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Performance Course Selection 2025/26

Our undergraduate curriculum offers three types of performance courses, namely Advanced Music Performance, Performance Study, and Music Performance. All courses carry 6 credits. While both Advanced Music Performance and Performance Study are year-long courses and for HKU students, Music Performance is a semester course solely for exchange students from overseas.
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All students in Advanced Music Performance and Performance Study must participate in the new course component Performance Spotlight as a minimum passing criterion. Click here for more details. You may also refer to the “Assessment Methods” section of respective course page for specific participation details.

The Department's Brilliant Shine Bursary covers the cost of music performance lessons for first-year students as well as music majors and minors in years 2, 3 and 4 taking Chamber Music Workshop, Conducting Workshop, Instrument Workshop under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4.

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Performance Study 1, 2, 3

MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Application deadline: 29 August 2025
Live audition: 2 September 2025, 10:00am-1:00pm
Venue: LG1.23, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Classes: Monday 3:00-5:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Please note the early application deadline, audition date and location for this course. Please complete the application form here and email to music@hku.hk no later than 29 August 2025, 3:00pm. Students will be notified of their assigned audition time-slot as soon as possible. Please contact the Department Office and Mr. Angus Lee if you cannot make it to the designated time-slot for alternative audition arrangements (on the same day).

Please enrol in MUSI1018/2047/3019/4002 online within the add-drop period in September 2025 (1-15 September) if you have been notified of your acceptance into the course. As places are limited, students are encouraged to also consider applying for MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1-4 if they intend on pursuing performance courses as part of their studies.
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For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.

MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1, 2, 3, 4

Students taking these courses may customise their study by enrolling in two ensembles, OR one ensemble and one workshop, OR two workshops (taking two instrument workshops is NOT an option). Ensembles and workshops available are as follows:

HKU Chamber Singers (admission by live audition)
HKU Gamelan (consent of instructor required)
HKU Percussion Ensemble (consent of instructor required)
Chamber Music Workshop (admission by optional prescreening video)
Conducting Workshop (admission by audition)
Instrument Workshop (instrument of your own choice, consent of Department required)

ENROLMENT
‍Students intending to enrol in MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1, 2, 3, 4 are required to undertake the following:
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Enrol in these courses in the SIS during the course selection period.‍‍
Complete the application form and email it to the Music Department at music@hku.hk by no later than 5:00pm, 5 September 2025. Late submissions may be disregarded.

Students enrolling in workshops are also required to complete the following no later than 5:00pm, 19 September 2025:
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Pay the workshop tuition fee after your admission has been confirmed by the Music Department (latest 5:00pm, 15 September 2025). ‍
‍Submit the original bank pay-in slip to the Music Department office for verification. Your enrolment is only confirmed after confirmation of payment.

The meeting times of these ensembles/workshops are not shown in HKU's SIS; please refer to the information in the respective tabs below for the class times and venues.

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HKU Chamber Singers is one of the University’s leading choruses, led and conducted by distinguished vocalist Caleb Woo. The chorus’ repertoire ranges from Renaissance staples to brand new commissions, and has collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the local specialist choral group NOĒMA in special projects. Chorus members will also receive special technical training from eminent local soprano, Kenix Tsang.

Live audition: 12 (Fri.) September 2025, 3:00-5:00pm
First rehearsal: 19 September 2025, 3:00-5:00pm
Classes: Friday 3:00-5:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Lesson structure: 20 x 2-hour rehearsals and 6 x 1-hour technique seminars

Student intending to audition should prepare Ludwig van Beethoven's Ich Liebe Dich (available here in two keys, for higher and lower voice respectively). The audition process is waived for members of the HKU Chamber Singers in the 2024/25 academic year. Students intending to join the Chamber Singers on a non-credit basis should contact Mr. Caleb Woo directly for consent of admission.
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For further enquiries, please contact Caleb Woo at calebwoo@hotmail.com.
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HKU Gamelan is a versatile ensemble that performs both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Led by percussionist Dr. Deborah Waugh, the group often collaborates with leading composers and musicians in experimental settings. Ensemble members will also receive training in gamelan performance techniques from gamelan specialist Anvy Lim. Students interested in joining this ensemble MUST attend the first rehearsal.

First rehearsal: 11 (Thurs.) September 2025, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Classes: Thursday 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Lesson structure: 18 x 2-hour rehearsals and 6 x 1-hour technique seminars

For further enquiries, please contact Dr. Deborah Waugh at debwaugh@hku.hk.
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HKU Percussion Ensemble explores a wide range of repertoire from traditional and contemporary works to group improvisations. Proficiency in percussion instrument performance is expected of students enrolling in this component course. Students interested in joining this ensemble MUST attend the first rehearsal.

First rehearsal: 12 (Fri.) September 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm
Classes: Friday 10:00am-12:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Lesson structure: 16 x 2-hour rehearsals

For further enquiries, please contact Dr. Deborah Waugh at debwaugh@hku.hk.
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Chamber Music Workshop offers full-year coaching in chamber music repertoire from introductory to advanced levels, with the goal of developing students’ chamber musicianship. Students should pre-form groups (minimum trio, maximum sextet) and submit a short list of potential repertoire to be studied during the academic year. Groups with specialist focus (e.g. Baroque music, a capella vocal music) may be co-supervised by assigned guest specialists.

Prescreening: Video recording of prior performances highly recommended (due 5 September 2025, 5:00pm)
Admission cap: 4 groups
First rehearsal: 23 September 2025, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Classes: Tuesday 4:00pm-6:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Lesson structure: 14 x 1-hour coaching sessions

For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.
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Conducting Workshop is an intermediate-level course offering students the chance to acquire, develop and refine their technical mastery of conducting. The course will also touch on score analysis, rehearsal strategies, and clarity of gestural communication. Students will work with a rehearsal pianist (first semester) and an ensemble of experienced musicians (second semester), and will have the opportunity to shadow course instructors in external visits to rehearsals with professional musicians. Some prior conducting experienced is preferred.
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Prerequisite:

must also be admitted to Chamber Music Workshop, or one of the Performance Study ensembles‍
has prior experience as an Classical instrumental / vocal performer

Audition: 9 September 2025, 3:00pm-4:00pm; preparing Richard Wagner’s Meistersinger Overture (complete)
Classes: Tuesday 3:00pm-4:00pm
Venue: LG1.22, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Lesson structure: 14 x 1-hour coaching session in addition to video review sessions (to be scheduled)

For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.
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Instrument Workshop focuses on developing students’ musical and technical competency in their chosen instruments (including voice). Admitted students will each study with an assigned leading practitioner in the field on a one-to-one basis.

Classes: Lesson times individually negotiated between student and instructor
Venue: Various locations at the discretion of the instructor

For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.
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MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

As a prerequisite, students must have completed MUSI1022/2066/3021 Performance Study 1, 2, 3 or MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Performance Study 1, 2, 3, at least once prior to enrolling in MUSI3032. For admission details, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.
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Click on the course code and title to view course details.

MUSI2083 Music Performance (for exchange students from overseas)

MUSI2083 Music Performance caters for overseas students who would like to carry on their performance study during their exchange at HKU. Entry to the course is at the discretion of the Head of the School of Humanities on the recommendation of the Department's Undergraduate Coordinator. For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.

2025/26

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Important note: with the exception of events marked PUBLIC, all events are reserved for auditing by HKU students and invited guests only. For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Angus Lee at anguslyw@hku.hk.

Conducting Masterclass with YIP Wing-sie: session 2
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Date: 22 (Tue) April 2025
Time: 15:30-16:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Conducting Workshop, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4

Bassoon Masterclass with Toby CHAN
‍Date: 21 (Fri) March 2025
Time: 15:30-17:20
Location: RRST LG1 Instrument Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Piano Masterclass with Niu Niu
Date: 23 (Thur) January 2025
Time: 19:00-21:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Conducting Masterclass with YIP Wing-sie: session 1
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Date: 21 (Tue) January 2025
Time: 15:30-16:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Conducting Workshop, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4

Conducting Masterclass with Elim CHAN
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Date: 19 (Tue) November 2024
Time: 15:30-16:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Conducting Workshop, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4

Piano Workshop with Dane KO

Date: 18 (Mon) Novemeber 2024
Time: 15:30-17:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Choral Conducting Masterclass with Sanders LAU
[part of the HKU Doming Lam Composition Prize 2024]

Date: 15 (Fri) November 2024
Time: 15:30-17:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Conducting Workshop, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4
HKU Chamber Singers, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4
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Voice Masterclass with Alison LAU

Date: 28 (Mon) October 2024
Time: 15:30-17:20
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Solo Recital by Austin Siu
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‍Repertoire:
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonata no.5 in F major
‍Carl Maria von Weber: Andante e Rondo Ungarese
‍Eugene Hartzell: Monologue 3
‍Edward Elgar: Romance
‍Henri Dutilleux: Sarabande et Cortège

Date: 30 (Fri) May 2025
Time: 18:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Solo Recital by Enoch Chan
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‍Repertoire:
Francesco Durante: Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile
‍Tommaso Giordani: Caro mio ben
‍Alessandro Scarlatti: Già il sole dal Gange
‍Johann Sebastian Bach: Großer Herr, O Starker König
‍George Frideric Handel: Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries
‍Franz Schubert: Fischerweise
‍Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: O Isis und Osiris
‍Fromental Halévy: Si la rigeur
‍Gabriel Fauré: Automne
‍Claude Debussy: Beau soir
‍John Ireland: Sea Fever
‍Gustav Mahler: Aus! Aus!

Date: 30 (Fri) May 2025
Time: 16:30
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Solo Recital by Amy Tsui
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‍Repertoire:
George Frideric Handel: Tornami a vagheggiar
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mens sancta Deo
‍Clara Schumann: 6 Lieder (Op.13)
Eva Dell'Acqua: Villanelle
‍Leonard Bernstein: I Hate Music!
‍Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Via resti servita
Johann Strauss II: Mein Herr Marquis

Date: 30 (Fri) May 2025
Time: 15:15
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Solo Recital by Sarah Suen
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‍Repertoire:
johann Sebastian Bach: Italian Concerto (BWV 971)
Franz Liszt: Sposalizio (S.161, no.1)
Francis Poulenc: Improvisation no.15 “Hommage à Édith Piaf”
Sergei Prokofiev: Sarcasms (Op.17)
Samuel Barber: Excerpts from Souvenirs (Op.28)
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Date: 30 (Fri) Mayl 2025
Time: 14:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Lecture Recital by Kelvin Wan
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‍Date: 26 (Sat) April 2025
Time: 20:00-21:00
Location: CYMCC 5/F Yuet Ming Auditorium
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MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Lecture Recital by Lanxi Feng

‍Date: 26 (Sat) April 2025
Time: 16:30-17:30
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room
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MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Performance Programme Annual Showcase
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Date: 24 (Thur) April 2024
Time: 20:00-21:40
Location: Loke Yew Hall

MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4
MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)
MUSI7109 Time and Temporality in Music

AMP Semester 2 Class Recital
Date: 22 (Tue) April 2025
Time: 19:00-20:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]

Performance Spotlight #5
‍Date: 11 (Fri) April 2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room
Moderator: Dr. Deborah WAUGH
Special guest: Prof. Daniel Chua
‍ MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Performance Spotlight #4
‍Date: 21 (Fri) March 2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room
Special guest: Toby CHAN
‍ MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Performance Spotlight #3
‍Date: 21 (Fri) February 2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room
Special guest: Prof. Simon D. Goldstein
‍ MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Performance Spotlight #2
‍Date: 24 (Fri) January 2025
Time: 18:00-21:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Performance Spotlight #1
Special guest: Sanders LAU
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Date: 15 (Fri) November 2024
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1/2/3/4
MUSI1018/2047/3019 Advanced Music Performance 1-3
MUSI4002 Advanced Music Performance 4 [capstone experience]
MUSI3032 Special Performance Study (capstone experience)

Info Day Open Conducting Class

Date: 26 (Sat) October 2024
Time: 15:00-16:00
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Chamber Music Masterclass with Vivian SHEN Ting-chia

Date: 30 (Tue) April 2024
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Chamber Music Workshop, underMUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1-4

Conducting Masterclass with YIP Wing-sie

Date: 23 (Tue) January 2024
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

Conducting Workshop, under MUSI1022/2066/3021/4001 Performance Study 1-4

Vocal Masterclass with Timmy TSANG
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Date: 7 (Tue) November 2023
Location: RRST LG1 Rehearsal Room

MUSI1018/2047/3021/4002 Advanced Music Performance 1-4