The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) offers an opening concert in Prince Mahidol Hall with three stunning works to kick off Hong Kong Week 2023@Bangkok. The HK Phil, which became fully professional in 1974, celebrates its 50th golden anniversary during the 2023/24 season.

In this concert, the HK Phil’s Resident Conductor Lio Kuokman opens the concert with Ravel’s La valse, a work that evokes the glory days of 19th century Vienna, and he concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, which depicts the exotic tales of A Thousand and One Nights. Renowned Thai pianist Poom Prommachart and the HK Phil principal trumpet Nitiphum Bamrungbanthum will be featured in Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, a work that features solo trumpet almost as much as the piano.