Swire Sunday Family Series: Peter & The Wolf and more is any child’s dream concert – the three most popular pieces of classical music for kids all in one fantastic programme presented by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil). On Sunday, 15 May at 3pm in theHong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall, twin-sister pianists and Hong Kong born and grown Chau Lok Ping and Lok Ting are starring in the amusingCarnival of the Animals. And Kiss Kiss Kids radio personality Chu Fun E will be your delightful storyteller throughout the afternoon. Russian composer Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf was specially written for children. It tells the story of how Peter disobeyed his grandfather and ventured out into the forest. He encountered the Wolf but outwitted it, saved his animal friends and lived to tell the tale. Each character is represented by one of the instruments in the orchestra. Saint-Saëns was one of France’s greatest composers, and in his Carnival of the Animals draws vivid musical pictures of animals in a zoo. Featured in this amusing piece are the twin-sister piano duo Chow Lok Ping and Lok Ting, who have gained wide recognition for their musicality and their fascinating match of sound. Finally in the programme is The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by English composer Benjamin Britten, a piece specially composed to introduce the instruments of an orchestra to young people. Audiences will hear the four families of orchestral instruments individually before hearing them all combined into a very special musical device called a Fugue!

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Artists Gerard Salonga, conductor Gerard Salonga is a multi-award-winning musical director, conductor and arranger. He has worked with some of Asia’s brightest musical artists, including Lea Salonga, Wang Leehom, Hins Cheung, Elisa Chan and Wu Tong. He has won the Aliw Award (the Philippines’ top live performance award) for Best Musical Director four times, and was inducted into the Aliw Hall of Fame in 2010. Gerard was honoured by the President of the Philippines in 2012 as one of The Outstanding Young Men, the Philippines’ highest civilian award to achievers under the age of 40. Chau Lok Ping & Chow Lok Ting, duo piano Twin sisters Lok Ping and Lok Ting Chau have gained wide recognition for their musicality and their fascinating matche of sound. They began their musical education at the age of five and trained as a duo at the “Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien” in Hannover, Germany, at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, with full scholarships and support from the German DAAD Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Their teachers and mentors included Eleanor Wong, Alexander Tamir, duo Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov, duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen.