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Monday 15 September 2003, at 8.00 pm  City Hall Concert Hall

The Sino-Hellenic Cultural Events Series

 

 

Rachel Cheung Wai Ching

Rachel was born in Hong Kong in 1991 and has been attending the Mary Knoll Covent School. She started piano lessons at the early age of four and was eventually admitted at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts as a junior student studying under Elanor Wong.  

Rachel has won the first prizes in different categories in the Hong Kong School Music Festival for Piano Solo (1997 - 2000), the first and second prizes respectively at the 2001 and 2002 Steinway and Sons International Youth Piano and Children and Youth Piano Competition in Hong Kong and in the PRC, and the first prize at the 2002 Llagollen International Eisteddford in Wales, Uk.

She won in 2003 the first and also three special prizes at the V. Horowitz International Competition for Young Pianists in Kiev. In 2003 she will be playing in Kiev and in various cities in the US, while in 2004 she will debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Bonn Symphony Orchestra.

 

The Sino-Hellenic Cultural Events Series

 

 

Alexia Muza

Alexia was born in Athens, Greece in 1989 and received her first piano lessons from her mother. In 1998 she attended classes by Professor Leonid Margarius and since 1999 she moved to the "Academia Pianistica International Incontro col Maestro" in Imola, Italy. There she is continuing her studies with Professor Leonid Margarius and Anna Kravtchenko.

Alexia has played in numerous cities and with various orchestras in Greece. In Italy she has played in Imola, Bologna, Rovereto and Trento with various orchestras incluiding The Orquestra Juvenil de Fiesole.

 

Programme  

Rachel Cheung

J.S. Bach                Fugue in C major, BWV952

                              Prelude and fugue in D major BMW 850

W.A. Mozart         Sonata in F major KV 332 (Allegro,Adagio, Allegro assai)

F. Mendelssohn     Songs without words Op62 , N?6 in A (Spring Song)

                             Andante cantabile e presto agitato in B

F. Poulenc             Villageoises, Po. 65 (Valse,Tyrolienne,Stacatto,Rustique

                              Polka,Petite ronde, Coda)

V. Filipenko           Toccata

    Intermission

 

Alexia Muza

D. Scarlatti             Sonates K.380 (Adante comodo), K.9 (Allegro), K.159 (Allegro)

F. Schubert            Moments Musicaux Op.94, N?2 in A flat major, N?3 in F minor,

                              N?4 in C sharp minor

F. Chopin              Etudes op. 25, N?1 in A flat major, N?2 in F minor, Etudes Op.10

                             N?9 in F minor, N?4 in C sharp minor.     

                            Fantasie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66

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