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The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Cantonese: 香港管弦樂團) is a symphony orchestra based in Hong Kong.Colloquially referred to as the HKPO or HKPhil (Cantonese: 港樂), the orchestra was first established in 1947 as an amateur orchestra under the name Sino-British Orchestra (中英管弦樂團), [1] [2] it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957 and became a ...
Two years later he became the orchestra's concertmaster. In 2005, he was fired from the Hong Kong Philharmonic for auditioning for an American orchestra while on sick leave. [3] After his departure, he served as concertmaster of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. [4] He was concertmaster for the Tampere Philharmonic from 2010 to 2015.
A highly respected and influential figure in Asia's orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie has been the Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2002. Positions she has previously held Principal Conductor and later Music Director of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Despite its long history of organised crime, modern Hong Kong has one of the lowest murder rates on earth, with between 0.2 and 0.9 homicides per 100,000 people every year according to the World ...
A married couple have been arrested in Hong Kong for the suspected murder of a domestic worker whose body was discovered near a waterfall on Monday.. Police detained the 34-year-old foreigner with ...
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In 1971, Quach founded the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra in Sydney. Three years later, she was named the music director of the Manila Symphony Orchestra. By the late 1970s, she was spending six months out of the year conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the other half of the year travelling as a guest conductor. [7]
A court in Hong Kong remanded a British man in custody after charging him with the murder of an Indonesian woman at a waterfall in a park in the financial hub.. Jamie Tzewee Chapman, 34, appeared ...