Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to invite media artist Tobias Melle to perform his live projections in two concerts together with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra: An Alpine Symphony in Images, by Richard Strauss, on October 21 & 22, 2022 in Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Tickets are available at all URBTIX outlets now.
Programme
R. STRAUSS | Festliches Präludium
KORNGOLD | Violin Concerto
R. STRAUSS | An Alpine Symphony (with images by Tobias Melle)
Richard Strauss once boasted that he could depict even a knife and fork in music, so when he paints the full majesty of the Alps, the results are truly spectacular! First, the “ravishing” Alena Baeva plays the luscious Violin Concerto by Korngold – the Viennese genius who made it big in Hollywood. And then Lio Kuokman takes a supersized HK Phil on an audio-visual mountain journey: waterfalls, glaciers and breathtaking views, all without leaving your seat!
The concert runs approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with an intermission.
Orchestral performance with screen projection.
Some seats may have restricted sightline to the main screen. Supplementary screens are provided on two sides of the stage. Please refer to the seating plan shown when purchasing tickets.
For standard tickets, the general public can enjoy up to 15% off, while Club Bravo members are entitled up to an exclusive 30% off for ticket purchases.
Tobias Melle has been working in the dynamic sphere between musical and visual worlds for over 25 years.
As a musician, he has played the cello since his youth, has participated in various orchestras over many years, and has also been on stage for most of the works he has worked on photographically.
As a photographer, he prefers to seek the connection of photography with music. For his Symphonies in Images he often travels for months with camera and score in his luggage to find the right images. The outstanding feature of his works is the structurally and emotionally coherent translation of musical contexts into associative image sequences. He always performs the so composed visual voice to the orchestral sound personally and live – like a musical soloist he adapts to the conductor's interpretation.
Performances of his Symphonies in Images take place with renowned orchestras in Germany and abroad, including the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester and the NDR Radiophilharmonie under conductors such as David Zinman, Krzysztof Urbański, Antoni Wit and Eivind Gullberg-Jensen. Exhibitions, book and DVD/BD publications complement his field of activity.
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Organised by German Industry and Commerce Ltd. / German Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong
Behind the Scene with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
22.10.2022 (Sat), 7:15pm – 7:45pm
Podium Workshop, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
An exclusive pre-concert talk with unique insights from Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Executive Benedikt Fohr, and photography artist Tobias Melle!
