The October festival will feature four concerts and over 20 players, with fresh music and unusual crossovers between genres and cultures
Baroque Europe and modern-day Hong Kong are contextually and geographically worlds apart. Still, Hongkonger Karen Yeung has been promoting early Western music in the city with her biannual music festival since 2019.
As a seasoned bassoonist who plays the Renaissance dulcian – a precursor to the bassoon – and the Baroque version of the woodwind instrument, Yeung is a rarity in Hong Kong, where concert organisers are nervous about the appeal of unusual musical programmes.
“You can say it’s niche, but I think there is a lot of potential that the local audience will love,” she tells the Post ahead of the fourth edition of the Hong Kong Early Music Festival.
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