Hong Kong Festival Orchestra

The Hong Kong Festival Orchestra (HKFO) is a non-profit organisation and one of the largest and leading youth orchestra and choir groups in Hong Kong. Founded in 2009, HKFO brings together experienced local musicians educated amongst the top music schools from around the globe to provide a series of concerts over the years, collaborating with celebrated artists including Hong Kong’s popular singer George Lam, renowned comedian Jim Chim and world-class conductor Vassily Sinaisky, cellist Jian Wang, pianists Yundi Li, Mary Wu and Rachel Cheung, amongst many others. In 2013, HKFO hosted Hong Kong’s first and largest choral-orchestral flash mob. Involving more than 200 musicians, HKFO’s flash mob received universal acclaim, and has now accrued more than 1,000,000 views on YouTube, amassing viewers from all over the globe! Using an alternative, youthful and creative way to present the traditional art form, HKFO hopes to revitalise the city by planting the invigorating seeds of art and culture into our communities, to tend the once “cultural desert” into green pastures. Realizing the blossoming of musical education in Hong Kong since the 1980s, the founders of HKFO established this high standard orchestra and to accommodate the rising number of talented musicians as they grow and develop their careers, gathering their strength to build the “Music Festival of Tomorrow”. In 2012, the Hong Kong Festival Voices (HKFV) was set up as a professional choral partner of HKFO, visioning to open new avenues for singers in Hong Kong to engage in choral-orchestral performances. Brought up by a music festival of this generation, HKFO and HKFV aim to create a new musical identity that young musicians in Hong Kong truly belong by creating a “Music Festival of Tomorrow”. With the power of youth in hand, HKFO and HKFV celebrate the musical talents of these new leaders, dreamers, and pioneers of tomorrow.