What’s on at the HKGNA Music Festival 2024? Cantopop, K-pop, classical music and more
Hong Kong Generation Next Arts is bringing big names from various genres together for a series of concerts, hoping to inspire young people
Many large-scale music festivals focus on one or two genres – think the EDM- and pop-focused Ultra and Creamfields events – but this is not the case for the one hosted by Hong Kong Generation Next Arts (HKGNA).
The HKGNA Music Festival 2024 will open on November 19. This year’s programme features two classical music concerts, featuring Canadian violinist James Ehnes and the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra, as well as an evening that will see Cantopop star Hins Cheung singing with K-pop crooner Sung Si-kyung.
Kim, who was born in South Korea, is an award-winning concert pianist who made her orchestral debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra when she was 10 years old.
She graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School, a performing arts conservatory in New York, and won many awards before she settled down in Hong Kong in 2007.
In 2009, she set up HKGNA and began offering free music education programmes and therapy sessions for the underprivileged – one of her former students had once been a triad member – and for mentally and physically disadvantaged young people in Hong Kong.
