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Intimacy of Creativity
The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong
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Bright Sheng
Artistic Director
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Andrew Simon
Distinguished Artist (IC2025)
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Momenta Quartet
Ensemble-In-Residence (IC2025)
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Such a program’s very existence in Hong Kong challenges the conventional view of the former British colony as… more suited to Hermès… than Handel.
The Wall Street Journal
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[The Intimacy of Creativity] could one day evolve into an East Asian version of the Gaudeamus Festival.
NewMusicBox.org
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… the city’s most innovative musical experience…
Financial Times
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作為前英國殖民地的香港,這樣的節目會向這一傳統觀點挑戰:赫爾墨斯比韓爾德更適合。
華爾街日報
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終有一天「創意間的親暱」能發展成東亞地區的高地亞慕斯音樂節。
NewMusicBox.org
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… 全城最具創意性的音樂體驗 …
金融時報
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Announcement - IC2025

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Introduction to IC2025

Hailed by the Financial Times as a festival with a "finely hewn sense of craft," Intimacy of Creativity – The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong (IC) returns for another innovative season from June 2 to June 9, 2025, presented in partnership with the Momenta Quartet and Festival of New York City!

Intimacy of Creativity explores the creative process through public, in-depth Open Discussions on the campus of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which presents the festival. Revised compositions by 3 selected Composer Fellows, between ages 20 and 35, are formally presented at Preview Concerts on campus, and World Premiere Concerts held in renowned at the Tea House of the Xiqu Centre at the renowned West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong.

The 2025 season is proud to present Andrew Simon, the principal clarinetist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, as IC's Distinguished Artist. It also launches the first partnership between HKUST and the Momenta Quartet. IC Founder and Artistic Director Bright Sheng (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Helmut and Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large) is joined by Guest Artists, including

  • Andrew Simon, clarinet
  • Momenta Quartet

    Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin
    Alex Shiozaki, violin
    Stephanie Griffin, viola
    Michael Haas, cello

IC2025 is presented by the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study. The season is presented with support from Helmut and Anna Pao Sohmen, and media partners Radio Television Hong Kong, and Naxos Music Group.

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Supported by

  • Dr. and Mrs. Helmut Sohmen in memory of Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE JP
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