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Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Index Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Chinese: 香港管弦樂團), commonly abbreviated as HKPO or HKPhil (Chinese: 港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. [1]

86 relations: Amsterdam, Andreas Delfs, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Antoni Wit, Barbican Centre, Benjamin Northey, Berlin, Birmingham, Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto, Cantopop, Christophe Rousset, David Atherton, David Zinman, Deborah Voigt, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Edo de Waart, Eindhoven, Europe, Frances Yip, Garrick Ohlsson, Gerard Salonga, Hacken Lee, Haochen Zhang, Happy Valley Racecourse, He Hui, Hins Cheung, Hong Kong, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Inger Dam-Jensen, Ingrid Fliter, Jaap van Zweden, Jacky Cheung, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Jian Wang (cellist), Joseph Koo, Julius Katchen, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Klaus Heymann, Lang Lang, Li Yundi, London, Lorin Maazel, Louis Kentner, Mario Paci, Matthias Goerne, Maxim Shostakovich, Michael Kwan, Midori (violinist), ..., Musikverein, Naxos Records, Nicholas McGegan, Ning Feng, Orchestra, Perry So, Philips Classics Records, Richard Wagner, Ruggiero Ricci, Samuel Wong, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shenyang (singer), Simon O'Neill, Sony Classical Records, South China Morning Post, St. Stephen's Girls' College, Stephanie Chase, Stephen Hough, Sumi Jo, Susan Graham, Tan Dun, Teresa Carpio, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Tianwa Yang, University of Hong Kong, Vadim Repin, Vienna, Virgin Classics, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Wang Leehom, Yip Wing-sie, Yo-Yo Ma, Yu Long, Yuja Wang, Zürich, Zhang Xuan. Expand index (36 more) »

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Andreas Delfs

Andreas Delfs (born 30 August 1959) is a German conductor.

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Anna Caterina Antonacci

Anna Caterina Antonacci, (born 5 April 1961) is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories.

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist.

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Antoni Wit

Antoni Wit (born February 7, 1944 in Kraków) is a Polish conductor.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Benjamin Northey

Benjamin Northey (born 1970) is an Australian conductor, musician and arranger.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto

The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto, along with the Yellow River Piano Concerto, is one of the most famous orchestra works of Chinese music.

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Cantopop

Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of Cantonese music made primarily in Hong Kong, and also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption.

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Christophe Rousset

Christophe Rousset (born 12 April 1961) is an internationally renowned French harpsichordist and conductor, specializing in the performance of baroque music on period instruments.

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David Atherton

David Atherton OBE, (born 3 January 1944) is an English conductor and co-founder of the London Sinfonietta.

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David Zinman

David Zinman (born July 9, 1936 in New York City, United States) is an American conductor and violinist.

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Deborah Voigt

Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung roles in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss.

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Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.

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Edo de Waart

Edo de Waart (born 1 June 1941, Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor.

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Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Frances Yip

Frances Yip Lai-yee (born 1947) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer.

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Garrick Ohlsson

Garrick Olof Ohlsson (born April 3, 1948 in Bronxville, New York) is an American classical pianist.

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Gerard Salonga

Gerard Imutan Salonga (born October 11, 1973) is an orchestral conductor, musical arranger and orchestrator from the Philippines.

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Hacken Lee

Hacken Lee Hak-kan (born 6 December 1967) is a Hong Kong singer, television host and sports commentator, active from the 1980s until today.

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Haochen Zhang

Haochen Zhang (pinyin: zhāng hàochén) (born June 3, 1990) is a Chinese pianist from Shanghai, China.

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Happy Valley Racecourse

The Happy Valley Racecourse is one of the two racecourses for horse racing and is a tourist attraction in Hong Kong.

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He Hui

He Hui (born 1972 in Ankang, China), known in the West and on record covers as Hui He, is an operatic lirico-spinto soprano.

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Hins Cheung

Hins Cheung (born February 1, 1981) is a Chinese singer and songwriter based in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Hong Kong City Hall

Hong Kong City Hall is a building located at Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Cultural Centre

The Hong Kong Cultural Centre is a multipurpose performance facility in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.

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Inger Dam-Jensen

Inger Dam-Jensen (born 13 March 1964 in Fredriksberg) is a Danish operatic soprano.

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Ingrid Fliter

Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist.

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Jaap van Zweden

Jaap van Zweden (born 12 December 1960) is a Dutch conductor and violinist.

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Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (born 17 October 1962) is a French classical pianist.

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Jian Wang (cellist)

Jian Wang (born September 12, 1968) is a Chinese cellist known for his full, bright sound and bold technique.

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Joseph Koo

Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, GBS (born 3 February 1933 in Guangzhou, China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong.

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Julius Katchen

Julius Katchen (August 15, 1926 – April 29, 1969) was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works.

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Kenneth Schermerhorn

Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn (November 20, 1929 – April 18, 2005) was an American composer and orchestra conductor, most notably for the Nashville Symphony.

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Klaus Heymann

Klaus Heymann (born 22 October 1936) is a German entrepreneur and the founder and head of the Naxos record label.

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Lang Lang

Lang Lang (born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States, Canada and his native China.

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Li Yundi

Li Yundi (born October 7, 1982) is a Chinese classical pianist.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.

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Louis Kentner

Louis Kentner (19 July 190523 September 1987) was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire.

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Mario Paci

Mario Paci (June 4, 1878 – August 3, 1946; in Chinese known as 梅帕器 Méi Pàqì) was an Italian pianist and conductor who was instrumental in establishing classical European music in China.

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Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne (born March 31, 1967, Weimar) is a German baritone.

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Maxim Shostakovich

Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Russian conductor and pianist.

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Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan Ching-kit is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer previously with the Philips label (the brand Polygram was not adopted until later in Hong Kong), and later with EMI.

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Midori (violinist)

who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist.

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Musikverein

The (Viennese Music Association), commonly shortened to, is a concert hall in the Innere Stadt borough of Vienna, Austria.

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Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music.

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Nicholas McGegan

James Nicholas McGegan OBE (born 14 January 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flautist, conductor and early music expert.

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Ning Feng

Ning Feng is a Chinese violinist.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Perry So

Perry Pak Hin So (蘇柏軒) is an orchestral conductor.

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Philips Classics Records

Philips Classics Records was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 19186 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.

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Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong is a Hong Kong-born Canadian conductor and ophthalmologist.

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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is an influential orchestra in Shanghai, China.

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Shenyang (singer)

Shenyang (born March 20, 1984) is a Chinese bass-baritone singer.

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Simon O'Neill

Simon John O'Neill (born 1971) is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor.

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical Records (also known simply as Sony Classical) is an American record label founded in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record.

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St. Stephen's Girls' College

St Stephen's Girls' College, known as SSGC, is a Band 1 grant school in Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Anglican Church).

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Stephanie Chase

Stephanie Ann Chase (born c. 1957) is "one of the most respected classical violinists in the world.".

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Stephen Hough

Stephen Andrew Gill Hough, CBE (born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer.

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Sumi Jo

Sumi Jo (조수미;; born 22 November 1962) is a Grammy Award-winning South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her interpretations of the bel canto repertoire.

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Susan Graham

Susan Graham (born July 23, 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano.

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Tan Dun

Tan Dun (born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary classical composer and conductor, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, as well as composing music for the medal ceremonies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Teresa Carpio

Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher.

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris.

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Tianwa Yang

Tianwa Yang (born April 8, 1987) is a Chinese classical violinist.

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University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong (often abbreviated as HKU) is a public research university located in Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

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Vadim Repin

Vadim Viktorovich Repin (Вадим Викторович Репин;; born 31 August 1971) is a Russian-born Belgian violinist who lives in Vienna.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Virgin Classics

Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.

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Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor.

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Wang Leehom

Wang Leehom (born May 17, 1976), sometimes credited as Leehom Wang, is a Chinese-American singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and film director.

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Yip Wing-sie

Yip Wing-sie (born 1960 in Guangzhou, China) is a Hong Kong musician.

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist.

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Yu Long

Long Yu (pinyin: Yú Lóng; born July 1, 1964) is a Chinese conductor.

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Yuja Wang

Yuja Wang (born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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Zhang Xuan

Zhang Xuan (713–755) was a Chinese painter who lived during the Tang Dynasty (618–907).

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Redirects here:

HKPO, Hong Kong PO, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sino-British Orchestra.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Philharmonic_Orchestra

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