2016-11-15
15/11/2016
The Rotunda, Exchange Square

photo: HK Land

2016-11-14
RTHK Quartet was founded in 2009 with a view to promoting the genre of chamber music and encouraging the art of chamber music playing in Hong Kong. Founding members violinist Le Hoai-nam, violist Elvis Chan and cellist Laurent Perrin, together with John Ma as the guest second violinist, will perform a total of 9 pieces in Musicarama 2016: RTHK Quartet concert. A commissioned work “Voices II” written by Hong Kong composer Tang Man-ngai will receive its premiere in this concert. Don't miss this!

Repertoire:
Igor Stravinsky │ Three pieces for String Quartet (1914, rev. 1918)
Ng Chun-hoi │ November Winds (1991)
Tang Man-ngai│ Voices II (2016)*
Lau Hiu-lam │ Disturbance (2014)
Stephen Yip │ Distant Voices (2012)
Wong Chun-wai │ The White Wall II (2015)
Chris Hung │ String Quartet No. 2 (2008, rev. 2016)
Denise Mei-yan Hofmann │ Deep calls unto deep (2014)
David Gwilt │ Variations (2009)

2016-05-18
RTHK is delighted to present The Philadelphia Orchestra to the Hong Kong audience, not just on our airwaves, but also physically here at Broadcasting House. Radio 4 is staging a recital at Studio One, bringing together musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra and our own RTHK Quartet for an evening of delightful chamber music.

Members of The Philadelphia Orchestra
Ricardo Morales (cl)
Ying Fu (v)
Burchard Tang (va)
Lio Kuok-man (p)

RTHK Quartet
Le Hoai-nam (v)
Winty Wan, (v)
Elvis Chan, (va)
Laurent Perrin (vc)

Presented by RTHK Radio 4 in association with The Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
Recorded live in Studio One, RTHK on 18/5/2016.


Repertoire:

Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 11’
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 33’
Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 36’

2016-03-15
Art Gallery Concert at Hong Kong Lingnan University
It’s the 7th concert at the Lingnan University campus. This year, we did something we never did before. Firstly, a new performing venue, the University Gallery. The acoustic is so good in such a huge chamber room full of artistic atmosphere. Both performers and audience enjoyed having good music there. Secondly, it’s the first time for the Quartet to work with a Chinese musical instrumentalist in the campus. Loo Sze-wang performed 2 commissioned works with the Quartet inside the Gallery. Lastly, it’s the first time for the Quartet to have a pre-concert seminar with the Lingnan students. The concert programme is a East-meet-West one, with Borodin’s String Quartet No.2, and Hong Kong composer Chan Hing-yan’ works. The 5 musicians also played a Chinese folksong entitled Yao People’s Dance, a special arrangement fo sheng and string quartet by Loo Sze-wan.

Repertoire:
Borodin: String Quatet N in D
Chan Hing Yan: Two Pieces of Cantonese Music
Chan Hing Yan: As the Wind Goes By
Loo Sze Wang (arr.) Dance of the Yao People

2016-03-02
Sharing the love of music with the owners of the future is always the top priority of the RTHK Quartet. Therefore, they did 3 school workshops on 2 mornings. The 3 schools were Tak Sun School, ISF Academy and Po On Commercial AssociationWong Siu Ching Secondary School. With the introduction from Raymond Chung, the manager of the Quartet, the musicians not only demonstrated the unique sound and various techniques on their instruments, but also performed movements from Dvorak’s Amercian Quartet and Mozart’s famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525. We look forward to meeting more lovely faces at different schools in the short future.

Repertoire:
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 (excerpts)

Dvorak: American Quartet OP,96/12 (excerpts)

2016-02-23
Date: 23 Feb 2016
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: RTHK Studio 1

Performers:
RTHK Quartet
Le Hoai-nam (first violin)
Winty Wan (guest 2nd violin)
Elvis Chan (viola)
Laurent Perrin (cello)

Andrew Ling (Viola)
Loo Sze-wang (Sheng)



Repertoire:
Shanxi folktune. Happy Together

Brahms: Quintet in B Minor, Op.115

Chan Hing-yan: Two Pieces of Cantonese Music

Chan Hing-yan: As the Wind Goes By

Liu Tieshan and Mao Yuan: Dance of the Yao People (arr. Loo Sze-wang)

2016-01-23
On 23 January, the four members teamed up with musicologist Maureen Buja in a chamber music workshop as part of the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. Using Dvorák’s American Quartet as a foundation, they demonstrated how a string quartet performs and what’s in the mind of the composer. The concert took place at the Asia Society in Admiralty, a relaxing venue perfect for this navigational performance.

(guest violinist: Winty Wan)

Repertoire:
Dvorák’s American Quartet

2016-01-14
The RTHK Quartet had world premièred 20 Hong Kong composers’ new works which is a little record to break!

The “SOUND-IMAGination: Hong Kong Landscape” concert was presented by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, which took place at the HKICC Lee Shauk Kee School of Creativity at the evening of 14th January. Apart from live music performance, there were also 20 images reflecting Hong Kong on a big screen in the multi-media hall. You may not only listen back to the live recording of these new works written by the new generation of Hong Kong composers on ‘Live on 4’ on 20th Feb 2016 evening at 8pm (http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio4/Liveon4&p=4789), but also watch the clips on their Facebook Fan Page here:

https://www.facebook.com/rthkquartet/


Repertoire:
Austin Yip -- Interstice
Chan Chin ting -- Looking from below
So Ka Wai -- Time Flies
Wyman Wat -- Space Tight
Boo Chun Kit -- Looking from the Below
Livia Lin -- the tree says...
Lun Wa kit -- Modernisation
Shao Litang -- Seeking
Tam Ka Shu -- Little Hidden Momentum
Kwok Tsun huen -- The Barber
Lau Hiu kong -- Search
So Ho Chi -- Confined Matters
Chan Ho yi -- The Lost Day
Shuen Lai Yin -- Street throughht a Glass Ball
Lam Lai -- Twinkle Twinkle Little Tango
Chan Kai Young -- Variations on Light and Space
Chris Hung -- Leaving
Wong Chun Wai -- Journey in the Dark
Joyce WOng -- A Rescue Ring in the Sky
Yau May kay -- The Road before me