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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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Dominic WILLS
Composer Fellow (IC2025)
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Atefeh EINALI
Composer Fellow (IC2025)
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Lia SU
Composer Fellow (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.
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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。
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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。
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… 全城最具創意性的音樂體驗 …
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Announcement - IC2025

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Join IC2025 Preview Concert & World Premiere Concert !! (Last update: 2025.05.06)

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We are excited to announce that tickets for Intimacy of Creativity 2025 are now on sale! Be sure to get yours before they sell out - you won't want to miss this incredible concert.


Preview Concert

  • Date: June 8, 2025 (Sun)

  • Time: 7:00 pm

  • Venue: Shaw Auditorium, HKUST (Direction)

  • Ticketing: Free admission. Please reserve your ticket(s) here.

  • Seating: Free Seating

 

World Premiere Concert

  • Date: June 9, 2025 (Mon)

  • Time: 7:30 pm

  • Venue: Tea House Theatre, Xiqu Centre, WestK (Direction)

  • Ticketing: Tickets available via WestK website, mobile app, telephone booking as well as at the Xiqu Centre Ticket Office.
    Ticket Types:

    • HK$300 (Standard)

    • HK$150 (Full-time Students, Senior Citizens Aged 60 or Above, Children Aged 6-12, People with Disabilities/Wheelchair Users and a Minder, CSSA Recipients)

  • Seating: Free Seating

 

Program
Atefeh Einali | Fear
Lia Su | Recurring Dream
Dominic Wills | Indris
Bright Sheng | Angel Fire Duo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
 

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IC 2025 - Call for scores (Last update: 2025.03.17)

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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 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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Supported by

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