Date: 10 Nov 2026 - 10 Nov 2026
Date: 10 November 2026 (Tuesday)
Admission: 5:45–6:00 p.m.
Concert: 6:00–7:10 p.m.
Venue: Drake Gallery, 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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Songs before Sleep
Crafted by two iconic 20th-century composers—Aaron Copland and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett—this recital invites you to rediscover the charm of traditional folk tunes and modern lullabies. Old American Songs include traditional ballads, minstrel songs, and lively children’s tunes (such as Simple Gifts and I Bought Me a Cat). Dream Songs paint four vivid musical portraits of whimsical and mysterious dreams. In the cycle Songs Before Sleep, Bennett, the versatile British master and renowned film composer, reimagines classic rhymes (such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star) and infuses sophisticated piano textures into this collection, giving these familiar childhood memories a profound new artistic life.
Performer:
Dominique Chan | Mezzo-soprano
Hong Kong-born mezzo-soprano Dominique Chan studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds College of Music. Chan’s operatic roles include Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Mercédès (Carmen), Gertrude (Roméo et Juliette), Emilia (Otello), Giovanna (Rigoletto), and the Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte). Her recent productions include the chamber opera Kungfood (as May), She, The Boxer (as Jor Tou King) with Chung Ying Theatre Company, and cross-media chamber opera QiXi (as Bo Bo).
Sheung Lee | Pianist
Sheung Lee enjoys an acclaimed reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field. His performances have been described as “Magnificent! Engaging and arresting”. Sheung received his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded the Christian Carpenter Prize in Piano Accompaniment. He is greatly indebted to his teacher Julius Drake, a celebrated pianist described by The New Yorker as a “collaborative pianist nonpareil”.