Tsuen Wan Town Hall | HKMAO - Mark Hui's Sibelius

Description

HKMAO – Mark Hui’s Sibelius

Conductor: Mark HUI

Solo Clarinet: Dr. Gabriel WONG 

Programme

Sibelius: Karelia Overture, Op. 10

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622

Sibelius: Symphony No.2, Op. 43

The HKMA Orchestra

The Hong Kong Medical Association Orchestra was established in 1989 by a group of doctor musicians.  It has now grown into a full orchestra with almost a hundred members.  It produces a full-season program with three major concerts a year.  On top of that are a dozen or so outreach performances in hospitals and elderly homes.

The Orchestra aims at providing the best music-making possible with musicians playing on a voluntary basis.  Members stay with the Orchestra because of the mission, fellowship and fun.  Doctors, nurses, musicians, allied health workers, related professionals or their students, friends and relatives are all welcome, as long as they could identify with the Orchestra’s mission and have talents to contribute.

Conductor: Mr. Mark HUI

Hong Kong-born conductor Mark Hui was first trained as a professional pianist and violinist. For the past ten years, he has performed as a conductor with renowned artists such as violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Jian Wang, pianists Yundi Li, HK Duo, Rachel Cheung, KaJeng Wong, oboist Yiu Song-lam and The Kings' Singers, as well as innovative concerts which received exciting enthusiasm and acclaim. In addition, Hui has conducted the Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestra, Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra, Järvi Academy Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Grand Opera and Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, Hui was selected as the Hong Kong representative to participate in the 2nd Hong Kong International Conducting Competition. 

In his early years, Hui’s immense passion in playing in orchestras has gained him much experience as concertmaster and tutti player in prestigious professional and festival orchestras, including Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Asian Youth Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, New York String Orchestra Seminar, YouTube Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic, under the batons of the distinguished Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Yip Wing-sie, Christoph Poppen, Neville Marriner and more. These experiences have inspired Hui enormously in conducting and given him precious opportunities to observe different rehearsal technique and styles. His major conducting mentors include Robert Spano, Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Markus Stenz, Hugh Wolff, Leonard Slatkin, Gábor Hollerung and Alan Cumberland.

Besides conducting, Hui appears frequently on stage as a chamber violinist and collaborative pianist. He plays with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta on a regular basis as a freelance violinist. He also keeps close associations with numerous distinguished artists and institutions such as IMG Artists Michael Guttman and Jing Zhao, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Tai Kwun, SingFest, CU Chorus, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble etc. In addition, Hui is an active supporter of contemporary music and has performed in numerous productions such as Elena Langer’s Beauty and Sadness (2019), Daniel Lo’s The Banquet at el Bulli (2020), The Happy Family (2021), Songs of Virotopia (2022), Women Like Us (2023), Prof. Chan Hing-Yan’s Heart of Coral (2023), Austin Leung’s A Chinese in London (2017), Ksana of Impermanence (2025) etc.

Hui graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Manhattan School of Music, majoring in Violin Performance under the tutelage of Prof. Michael Ma, Lucie Robert, Tsai Loo and Wong Wai-ming. He is the recipient of numerous scholarship, including the C.C. Chiu Memorial Scholarship, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Scholarship, the Chan Chung-On Violin Performance Merit Award, the Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund etc.

Solo Clarinet: Dr. Gabriel WONG

Gabriel learnt the clarinet from Mr. Ryan Poon since a young age and played in the La Salle Primary School and La Salle College Wind Orchestras over the years. Gabriel graduated from medical school at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022 and is now a clinical oncology resident doctor at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is an active member of the Hong Kong Medical Association Orchestra, La Salle College Old Boys’ Wind Orchestra, Greenery Winds etc.