The Consulate is giving out 50 tickets to the public to this concert. Please send an e-mail to info@hongkong.mfa.gov.il. First come first served.
30 October 2014 (Thursday) 7:30pm
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Concert Hall
1 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
PROGRAMME
Beethoven Sonata in A Flat Major Op.110
Chopin Sonata No.2 in B Flat Minor
Larry Shuen A Long Gaze
Menahem Wiesenberg Metamorphosis II
* Intermission *
Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No. 1 in C Minor
with the HKAPA Gloucester String Quartet
Ido Akov, in his early 20s, began studying the piano at 9 years old with Marina Basin, and a year later with Hana Shalgi. At the age of 11 his family moved to San Francisco and he studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Meikui Matsushima and Professor Sharon Mann. Upon returning to Israel in the summer of 2008, he began his studies with Dr. Ron Regev at the Givatayim Conservatory and in the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts. Ido is now an undergraduate in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance under a full scholarship.
In 2005 Ido won third place in the Bay Area Chopin Competition, in 2007 and 2008 he was selected to perform in the SF Junior Bach Festival, and in 2008 he won the Fremont Symphony competition and was given the opportunity to perform twice with the orchestra as a soloist. Ido also played as a soloist at the opening concert of the Lancaster Music Festival in Ohio with the Lancaster symphonic orchestra. Back in Israel, in 2009 Ido won first prize in his age group in the National “Piano Forever” competition that took place in the city of Ashdod, Israel. Consequently Ido played with the Ashdod symphony in December 2011, and later with the Thelma Yellin school orchestra in February 2011. In 2013, Ido participated at the “Young Artist Competition” (YAC) in Jerusalem, played with the IBA orchestra and won the Solange Jospé Prize - allowing him to perform in Hong Kong.
Ido is a four year America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship recipient (in piano as well as double bass), and has also participated in the past in the Jerusalem Music center's program for excellence in piano. Through this program he was invited to play in master classes for Murray Perahia, Andras Schiff, Richard Goode, Stefan Kovacevich and many others.
For the past two years Ido has also been serving in the Israeli army, arranging Israeli songs for classical ensembles.
HKAPA Gloucester String Quartet
Zheng Yang, Violin I
Wei Ning Yi, Violin II
Chris Choi Shu Lun, Viola
Xu Ting, Cello
First Prize Winner of the Alice and Eleanor Schoenfeld 1st International String Competition (Chamber Music Division), the Gloucester String Quartet has performed under the auspices of the Hong Kong International Chamber Festival, Musicus Fest, Harvard Club and Shantou University. Most recently, the quartet was featured on TVB's children's program "After School ICU". The GSQ has participated in masterclasses held by the Shanghai, Szymanowski, Penderecki, Chilingirian, Endellion, Miami, Miró String Quartet, and professor Earl Carlyss of the Juilliard School. Formed in 2010 by professor Michael Ma, HKAPA's Gloucester Quartet is currently under the tutelage of Ivan Chan.
A co-presentation of the Consulate General of Israel in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, this concert is the sixth in the series in Hong Kong featuring the winners of the Voice of Music “Young Artist Competition” from Israel, with major support from Michel and Martine Jospé and is sponsored by Hotel Jen.
The Voice of Music “Young Artists Competition” (YAC) is the largest and most established music competition in Israel. The project is an annual competition for young outstanding talents culminating with a concert with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and distribution of prizes and scholarships. It is a joint venture of the Israel Broadcasting Authority Radio, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Ein Kerem Music Center - Targ Center. The Solange Jospé Foundation (Hong Kong) is one of the supporters of the competition.
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Inquiry 2821 7512, info@hongkong.mfa.gov.il