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Concert of the 2007 HSBC Laureates
European Academy of Music |
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Date:
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05 May 2008 (Mon) |
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8:00 pm |
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The Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Concert Hall |
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$300/$200/$100 |
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Tickets are available in all URBTIX outlets |
Discount |
- 50%discount on $200 tickets for full-time students, senior citizens and people with disabilities and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. (Limited tickets for available on a first-come-first served basis.)
- 20% discount for for Alliance Française Privilege Card Holders
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Introduction |
“9 young talents from all over Europe with a touch of Provence!”
The Aix-en-Provence Festival, one of the most prestigious European Festivals of Vocal Art, will be celebrating its 60th birthday in summer 2008. Born from a love of Mozart, the Festival quickly expanded its program to include baroque and 19th century music before turning its attention to 20th century works and the integration of contemporary productions. The Festival takes place over a period of three weeks and radiates such immense energy and influence that it is renowned as being a leading event of this kind – not only locally but nationally and internationally to boot.
The combination of his trademark artistic excellence and eclectic production initiatives with the charm of Aix-en-Provence and the magic conjured up during open-air recitals has resulted in every year of the festival notching up an even growing number of loyal returnees and newcomers, connoisseurs as well as novices, spanning all ages groups.
Created in 1998 as a teaching extension of the Festival, the European Academy of Music plays a central role in ambitions fuelled since 2007, that is to say the provision of an excellent vocal and instrumental coaching centre as well as a workshop for the creation of interdisciplinary opera productions and a place for young artists to spread their professional wings in a Festival production or by participating in Academy concerts in Europe and throughout the world. |
The 2007 Young HSBC Laureates of the European Academy of Music:
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Ina Kringlebotn, Norway, Soprano
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Quatuor Amadeo Modigliani, Franc
Phillipe Bernhard, Violin
Loïc Rio, Violin
Laurent Marfaing, Alto
François Kieffer, Cello |
James Elliott , United Kingdom, Teno
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Edwin Crossley-Mercer, France-Ireland, Baritone |
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Programme |
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G minor op. 74 no.3, Il Cavaliere
Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge for string quartet, tenor and piano
A melody cycles, romantic repertoire from France and Scandinavia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
Arias and duets of Fiordiligi, Ferrando, Guglielmo
“Carte blanche” to the singers
3 melodies, vocally demonstrative, from each nationality.
Bertrand Halary, Pianist and Vocal Coach
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