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HKJC-funded International Youth & Children's Choir Festival provides choral exchange platform for young people

14 July 2008

With funding from The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the 2008 Hong Kong International Youth & Children's Choir Festival (HKIYCC Festival) will open tonight (14 July) at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Over the next five days, 2,000 participants, including 31 choirs and 34 soloists from Hong Kong and around the world will take part in nine categories of competition. The renowned World Youth Choir will present a special concert in Tin Shui Wai as part of the Festival programme.

To provide an exchange platform for young people from Hong Kong, China and overseas countries to share their choral experiences, and allow them an opportunity to appreciate cultural diversity and promote integration, the Club donated HK$1.34 million to the Hong Kong Treble Choirs' Association to organise the 2008 HKIYCC Festival and the World Youth Choir Concert in Tin Shui Wai to be held on 27 July.

The Festival will run from 14 to 18 July. Besides the 10 competition sessions staged at the Cultural Centre, Hong Kong City Hall and Sha Tin Town Hall, the visiting Hulun Buir Choir from Inner Mongolia will present three "Fantasy Concerts". On the final night a special concert called "The World Sings for Olympics" will take place and will be broadcast worldwide. In addition, workshops will be organised for local and overseas choirs and two master classes for conductors and teachers. Ten thousand complimentary tickets for the competition sessions and various concerts are being distributed to students, teachers, and members of the public.


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The Club's Executive Director, Charities, William Y Yiu says the 2008 Hong Kong International Youth & Children's Choir Festival will further raise the standard of local choral singing to a higher level..


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Photos 2, 3 & 4: 2,000 participants, including 31 choirs and 34 soloists from Hong Kong and around the world will take part in nine categories of competition of the 2008 Hong Kong International Youth & Children's Choir Festival.


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