Suzuki Music Academy of Hong Kong

"Music Exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart" ~Shinichi Suzuki

Orchestra and Chamber Music Concert

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  • Orchestra performing
  • all of our orchestra and chamber music performers!
  • Ms Yuko leading the orchestra
  • Trinius
  • Fruits Salad Quartet
  • Dim Sum Quartet
  • Quick Quick Quartet
  • Anticipation Quartet

The second weekend of June, our end of year celebrations continued with a return to Sai Kung for our Spring Term Orchestra and Chamber Music Concert. Once again, this concert was held in the fabulous performance space at Hong Kong Academy.

In our orchestra and chamber music program this term, there was a Mozart theme: every chamber group performed a movement from a piece written by Mozart, and one of the orchestra’s selections was also written by Mozart.

The orchestra and all of the chamber groups demonstrated the efforts that they put in over the term in learning to be great teammates in their ensembles. Throughout the performances, you could see the performers communicating with one another, and the orchestra members watching Ms. Yuko for their cues.

The teachers are already excited for Fall, 2019 to watch the students’ ensemble skills continue to grow!

Congratulations to all of the students, Ms. Yuko, Ms. Ryoko and Ms. Shoko for their hard work!

Annual Graduation Concert

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  • Piano graduates
  • Violists
  • Go for the Gold award winners
  • Twinkle students
  • Cellists
  • Twinkle students presenting graduation certificates
  • Parent Graduating from violin Level 1
  • Violinists
  • SMAHK Student community

The end of the Spring Term brought a whirlwind of activity and celebration!

The month of June started with our annual Graduation Concert. This year, we had graduates representing every instrument studied at SMAHK. Graduates included all of the first six violin Graduation levels, as well as a parent graduating from Violin Level 1! Our Twinkle students were wonderful in their role as presenters of the Graduation Certificates!

In addition to celebrating the Graduation Levels, medals were awarded to the winners of our annual “Go for the Gold” Challenge. This year’s theme was review. It was exciting to see so many students on stage wearing medals for the end of the concert.

We continued our tradition of ending the concert with Dr. Suzuki’s “Wishing”, sung in both Japanese and English and played by our more advanced students:

“We are all good children. Mother, Father, help us try to do our very best. Every Child Can Learn. Father, Mother, help us try to do our very best”.

Congratulations to all of the students, parents and teachers!

Reflections from the Performers: Oliver and Roger, Book 3 Recital

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On Saturday, 18 May, Oliver and Roger gave their Book 3 Recital. Here are their thoughts about the experience.

~from Roger

Over the course of these few months, me and my partner(Oliver) have been preparing for our annual book 3 recital, where we graduate from our books, in this case book 3, and move on to explore and learn new pieces to play in book 4. In order to get ready for this performance in the academy, we have prepared “Crossover Lessons”, where either of us would go to each others lessons to first discuss who would be doing what, call back our long memories fragments of pieces, learn a few extra duets and practice daily until we thought they were the best that we could make do for the program. Unfortunately, some of the lessons that we were supposed to attend were canceled, mostly because one of us was sick at the time and the other forgot to attend the lesson at all. But, surprisingly, we still managed to pull of a good recital.

~ from Oliver

Within a few months, my partner (Roger) and I worked together to prepare for our Annual Book Recital. The hardest part in the early stages was deciding who was going to play which piece. I think Roger and I handled it quite well as we decided to have Roger choose which he wants in the first two songs and I chose within the second two. To get ready for our duet pieces, we had to find a time in our classes to get together to practice. I, being the forgetful person I am, forgot about it twice. But we found time to make up for it and practised our pieces and duets. During that class we polished our duets and have the opportunity to play together instead of by ourselves at home. Practicing together allowed us to figure out how loud we should play or fix our timing. All in all, I think we managed to do a great recital and I am very proud of Roger and my work.

MusiCares: Ma Wan Easter Egg Hunt

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For months, MusiCares worked with the organisers of the Ma Wan Easter Egg hunt to make a plan for them to be able to assist with the easter egg hunt itself, as well as providing music for the event. In spite of weather, illness and other challenges which severely curtailed their numbers, a few MusiCares students did brave the weather to fulfil their group’s commitment. Here’s their story of the experience:

~by Amarbir, MaryChun and Naphat

We arrived at Ma Wan to play violin and help with the easter egg hunt. We were supposed to play violin at 1:00 and 3:00, but at 1 o’clock it started raining very lightly. We decided not to play that time because it would not be safe to take out our instruments as they would get wet.

We waited for the first easter egg hunt to finish, then held hands with the other staff and formed a human chain to clear the people off the sand. Then we joined assistants to help bury more easter eggs into the sand using spades. In some of the egg hunts there was light rain, but the staff didn’t allow the people doing the egg hunts to open their umbrella just in case the umbrella might hurt someone.

It was very fun helping the staff bury the eggs. After 1:30 the staff announced that this might be the last egg hunt for today because the weather started getting more humid and the sky looked very dark. When that egg hunt was finished the weather forecast said that it was becoming amber warning as the rain started pouring heavily. We had to hurry and clear off the last people and get all of our belongings and go on the coach.

Refections from the Performer: Audrey Shia

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Audrey gave her Book 8 violin recital, assisted by Ms. Ryoko and Ms. Sonomi. It was great to see that there were friends who came to listen to the recital as well!

Here are Audrey’s thoughts about her recital:

~by Audrey

After 3 years of hard work, I have finally finished my book 8 recital. This year’s recital was so much different compared to the Book 7 one. I feel so relieved and grateful. I want to thank my parents, for supporting and assisting me. I’d like to thank Ms. Ryoko, for putting so much effort into teaching me. I’d like to thank Miss Sonomi, for accompanying me in the recital, even though the recital was 90 minutes long. Last but not least, I’d like to thank my friends for coming to watch me and support me!

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