Announcement - IC2025
17 March 2025 - Announcing IC2025 Composer Fellows
The following emerging composers have been selected for this year’s festival: Dominic Wills (UK), Lia Su (China), and Atefeh Einali (Iran). Please click here for more information.
4 March 2025 - Call for Scores
The application deadline is now extended to March 15, 2025.
21 January 2025 - Call for Scores
We are now accepting applications from emerging composers for the innovative 2025 season. Up to three selected Composer Fellows will join Prof. Bright Sheng, IAS Helmut and Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large, and distinguished guest artists to present and revise their music through in-depth open discussions at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and at the concerts at HKUST Shaw Auditorium and Tea House of the Xiqu Centre at West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong.
Don't miss your chance to take part in this internationally acclaimed festival. For details of eligibility, submission and timeline, please visit https://ic.hkust.edu.hk/2025/call-scores.
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 2 June to 9 June 2025, presented in partnership with the Momenta Quartet and the Momenta Festival! (The Momenta Festival will present the work of the audience-vote winner among the Composer Fellows in October 2025 in New York.)
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 Concert on campus, and World Premiere Concert held at the Tea House of the Xiqu Centre at West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong.
IC Founder and Artistic Director Bright Sheng (HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study Helmut and Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large) is proud to present Andrew Simon, the principal clarinetist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, as IC's Distinguished Artist for this season. The 2025 season also launches the first partnership between HKUST and the Momenta Quartet, which includes:
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, with support from Helmut and Anna Pao Sohmen, as well as from media partners Radio Television Hong Kong Radio 4 and Naxos Music Group.
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- Dr. and Mrs. Helmut Sohmen in memory of Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE JP
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