Updated at 5.38pm: Award-winning cellist Trey Lee Chui-yee would give a recital on Thursday, a spokesman for the Leisure and Cultural Services Department said on Wednesday.
The performance would be presented by the department at 8pm on Thursday at the Concert Hall, City Hall, the spokesman said.
Born into a musical family in Hong Kong, Lee started learning piano at four and cello at nine. He then entered the Juilliard School in the United States at 12 and became the youngest winner of the New York Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition.
In February 2004, Lee became the first Chinese champion of the prestigious International Antonio Janigro Cello Competition in Croatia. It made him become a new star in the international music scene, and excited Chinese community worldwide.
Lee will play Tartini's Variations on a Theme by Corelli, Brahms' Sonata in E Minor for Cello & Piano, Op. 38, Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68, Schumann's Five Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102 and Chopin's Introduction & Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 with piano accompaniment by Noreen Polera.
Chopin is one of the great exponents of Romanticism in nineteenth-century classical music.
