The Hong Kong Hymnos Festival 2023 Closing Concert “Tribute to Maestro Doming Lam”

2023 Hong Kong Hymnos Festival Closing Concert
“Tribute to Maestro Doming Lam”

The 2023 Hong Kong Hymnos Festival Closing Concert “Tribute to Maestro Doming Lam”, co-organised by the Macao Catholic Culture Association and the Hong Kong Hymnos Festival Society, will take place on December 2, 2023 (Saturday), at 6:00 p.m., at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady in Macao.

Maestro Doming Lam, hailed as “The Father of New Music in Hong Kong”, was born in Macao. The seeds of his love of music were sown while studying at the Seminário e Igreja de São José, where he took up violin, choral singing and conducting with Austrian priest Father Guilherme Wilhelm Schmid. The Closing Concert brings us back to the time when Maestro Lam received his training as a young man. The Closing Concert is performed by Coro Perosi.

2023 Hong Kong Hymnos Festival Closing Concert

“Tribute to Maestro Doming Lam”

Organizer: Hong Kong Hymnos Festival

Co-organiser: Macao Catholic Culture Association

Performer: Coro Perosi

Conductor: Katrine K. WONG

Accompanist: Basilla SAM

Repertoires

1/ G. Schmid (J. Ng arr): Corona Aurea

2/ G. Schmid (D. Lam arr): Leatentur Coeli

3/ G. Schmid (J. Ng arr): O Bone Jesu

4/ D. Lam: Magnificat

5/ D. Lam: Ave Maria

6/ J.S. Bach (J. Ng arr): Ave Maria

7/ D. Lam: Missa Laudis
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus / Benedictus
Agnus Dei

8/ D. Lam: Pater Noster – Quia Tuum Est Regnum

Date

December 2, 2023 (Saturday)

Venue

Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, Macao

Time

18:00 – 19:30 (Free Entrance)

Doming Lam (1926-2023)

Born in 1926 in Macao, Lam was the Founding Director of the Asian Composers’ League, The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild. Lam studied music in Canada, the US and Darmstadt in Germany. From 1964 to 1994 he worked in Hong Kong, where he composed, conducted, taught, and produced music programmes for radio and television. A goal of Lam’s was to create new Chinese music by instilling avant-garde techniques into traditional sensibilities. His music had been performed in over 50 cities and had influenced many younger musicians.

Doming Lam’s compositions are in the collection of the Music Library of the University of Hong Kong. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) includes a detailed biography of Lam. He was a former composer-in-residence of the University of Hong Kong, and the winner of 2010 and 2012 CASH Golden Sail Music Awards. To recognize Doming Lam’s contribution, he was named an Honorary Member of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) in 2007, and conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2020.

Coro Perosi

Coro Perosi, with the objectives of promoting the art of choral singing, cultivating interest in music and boosting Macao’s musical culture, was founded in 1997, and was registered as a non-profit music body in April 1998. The Choir has performed choral music of various sorts, ranging from religious hymns and a cappella pieces and folk songs from different countries, to Chinese art songs and Broadway musical tunes, as well as Macao’s local compositions, some of which composed by the group itself.

Coro Perosi has been holding annual concerts ever since its establishment, and has traveled to different places on many occasions for performances and promotion of Macao’s local choral compositions.

Katrine K. WONG —— Conductor

Katrine K. Wong, conductor of Coro Perosi of Macao and vocal coach of University of Macau (UM) Choir, came to Macao in 2008. Wong has performed with Coro Perosi in Europe and different parts of China. Wong has also performed internationally as soloist and choir member with various choirs, including Leeds University Liturgical Choir, Harvard Summer Chorus, Hong Kong Chamber Choir, Diocesan Graduate Singers. She was invited to perform as the lead singer in the Great Hall of the People during the China Synergy Programme in 2005. During her school years in Hong Kong, she received piano and vocal training from Ms. Eleanor Wong and Ms. Rosaline Pi respectively, and earned both her FTCL (Piano) and LTCL (Voice) in 1999. Wong won many piano and voice scholarships such as Gold Medal Award, Brother Cassian Scholarship for Singers, Barbara Fei Vocal Scholarships. Wong, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, received her PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Leeds in 2008. She currently works at UM as Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement and Associate Professor in English.

Basilla SAM —— Accompanist

Born in Macao, Basilla Sam began her piano lessons at the age of six, under the guidance of Lei Pou Tin. She then entered the Academia de Música São Pio X learning from Ieong Sao Kuan. Basilla had won the first, second and third prizes respectively in the Macao Youth Music Competitions held by the Cultural Affairs Bureau. After graduating from high school, she furthered her studies at the University of Iowa of the United States from where she received her Bachelor’s Degree with honor majoring in Graphic Design and minoring in Music. During this period, Basilla also received her Grade 8 Piano from The Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. She then continued to pursue her studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York from where she earned her Master’s Degree. Basilla returned to Macao in 2003, working in the field of cultural development. After her return to Macao, she again furthered her studies following Tatiana Kriger, while obtaining the Diploma of The Associated Board of the Royal School of Music in Music Performance in 2006. Since then, Basilla is the accompanist of the Perosi Choir, and has performed with the Choir in Austria and in different parts of Asia. In 2012, she obtained a Diploma in Liturgy at the Saint Joseph University and studied organ with Professor Aurelio Porfiri. In September 2020, she was appointed by Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang as the director of the Academia de Música São Pio X.

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