2025 Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area - Hong Kong "Music All Around" Community Concert

GINASTERA︳Selections from String Quartet no. 1, op. 20

REICH (arr. Karl THORSSON)︳Clapping Music

ERIKSSON (arr. Karl THORSSON)︳Träd (A Forest of Hands)

SIEGEL (arr. Karl THORSSON)︳42nd Street Rondo

EWALD︳Brass Quintet no. 1, op. 5

TOMASI︳Fanfares Liturgiques

Young musicians from around the world met at 2025 Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) with touring concerts in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The tour concludes in Hong Kong with the community concert at the foyer of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, featuring chamber music performed by the musicians from 2025 YMCG Orchestra. The concert is also joined by members from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in bringing the music to Hong Kong community and promoting cultural exchanges.

Presenter: Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province

Joint Presenter (Shenzhen events): Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality

Organizers (listed in no particular order): Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Xinghai Concert Hall, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Orchestra

Co-organizer: Beijing Music Festival Arts Foundation

Artists

Johann Guzman, conductor

Hannes Läubin, trumpet

Karl Thorsson, percussion

Wind and Strings Sections of 2025 YMCG Orchestra

Members from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts