JACKY LEUNG
Saxophone player / Hong Kong Sinfonietta : Cool Summer Festival - Know Your Brass (N.B. Tuba!)
Program :
5/7/2019 (Fri)=
Monteverdi - L’Orfeo: Toccata
Handel - Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto in F minor
Beethoven - Leonore Overture No 2, Op 72a
Wagner - Rienzi Overture
Monti - Csárdás (Arranged for Tuba by Øystein Baadsvik)
Schumann - Symphony No 3 in E-flat, Op 97, “Rhenish” (excerpts)
Bernstein - On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
6/7/2019 (Sat)
Monteverdi - L’Orfeo: Toccata
Handel - Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
Jan Koetsier - Concertino for Tuba & String Orchestra, Op 77 (1978/1982)
Beethoven - Leonore Overture No 2, Op 72a
Weber - Der Freischütz Overture
Bizet/Sarasate - Carmen: Danse Bohème (Arranged for Tuba by Laurent Arandel)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Overture, Op 36
Bernstein - On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
Did you know that if you stretch out all the twists and coils, a tuba would be taller than three men standing on top of one another? Imagine playing this massive instrument! Tuba virtuoso Thomas Leleu is coming to Hong Kong bearing the gift of not one but TWO exciting programmes showcasing this gigantic shiny instrument and its cousins the trumpet, French horn and trombone. Join him and conductor Perry So on a 400-year journey to explore the exhilarating array of brass music played on the orchestra’s brightest, shiniest, loudest instruments!