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Anna Paradiso

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James Cuddeford

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Vivaldi Recorder Concerto, RV443 [Allegro]LargoAllegro molto

Sammartini Recorder Concerto in FAllegroSicilianoAllegro assai

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D, BWV1050 AllegroAffettuosoAllegro

Hendrik Hofmeyr Concerto for Recorder,Harpsichord & Strings (2012) Asian premire

IncantatoAllegro vivace Conductor: Yip Wing-sie

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Hong Kong Sinfonietta Music Director: YIP Wing-sie Principal Guest Conductor: Christoph POPPEN

3Hong Kong Sinfonietta is one of Hong Kongs

flagship orchestras. With Yip Wing-sie as Music

Director, the orchestra has brought music closer to

the community, and has achieved significant

recognition locally and internationally for its

passionate performances and innovative

programming.

Since 1999, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has

collaborated with an i l lustrious array of

international musicians and groups, including

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Plcido Domingo, Augustin

Dumay, Fou Tsong, Christopher Hogwood, Luciano

Pavarotti, Pinchas Zukerman, The Royal Ballet,

Mariinsky Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, English National

Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City

Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Tanztheater Wuppertal

Pina Bausch. The orchestra has also been a regular

participant at all the major festivals in Hong Kong

including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Le French

May, Hong Kong International Film Festival and

festivals presented by the Hong Kong Government.

It also partners regularly with Hong Kong Ballet

and Opera Hong Kong in their staged productions.

The orchestra performs year-round with over 100

performances a season and has been the Venue

Partner of the Hong Kong City Hall since 2009.

Apart from standard orchestral repertoire, Hong

Kong Sinfonietta, as an avid believer of keeping

music alive and contemporary, commissions and

performs new works every year and ventures into

crossover concerts both at the City Hall and at the

residency at ArtisTree. Launched in 2006, the HKS

Artist Associate scheme provides a platform for

intensive collaboration with local artists from

different arts disciplines to expand the horizon of

classical music. The orchestras discography

includes CDs of works by Chinese composers on

HUGO and three double-CD albums This is Classical

Music on DECCA. The third album has been

awarded a Gold Record since its release in

November last year.

On the educational front, Hong Kong Sinfonietta

has pioneered specially-designed concerts for

different age groups. New concepts on the Hong

Kong concert stage, Good Music for Kids, Good

Music for Babies, Know Your Classical Music,

Short-cut to Classical Music and HKS McDull Music

Project have provided a new realm in audience

development. Since 2010, Hong Kong Sinfoniettas

chamber music concerts have continued to break

down barriers between music and audience as we

perform at unconventional spaces.

On tour, Hong Kong Sinfonietta has been invited to

perform in North America in Canada and New York

City; in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay in South

America; in Europe at the prestigious Festival

International de Piano La Roque dAnthron, Les

Flneries Musicales dt de Reims and Saint-

Riquier Festival in France, Festival Pianistico

Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and

Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Italy,

Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in Poland and in

Lithuania; in China at the Shanghai Spring

International Music Festival and China Shanghai

International Arts Festival (Expo 2010 Shanghai), in

Beijing at the National Centre for the Performing

Arts; in Japan in Nagano and at La Folle Journe in

Tokyo and Niigata. In 2015, the orchestra has been

invited to perform in Korea at the Tongyeong

International Music Festival and will make its dbut

in Switzerland in October.

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Yip Wing-sie

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5A highly respected and influential figure in Asias

orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie has been the

Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since

2002. Positions she has previously held include the

University Artist of The University of Hong Kong,

the Ong Teng Cheong Distinguished Visiting

Professor at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of

Music, National University of Singapore, Principal

Conductor and later Music Director of Guangzhou

Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor of

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Winner of the First Prize as well as LYRE dOR in

the 35th Concours International de Jeunes Chefs

dOrchestre de Besanon, France in 1985 and a

prizewinner in the 8th Tokyo International

Conducting Competition in 1988, Yip is in great

demand as a guest conductor in Asia. Orchestras

she has conducted include the Central

Philharmonic Orchestra of China, China National

Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony

Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic,

New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Mozart Players, the

symphony orchestras of Sapporo, Yomiuri, Taiwan,

Tasmania, Melbourne and Queensland as well as

the Auckland Philharmonia of New Zealand. In

Europe, Yips engagements have included concerts

with the Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse

and the Chambre Orchestre de Besanon in France,

Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland, Spains Tenerife

Symphony Orchestra and the Czech State

Orchestra of Kosice. She has also conducted at

prestigious venues and festivals such as the Vienna

Musikverein (Grossersaal), Beijing Music Festival,

Fukuokas Asian Month Festival in Japan, Hong

Kong Arts Festival and Macao International Music

Festival. Yip has collaborated with such renowned

artists as Augustin Dumay, Fou Tsong, Shlomo

Mintz, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Itzhak Perlman and

Pinchas Zukerman. Operas she has conducted

include Guo Wen-jins Poet Li Bai and the world

premire of La Peintre with Taiwan Philharmonic.

As Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Yip

has taken the orchestra on tour in recent years to

Canada, the USA, Japan (La Folle Journe in Tokyo

and Niigata), Korea (Tongyeong International Music

Festival), France (Festival International de Piano La

Roque dAnthron, Les Flneries Musicales dt in

Reims and Saint-Riquier Festival), Italy (Festival

Pianistico Internazionale Arturo Benedetti

Michelangeli in Brescia and Bergamo and

Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza),

Poland (National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw),

Beijing (National Centre for the Performing Arts),

Shanghai (China Shanghai International Arts

Festival/Expo 2010 Shanghai and Shanghai Spring

International Music Festival), Lithuania and in the

South America in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Yip wil l lead the orchestra in its dbut in

Switzerland in October, 2015.

Born in Guangzhou and brought up in Hong Kong,

Yip studied at the Royal College of Music in London

before going on to the Indiana University at

Bloomington, USA, where she obtained her

Masters Degree in violin performance and

conducting. As the winner of the Koussevitsky

Scholarship and the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Award,

Yip spent the summers of 1986 and 1992 attending

the conducting seminar and fellowship programmes

at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her mentors

included great maestros such as Norman Del Mar,

Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and

David Atherton. In 1990, Yip was named one of

Hong Kongs Ten Outstanding Young Persons. Other

awards she has received include an honorary

doctorate by the Open University of Hong Kong,

Chevalier dans lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by

the Ministry of Culture and Communication of

France, Fellow of the Royal College of Music

(FRCM), Hong Kong Women of Excellence in the

Six Arts Award by the Hong Kong Federation of

Women and the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the

Hong Kong Government.

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legendary Frans Brggen, is one of the very few

world-class recorder players: Never has one heard

such sounds from a recorder with such agility and

wide range of tone colours and dynamics, wrote

Corriere della Sera (Milan, Italy) on his dbut CD

Corelli la Mode in 2009. His second CD The

Gentlemans Flute was immediately nominated for

the International Classical Music Awards 2011

(formerly MIDEM Awards). His latest CD, Inspired

by Song with soprano Dorothee Mields and his

ensemble The Gentlemans Band, was released by

SONY/dhm in 2014 and was voted one of the Top

10 CDs of the Year by the critics survey in the

German music magazine Fono Forum.

As an early music specialist, Temminghs repertoire

comprises the complete baroque literature for

recorder. He performs internationally as a chamber

musician and with his own baroque ensemble at

various festivals and concert series throughout

Europe, Asia and Africa, including Leipzig Bach

Festival, Mosel Music Festival, Thuringia Bach

Festival, Halle Handel Festival and the Utrecht Early

Music Festival. As a soloist he plays with orchestras

such as Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Bochum

Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber

Orchestra, Wrttemberg Chamber Orchestra

Heilbronn, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Cape

Philharmonic Orchestra of South Africa, and also at

the Ludwigsburg Festival. He has released several

CDs and his performances have been broadcast on

radio and TV.

A strong advocate of the recorder with a

repertoire ranging from baroque to modern music,

Temmingh has successfully broken away from the

stereotypes concerning his instrument. With a

strong desire to expand the recorder repertoire, he

regularly commissions new works and many

composers have written for him. In 2008, he was

awarded the contemporary music scholarship by

the City of Munich.

Born in 1978 in Cape Town, Temmingh comes

from a Dutch-South African family of musicians. He

studied with Professor Michael Schneider in

Frankfurt as well as with Markus Zahnhausen in

Munich, where he now lives. Apart from

performing, he also teaches at the Hochschule fr

Musik und Theater in Munich since 2010.

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Anna Paradiso

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time as a harpsichordist of great individuality and

character. She has given concerts not only in Europe

(Scandinavia, England, Germany, France, Italy,

Slovenia) but also in the USA, Japan and Taiwan.

She plays clavichord, fortepiano and pianoforte, in

addition to harpsichord.

Paradiso studied at the conservatory in Bari, Italy,

where she received solo diplomas in piano and

harpsichord. Later she studied under Christophe

Rousset, Gordon Murray and Enrico Baiano. She

holds an Advanced Masters degree in harpsichord

and basso continuo from the Royal College of

Music in Stockholm. She also undertakes research in

basso continuo and historical fingerings using

original sources.

As a soloist and continuo player, Paradiso has

appeared with many Scandinavian ensembles and

orchestras such as Gvle Symphony Orchestra,

Norrbotten NEO, Norrkping Symphony Orchestra,

1B1, Hr Barock, etc. Paradiso has also performed

with musicians such as Lisa Batiashvili, Franois

Leleux and Nils-Erik Sparf. Her repertoire as soloist

with orchestra ranges from Bachs concertos to

modern harpsichord concertos and contemporary

works, some of which she commissioned.

With her husband, the recorder player Dan Laurin,

Paradiso has formed a duo that tours internationally

and has also recorded a programme of 20th-

century English sonatas for BIS records. Together

with Henrik Frendin and Mats Olofsson, they both

play in the ensemble Paradiso Musicale, whose

acclaimed dbut recording was chosen as Record of

the Month by BBC Music Magazine.

Paradiso has recorded for BIS records all keyboard

sonatas by J H Roman with harpsichord and

clavichord, as well as all Romans flute sonatas and

Vivaldi recorder concertos with Dan Laurin. She is

going to record Bachs harpsichord concerto in F

and a contemporary concerto by Vito Palumbo.

Paradiso has taught at the conservatories of

Bolzano and Avellino, Trinity College in London,

Birmingham Conservatoire, Grieg Academy in

Bergen and international courses in Europe, Japan

and Taiwan. Together with Dan Laurin, she gives

seminars and workshops around the world on the

connections between classical rhetorics and

Baroque music. In addition, Paradiso has a DPhil in

Latin and Classical Greek, and has taught Latin and

classical literature at Oxford University and the KTH

Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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Violin

James Cuddeford

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Currently Hong Kong Sinfoniettas Concertmaster,

Brisbane-born James Cuddeford pursued his

studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Royal

Northern College of Music and University of

Manchester. His principal teachers were Menuhin in

violin, and Stockhausen and Kurtg in composition.

Awards include First Prize at the 1996 Charles

Hennen International Chamber Music Competition

in Holland.

He has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as

the Camerata Lysy Gstaad of Switzerland, BBC

Scottish National Orchestra, Queensland, Adelaide

and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. He was a

member of the Australian String Quartet, Grainger

Quartet and Sydney Soloists. His compositions have

been performed, recorded and broadcast in

Europe, North America and Asia by groups such as

the Nash Ensemble, Australian String Quartet,

Psappha Ensemble, and the Sonos Chamber

Orchestra of New York. James Cuddeford has

recorded several solo and chamber music CDs for

ABC Classics, Tall Poppies and Melba Recordings.

He plays on a violin made by Nicol Gagliano in

Naples, 1769.

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Antonio Vivaldi (16781741)

Recorder Concerto, RV443 [Allegro]

Largo

Allegro molto

The history of the baroque recorder saw theinstruments development from a consortinstrument to a solo one, first seen in France duringthe 17th century, then particularly utilised by HenryPurcell in Britain, before moving to Germany andbeing eventually introduced into Italy. Originally therecorder would have been played by the oboists,and we know the names of two German oboistswho joined Vivaldi at the Venetian orphanage hetaught at in 1703 Ludwig Erdmann and IgnazSieber (although their names have been Italianizedto Lodovico Erdman and Ingazio Siber) so it is nosurprise that the Red Priest (as Vivaldi wasknown) would have quickly written concertos forthe instrument.

There are various types or recorder, encompassinghigh and low pitches, but Vivaldi wrote for thetreble recorder and, in three concertos, theflautino which is generally regarded as thesopranino recorder, as opposed to the piccolo (i.e.the smaller version of the transverse flute) RV443, 444 and 445. The evidence that Vivaldiintended it for the sopranino (playing an octavehigher than the treble recorder) is suggested byhim writing Gl'istromti trasportati al la 4a(transpose up a fourth the part as written) atopthe score. It is thought that Vivaldis recorderconcertos were written before his flute concertos(six of which were published as Op 10).

We hear the first of those sopranino concertos,RV443. In a typical fastslowfast plan, it openswith a spirited orchestral ripieno section (featuringa call and answer motif for the two violin lines) that

returns after each of the more sparselyaccompanied solo sections, where our high-pitchedsoloists nimbly ascends and descends withvertiginous semiquavers. The central slowmovement is suffused with a potent atmosphere,like a heady summers night, heavy with the scentof blossom, before a carnival-like contrasting finalmovement, which sends the sopranino recorderinto the stratosphere as it rises higher and higherabove the orchestra.

Giuseppe Sammartini (16951750)

Recorder Concerto in F Allegro

Siciliano

Allegro assai

Hands up those who have heard of the Sammartinibrothers. Anyone? Giuseppe Baldassari Sammartiniwas the elder of the two by five years (when, in2000, the world was commemorating the 250thanniversary of the death of Bach, did anyone holda candle for the 300th anniversary of the birth ofGiuseppes brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini?)and both were born in Milan, sons of the Frenchoboe player Alexis. Not surprisingly both brothersfollowed their father in becoming expert oboeplayers, and hence also recorder players.

Giuseppe eventually found his way to London inthe 1720s, and spent the rest of his life there,becoming the music master for Frederick, Prince ofWales, his wife Augusta and their family from1736. His Op 1 set of 12 sonatas were dedicated toFrederick, and his 12 Op 3 trios were dedicated toAugusta. His works encompass 24 sonatas for fluteand bass, 30 trios (flutes or violins), 24 concertigrossi, four keyboard concertos, 16 overtures and,

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most famously, the recorder concerto in F, whichwe hear now.

Scored for recorder and strings, the opening Allegrois rather stately to start, although the soloinstrument develops quavers, semiquavers and thensolo triplets by way of heralding its main jauntytheme. The longer central section is led by the moreflighty recorder line, underpinned by cello,developing nicely before a return again to the verybeginning to end.

The Siciliano is a typical slow movement with minorkey inflections, in 12/8, and a distinctively lightlyhalting lilt to the long string introduction before therecorder enters. You can easily imagine a hot, sultry,still Sicilian evening with the shepherd playing thislanguorous tune somewhere across the valley.

There is a faster swing to the 6/8, back in F major, ofthe Finale, which includes an accompanied cadenzasection with semiquaver triplets and multiple trills.The recorder is barely silent and requires nimblefingerwork to negotiate Sammartinis intricate lineswhich run right through to the final bar.

Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750)

Brandenburg ConcertoNo 5 in D, BWV1050

Allegro

Affettuoso

Allegro

Unlike Giuseppe Sammartini or Vivaldi, Bach wasnot an intrepid international travel ler. Yet,although he never strayed from his Germanhomeland, he did hold a number of positions inGermany, most importantly in Weimar(17081717), Cthen (17171722) and then, forthe rest of his life, Leipzig and he was perfectlyaware of what was happening, musical ly,elsewhere.

He knew concertos by Vivaldi, adapting a numberfor organ and harpsichord, and followed an Italianmodel when creating these six disparateconcertos, which he himself described, in French,Six Concerts avec Plusieurs Instruments whenbrought together in March 1721 for the MargraveChristian Ludwig of Brandenburg. We know themas the Brandenburg Concertos, although theywere probably composed earlier at Weimar. Themanuscript remained unpublished until afterBachs death.

The opening movement of the Fifth BrandenburgConcerto is by far the longest movement of all theconcertos. Scored for flute (or recorder), violin andharpsichord it opens with a distinctive main themewhich goes up, then down the scale of D. Thethree solo instruments enter the recorder andviolin with smoother, overlapping phrases over thebusy harpsichord accompaniment. The second halfof the movement is given over to a fiendishharpsichord cadenza which is only followed by thefinal tutti repeat of the ritornello theme.

The slow movement, in B minor and marked withfeeling, is for the three solo instruments alone,although the harpsichords two hands are oftenseparate, giving the impression of four lines. Onceagain acting as a haven of calm in the centre oftwo busy movements, the opening passage returnsto gently close the movement.

Jauntily the violin, then recorder and finally theharpsichord (first the left, then the right hand) alltake up the jig theme in 6/8 and back in D major.Violas eventually herald the orchestral entrance.There is a B minor middle section, with distinctiveorchestral phrases and again solo passages for theharpsichord, but the whole of the joyous openingsection is reprised in the tonic to end the work.

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Hendrik Hofmeyr (born 1957)

Concerto for Recorder,Harpsichord & Strings (2012)

Asian premireIncantato

Allegro vivace

Some 300 years on from the Baroque heyday ofrecorder concertos, it is good to report that withthe advocacy of such modern virtuosi as StefanTemmingh there are contemporary composerswriting new works for Baroque forces.

One such composer is South African HendrikHofmeyr, born in Cape Town, but who studied inItaly in both Florence and Bologna (where elsewould you get the Baroque bug?). He is nowProfessor at the South African College of Music atthe University of Cape Town. With more than 100commissioned works, in 2012 he composed aConcerto for Recorder, Harpsichord and Strings utilising Baroque forces for fellow South AfricanStefan Temmingh, who gave the first performancewith members of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestraat the Seventh Cape Town International SummerMusic Festival on 17 February 2013. The conductorwas Hans Huyssen.

At the time of the premire Hofmeyr commented:

I love the rather other-worldly character of therecorders sound in the context of modernorchestral texture. The instrument tends to bevery light in sound, especially in the low register,and can easily be submerged by all but thelightest orchestral accompaniment. I employ,amongst others, the huge bass recorder, which,despite its size, is probably the softest of them all it sounds rather like a ghostly whisper. It wasexciting to find creative solutions to this problemwithout relegating the orchestra to a merebackground. The forces are those of a Baroqueconcerto (strings and harpsichord), and it wasalso interesting to try and use them in a waywhich did not owe too much too Baroque style.

Cast in two movements, the sound world isimmediately different to our Baroque composers.The harpsichord leads the strings in shiftingshimmering sounds, over which the sopraninorecorder offers up his eerie Incantation (hence themovements title). A solo cello opens a conversationwith the recorder, taken up by the leaders of thetwo violin sections, and eventually the wholeensemble, with the recorder evermore pirouettingaround, reaching a piercing high. At this point thetextures darken and the soloist swaps to themellow bass recorder; later still he plays both aduet with himself on both recorders, before asthe pace quickens slightly he resorts to the high-pitched instrument with which he started. As theorchestral textures quieten it is like a bird being leftto sing to itself as the music dies away.

The second movement, opening with the sopranorecorder, is a typical fast final movement, wherethe plucked sound of the harpsichord is joined bypizzicato (plucked) strings. There is a slowersection, with sparser accompaniment and soloviolin passage, followed by a stuttering recordercadenza which, getting faster, returns us to theopening Allegro vivace. While the ensemble keepup the speed, the soloist swaps to the sopraninorecorder to end, floating high over the textureswith a slower theme, before joining in the finalflourish. Just watch those fingers!

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Mr Eric Tsang

Anonymous

STAR Donors (HK$10,000 to HK$29,999) Donors (HK$1,000 to HK$9,999)BELIEVING MUSIC CAN Canada Piano CoDr Eugene K ChanJonman, Monika & Joel Chan FamilyMr Chan Si NangMrs Elizabeth ChaoMs Laura Chen Ms Helen CheungKenyon & Leonard ChowMr Lewvis ChoyMs Amanda Chui Flash Mr John Sun-kin Fung Louis Fung Mr Ho Ching PongMs Rose HoDan and Sheryl HooleyMrs Elsie Hui Sophia KaoMs Betsy LaiMr Jackson Lam

Ms Lisa LauMs Anna LoMr Ambrose Lui Mr Tony MaHayden Majajas & Andy ChenPhilippe de Marcillac

Masterpoint Professional LtdMr Anthony NappiMs Jane NgPoon Shing Chi and Liao E WenDr John SandersonMs Amy TamMs Eunice Tong Mr & Mrs Paul TsangWig the PigMr Wong Ho Ming AugustineMr Peterson Wong Mr Yip Siu-hay Ms Helen Zee Anonymous

Bei Shan Tang Foundation

Prof T M Chan Dr Irene ChauDr Polly Cheung

Dr Thomas H C CheungDr Vivian Cheung

Vivian W M Cheung

Dr Chung See YuenMr Eugene Fung

Mr William Kwan Cheuk YinMr Allan Leung

Mozarts Fan

Ms Rotina PangRuth & Sidney

Mr David Sin Wai-kinMrs Lisa SiuMr and Mrs Robert C. TangPatrick & Selena TsangMs Veronica Wai

Dr Tsao Yen-chowDr & Mrs

Arthur Van Langenberg Anonymous

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Student Ticket Scheme DonorsDiamond Donors (>HK$100,000)

Ms Cecilia Fok Dr & Mrs Patrick S.C. Poon Shih Wing Ching Foundation Ltd Zhilan FoundationJade Donors (HK$50,000 to HK$99,999)

CLP Holdings Limited

AnonymousRuby Donors (HK$30,000 to HK$49,999)

Dr Chan Kow Tak Dr Chung See Yuen

Premium Friends

Dr Thomas H C Cheung

Dr Steven Woon-cheong Lam

Dr Lee Shiu & Dr Jennie Mui Lee Vincent W S Lo Mr David Sin Wai-kinMr T L Tsim Christine Van Anonymous

Asia Insurance Co Ltd

Mr Patrick Chan

Dr Irene Chau

Dr & Mrs Douglas Cheung

Dr & Mrs Samuel LamMr and Mrs Lam Ting Kwok Paul

Nathaniel Foundation Limited

Ms Rotina Pang Edith and Stephen Sun Wai Wah Foundation Ms Christine Yip

Anonymous

BELIEVING MUSIC CANMr Iain BruceDr Eugene K ChanJonman, Monika & Joel Chan FamilyMiss Julia ChanMr Chan Kwan HoMs Anastasia ChaoMr P L ChoyProf David ClarkeMr Paul JacksonLuca, Caterina, Maurien, Joseph JacobelliStephanie & Amelie JatTasha Lalvani Dr Ernest Lee Dr Liu Bing Fai Ms Anna Luk

Prof Mak Su-yin Miss Jennifer Mok Mr & Mrs Nigel & Winny Ng Mr Ng Wing Fui Nicholas Ms Winnie NgaiMr Mark Tong Mr & Mrs Paul Tsang Mr T L TsimDr Wong Hin Yeuk Mr Wong Nai HayMr Marcus WooMs Alice Yeung Ms Helen Zee Anonymous

Pearl Donors (HK$10,000 to HK$29,999) Opal Donors (HK$1,000 to HK$9,999)

!Thank you to the following parties for their continued support!

CASH CASH Music Fund

Consulat Gnral de France Hong Kong et Macao

Home Affairs Bureau

Leisure and CulturalServices Department

Radio Television Hong Kong

Swire Properties Tom Lee Music Co Ltd

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Donation Form

Autopay Direct Debit ( Monthly Donation Only)Name of Party to be Credited (The Beneficiary) Hong Kong Sinfonietta Limited Bank No. Branch No. Account No.004 168 165066 001

/ My/Our Name(s) as recorded on Statement/Passbook My/Our Bank Name and Branch(in block letters)

Bank No. Branch No. My/Our Account No.

My/Our Address as recorded on Statement/Passbook if different from above My/Our Bank Account Signature(s)

Date

Credit Card Visa Mastercard

For monthly credit card donation:I hereby authorize the bank to debit my credit card account to make a monthly donation ofthe above stated amount to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta Limited until further notice. I agreethe validity of this agreement will continue before or after the expiry date of my credit cardaccount. Cancellation or variation of this authorization shall be given to the Hong KongSinfonietta Limited ten working days prior to the date on which such cancellation orvariation is to take effect.

Card Number

Expiry Date

Issuing Bank

Cardholders Name on Card

Cardholders Signature

Date

American Express This card is for one-off donation only.

9832783 9819Please return this form to 3/F Winsan Tower, 98 Thomson Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong or fax to 2783 9819.

Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms/Dr/Prof Surname First Name Tel E-mail

Address

Name to be acknowledged in house programme (1,000 if donation is more than HK$1,000) (Eng) Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms/Dr/Prof AnonymousYour personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will be used for issuing official receipts and other communication purposes.

DONOR INFORMATION

For Official Use Only For Hong Kong Sinfonietta Use Only (Donors Ref. #)

For Bank Use Only (Signature(s) verified)

DONATION METHOD

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I/We hereby authorize my/our above named Bank to effect transfers from my/ouraccount to that of the above named beneficiary in accordance with such instructions asmy/our Bank may receive from the beneficiary and/or its banker and/or its bankerscorrespondent from time to time provided always that the amount of any one suchtransfer shall not exceed the limit indicated above.

I /We agree that my/our Bank shall not be obliged to ascertain whether or not notice ofany such transfer or reversal notice has been given to me/us.

I/We jointly and severally accept full responsibility for any overdraft (or increase inexisting overdraft) on my/our account which may arise as a result of any suchtransfer(s).

I/We understand that I/we must maintain sufficient funds in the account one businessday (before the close of branch banking hours) before the transfer date (as specified inthe instructions received by my/our Bank from the beneficiary and/or its banker and/orits bankers correspondent from time to time) for the transfer authorized herein. I/Weagree that should there be insufficient funds in my/our account to meet any transferauthorized herein, my/our Bank will be entitlted, at its absolute discretion, not to effectsuch a transfer in which event the Bank may levy its usual charges and may cancel thisauthorization at any time without notification to me/us. For the avoidance of doubt, theBank may cancel this authorization at its sole discretion at any time without prior notice.

This direct debit authorization shall have effect until further notice or until the expirydate written above (whichever shall first occur). I/We agree that if no transaction isperformed on my/our account under such authorization for a continuous period of 30months, my/our Bank reserves the right to cancel the direct debit arrangement withoutprior notice to me/us, even though the authorization has not expired or there is noexpiry date for the authorization.

I/We agree that any notice of cancellation or variation of this authorization which I/wemay give to my/our Bank shall be given at least two working days prior to the date onwhich such cancellation/variation is to take effect.

ChequeI enclose a cheque of the above stated amount as my one-off donation to the Hong Kong Sinfonietta Limited.

I would like to support the Hong Kong Sinfonietta with HK$ __________________ monthly donation for its General Fund

Student Ticket Scheme one-off donation

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