PhD) in composition at the Regis University and at the Berklee College of Music of Boston (USA). He studied Film Scoring with Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and orchestra conducting with Descev and Schumacher […]
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Urban Design Talks – Alfonso Femia, 5+1AA Architecture and Urbanism
Founders of studio 5 +1AA address the issue of contemporaneity in the relationship between city, territory and architecture, building this relationship as a shaping of reality. The perception and transformation of reality are therefore the cornerstones of an idea of architecture as body and enigma, which is realistic and emotional, pragmatic and sensual, shareable and […]
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Francesco Baccini – Piano and Voice – FREE EVENT
Francesco Baccini was born in Genoa (Italy). He learned to play the piano when he was still a child, studying the great composers of the past. In his early twenties he discovered pop music and rock and this discovery was life changing for him. He then began performing in clubs of his city overcoming his […]
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Film “Tutti giù” – FREE EVENT
SYNOPSIS One is a professional athlete. One thinks of sport as a lifestyle. And one gets into sport almost by chance. One, surrounded by the crowd, seeks the inner strength to carve out moments of profound intimacy with self and nature. One feels at home on the street, seeking a family in chaos. And one […]
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Book reading with Fabio Pusterla – FREE EVENT
Fabio Pusterla is of mixed Swiss-Italian parentage. Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, he now lives and works between Lombardy and Lugano, where he teaches Italian language and literature at the cantonal high school. He is an active poet, scholar, essayist and translator; he has translated French poetry to Italian, including Philippe Jaccottet, Antoine Emaz and Corinna […]
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A Guitar and Voice Recital II – LETTERS FROM COMPOSERS
Chopin writes from Minorca about his being marooned in strangeness… Mozart complains to his father and rages at his treatment at the hands of a Viennese nobleman… Schubert quotes Gretchen’s song at the spinning wheel in his deep depression at his loneliness and lack of success… J. S. Bach sends a formal epistle to the […]
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Sandro Botticelli’s Venus – An Italian High Renaissance Masterpiece
The Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong are honoured to present to the public one of Italy’s “national treasures” – Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510). Sandro Botticelli, patronized by […]
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The Joy of Music Festival 2013
THE JOY OF MUSIC FESTIVALThe Chopin Society of Hong Kong Ltd organizes every three years the Hong Kong International Piano Competition.Three Competitions have been held so far, in 2005, 2008 and 2011 and the fourth one will be held in October 2014. The Competition has established itself as a major event in Hong Kong’s musical […]
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