葉詠詩 l 指揮

亞洲樂壇備受尊崇的指揮家葉詠詩，於2002年起出任香港小交響樂團音樂總監。

葉詠詩在1985年贏得法國貝桑松第35屆國際青年指揮大賽冠軍及「金豎琴」獎，並在1988年獲第八屆東京國際指揮比賽獎項。她曾先後出任香港大學的學院藝術家、新加坡國立大學楊秀桃音樂學院王鼎昌傑出客座教授、廣州交響樂團的首席指揮和音樂總監及香港管弦樂團的駐團指揮。

葉詠詩經常獲邀擔任世界各地樂團的客席指揮，曾合作的包括中國中央樂團、中國國家交響樂團、上海交響樂團、首爾愛樂樂團、大阪管弦樂團、新日本愛樂交響樂團、札幌、讀賣、台灣、布里斯本、墨爾本、昆士蘭等交響樂團及新西蘭的奧克蘭愛樂樂團等。在歐洲，她曾與法國圖盧茲國家樂團、貝桑松室樂團、波蘭華沙愛樂樂團、西班牙特納里夫島交響樂團、捷克科希策省樂團合作演出。此外，她亦曾率領廣州交響樂團於國際知名的維也納音樂協會會堂（黃金大廳）演出及參與北京國際音樂節。葉詠詩曾與多位國際知名的獨奏家合作，包括杜美、傅聰、明茨、普爾曼、穆特及蘇嘉文等；近年曾指揮的歌劇包括香港小交響樂團伴奏的《詩人李白》及台灣愛樂的《畫魂》。

繼2004年葉詠詩帶領香港小交響樂團代表中國參加「中國在法國」文化年的成功演出後，經常獲邀赴世界各地演出，當中包括美國、加拿大、波蘭、巴西、阿根廷、烏拉圭，以及法國、意大利、日本、韓國和立陶宛的音樂節。在中國，她曾帶領樂團於中國交響樂之春（北京國家大劇院）、中國上海國際藝術節（世博會「香港活動周」閉幕節目）及上海之春國際音樂節演出，並將於2015年10月率領樂團首度出訪瑞士。

生於廣州，香港長大的葉詠詩，憑香港皇家賽馬會音樂基金獎學金遠赴倫敦皇家音樂學院攻讀；後於美國印第安納大學取得小提琴及指揮碩士學位。1986和1992年夏季，她分別獲得哥士域斯基獎學金及小澤征爾獎學金前往鄧肯活音樂中心研習指揮。指導過她的指揮大師包括狄瑪爾、伯恩斯坦、小澤征爾、米亞及艾德敦。葉詠詩於1990年獲選為香港十大傑出青年之一，2006年獲香港公開大學頒授榮譽文學博士學位，2007年她獲法國文化部頒發「藝術及文學騎士勳章」，2010年獲英國皇家音樂學院頒授院士榮銜（FRCM），並於2013年獲香港各界婦女聯合協進會頒發「香港六藝卓越女性」獎，及由香港政府授勳銅紫荊星章，表揚她在音樂界的傑出成就。

Yip Wing-Sie l Conductor

A highly respected and influential figure in Asia’s orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie has been the Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2002. Positions she has previously held include the University Artist of The University of Hong Kong, the Ong Teng Cheong Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, Principal Conductor and later Music Director of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Winner of the First Prize as well as “LYRE d’OR” in the 35th Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d’Orchestre de Besançon, France in 1985 and a prizewinner in the 8th Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 1988, Yip is in great demand as a guest conductor in Asia.  Orchestras she has conducted include the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China, China National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Mozart Players, the symphony orchestras of Sapporo, Yomiuri, Taiwan, Tasmania, Melbourne and Queensland as well as the Auckland Philharmonia of New Zealand.  In Europe, Yip’s engagements have included concerts with the Orchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse and the Chambre Orchestre de Besançon in France, Warsaw Philharmonic in Poland, Spain’s Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Czech State Orchestra of Košice.  She has also conducted at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Vienna Musikverein (Grossersaal), Beijing Music Festival, Fukuoka’s Asian Month Festival in Japan, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Macao International Music Festival.  Yip has collaborated with such renowned artists as Augustin Dumay, Fou Ts’ong, Shlomo Mintz, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. Operas she has conducted include Guo Wen-jin’s Poet Li Bai and the world première of La Peintre with Taiwan Philharmonic.

As Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Yip has taken the orchestra on tour in recent years to Canada, the USA, Japan (La Folle Journée in Tokyo and Niigata), Korea (Tongyeong International Music Festival), France (Festival International de Piano La Roque d’Anthéron, Les Flâneries Musicales d’Été in Reims and Saint-Riquier Festival), Italy (Festival Pianistico Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in Brescia and Bergamo and Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza), Poland (National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw), Beijing (National Centre for the Performing Arts), Shanghai (China Shanghai International Arts Festival/Expo 2010 Shanghai and Shanghai Spring International Music Festival), Lithuania and in the South America in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Yip will lead the orchestra in its début in Switzerland in October, 2015.

Born in Guangzhou and brought up in Hong Kong, Yip studied at the Royal College of Music in London before going on to the Indiana University at Bloomington, USA, where she obtained her Master’s Degree in violin performance and conducting.  As the winner of the Koussevitsky Scholarship and the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Award, Yip spent the summers of 1986 and 1992 attending the conducting seminar and fellowship programmes at the Tanglewood Music Center.  Her mentors included great maestros such as Norman Del Mar, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and David Atherton. In 1990, Yip was named one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons.  Other awards she has received include an honorary doctorate by the Open University of Hong Kong, “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France, Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM), “Hong Kong Women of Excellence in the Six Arts Award” by the Hong Kong Federation of Women and the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the Hong Kong Government.