Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien interpret Beethoven

is upon us, there's some spring in the steps of the city's arts organisations this month as they embark on the opening concerts of the new season. Among them is Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, one of the few groups on the classical music scene that's devoted exclusively to chamber music.

Premiere Performances, which were established in 2007, consists of the annual Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival (January 15-23, 2014) and the Recital Series, which presents concerts by established artists and rising musical stars throughout the year.

The Recital Series kicks off on September 22 with the pairing of two of the international scene's most exciting young artists - Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova, and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, from France. The two are already well-known recitalists and concerto soloists, and they are certainly worth catching together.

Their partnership started when they met as members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme in 2005; since then, they have given recitals across Europe and in North America. They presented the complete cycle of Beethoven's 10 sonatas for violin and piano in London, during the Wigmore Hall's 2009-10 season, which got the critics buzzing.

The City Hall performance will demonstrate a slice of that cycle in a programme that features three of the sonatas. The first half includes No 3 and No 6, while the second half is given over to Beethoven's greatest work for this combination of instruments, the monumental No 9, Op 47.

The latter is known as the Kreutzer because, on the title page, Beethoven dedicated the work to 18th-century French violinist and composer Rodolphe Kreutzer. This act veiled the story of the work's original dedicatee, violinist George Bridgetower, who gave the first performance in 1803.