Autumn Music Festival 2020

2020 Autumn Music Festival

Due to the restrictions of the covid pandemic YCIS is presenting this years Autumn Festival online

The performances are made up from HK winners of the 2020 YCYW Young Musicians Music Competition held earlier this year

We are presenting a wonderful varied programme of vocal and instrumental music for you. Travel on a whirlwind journey through time from the evocative 16th century song by Gulio Caccini, masterpieces by Haydn, Saint Saens, Chausson and Copland, to songs from the hit broadway musical Les Miserable and K-Pop

Jeremy Williams, Music Director

Please enjoy!

Bryan Tse (Y8) – cello, Miss Kwan accompaniment

Concerto No. 1 in C major by Joseph Haydn

This piece was composed around 1761-65 for longtime friend Joseph Franz Weigl, then the principal cellist of Prince Nicolaus's Esterházy Orchestra

Anna Li (Y5) – violin, Miss Kwan accompaniment

Introduction and Tarantella Op. 43 by Pablo Sarasate

This proves to be the composer Sarasate’s most enduringly popular non-Spanish Dance piece

Ashley Chiu (Y6) – cello, Dr Yu piano accompaniment

Taratelle Op. 24 by Daniel van Goens

Van Goens was born in the Netherlands. He took cello lessons from Leon Jacquard and composition from Albert Lavignac at the Paris Conservatory

Audrey Se-to (Y10) – voice, Miss Kwan accompaniment

“Le Colibri” by Ernest Chausson

Visions of a vivid spring are painted into sound with gently rising and falling melodic lines over captivating harmonies

Ada Wong (Y12) - piano

Sonata in E flat Major (1st movement) by Joseph Haydn

It is the last of Haydn's piano sonatas and is widely considered his greatest

Hoi Kiu Chan (Y10) – voice, Dr Yu piano accompaniment

“On My Own’ (music by Claude-Michel Schönberg) From Les Miserables

This is a song from the hugely successful and long-running west end musical 'Les Miserables'

Samson Tsun (Y8) – voice, Dr Yu accompaniment

“Amarilli mia Bella” by Giulio Cacccini

AMARILLI, mia bella is the best known of the solo madrigals that Giulio. Caccini included in his Le nuove musiche of 1602

Ariel Li (Y9) – drum kit

“Fake Love-BTS” by "Hittman" Bang Pdogg RM

"Fake Love" is a song recorded in Korean and Japanese by South Korean boy band BTS

Dora Wang (Y7) – violin, Miss Kwan accompaniment

Violin concerto No. 3 in B minor by Camille Saint-Saens

Saint-Saëns dedicated this concerto to fellow composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, who played the solo part at the premiere in October 1880

Hangzhi Xiong (Y7) - piano

“The Cat and Mouse” by Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland's Scherzo Humoristique, written in 1920, is indeed musically humorous as it depicts the skittering rodent and sinister feline in a demanding, but very enjoyable etude setting