Date: 11 Mar 2025 - 11 Mar 2025
Concert: 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Admission: 5:45–6:00 p.m.
Venue: Drake Gallery, 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU
90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Piano Trio Recital
Programme:
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Astor Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Free admission. Please click here to register for the performance.
Performer:
Amelia Chan | Violin
Eugene Yuen | Cello
Nicolette Wong | Piano
Currently concertmaster of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Amelia Chan was concertmaster of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (US) and has also performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic . She has shared the stage as co-soloist and chamber music partner with musicians such as Sir James Galway, Richard Galliano and Sharon Isbin. Her performances have been broadcast on WQXR, New York; WQED, Pittsburgh; West Virginia Public Broadcasting; BBC Radio Scotland; and RTHK Radio 4, Hong Kong.
Born in Hong Kong, Eugene Yuen studied cello with Nicholas Tzavaras from the Shanghai Quartet and graduated from the Montclair State University Cali School of Music with a bachelor’s degree in cello performance. He also holds a Master of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied with Julian Smiles of the Goldner Quartet on a full scholarship. His Hong Kong mentors include Anna Kwan and Timothy Frank. Eugene has held principal positions at the Round Top Festival (2016) and Texas Music Festival (2019), and has performed at the Red Rocks Chamber Music Institute. He was the first prize winner at the Princess Galyani Vadhana International Ensemble Competition in 2014, 2015 and 2022. Eugene was appointed principal cellist of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong in 2024.
Nicolette Wong received her Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge and her Master of Music from the Royal Academy of Music, having studied with Sulamita Aronovsky. She has given recitals for the Liszt Society and the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and has performed extensively throughout Europe and in the Greater China Region, including interviews and solo recitals for RTHK and a solo recital as part of LCSD’s ‘Our Music Talents’ series. Nicolette founded and is the Programme Director of ‘The Sound of Art’ Sunday Concert Series at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and has also written articles for Interlude, the online music magazine.