HKUST Arts Festival 2021 - Art, Despite the Pandemic - American Masterpieces for Violin and Piano by Patrick Yim and Kiu Tung Poon

HKUST Arts Festival 2021 - ART, DESPITE THE PANDEMIC 藝術在蔓延
American Masterpieces for Violin and Piano by Patrick Yim and Kiu Tung Poon

ARTIST

Patrick Yim, violinist
Kiu Tung Poon, pianist

PROGRAM

Chen Yi (b. 1953)  -  Romance and Dance (1998)

Currier, Sebastian (b. 1959)  -  Digital Mist (2010) *

Tsontakis, George (b. 1951)  -  Three Sighs, Three Variations (1980)

Chen Yi  -  Fisherman’s Song (1999) 

Currier, Nathan (b. 1960)  -  Hush Cries the Lamb for violin and piano (1999) *

Chen Yi  -  From Old Peking Folklore (2009) *

* Asia Premiere 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Yim

Honolulu-born violinist Patrick T.S. Yim has performed throughout the world at venues including Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (New York), Seoul Arts Center, Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavík), Hong Kong City Hall, Severance Hall (Cleveland), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), and the Musikverein (Vienna).

Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony and in recent years has performed concerti of Bach, Brahms, Bruch, Lalo, and Mozart. He has performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, principal players from the Shanghai Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic, and musicians from The Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic.

Recent chamber music highlights include a performance in Carnegie Hall with members of the Emerson Quartet as part of the New Music for Strings Festival, a collaboration with world-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man in Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra led from the concertmaster chair, and a collaboration with Juilliard Quartet violinist Joel Smirnoff involving the premieres of two newly commissioned works.

His debut CD, Memory, released in 2020 on Navona Records features world premiere recordings of works by Yao Chen, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Austin Yip, Kai-Young Chan, and Chen Yi, and has been broadcast internationally. He commissioned and recorded two solo violin works by Angel Lam and Fung Lam for the Freespace Mixtape Vol. 3 – a project of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. He has also been featured on Hawaii Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and Asia Plus Radio.

He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at HKBU.

Kiu Tung Poon

Young Steinway Artist Kiu Tung Poon appeared as recitalist and collaborative pianist on concert stages in the US, UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Vienna, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China. International music festival appearances include Tanglewood and Aspen in the US, Great Wall in Beijing, and Le French May in Hong Kong. Her performances were broadcasted on RTHK Radio 4, Austin’s KMFA, and Teledifusão de Macau among others. As an advocate of new music, she was privileged to work with today’s foremost American and Chinese composers and has given numerous lecture-recitals and performances in the US, Asia, and Europe on Chinese-Western syncretism. Her world première of Mark Morris/Samuel Barber’s Excursions with Mark Morris Dance Group in the Tanglewood Music Festival received enthusiastic review by critics writing for The New York Times and Boston Phoenix.

Graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Texas at Austin with a DMA in Piano Performance, her principal mentors were Cheng Wai, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Gabriel Kwok, and Anton Nel. She also worked with Michel Béroff, Claude Frank, Jean-François Heisser, John O’Conor, Garrick Ohlsson, John Perry, and Manahem Pressler during summers. She currently teaches at her alma mater The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a lecturer in performance and serves as the performance stream coordinator in the Department of Music. More information available at www.kiutung.com.

ONLINE REGISTRATION

• HKUST Staff Members and Students: 
  Please submit the online registration via Engage (click the RSVP button on this event page)
  
  
• HKUST Residents: Click Here

REMARKS 備註

• Free admission 免費入場
  
  

• For HKUST members only 活動只供科大成員參與
  
  

• No admission under the age of 6 六歲或以下恕不招待
  
  

• Online registration is required; each registration admits one person only.
  參與活動必須先網上登記；每個登記只限一人出席活動。
  
  

• Please arrive at the venue 15 minutes early before the showtime.
  請於演出15分鐘前抵達場地。
  
  

• Attendees must show their HKUST ID card to the reception desk for identification before admission.
  出席者必須於接待處出示科大證以核實登記資料，方可進入場內。
  
  

• If the registrant cannot attend the event, please change your RSVP status on the Engage page or send an email to artsctr@ust.hk to release the quota.
  如登記者無法出席活動，請於Engage頁面更改RSVP選項 或 傳送電郵通知至 artsctr@ust.hk，將活動名額留給其他科大成員。

DISEASE PREVENTION MEASURES 防疫措施

• A temperature check is arranged at entrances. The audience with fever symptoms will be denied entry and should seek immediate medical advice.
  觀眾進入場地前須接受體溫檢測，若有發燒症狀，將不得進場，並建議盡快求醫。
  
  
• Masks must be worn at all times in the venue.
  場地內必須佩戴自備的口罩。
  
  
• Special seating arrangements and capacity control have been implemented. Please follow the seating instruction of the CFA staff.
  為配合表演場地使用人數上限及保持社交距離，觀眾席現正實施特別座位安排。請觀眾遵從藝術中心職員指示入座。
  
  
• Hand sanitizers are provided in the venue.
  場地入口均設有酒精消毒搓手液。

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