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Saxophone player / Hong Kong Sinfonietta : Cool Summer Festival - Know Your Brass (N.B. Tuba!)

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Program :

​5/7/2019 (Fri)=

Monteverdi - L’Orfeo: Toccata

Handel - Water Music: Alla Hornpipe

Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto in F minor

Beethoven - Leonore Overture No 2, Op 72a

Wagner - Rienzi Overture

Monti - Csárdás (Arranged for Tuba by Øystein Baadsvik)

Schumann - Symphony No 3 in E-flat, Op 97, “Rhenish” (excerpts)

Bernstein - On the Town: Three Dance Episodes


6/7/2019 (Sat)

Monteverdi - L’Orfeo: Toccata

Handel - Water Music: Alla Hornpipe

Jan Koetsier - Concertino for Tuba & String Orchestra, Op 77 (1978/1982)

Beethoven - Leonore Overture No 2, Op 72a

Weber - Der Freischütz Overture

Bizet/Sarasate - Carmen: Danse Bohème (Arranged for Tuba by Laurent Arandel)

Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Overture, Op 36

Bernstein - On the Town: Three Dance Episodes


Did you know that if you stretch out all the twists and coils, a tuba would be taller than three men standing on top of one another? Imagine playing this massive instrument! Tuba virtuoso Thomas Leleu is coming to Hong Kong bearing the gift of not one but TWO exciting programmes showcasing this gigantic shiny instrument and its cousins the trumpet, French horn and trombone. Join him and conductor Perry So on a 400-year journey to explore the exhilarating array of brass music played on the orchestra’s brightest, shiniest, loudest instruments!

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