- About
- Marin Alsop
- São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra
- Diocesan Girls’ School Symphony Orchestra
- Diocesan Boys’ School Symphony Orchestra
As part of the 47th Hong Kong Arts Festival PLUS programme, world-renowned conductor Marin Alsop, together with Latin America’s leading São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, will share the stage with two local award-winning student orchestras from Diocesan Boys' School and Diocesan Girls’ School, to support the development of young musical talent.
The open rehearsal will consist of two parts: in the first, Alsop will conduct and share with each student orchestra her rich experiences in the world of music. In the second, Alsop – a protégée of the late American composer Leonard Bernstein – will be joined by musicians from the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra to practice and perform Bernstein’s Candide Overture alongside the student orchestras onstage.
The open rehearsal will not only provide audiences the opportunity to enjoy the raw charisma of orchestral music, but also pass the flame of knowledge from Bernstein to Alsop, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and, finally, to Hong Kong’s bright young musicians.
In English
(Photo Credit: Grant Leighton)
Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international music scene and a music director of vision and distinction who passionately believes that music has the power to change lives. She is recognised across the world for her innovative approach to programming and deep commitment to education and to the development of audiences of all ages.
Her outstanding success as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) since 2007 has been recognised by two extensions in her tenure, now confirmed until 2021. As part of her artistic leadership in Baltimore, Alsop has created several bold initiatives: OrchKids, for the city’s most deprived young people, and the
BSO Academy and Rusty Musicians for adult amateur musicians. Alsop became Principal Conductor and Music Director of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) in 2012, where she continues to steer highly creative programming and outreach activities, and which she conducts on the international stage: this includes a tour to Asia in 2019 and three European tours featuring performances at the Lucerne Festival and in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Salzburg and Vienna. Her contract continues to the end of 2019, when she becomes Conductor of Honour. In September 2019, Alsop becomes Chief Conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Alsop conducts the world’s major orchestras, with recent and forthcoming European highlights including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), and the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Further highlights of the 2018/19 season include the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France, following summer festival debuts at the Grafenegg and MITO festivals with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a second residency with the Britten-Pears Orchestra at the Snape Proms.
As one of Leonard Bernstein’s best known pupils, Alsop was central to his 100th anniversary global celebrations in 2018: she opened the LSO’s tribute and conducted performances of Bernstein’s Mass at the Ravinia Festival, where she has been appointed Musical Curator for 2018 and 2019, and at Southbank Centre, where she is the artist-in-residence.
Her extensive discography has led to multiple Gramophone awards and includes highly praised Naxos cycles of Brahms with the LPO and MDR Leipzig, Dvořák with the BSO, Prokofiev with OSESP, and further recordings for Decca Classics, Harmonia Mundi and Sony Classical. She is dedicated to new music, demonstrated in her 25-year tenure as Music Director of California’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
Among her many awards and academic positions, Alsop is the only conductor to receive the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal Philharmonic Society, and was recently appointed Director of Graduate Conducting at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, who awarded her an Honorary
Doctorate in 2017. Her conducting career was launched in 1989, when she was the first woman to be awarded the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center.
Since its first concert in 1954 as the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP) has gained international standing and become a major force in the cultural life of both São Paulo and Brazil.
When Director Eleazar de Carvalho (1912-1996) finished his 24-year tenure with the orchestra, he left behind a reformulation project for Maestro John Neschling, who became artistic director in 1997. Soon after, auditions were opened both in Brazil and abroad, with improved salaries and work conditions for the orchestra’s musicians. In 1999, a new home for the orchestra opened in the Sala São Paulo, a repurposed railway station later named one of the world’s top ten concert halls by The Guardian in 2015. In seasons since, the orchestra has become famous for the diversity of its repertoire, including partnerships with labels BIS (Sweden) and Biscoito Fino (Rio de Janeiro), ensuring the diffusion of Brazilian concert music across the world.
In 2008, OSESP was named by Gramophone magazine as one of three emerging orchestras to watch, and the orchestra continues to tour regularly worldwide. In 2012, it became the first Brazilian orchestra ever to perform at the BBC Proms in London under its then newly-appointed Principal Conductor, Marin Alsop. The orchestra also performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, with critics praising the orchestra’s impressive international performances. When Alsop was named Music Director in 2013, the orchestra embarked on another European tour, making hugely successful debuts at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2014, to commemorate its 60th anniversary, OSESP co-commissioned a saxophone concerto by John Adams and performed it in five Brazilian states. In 2016, OSESP appeared at major European summer festivals under Alsop’s baton.
While multiple tours across Brazil and Latin America, the United States and Europe have seen the orchestra internationally renowned for its excellence, it performs over a hundred concerts every season for nearly 10,000 subscribers and runs a large educational and outreach programme for over 30,000 children and teenagers. OSESP also released its first recordings on the Naxos record label as part of a project encompassing Prokofiev’s complete symphonies conducted by Marin Alsop, and Villa-Lobos’ complete symphonies conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky.
Musician List
Leonard Berinsten Candide Overture
1st Violin
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Emmanuele Baldini
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1st Violin
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Davi Graton
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1st Violin
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Yuiry Rakevich
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1st Violin
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Elina Suris
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1st Violin
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Rodolfo Lota
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1st Violin
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Soraya Landim
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1st Violin
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Camila Yasuda
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1st Violin
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Carolina Kliemann
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2nd Violin
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Lev Veksler
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2nd Violin
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Matthew Thorpe
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2nd Violin
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Katia Spassova
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2nd Violin
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Anderson Farinelli
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2nd Violin
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Marcio Kim
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2nd Violin
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Inna Meltzer
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2nd Violin
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Deborah dos Santos
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Viola
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Horacio Schefer
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Viola
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Peter Pas
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Viola
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Andres Lepage
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Viola
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Vladimir Klementiev
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Viola
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Ederson Fernandes
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Cello
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Rodrigo Andrade
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Cello
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Douglas Kier
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Cello
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Regina Vasconcellos
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Cello
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Marialbi Trisolio
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Cello
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Adriana Holtz
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Bass
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Ana Valeria Poles
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Bass
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Pedro Gadelha
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Bass
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Cladio Torezan
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Bass
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Jefferson Collacico
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Piccolo
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Fabiola Alves
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1st Flute
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Claudia Nascimento
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2nd Flute
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Savio Araujo
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1st Oboe
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Arcadio Minczuk
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2nd Oboe
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Peter Apps
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Eb Clarinet
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Daniel Rosas
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1st Clarinet
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Ovanir Buosi
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2nd Clarinet
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Giuliano Rosas
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Bass Clarinet
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Nivaldo Orsi
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1st Bassoon
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Alexandre Silverio
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2nd Bassoon
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Francisco Formiga
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Contrabassoon
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Romeu Rabelo
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1st Horn
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Austin Larson
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2nd Horn
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Andre Goncalves
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3rd Horn
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Nikolay Genov
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4th Horn
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Eduardo Minczuk
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1st Trumpet
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Fernando Dissenha
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2nd Trumpet
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Marcelo Matos
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1st Trombone
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Wagner Polistchuk
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2nd Trombone
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Alex Tartaglia
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3rd Trombone
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Darrin Milling
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Tuba
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Filipe Queiros
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Timpani
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Elizabeth Del Grande
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Percussion
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Ricardo Bologna
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Percussion
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Ricardo Righini
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Percussion
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Armando Yamada
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Percussion
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Eduardo Gianesella
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Percussion
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Ruben Zuniga
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Harp
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Liuba Klevtsova
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Diocesan Girls’ School Symphony Orchestra
Formed by students from Grades 1 to 6, DGS Symphony Orchestra has achieved first place in various local schools’ music festivals over the years. It has performed in Taipei, Tainan, Macau, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, receiving high acclaims for its many collaborative performances with local secondary schools. The Orchestra has also collaborated with established artists including choreographer Mui Cheuk-yin and Russian pianist Ilya Itin, as well as renowned Hong Kong pianist Nicolette Wong, under the direction of our Performing Arts Director, Leung Kin Fung, founder of Hong Kong Pure Strings and First Associate Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Symphony Orchestra is currently conducted by Leung Kin Fung and Dorothy Hui.
Dorothy Hui
Conductor of Diocesan Girls’ School Symphony Orchestra
Trained as a classical pianist, Dorothy Hui studied with Martha Fischer as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time there, she was also trained in choral as well as orchestral conducting in various musical ensembles. Her conducting teachers include Bruce Gladstone, James Smith and Beverly Taylor.
A graduate of Diocesan Girls' School (DGS) and Diocesan Girls' Junior School, she returned to her alma mater in 2012, leading instrumental and choral groups in achieving excellent results in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festivals and the Youth Interflows. In 2016, the DGS Junior Choir was awarded the Most Outstanding Choir of the Year under her leadership. The DGS Senior Choir, under her direction, captured the World Championship of the Youth Choirs of Equal Voices at the 10th World Choir Games held in South Africa. She was also invited as a guest conductor for the Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra. Dorothy is now in her seventh year as Music Teacher and conductor.
Musician List
Igor Stravinsky's The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei, Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird Suite
Conductor | Dorothy Hui |
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1st Violin | Athena Shiu |
1st Violin | Ivy Kan |
1st Violin | Sophie Hayin Chung |
1st Violin | Bernice Shiu |
1st Violin | Pegeen Jayce Kwok |
1st Violin | Rozel Yeung |
1st Violin | Katarina Cheung |
1st Violin | Eleanor The |
1st Violin | Janet Lau |
1st Violin | Charis Lai |
2nd Violin | Joanne Leung |
2nd Violin | Helena Choi |
2nd Violin | Serena Ho |
2nd Violin | Crystal Wong |
2nd Violin | Hui Sum Nam Jacinta |
2nd Violin | Fung Hei Yin Hazel |
2nd Violin | Lo Hei Yu |
2nd Violin | Kirsten Fong |
Viola | Sherri Lun |
Viola | Hillary Cheng |
Viola | Janice Leung |
Viola | Bernice Wong |
Viola | Bertha Wong |
Viola | Candace Chen |
Viola | Cheung Hoi Lam |
Viola | Hilda Lam |
Viola | Charlotte Leung |
Cello | Erica Wong |
Cello | Mindy Shie |
Cello | Valerie Tsoi |
Cello | Kristy Li |
Cello | Jasmine Leung |
Cello | Tiffany Chan |
Cello | Tiffany Cheung |
Cello | Rosalyn Cheng |
Cello | Sonia Chan |
Cello | Jackie Loy |
Cello | Bernice Ng |
Cello | Sophie Wong |
Bass | Bernice Chan |
Bass | Sharon Hon |
Bass | Felice Chan |
Bass | Joyce Lee |
Flute | Isabella Qian |
Flute | Janice Chiu |
Flute | Jayna Chiu |
Flute/ Piccolo | Zabrina Ho |
Oboe | Wong Sa |
Oboe | Wong Si |
Oboe | Chan Man Yan |
Oboe | Kam Tsz Ying Vanessa |
Clarinet | Chloe Ching |
Clarinet | Eponine Wong |
Clarinet | Anthea Li |
Clarinet | Nicole Chung |
Bassoon | Janice Chui |
Bassoon | Ashley Liu |
Bassoon | Danica Ching |
Bassoon | Anson Fan |
Horn | Oceana Lo |
Horn | Angela Hung |
Horn | Lai Choi Yan |
Horn | Yiu Tsz Wan |
Horn | Sophie Choy |
Horn | Leung Yui To |
Trumpet | Nicole Ng |
Trumpet | Charlotte Ni |
Trumpet | Mavis Lam |
Trumpet | Alvis Wong |
Trumpet | Hayley Cheung |
Trumpet | Sherrie Lau |
Trombone | Chloe Ng |
Trombone | Rachel Wong |
Trombone | Ruby Ip |
Trombone | Stephanie Zang |
Tuba | Nicole Liu |
Percussion | Wong Hiu Yu |
Percussion | Amelia Lee |
Percussion | Ng Hoi Yin |
Percussion | Audrey Tong |
Percussion | Marina Kam |
Percussion | Yan Ho Yee |
Leonard Bernstein's Candide Overture
1st Violin | Athena Shiu |
1st Violin | Ivy Kan |
1st Violin | Sophie Chung |
1st Violin | Bernice Shiu |
2nd Violin | Joanne Leung |
2nd Violin | Helena Choi |
2nd Violin | Serena Ho |
2nd Violin | Crystal Wong |
2nd Violin |
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Viola | Sherri Lun |
Viola | Hillary Cheng |
Viola | Janice Leung |
Cello | Erica Wong |
Cello | Mindy Shie |
Cello | Valerie Tsoi |
Bass | Bernice Chan |
Bass | Joyce Lee |
1st Flute | Janice Chiu |
2nd Oboe | Wong Si |
1st Clarinet | Chloe Ching |
2nd Bassoon | Danica Ching |
2nd Horn | Oceana Lo |
4th Horn | Angela Hung |
1st Trumpet | Nicole Ng |
2nd Trombone | Rachel Wong
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Harp | Charlotte Poon |
Diocesan Boys’ School Symphony Orchestra
The Diocesan Boys’ School (DBS) Symphony Orchestra is one of the most historic youth orchestras in Hong Kong. The DBS Orchestra was founded by a former headmaster of the school, Mr George She, in 1956. Its early performances consisted of only 18 members, with Dr Lo King Man as the conductor. Now the orchestra has up to 80 members. The DBS Symphony Orchestra is currently the record holder of the highest marks ever achieved (98 marks in 2004) in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival Symphony Orchestra (Senior) competition, having captured over 20 champions there since the 1990s. On the international scene, the DBS Symphony Orchestra participated in the 2015 Washington DC International Music Festival , capturing the Gold Medal with a high score of 93.6. Recent repertoire of the orchestra include Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6, Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5, Shostakovich’s Symphony No 10, Prokofiev's Symphony No 1 "Classical", Mahler's Symphony No 5, Brahms' Symphony No 2, and Brahms’ Symphony No 4.
Samuel Pang
Conductor of Diocesan Boys’ School Symphony Orchestra
Samuel Pang studied orchestral conducting with Neil Varon and viola performance with Carol Rodland at the Eastman School of Music. Prior to studying orchestral conducting at Eastman, he was the orchestra director of the Diocesan Boys' School Symphony Orchestra from 2012–2015. During his time at the Diocesan Boys' School, he led the symphony orchestra and string orchestra to winning all six competitions they participated in at the annual Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. In April 2015, Samuel led the orchestras on a concert tour in the United States, performing in prestigious venues such as the Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, New York and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
After spending two years in Rochester and New York, Samuel resumed his duties as the orchestra director of the Diocesan Boys' School Symphony Orchestra in September 2017. Inspired by J.S. Bach, Samuel's greatest desire is to glorify God through music.
Musician List
Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op.20
Conductor
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Samuel Pang
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1st Violin Concert Master | LEE CHAK SUM WALLACE |
1st Violin Assistant Concert Master | ZHANG YIU CHI BLUES |
1st Violin Assistant Concert Master | WONG WANG BOK JONATHAN CURTIS |
1st Violin | YAN YIK LAM |
1st Violin | LEUNG MAN HIM |
1st Violin | YAN YIK SHAN |
1st Violin | LI YUI CHING ENOCH |
1st Violin | TONG PUN KIU |
1st Violin | CHOW SHING HONG |
1st Violin | MO CHEUK HEI MARCUS |
2nd Violin Principal | GOH PAK YAN BRIAN |
2nd Violin Vice-principal | WU CHEUK HEI |
2nd Violin | YEUNG HEI CHIT JADEN |
2nd Violin | KO CHING HIN |
2nd Violin | HUNG SIU ON BARRON |
2nd Violin | NG CHEUK PUI ETHAN |
2nd Violin | TO SAU YAT BOAZ |
2nd Violin | OKUMURA HARUTOSHI |
2nd Violin | HUNG CHI HANG |
2nd Violin | FONG KING SON BRIAN |
Viola Principal | LI MAN CHUN |
Viola Vice-principal | CHU HO TING DOMINIC |
Viola | CHENG KO HEI |
Viola | LAU CHUNG HIN JONES |
Viola | CHOY CHEUK HEI |
Viola | NG KWOK YUI GEORGE |
Viola | LUI YAN HUNG |
Cello Principal | POON TSZ CHUN |
Cello Vice-principal | CHAN CHING WEI TREVOR |
Cello | CHAN SAI HONG |
Cello | CHING ALEXANDER SAU HANG |
Cello | WONG CHAK LUNG ANDREW |
Cello | CHAN GEORGE CHUN PEI |
Bass Principal | WU CHI HIN DANNY |
Bass Vice-principal | MAK TSZ YU |
Bass | WING YAU TONG IAN |
Bass | LUI YUI SHING JEDIDIAH |
Bass | YEUNG CHI KIT |
Flute Principal | LAM CHUN HEI |
Flute | YU HO HEI |
Oboe Principal | CHAN KWOK KING |
Oboe | LAU KA LONG |
Oboe English Horn | YIU CARLOS KAI SHING |
Clarinet Principal | TSANG TAK HIM |
Clarinet | LEE HOO LEO |
Bassoon Principal | TANG CHUN SUM |
Bassoon | CHOY SEON BOG |
Horn Principal | CHOI WAI CHUN |
Horn | CHEUNG YAT HEI |
Horn | CHUNG SHEUNG YIN OSCAR |
Horn | LAM KWUN LOK |
Trumpet Principal | LOK KA HEI |
Trumpet | CHU WAI LAM |
Trumpet | WONG YAN PING IAN |
Trombone Principal | CHAN TIN YUI |
Trombone | CHEUNG CHUN HO |
Trombone | NG SAI YIN ANDREW |
Tuba | KEUNG HUI CHUN |
Percussion Principal | SHUM TIN KWAN |
Percussion | YAU CHING HO |
Percussion | CHAM SIU HEI |
Percussion | LEUNG CHUN YU |
Piano | WONG KEI |
Leonard Bernstein Candide Overture
1st Violin | LEE CHAK SUM WALLACE |
1st Violin | WONG WANG BOK JONATHAN CURTIS |
1st Violin | ZHANG YIU CHI BLUES |
1st Violin | LI YUI CHING ENOCH |
2nd Violin | GOH PAK YAN BRIAN |
2nd Violin | WU CHEUK HEI |
2nd Violin | CHOW SHING HONG |
Viola | LI MAN CHUN |
Viola | CHU HO TING DOMINIC |
Cello | POON TSZ CHUN |
Cello | CHAN CHING WEI TREVOR |
Bass | WU CHI HIN DANNY |
Bass | MAK TSZ YU |
2nd Flute | LAM CHUN HEI |
1st Oboe | CHAN KWOK KING |
2nd Clarinet | TSANG TAK HIM |
1st Bassoon | TANG CHUN SUM |
1st Horn | CHOI WAI CHUN |
3rd Horn | LAM KWUN LOK |
2nd Trumpet | LOK KA HEI |
1st Trombone | CHAN TIN YUI |