Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Introduction

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is recognised as Asia’s foremost classical orchestra. Presenting more than 150 concerts over a 44-week season, the HK Phil attracts more than 200,000 music lovers annually. In 2019 the HK Phil received the prestigious Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award – the first orchestra in Asia to receive this distinction.

Jaap van Zweden, one of today’s most sought-after conductors, has been the orchestra’s Music Director since the 2012/13 concert season, a position he will continue to hold through to the end of the 2023/24 season. Following his tenure as Music Director, he will hold the title of Conductor Laureate. Maestro van Zweden has also been Music Director of the New York Philharmonic since the 2018/19 season.

Yu Long has been Principal Guest Conductor since the 2015/16 season.

Lio Kuokman has been appointed as Resident Conductor, effective 1 December 2020 and covering the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons.

Under the dynamic leadership of Jaap van Zweden, the HK Phil has attained new heights of artistic excellence, garnering international critical acclaim. The orchestra successfully completed a four-year journey through Wagner’s Ring Cycle, performing and recording one opera from the cycle annually from 2015 to 2018. The concert performances and live Naxos recordings were enthusiastically received by audiences, praised by critics at home and abroad, and garnered Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award 2019.

Event Art Form

Dance, Music, Theatre, Xiqu

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Event records matching Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in the databank

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Art forms
Start Date: 2020/01/23
End Date: 2020/01/23
    Art forms:
  • Music
Start Date: 2020/01/16
End Date: 2020/01/18
    Art forms:
  • Music
Start Date: 2020/01/10
End Date: 2020/01/11
    Art forms:
  • Music
Start Date: 2020/01/04
End Date: 2020/01/05
    Art forms:
  • Music
Start Date: 2020/01
End Date: 2020/01
    Art forms:
  • Music
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