FIMM to present ‘Bravo Macau!’ concerts this week

From left: Poon Ho Suet, Poon Ho Tung, Chan Sin, Leong Ngok Meng and Cheong Hoi Leong

To celebrate the 30th Macao International Music Festival (FIMM), the Cultural Affairs Bureau is set to present two concerts titled “Bravo Macau!” tomorrow and Friday at the Dom Pedro V Theatre. The concert will feature several promising young local musicians who will showcase their talent.
Themed “Glorious 30 – The Sinophone Rhapsodies,” the first series of the concert, “Bravo Macau!” will feature a piano duo by Poon Ho Suet and Poon Ho Tung as well as a brass quintet led by Meng Leong Ngok.
Poon Ho Suet completed a Master’s degree in Piano Performance at a music institution in the U.S. and is currently an instructor in the Macao Conservatory School of Music. Her sister Poon Ho Tung is now undertaking a Master’s degree in Piano Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and has won several awards.
The trumpeter Leong Ngok Meng completed a Master’s degree in Trumpet  at a music school in New York and was trumpeter of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
The trio told the press on Sunday that such achievements were made possible due to the subsidy and support of the local government.
Although Leong admitted there are many opportunities to showcase their talent in the region, he believed that Macau still has a long way to go in its classical music industry.
“Bravo Macau! I” will kick off its program tomorrow with Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a – Overture Miniature, followed by pieces by the renowned Camille Saint-Saëns and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The brass quintet will also play the well-known ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘A Western Fanfare’ among others.
Meanwhile “Bravo Macau! II” will showcase the talents of local musicians Leong Cheong Hoi and Chan Sin who are currently studying Piano Performance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, saxophone player Timothy Sun who is a graduate at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and a teacher at the Macao Conservatory, and Cindy Ho for piano accompaniment.
The program will present Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Corelli, op.42, Mendelssohn’s Variations Sérieuses in D Minor, op. 54 and Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, op. 28, among others.