ENSEMBLES 2024

Raimondi College Wind Orchestra

Raimondi College Wind Orchestra (RCWO) was restructured in 2006. The aim of the orchestra is to arouse students’ enthusiasm for music as well as to build up confidence and team spirit among members. In the past years, RCWO has successfully cultivated lots of great young musicians. The orchestra is currently composed of students ranging from Secondary 1 to Secondary 6, who are mostly elected from the ‘Instrumental Training Program’ offered by the school. The orchestra is now led by the music teacher Ms. Cecilia Chan, and the conductor, Mr. Lee Ka Yiu. Since the orchestra’s reconstitution, RCWO has been invited to perform in various school events. It has also been actively participating in different competitions such as the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, Winter Band Festival as well as the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows Symphonic Band Contest, and has received heartening results.

Ka Yiu Lee

Conductor

Amos Lee Ka Yiu started his first trumpet lesson at the age of 13. In 1991, he studied with Mr. Jonathan Fields (winner of the 1992 International Toulon Trumpet Competition) at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and got his Diploma there in 1993. Then after he studied with Mr. Brian Thomson, principal trumpet in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, he gained his Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts in 1996. In 1994 and 95 he was admitted into the Asian Youth Orchestra and performed in many cities in Asia and the United States. In October 1995, Amos led the Academy Brass Quintet to London to perform in the Hong Kong Festival. In 1997 Amos was granted the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund and went to further his study with Mr. Edmund Cord at the Indiana University. Amos gained his Master Degree in Music two years later. Amos is now active in both teaching and performing in Hong Kong. Besides being involved in different projects such as The Hong Kong Arts Festival, The Macau Arts Festival, studio recording, musical productions and orchestra / band performances, Amos also appears as soloist and continuously conducts performances. In 2000, Amos and his friends formed the “Hong Kong Young Musicians’ Wind Orchestra”, and brought the orchestra to many international festivals, competitions including “CISM and mid-Europe Winds Competition’ (2010) and “World Music Contest Kerkrade” (WMC) in the Netherlands (2014, 2017). He is now the orchestra and band director of several secondary schools and primary schools in Hong Kong.

Competition Program

Additional Concerts Program