The Works

Last Friday and Saturday one of the world’s great violinists was performing one of the world’s best loved violin pieces with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She’s Anne-Sophie Mutter and she was playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and a new piece writte...

Peter Tchaikovsky's music for "The Nutcracker" ballet has long been a part of Christmas. It's performed on stage in Hong Kong almost every year, and this year the Hong Kong Ballet is preparing a brand new version. While we're waiting for that though, a...

The Hong Kong international Literary Festival ran from October 5th – 14th. It included more than 60 events presented by over 30 overseas writers and an equal number of local participants. Among the highlights, from two very different backgrounds, were ...

The New Vision Arts Festival began on the 19th October and will run until 17th of this month. Its opening show was U-Theatre's "Beyond Time", a mixture of theatre, percussion, martial arts and meditation that was inspired by Zen Buddhism and that aimed...

We're mostly focusing on photography this week because the biennial Hong Kong International Photo Festival is under way. The festival includes six thematic exhibitions, 14 collaborative exhibitions, eight seminars, four workshops, three photo competiti...

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra has a new Music Director, Jaap van Zweden. Jaap was born in Amsterdam, and in little more than a decade from first taking up the baton he became one of the world’s most in-demand conductors. At 19 he became the youn...