Sections
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


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 IC2025 website at https://ic.hkust.edu.hk/2025/call-scores.

 

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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 include:

    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 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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