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Barry Chung
Barry writes and compiles the exhibitions, performing arts, around town and film listings for the SCMP.

Jean-Guihen Queyras to give a recital featuring Bach suites and three contemporary works, and join Hong Kong Sinfonietta in a Haydn concerto and the Asian premiere of a recent work by Thomas Larcher

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Performances from the Peking Opera Theatre and the Berlin Philharmonic with Lang Lang, and even a Yao Ming charity basketball match are among the handover anniversary events worth checking out

We want to make kids excited about going to music concerts, and explain Chinese festivals in a fun way, says promoter of Sunday’s event featuring new chamber music work, narrated by actor and singer Gregory Rivers

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The annual music festival has moved to the Central Harbourfront, and tickets are also on sale for the veteran soft rockers and a new take on the Wizard of Oz

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Twenty-five years after their first gig in New York, Blue Man Group have embarked on a first world tour; Don’t Let Daddy Know brings Ibiza roadshow to Macau this summer

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Dance veteran joined by fellow Cubans for his farewell tour; count on Lamb to shine a humorous light on some local issues, and catch A-Mei in Macau as she sings hits from her 20-year career

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Broadway hit musical based around loveable animated character from TV and cinema hits Macau in July, preceded by A-Trak, while Metheny plays for two nights in June. Tickets available now

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Festival of Chinese opera features several works devoted to the Monkey King; Shaolin Fez are crowdfunding a charity album in aid of children in Syria; the Fiddlesticks will take kids on a musical journey

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Tso puts his undefeated super flyweight record on the line when he tackles veteran Korean in May, while Hong Kong Philharmonic pay tribute to comic genius, and French songbird heads our way

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Tickets have gone on sale for pop diva Lam’s return to the Hong Kong Coliseum, for I,Carmen, and for Tallis Vocalis’ performance under the baton of Cambridge University’s music director

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Electronic dance music superstars Dmitri Vegas and Like Mike in town for one night only and Yanbian Song and Dance Troupe restage Arirang of Mount Paektu

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Grammy Award-winning saxophonist goes classical, world’s favourite talking pig and friends go on a sea-borne treasure hunt, and Hong Kong singers remember Shakespeare the poet

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Four-piece Sydney pop punk band who rose to fame touring with One Direction play their first solo gig in Hong Kong in March; dancer Chen Kai rolls through life’s highs and lows next month.

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Irish flute legend is back in the city playing with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, HKRep is bringing the 1894 plague outbreak to the stage, and Eton scholars play for Syria

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Evergreen Welsh crooner has a date with Hong Kong in the spring, and so too do cross-dressing singer/wrestler Ladybeard and Italy’s Teatro Regio Torino opera house and orchestra

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Canto-pop duo celebrate 15 years of bubblegum pop, Lang Lang plays the Coliseum and Canadian circus troupe offer up new twist on an old genre.

The Libertines and Damien Rice tempt flappers; take time out from your electric smog, and get ready for the cultures of the globe

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