HKETO, Brussels supports Hong Kong musical talent at Rome Chamber Music Festival

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     A talented young cello player from Hong Kong, Calvin Wong, has taken part in the 14th Rome Chamber Music Festival, with the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels (HKETO, Brussels). He performed a piece by Ludwig van Beethoven to a full house of 200 people on June 8 (Rome time).

     Calvin Wong was one of the 21 young artists chosen to study and perform with Festival artists in the beautiful Palazzo Barberini, a landmark of Baroque architecture and home to the national fine arts gallery, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in Rome from June 4 to 8.

     Founded in 2003, the Festival presents a diverse programme of masterworks performed by prominent artists and aspiring music talents over its five-day period.

     This was the fourth time that a young Hong Kong musician being selected for the Festival's Young Artist Programme.

     HKETO, Brussels regularly supports and promotes Hong Kong's creative industries and enables Hong Kong talents to perform in Europe. So far this year it has supported the Hong Kong comics industry at the Angoulême International Comics Festival; performances by the Hong Kong Drum Ensemble in Barcelona, Brussels, Dublin, Madrid, Paris, and The Hague; and the Hong Kong film industry by showcasing the excellence of Hong Kong films at four renowned European film festivals, namely the 10th CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the 18th Far East Film Festival in Udine and the Dragon Film Festival in Florence and Prato in Italy; and the 35th Brussels International Fantasy, Fantastic, Thriller and Science Fiction Film Festival in Belgium at which Stephen Chow's film "The Mermaid" was awarded a Silver Raven.

Ends/Friday, June 9, 2017
Issued at HKT 23:17

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