Budding Hong Kong and mainland musicians join for SummerFest concert
Organised by the Haw Par Music Foundation and the Music For Our Youth Foundation, the performance aims to combine talents from the east and the west, and help restore a city treasure in the process.
Young musicians from Hong Kong and mainland China will band together for one grand performance this weekend.
Students from Haw Par SummerFest 2016 will team up with the Music for Our Young Foundation’s (MOY) combined orchestra and dozens of talented musicians from Xinfeng county in Guangdong for this year’s Third Haw Par SummerFest.
Sunday’s the performance at Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre marks the culmination of this year’s SummerFest – a six-day training camp for 10 to 16 year-olds run by the Haw Par Music Foundation.
“Our interests intersect in many ways,” Roger Wu Tsan-sum, chief executive of Haw Par Music Foundation, said. “We both have a real focus on combining music from east and west, and also promoting access to music for all.”
The combined group of musicians includes 32 youngsters from Xinfeng county in Guangdong who were invited to join by Gordon Siu Kwing-chue, founder of MOY.
“Xinfeng is the source of Dongjiang River, which is our major water supply,” Siu said.
“The city, of just 400,000, has been kept underdeveloped to stay pollution-free. And that is a sacrifice for which I hope we can express our gratitude for through this concert.”