日期： 2026年4月28日 - 2026年4月28日
Admission: 5:45–6:00 p.m.
Concert: 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Venue: Drake Gallery, 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU
90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Free admission. Please click here to register for the performance.
This recital features four works for solo violin by leading Chinese composers—Hing-yan Chan, Kui Dong, Gao Ping, and Shen Yiwen. Together, these works reflect the evolving language of solo violin writing among contemporary Chinese composers and examine how Chinese musical ideas engage with the traditions of the Western violin. The program highlights a generation of composers whose music seamlessly blends cultural perspectives, creating a distinctive synthesis of influences. Through these works, the violin becomes a space for intercultural dialogue, opening new possibilities for sound, form, and expression in contemporary music.
Performer:
Patrick Yim | Violin
Praised for his “deeply expressive, finely nuanced playing” (The Strad), “dazzling technique and passionate interpretations” (The Whole Note), and “vivid imagination” (Fanfare), Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony and has since performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.
Yim has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, as well as musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He has toured with the Cleveland Orchestra throughout the U.S. and Europe, and performed at Carnegie Hall with violinists of the Emerson Quartet.
A passionate advocate for new music, Yim has commissioned over 60 works, many of which explore the intersection of the violin with non-Western instruments. He gave the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long’s Bamboo Grove for Unaccompanied Violin. His discography includes numerous world premieres released on Orchid Classics, Albany, Naxos, Navona, New Focus Recordings, Ravello, and Acis.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and Stony Brook University (DMA), Yim is Assistant Professor of Violin and Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame.