PRESS RELEASE
The 38th Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010 New Works, Asian and World Premiere Programmes
October 14th, 2009
NEW WORKS / WORLD PREMIERES
| Music: | 1. Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra – Music About China IV (Qin, Se, Po by Jin Xiang) |
| 2. Hong Kong Sinfonietta – Great Violin Concertos: Ning Feng Plays Brahms (commissioned work by George Lam) | |
| 3. Meta4 Quartet (new composition by Verneri Pohjola) | |
| 4. King's Harmonica Quintet (third movement of Silk Road, Silk Road by Angel Lam) # | |
| 5. King's Harmonica Quintet (new work for harmonica quintet and guqin by Hui Cheung-wai) # | |
| 6. Naamyam - Songs of Love and Lament (new composition by Wen Chi-pang) # | |
| 7. ExxonMobil Vision: Samson Young– The Third Pixel # | |
| Music Theatre: | 8. The Liaisons* |
| Theatre: | 9. Five Acts of Life – Lao She's Short Stories |
| 10. The Truth About Lying^ | |
| 11. Danny Yung Experimental Theatre - Flee by Night | |
| Dance: | 12. Asia Pacific Dance Platform (Tri_K + by Dick Wong, Takao Kawaguchi and Koichi Imaizumi) |
| 13. Asia Pacific Dance Platform (PaA Project by Qu Jianan) | |
# Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival with support of the CASH Music Fund* Commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and co-produced with the Fredric Mao Theatre Projects ^ Commissioned and produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Co-commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Zuni Icosahedron+ Co-produced by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Takao Kawaguchi Project with support from The Saison Foundation
ASIAN PREMIERES
| Opera: | 1. The Mariinsky Opera – Britten's The Turn of the Screw |
| Music: | 2. Sing the Truth: Nina Simone Remembered |
| 3. The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra – The Amadeus Project | |
| Music Theatre: | 4. The Pianist |
| Theatre: | 5. The Tempest |
| 6. On the Waterfront | |
| Dance: | 7. Dutch National Ballet – Concertante |
| 8. Dutch National Ballet –Live | |
| 9. Dutch National Ballet –Sarcasmen | |
| 10.Dutch National Ballet –Solo | |
| 11.Dutch National Ballet –Trois Gnossiennes | |
| Family Choice: | 12. Red Leap Theatre–The Arrival |