Chopin s 200 th Anniversary, presented by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and proudly sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong).

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3 Welcome to Yundi Li & the HKPO A Celebration of Chopin s 200 th Anniversary, presented by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and proudly sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong). The year 2010 marks the 200 th anniversary of the birth of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, Chopin. This evening we are excited to be able to experience an exhilarating collaboration between Yundi Li and the Hong Kong Philharmonic s Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Edo de Waart, for a passionate interpretation of Chopin s Piano Concerto No.1. The concert unveils our celebratory performance this year. The Piano Concerto No.1 was the last work Chopin composed before he left his homeland and went to Paris. Though he was only 20 at that time, the composition itself was exquisite expression of emotion. Chopin once pointed out in his correspondence with a friend that he composed the work in a romantic, silent and melancholy mood, and his work enabled people to recall wonderful memories, like the grace of a warm summer night. Yundi began his professional career after winning the First Prize in the 14 th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition at the age of 18. The youngest ever to win the competition, Yundi is renowned for his performance of Chopin s music. With impeccable technique, he can captivate audiences with his lyrical and romantic touch. In this much anticipated concert, Yundi will pay tribute to the composer whose music helped launch his career. Bank of China (Hong Kong) is committed to supporting arts and cultural development in Hong Kong. We are delighted to present numerous enthralling local and international arts programmes to help enrich the cultural life of the public at large, while continuing to serve our community with quality and innovative banking products and services. We hope you enjoy this memorable event with Yundi Li and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Mr He Guangbei Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Bank of China (Hong Kong)

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5 Yundi Li & the HKPO Edo de Waart conductor Yundi Li piano Programme WEBER CHOPIN Oberon: Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Allegro maestoso Romanze: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace Intermission RESPIGHI RESPIGHI Trittico Botticelliano The Pines of Rome Sponsored by Dear patrons For a wonderful concert experience, kindly switch off your mobile phone and other beeping devices before the concert begins. Photography, recording, filming, eating or drinking are not allowed. We wish you a very enjoyable evening.

6 The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HKPO) is one of Asia s leading orchestras. Enriching Hong Kong s cultural life for over a century, the Orchestra has grown into a formidable ensemble of Chinese and international talents in the last three decades, attracting world-class artists to perform on the same stage. HKPO annually touches the lives of 200,000 music lovers through more than 150 performances. Under the leadership of its internationally renowned conductor Edo de Waart, HKPO continues to scale new heights in musical excellence. The continuing cycle of Mahler symphonies and challenging programming outside the traditional repertoire, have become highly anticipated events as well as musical milestones for the Orchestra. Beethoven s Fidelio opera-inconcert and Mahler s Das Lied von der Erde are inarguably the major highlights of the 2009/10 season. Many great artists perform with the HKPO, from pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Boris Berezovsky and Paul Lewis, violinist Sarah Chang to cellist Steven Isserlis. The visit of the legendary Gennadi Rozhdestvensky is also an event not to be missed. From April 2006, The Swire Group Charitable Trust became the Hong Kong Philharmonic s Principal Patron, enabling Maestro de Waart s artistic vision for the Orchestra to be realized. Swire s sponsorship of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the largest in the Orchestra s history, supports artistic growth and development as the Orchestra takes its place on the world stage, and brings performances of musical excellence to the widest possible public.

7 HKPO stays in tune with our city by presenting the orchestra in unexpected venues and bringing the excitement of the concert experience to every home through radio and television broadcasts. These included, the largest symphonic event of the year, Swire Symphony Under the Stars at Happy Valley. The Orchestra runs a comprehensive schools education programme, HSBC Insurance Creative Notes, bringing the joy of classical music to primary, secondary and special school kids, and once in a while, the Orchestra drops the formality of the classical concerts to crossover with Western and Chinese pop stars. The Orchestra also builds its reputation and raises its artistic standards by touring. In 2007/08 season, the Orchestra performed in the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival and the Beijing Music Festival. In 2009, the Orchestra undertook a major six-concert tour of China, including the Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou, Beijing s National Centre for the Performing Arts and Shanghai Grand Theatre under the leadership of Maestro Edo de Waart. In February 2008, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council honoured the HKPO with the Arts Promotion Award, in recognition of its success in expanding its audience base and gaining public support in recent years. The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is financially supported by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region SWIRE is the Principal Patron of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is the Venue Partner of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre

8 Salute to Our Partners The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the Partners below for their generous sponsorship and support! MAJOR FUNDING BODY PRINCIPAL PATRON MAJOR SPONSORS CIC Investor Services Limited a subsidiary of Crédit Industriel et Commercial, France In alphabetical order of company name

9 Edo de Waart is the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Renowned as an orchestral builder who has the enviable ability to transform his orchestras into world-class ensembles, Edo de Waart has held such distinguished positions as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Opera, as well as Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras. He has also taken up the Music Directorship of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from the 2009/10 season. As an opera conductor, Edo de Waart has enjoyed success in many of the great opera houses of the world, including Covent Garden, Bayreuth, Bastille and the Metropolitan Opera. He has led highly regarded Wagner Ring Cycles in San Francisco and Sydney. He has conducted a series of critically acclaimed concert performances of Richard Stauss s Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier and Act I of The Valkyrie, as well as Puccini s Madama Butterfly with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Maestro de Waart has received a number of awards for his outstanding achievements in music. He is a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion and he was awarded the Order of Australia a reflection of his invaluable contribution to Australian cultural life during his decade with the Sydney Symphony. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in recognition of his contribution to music internationally, and in particular, his commitment to developing future generations of musicians in Hong Kong.

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11 Yundi Li piano Internationally-renowned young pianist Yundi Li is a household name in China who is always featured as the Prince of the Piano. He was the youngest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Competition and the first pianist in 15 years to be awarded the first prize as well as the first Chinese winner. He is regarded as one of the best interpreters of Chopin. Now exploding on the international stage, critics praise his precise, crystalline technique, his fluidity on the keys, and his boundless enthusiasm; his international acclaims include twice winning the Classical Recording of the Year by the New York Times. Yundi Li is the first Chinese DG pianist, the first Chinese pianist featured in the Wall Street Journal cover story, the first Chinese musician selected and featured in Madame Tussauds; he is also the first Chinese pianist who recorded with Berlin Philharmonic and Maestro Seiji Ozawa. He was one of the ten young leaders in China and one of the hundred people who influence the 21 st century most. Yundi has released 7 CDs and a DVD worldwide and has frequently appeared in many of the world s most prestigious halls, including the Vienna Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and the Suntory Hall among others. Recently, he has collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Centre, London and in Seoul, South Korea. He also made his Israeli début, playing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. He has also performed with the Vienna Philharmonic in both Vienna s Musikverein and in Japan. Yundi has also collaborated with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Zurich s Tonhalle. He was invited by the Poland government to become one of the performing guests of the 2010 Frédéric Chopin 200 th anniversary event and will soon kick off his world tour of Ten years of success 100% Chopin. His upcoming recording of Chopin s Nocturnes will be released by EMI as a celebration of the 200 th anniversary of Chopin.

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15 Carl Maria von Weber Oberon: Overture Oberon was the last of Weber s 10 operas. Based loosely on characters from Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream it was commissioned by London s Covent Garden theatre where it was premièred on 12 th April 1826, just eight weeks before Weber s death. Weber s increasingly debilitating illness meant that for more than a year he had composed nothing at all. However, an exceedingly generous commission from Charles Kemble, Covent Garden s manager, came within days of Weber s doctor pronouncing that his disease was incurable and he had just months to live. Faced with the worry that his young family (his second son was born on 6 th January 1825) would face financial hardship following his death, Weber decided to accept the commission (which involved travelling to London to conduct the première) and started work on the new opera in late Kemble had chosen an English librettist James Robinson Planché to transfer Shakespeare s ideas into a musical entertainment, but Weber quickly realised that Planché s ideas were totally at odds with his own views on opera. But the money was too good and time too short to demand changes, so Weber persevered and had the work completed by the following January, just in time for his journey to England.

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17 WEBER: Oberon: Overture The London audience so admired Weber s music that they did something never done in an opera house before; they called the composer/conductor up on to the stage at the end of the performance (something which has since become standard practice in all opera houses around the world). Subsequent generations have found Weber s work less than admirable and, as the authoritative Kobbé s Complete Opera Book puts it, it has been heard far less often in the form which Weber left it than in the various arrangements to which it has been subjected. The Overture, on the other hand, has remained in the words of Kobbé, one of the best known and most popular of concert pieces. The opening distant horn call and subdued strings set the scene in the woodland bower where Oberon, the fairy king, is sleeping, while the soft, quickly descending woodwind chords suggest the atmosphere of fairyland. The delicate fanfare represents Oberon while the bustling string theme occurs later in the opera as two pairs of lovers escape by sea. The clarinet plays the theme later sung by one of the lovers while the violins respond with a snatch of one of Weber s most famous tunes. A sturdy, march-like theme is associated with the character of Puck, and after all these themes have intertwined in various guises the Overture draws to its exciting close.

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19 Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Allegro maestoso Romanze: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace The concept of a solo piano recital had yet to become established (it was Liszt, towards the end of the 1830s, who made the solo piano recital popular with audiences) and the only way in which Chopin could display his talents on a public platform was through concert performances with orchestras. He composed six works for piano with orchestra in the five years from 1827, when he was finishing his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory and embarking on a career as a performer and composer. They were designed not only to display his undeniably precocious gifts as a pianist but also to promote his less obvious skills as a composer. Chopin had achieved remarkable success with the first of his piano concertos, premièred in Warsaw in March 1830 it had immediately spawned a whole host of light works based on its catchy themes but rather than continue to perform it on his forthcoming European tour, he set to work on a second which he completed in August of the same year. It was given its first public performance on 11 th October The custom in concerts at that time was to intersperse a different piece between the first and second movements of a concerto which explains why the first movement of the concerto heard this evening is virtually the same length as the other two put together and at this Concerto s first performance a choral work by Carlo Soliva (the conductor of the concert) was introduced. Nevertheless the entire Concerto was met with deafening applause. The press reported; Chopin s new Concerto was regarded by connoisseurs as one of the most sublime of all musical works.

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21 CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 Attentive readers may by now be thoroughly confused. Are we talking of the first or the second Concerto? Tonight we are hearing the second concerto Chopin composed (premièred in October 1830), but since problems over the orchestration delayed publication of the earlier concerto, the second was published first (in 1833) and has been called, ever since, Chopin s First Piano Concerto. The composer dedicated the published score to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. The concert on 11 th October, at which Chopin was the soloist, was his last public performance in Poland. Three weeks later he left for France via Austria and Germany (where news reached him of the violent suppression of the Polish popular uprising by the Russians) and was never to see Poland again. As he wrote I feel that I am leaving home only to die and how awful it must be to die far away from where one has lived! How frightful it will be for me to see some cold-hearted doctor or servant by my deathbed instead of my family. Morbid thoughts for a 20-year-old, but Chopin was fervently nationalistic and the Concerto expresses in as strong a way as any music can his love for his homeland. The 1 st movement opens with a heroic, sturdy orchestral introduction, which gives way to a more lyrical theme typical of Chopin in his more tuneful vein which in turn is abruptly silenced by the explosive first appearance of the piano, some four minutes into the Concerto. From then on the piano dominates switching between these two themes, the one representing the Polish peoples struggle against oppression, the other their yearning for a peaceful homeland.

22 16 contemporary pieces Compiled bywilliam Bruce Compiled by Alexandra Wood with CD SPECTRUM for CELLO with CD SPECTRUM for VIOLIN 16 contemporary pieces

23 CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 Chopin himself described the deeply felt 2 nd movement as giving the impression of someone looking gently towards a place which calls to mind a thousand happy memories. A gentle upward-moving idea from the violins is neatly turned by a pair of horns as the piano enters in deeply reflective mood. Strong unison strings pave the way for the exuberant entry of the piano in the 3 rd movement. Based on a traditional Polish dance, a krakowiak, which was frequently played in exile by Chopin as a way of demonstrating his Polish-ness (the composer Schumann saw these nationalistic devices wrapped up in such lovely music as guns buried in roses ), the music offers a dazzling display of pianistic virtuosity.

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25 Ottorino Respighi Trittico Botticelliano Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna on 9 th July He was 12 when he enrolled in the city s Liceo Musicale where he remained a student until 1900 coming under the influence of Giuseppe Martucci who was one of the very few Italian composers since 1600 not to have written operas. Martucci passed on to Respighi his interest in the instrumental traditions of Italian composers from the 16 th and 17 th centuries, but it was not initially as a composer that Respighi pursued a professional career in music. He worked as a professional string player, and between 1903 and 1908 played viola in the Mugellini String Quartet. But he was increasingly drawn towards composition, and during two extended concert tours of Russia with the Mugellinis, he took the opportunity to study with Rimsky-Korsakov, under whose guidance he produced his first major orchestral score, a piano concerto. In 1913 he gave up his professional string playing career, settled in Rome, and concentrated on composition. Understandably, for an Italian, he was commissioned to write numerous operas he wrote 11, the last one completed after his death (in Rome on 18 th April 1936) by his wife but the lessons he learnt from Rimsky-Korsakov resulted in his becoming one of the great orchestrators of the 20 th century. So it was that while his compatriots used opera to recreate images and visions of the past, of the present and of the country in which they lived, Respighi could do so just as effectively through purely instrumental means. Perhaps best-known of what we might call his symphonic operas are his three spectacular images of Rome The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals and it was a performance of these he directed during his first tour to the USA in 1927 that prompted the wealthy patroness of the arts, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to commission a further triptych of orchestral tone poems for a concert of new music she was presenting in Vienna on 27 th September 1927.

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29 RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano Respighi decided to translate three Botticelli pictures into orchestral scores, using a considerably smaller orchestra than he had used for his Roman Trilogy in an attempt to mimic the refined clarity of Renaissance art. The three pictures he selected, all housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, are possibly three of the most famous paintings ever to emerge from the Italian Renaissance. Primavera ( Spring ) painted around 1482 depicts the goddess Venus presiding over festivities which include Cupid shooting an arrow of love. The music opens with a great uprising of violins and horn calls (you will hear something very similar as the opening of The Pines of Rome) before turning into a lively rustic dance from the bassoon. It is playful, fresh and full of joy and colour with, in the middle, a move to deliberately archaic-sounding music to depict the era in which Botticelli lived.

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31 RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano The Adoration of the Magi was painted in 1475 and shows the three wise men from the East who travelled to pay homage to the infant Jesus. The antiquity of the events depicted by Botticelli is immediately captured by desolate solos from bassoon and oboe hinting at the long and lonely journey these three Magi undertook across the deserts of Asia while a medieval plainchant (Veni Emanuel ) is redolent of the ancient church music of Botticelli s time. Piano, celesta and harp together add a touch of the exotic; perfectly mirroring the effect in the original of three opulently dressed kings presence in a decrepit stable.

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33 RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano The Birth of Venus is believed to date from 1482 and shows the beautiful figure of Venus emerging naked from a shell, being blown towards land by the zephyrs where a goddess of the seasons awaits to hand her a cloak. Respighi summons up a lovely image of the gently lapping water as Venus s shell is blown gracefully over the sea. The music swells as Venus passes before our eyes and then rapturously drifts off into the distance.

34 Ottorino Respighi The Pines of Rome The second part of Respighi s Roman Trilogy is arguably the best-known piece of Italian orchestral music ever written. The Pines of Rome, first performed on 14 th December 1924 in Rome, is certainly Respighi s most lavish scores, demanding a huge orchestra including triple woodwind, a piano, celesta and organ as well as a vast battery of percussion instruments. It also calls for a specific gramophone record to be played at one point in the work, making it the first serious orchestral work in history to make use of a pre-recorded tape. Respighi described his intentions in the work as using nature as a point of departure, in order to recall memories and visions. The centuries-old trees which dominate so characteristically the Roman landscape become testimony for the principal events in Roman life. Its four sections, which run without a break, follow a vivid programme. The Pine-Trees of the Villa Borghese. Children are at play in the pine groves of Villa Borghese: they dance round in circles, they play at soldiers, marching and fighting, they are wrought up by their own cries like swallows at evening, they come and go in swarms. Suddenly the scene changes and Pine-Trees near a Catacomb. we see the shades of the pine-trees fringing the entrance to a catacomb. From, the depths rises the sound of mournful psalm-singing, floating through the air like a solemn hymn, and gradually and mysteriously dispersing.

35 The Pine-Trees of the Janiculum. A quiver runs through the air: the pine trees of the Janiculum (a wooded hill on the outskirts of the city) stand distinctly outlined in the clear light of a full moon. A nightingale is singing. The nightingale is drawn from a commercial recording of various bird-songs. The Pine-Trees of the Appian Way. Misty dawn on the Appian Way. (The Appian Way was the first of the great trunk roads leading to Rome from Greece and was built in 312BC by the Roman Censor Appius Claudius Caecus.) Solitary pine-trees guarding the magic landscape: the muffled, ceaseless rhythm of unending footsteps. The poet has a fantastic vision of bygone glories: trumpets sound and, in the brilliance of the newly-risen sun, a consular army bursts forth towards the sacred road, mounting in triumph to the Capitol. Programme notes by Marc Rochester

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40 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra First Violins PHOTO Bobby Lee John Harding Concertmaster Leung Kin-fung First Associate Concertmaster Wong Sze-hang Second Associate Concertmaster Zhu Bei Third Associate Concertmaster Edo de Waart Artistic Director & Chief Conductor Maestro s Chair endowed by The Octavian Society & Y.S. Liu Foundation Mao Hua Cheng Li Ba Wenjing Gui Li Long Xi Mao Yiguo Rachael Mellado Ni Lan PHOTO Lawrence Chan Wang Liang Christine Wong Kar-yee # # Xu Heng Zhang Xi Perry So Zhou Tengfei Assistant Conductor (Education and Community Programmes) Second Violins Fan Ting Leslie Ryang Moon-sun Katrina Rafferty-Ma Miyaka Suzuki Tomoko Tanaka Mao Cheng Chi-man Ricardo de Mello Fang Jie # # Musician s Chair endowed by Societe Generale Private Banking PHOTOS Cheung Chi Wai & Keith Hiro Gallant Ho Ka-chun Russell Kan Wang-to Mo Kwok-fai Martin Poon Ting-leung

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42 香港管弦樂團 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra 長笛 Flutes 短笛 Piccolo 史德琳 Megan Sterling 盧韋歐 Olivier Nowak 施家蓮 Linda Stuckey 雙簧管 Oboes 英國管 Cor Anglais 韋爾遜 Michael Wilson 布若芙 Ruth Bull 陳篤信 Christopher Chen 單簧管 Clarinets 低音單簧管 Bass Clarinet 史安祖 Andrew Simon 史家翰 John Schertle 簡博文 Michael Campbell 巴松管 Bassoons 低音巴松管 Contra Bassoon 金瑞 Kam Shui 李浩山 Vance Lee 崔祖斯 Adam Treverton Jones 圓號 Horns 韋麥克 Mark Vines 羅卓思 Lisa Rogers 周智仲 Chow Chi-chung 李妲妮 Natalie Lewis 李少霖 Homer Lee Siu-lam 高志賢 Marc Gelfo 小號 Trumpets 長號 Trombones 卡拉克 Jonathan Clarke 莫思卓 Christopher Moyse 華達德 Douglas Waterston 韋雅樂 Jarod Vermette 韋力奇 Maciek Walicki 低音長號 Bass Trombone 大號 Tuba 定音鼓 Timpani 貝爾迪 Michael Priddy 陸森柏 Paul Luxenberg 龐樂思 James Boznos 敲擊樂器 Percussion 豎琴 Harp 鍵盤 Keyboard 泰貝桑 Shaun Tilburg 梁偉華 Raymond Leung Wai-wa 胡淑徽 Sophia Woo Shuk-fai 史基道 Christopher Sidenius 葉幸沾 Shirley Ip 特約樂手 Extra players 客席首席巴松管 Guest Principal Bassoon 史汀曼 * Johan Steinmann* 敲擊樂 Percussion 艾卡斯 Edward Atkatz 鍵盤 Keyboard 蔡慧楨 Winnie Choy 低音大提琴 Double Bass 吳龍翔 Hennessy Ng 管風琴 Organ 周文珊 Marsha Chow 軍號 Buccine 艾森曦 莊伯富 沈曼思 彭禮傑 # 胡潚洋 Stuart Essenhigh Jacobus Chong Timothy Summers Benjamin Pelletier Hu Xiaoyang # * 承蒙荷蘭電台愛樂樂團允許參與演出 * With kind permission of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra # 承蒙香港演藝學院允許參與演出 # With kind permission of the HK Academy for Performing Arts

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44 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra HONORARY PATRON The Chief Executive The Hon Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, GBM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mr Y S Liu Chair BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mr Y S Liu Chairman Mr Chung Shui-ming, GBS, JP Vice-Chairman Ms Joanne Chan Mrs Michelle Ong Cheung Mr Glenn Fok Mr Lam Woon-kwong, GBS, JP Dr Lilian Leong, BBS, JP Prof Liu Ching-chih Mr Daniel Ng Yat-chiu Mr Nicholas Sallnow-Smith Mr Benedict Sin Nga-yan Mr Jack C K So, JP Mr Stephan Spurr Sir David Tang, KBE Mr Kenny Wong Kam-shan Mr David Zacharias ENDOWMENT TRUST FUND BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr Chung Shui-ming, GBS, JP Chair Mr Lam Woon-kwong, GBS, JP Mr Y S Liu Mr Daniel Ng Yat-chiu HONORARY ADVISERS Prof Chan Wing-wah, JP Dr the Hon Marvin Cheung, OBE, SBS, JP Mr Vincent Chow Wing-shing, MBE, JP Ms Pansy Ho Chiu-king Mr Hu Fa-kuang, GBS, CBE, JP Lady Kadoorie Dr Ronald Leung, OBE, JP Mr Shum Choi-sang, SBS, OBE, MA, JP Ms Ada Wong Ying-kay, JP The Hon Sir T. L. Yang, GBM, JP Mr Chung Shui-ming, GBS, JP Mr Daniel Ng Yat-chiu Mr Jack C K So, JP Mr Stephan Spurr FINANCE COMMITTEE Mr Chung Shui-ming, GBS, JP Chair Mr Glenn Fok Mr Y S Liu Mr Nicholas Sallnow-Smith Mr Benedict Sin Nga-yan Mr Kenny Wong Kam-shan Mr Robert T. Wong FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE Mr Daniel Ng Yat-chiu Chair Mrs Janice Choi Ms Winnie Chiu Ms Tasha Lalvani Vice-Chair Ms Chou Tung Lap Mao Mr Peter Siembab Mr Jack C K So, JP DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Mr Stephan Spurr Chair Ms Joanne Chan Prof David Gwilt, MBE Mr Warren Lee Dr Lilian Leong, BBS, JP Mr Y S Liu Sir David Tang, KBE Mr Mark Vines

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46 ClubMaestro Club Maestro is established for the business community and individuals who are fond of symphonic music. It aims at supporting the long-term development of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and enriching cultural life. We heartily thank the following Club Maestro members. PLATINUM MEMBERS David M. Webb webb-site.com DIAMOND MEMBERS Mr Wilfred Ng MH, JP EMERALD MEMBERS PEARL MEMBERS Mr Peter Siembab Miss Aliena Wong In alphabetical order of company name

47 Thank You for Your Support The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra would like to express our gratitude to the following corporations and individuals for their generous support. CHAIR ENDOWMENT FUND The Maestro s Chair endowed by The Octavian Society Limited Y.S. Liu Foundation The Musician s Chair endowed by C.C. Chiu Memorial Fund Societe Generale Private Banking ANNUAL FUND Gold Patron >HK$100,000 Hsin Chong International Holdings Ltd Kerry Holdings Ltd Ruby Patron HK$10,000 HK$29,999 Ms Vivien C C Chan Mrs Anna Chen Mr Cheung Ngai Sing Mr Edwin Choy Dr & Mrs Carl Fung Gloss Mind Sports International Ltd Mr & Mrs Kenneth H C Fung Dr & Mrs Wayne Hu Mr & Mrs Ko Ying Dr Lee Kin Hung Dr Lilian Leong, BBS, JP Mr Lawrence Mak Dr Mak Lai Wo Mrs Anna Marie Peyer Mr Peter Siembab Mr Stephen Tan Tin Ka Ping Foundation Dr Tsao Yen Chow Wang Family Foundation Mr Wong Po Yan Mr & Mrs Y S Wong Mr David Yee Kwan Yam Silver Patron HK$50,000 HK$99,999 Mr & Mrs E Chan Mr & Mrs Lowell & Phyllis Chang Mr & Mrs Leung Lit On Jade Patron HK$5,000 HK$9,999 Anonymous Mr Barry John Buttifant Dr Edmond Chan Mr Jan Leung & Ms Emily Chow Mr & Mrs Michael & Angela Grimsdick Dr William Ho Mr Maurice Hoo Ms Teresa Hung Mr & Mrs Fung Shiu Lam Ms Li Shuen Pui Agnes Dr John Malpas Dr & Mrs Pang Wing Fuk Mr Poon Chiu Kim Raymond The Hon Mr Justice William Stone Ms Carley Shum & Mr Jeff Szeto Mr Tsunehiko Taketazu Mr & Mrs Ivan Ting Ms Cindy Tse Bronze Patron HK$30,000 HK$49,999 Mr & Mrs David Fried Mr Fred William Scholle Ms Tse Chiu Ming Pearl Patron HK$3,000 HK$4,999 Anonymous Mr Chan Hung Yuen Robert Mr Cheng Kwan Ming Ms Eva Cheng Mr Cheung Yiu Tong Mr Cheung Tak Lung Mr Chow Ping Wah Dr Affandy Hariman Ms Hu Shu Mr Toru Inaoka Ms Liu Ying Mr Joseph Pang Miss Lily Poon Man Nei Dr Paul Tat Ming Shea Mr So Shu Wing Vincent Mr Eric M S Tsang Ms Tsang Kwai Fong Ms Tse Wai Shun Susan Mr Wu Chi Kong

48 Thank You for Your Support The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra would like to express our gratitude to the following corporations and individuals for their generous support. STUDENT TICKET FUND Gold Patron >HK$100,000 Hang Seng Bank Zhilan Foundation Silver Patron HK$50,000 HK$99,999 Kerry Holdings Limited Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Bronze Patron HK$30,000 HK$49,999 Mr & Mrs Alan Leong Ruby Patron HK$10,000 HK$29,999 Dr & Mrs Chan Kow Tak Mr David Chiu Ms Doreen Lee Dr Thomas W T Leung Lo Kar Foon Foundation Mr David Yee Kwan Yam Mr & Mrs Ko Ying Dr M T Geoffrey Yeh Jade Patron HK$5,000 HK$9,999 Anonymous Mr Ian D Boyce Mr Chan Ka Kui Mrs Anna Chen Mr Chu Ming Leong Dr Chung See Yuen Dr & Mrs Kwan Ka Hung Lok Yu Kim Ching Memorial Fund Long Hin Creative International Ltd Mr Wong Kong Chiu Pearl Patron HK$3,000 HK$4,999 Ms Deborah Biber Capital Well Investment Limited Mr Chan Hung Yuen Robert Mrs K L Chan Ms Catherine Mo Wah Chau Mr Chen Chien Hua Ms Katherine Cheung Professor David Clarke Mr Fok Wing Huen Mr Alex Fung & Mrs Hanne Froseth-Fung Mr Fung Wai Hing Mr & Mrs Phyllis & Adolf Ho Item Industries Ltd Mr & Mrs Henry & Angelina Lee Dr Lee Shu Wing Ernest Mr Leung Cheuk Yan Mr Richard Li & Joe Joe Mr Lo Cheung On, Andrew Mr Lui Wing Chiu Mr Ray Luk Mr Mak Fai Shing Mr & Mrs John & Coralie Otoshi Oxford Success (Overseas) Ltd Mr Shum Choi Sang Ms Ophelia Tam Mr Tony Tsoi Dr Dominic S W Wong, GBS,OBE,JP Zennon & Pierre Company Limited EDUCATION PROGRAMME SUPPORTER Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation The Hongkong Bank Foundation The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited

49 ENDOWMENT TRUST FUND The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust The Hongkong Bank Foundation The Hongkong Land Group Citibank. NA Jardine. Matheson & Company Ltd The Tung Foundation The Endowment Trust Fund was set up in 1983 with these initial sponsors. PAGANINI PROJECT Donated by Mr Patrick Wang Emile Germaine (1907) Violin, played by Ms Tomoko Tanaka Mao Donated by Mr Lowell Chang Lockey Hill (c.1800) Violin, played by Mr Wang Liang Donated by Mr Po Chung Dawne Hadded (1991) Violoncello, played by Mr Cheung Ming-yuen Donated by Mr Laurence Scofield Ansaldo Poggi (1910) Violin, played by Ms Zhang Xi This project is initiated and organizated by Business for Art Foundation. INSTRUMENTAL DONATION Donated by The Ladies Committee of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society Rare instruments donated Enrico Rocca (1902) Violin, played by Mr Cheng Li Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1866) Violin, played by Ms Bei Zhu, Third Associate Concertmaster Joseph Gagliano (1788) Violin, played by Mr Wong Sze-hang, Second Associate Concertmaster Cario Antonio Testore (1736) Violin, played by Mr Ni Lan Other instruments donated in support of the Instrument Upgrade and Echancement Project Two German Rotary Trumpets A set of Wagner Tubas A Flugelhorn

50 FEATURED CONCERT What Love Tells Me De Waart s Mahler 3 10&11 Feb 2010 Wed & Thu 8pm HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall HK$320 $240 $180 $120 Edo de Waart, conductor Kelley O Connor, mezzo-soprano Women of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus The Hong Kong Children s Choir Programme MAHLER Symphony No. 3 HOT PICK HKPO NODAME 19 Feb 2010 Fri 8pm 20 Feb 2010 Sat 3pm & 8pm HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall HK$280 $220 $180 $120 Highlights from the movie Nodame Cantabile Finale HOT PICK Edo de Waart s Bruckner 8 27 Feb 2010 Sat 8pm HK Cultural Centre Concert Hall HK$320 $240 $180 $120 Edo de Waart, conductor A 2010 Hong Kong Arts Festival Programme Edo de Waart, conductor Mona Asuka Ott, piano Programme BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 (1890 Nowak version) Register as our online member for free at to receive our latest news.

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