Club Dinner – Music Appreciation: Hong Kong Grand Opera

KL Wong 黃桂林 is a founder and the Chairman of Hong Kong Grand Opera Company Limited (HKGO). His primary roles are to set business strategy and standard of corporate governance, implement fundraising and assume responsibility for an oversight of the overall management of HKGO. He was a director of Opera Hong Kong from 2009 to 2018, and the Chairman from January 2018 to March 2019. During his tenure in Opera Hong Kong, he worked with Mr DJ Dong to get a major sponsorship from the Hong Kong Jockey Club to establish the first Jockey Club Opera Hong Kong Young Artist Development Programme 2016-19, being the first ever programme to train and nurture local young vocal talents.

Gloria Chan 陳嫣怡 obtained her Master of Music in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with scholarship. She performed operatic roles including Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Nella in Gianni Schicchi, Second Woman and First Witch in Dido & Aeneas respectively. Gloria was the top prize winner of the Ambache Prize for the performance of music by women composers in the UK. Gloria also performed the soprano soloist in concerts, with repertoire such as Requiem by Faure, Mass in G by Schubert, Cantata BWV 4 and BWV 43 by J.S.Bach, etc.

Marcus Choy 蔡文燦 graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, he then attended the postgraduate Early Music singing studies programme at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands, whilst taking the harpsichord as his second studies. He made his operatic debut at the HKAPA with the role of Colin in Le Devin du Village by Rousseau. He has sung in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Bernstein’s Psalms. Marcus also sang in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Siena, Italy.

Ingrid Tsz-yan Chan 陳子欣 has performed at the Barbican Centre, St. John’s Smith Square, St. Stephen Walbrook, King’s College and Milton Court, London. Ingrid received her Bachelor of Music Degree from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and was a recipient of the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation scholarship for two consecutive years; she was also the champion of the Trinity London Music College of ATCL (Piano Recital) Group in the Second Asian Youth Music Competition. Ingrid was awarded a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music thereafter. Ingrid is currently the resident répétiteur of Musica Viva, under the Music Artistic Internship Scheme supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.