There are no household names among the musicians and composers in the Musicarama '96 new music festival.
But in conservatories all around the world, the names of Robert Aitken, Yeh Tsung and Peter Roggenkamp are spoken of with esteem and, sometimes, awe.
This year, Musicarama '96 - celebrating almost two decades of contemporary music in Hong Kong - will include six concerts over a one-month period.
They may not appeal to the Tchaikovsky-Andrew Lloyd Webber crowd, but names like Jean Rivier, Jean Francaix, Gabriel Pierne, Hans Werner Henze and Karl-heinz Stockhausen - nearly all of whom will have Hong Kong or world premieres - should make September an exciting month.
The first concert on Sunday, September 1, brings one of the world's most exciting flautists, Aitken, with conductor Yeh (the latter highly praised by The New York Times' John Burns) and the Japanese saxophone quartet Les Quatre Roseaux with the HK Sinfonietta.
Aitken will play his own Berceuse (1992) work for flute and orchestra; a piece dedicated to 'those who sleep before us' and particularly to his father, who died in 1991. He will also play fellow Canadian John Beckwith's A Concert of Myth, and the world premiere of Concerto For Orchestra by Hong Kong's Daniel Law.