A chamber music series featuring compositions inspired by trees and nature for the exhibition of To See the Forest and the Trees presented by Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
Ode to Trees 頌
樹詠林
6 July - 8 September 2019
“We created the programme with two main objectives in mind. One is to showcase musical works that took trees, forest and nature as their inspirations. The other one is to highlight the fact that many musical instruments we have today actually derive from the resources of Nature; the sounds of our music, in a sense, are also the sounds we create of Nature.”
Children of the Trees
樹的孩子
6 July 2019
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces Book X, Op.71 - No. 4 “Peace of the Woods” (1901) for piano
John Cage
Child of Tree (1975) for solo percussion using amplified plant materials
Branches (1976) for percussion using amplified plant materials
Tōru Takemitsu 武滿徹
Rain Tree Sketch I (1982) & II (1992) for piano
Charles Kwong 鄺展維
Lachrymae 樹猶如此 (2016) for sextet
Conductor & Percussion | Vicky Shin 冼宏基
Piano | Colleen Lee 李嘉齡
Percussion | Ho Yi On 何怡安
Violin | Sunny Yeung 楊健文
Cello | Haedeun Lee
Flute & Piccolo | Tete Bae
Clarinet | Fung Yat Shan 馮逸山
Sound Engineer | Matt Hui 許民杰
Bamboos, Birds, and Woods
竹、鳥、林
21 July 2019
Chan Hing-yan 陳慶恩
Impressions of Bamboo 竹之斷想 (1998/2000) for violin and dizi
Daniel Lo 盧定彰
YouHuang 幽篁 (2014) for violin
Liu Guanyue 劉管樂
Birds in Shade 蔭中鳥 for dizi
Tōru Takemitsu 武滿徹
In the Woods (1995) Three pieces after a painting by Cornelia Foss for guitar
Violin | Kitty Cheung 張文蕊
Dizi | Ricky Yeung 楊偉傑
Guitar | Mario To 杜子駿
Sounds of Guqin - Introduction to the Chinese zither
「琹」聲穆穆 - 中國七絃琴初探
17 August 2019
Performer & Speaker | KAISAN 介山
and the forest also gazes into you
樹林也在凝視著你
7 September 2019
Robert Schumann
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82 (1849) for piano
Kaija Saariaho
Sept Papillons (2000), movements IV, V & VI, for cello
Charles Kwong 鄺展維
the forest also gazes into you 樹林也在凝視著你 (2019) for violin, cello and piano *
Pauline Oliveros
Tree / Peace (1984) for violin, cello and piano
* world premiere
Violin | Kitty Cheung 張文蕊
Cello | Chor Kai Hei 左啟希
Piano | Timothy Kwok 郭家豪