Calendar 2022-2023
Upcoming
May 21, 2023
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Clare Longendyke, piano
Kuntz - Remembrance (World Premiere)
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma'
Jun 4-23, 2022
Foster Music Camp
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Middle School String Camp:
TBD
High School String Camp:
Bloch - Concerto grosso no. 1
TBD
High School Orchestra Camp:
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Overture
TBD
June 25-July 1, 2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer Music Clinic
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Bloch - Concerto grosso No. 1
Coleridge-Taylor - The Bamboula, Rhapsodic Dance
Weinberg - Rhapsody on Moldovan Themes
Nielsen - Aladdin Suite
Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty Suite
July 13, 2023
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Niloofar Sohi, viola
Webern (arr. Schwarz) - Langsamer Satz
Honegger - Symphony no. 2
Gipps - Jane Grey Fantasy for Viola
Bartók - Divertimento for Strings
Past
May 11, 2023
Meyzeek Middle School and Waggener High School
Ho-Yin Kwok, clinician
May 3, 2023
Eastern Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Rina Tanaka, graduate conductor
Richard Crosby, piano
EKU Choirs
Beethoven - Overture to Egmont
Beethoven - Choral Fantasy
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
April 30, 2022
Lexington Community Orchestra
Timothy Wiggins, conductor
Rossini - Overture to La scala di seta
Smetana - Moldau from Má vlast
Schumann - Symphony no. 3
April 28, 2022
Eastern Kentucky University Opera
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Curtis Streetman, director
Weill - Down in the Valley
April 5, 2022
University of Kentucky Concerto Competition
Ho-Yin Kwok, Mark Gibson, Rachel Calin, judges
April 2, 2023
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, Paige Armstrong, conductors
Fanya Lin, piano
Edina Chorale and Chorus Polaris
Gipps - Song for Orchestra (US premiere)
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no. 2
Forrest - Requiem for the Living
March 12, 2023
Louisville Masterchorale
John Dickson, conductor
Corigliano - Fern Hill
Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Faure - Requiem
March 9, 2023
Eastern Kentucky University College of Business
Ho-Yin Kwok, guest speaker
March 8, 2023
Eastern Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor and violin
Sila Darville, viola
EKU Concerto Competition winner
TBA - Concerto
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 5
March 2, 2023
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Ho-Yin Kwok, clinician
March 1-5, 2023
Eastern Kentucky University Musical Theatre
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Henry Heydinger, graduate conductor
Grease, the musical
February 19, 2023
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Alex Rodriguez, Winner of the St. Paul Piano Teachers Association Concerto Competition 2022
Niloofar Sohi, viola
Tamar Simon, soprano
Geoffrey Schellenberg, baritone
Gipps - Jane Grey Fantasy for Viola (US premiere)
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
February 4-5, 2023
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
Mark Russell Smith, conductor
Bella Hristova, violin
Brahms - Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1
January 23-March 27, 2023
Central Kentucky Youth Concert Orchestra (Rehearsals)
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Brahms - Hungarian Dance no. 5
Still - Three Negro Songs
Still - Three Dances
Badelt - Pirates of the Caribbean Medley
January 23-March 27, 2023
Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra (Rehearsals)
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Lalo - Cello Concerto
Sejourne - Marimba Concerto
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Sierra - Fandangos
January 20-21, 2023
Eastern Kentucky University Honor Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Elgar - Serenade for Strings
January 12, 2022
All-County Orchestra, Louisville, KY
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Walker - Lyric for Strings
Nielsen - Little Suite for Strings
December 18, 2022
Lexington Library Concert Series
Ho-Yin Kwok, violin
Sila Darville, viola
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
December 11, 2022
Kentucky Bach Choir
Marlon Hurst, conductor
Bach - Christmas Oratorio
December 4, 2022
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Sarah Grimes and Susie Park, violins
Weinberg - Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
J.S. Bach - Concerto for Two Violins
Gipps - Knight in Armour, op. 8 (US premiere)
Respighi - Pines of Rome
November 21, 2022
Eastern Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Jason Koontz, percussion
Lawrence Nelson, Alto Saxophone
Saint-Saëns - Danse bacchanale from Samson et Delila
Glazunov - Alto Saxophone Concerto
Milhaud - Percussion Concerto
Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919 version)
November 12, 2022
New World Symphony (Live and WALLCAST® Concert)
Concert Ticket
WALLCAST® Info
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Horacio Franco, recorder
Márquez - Conga del Fuego Nuevo
Revueltas - La noche de los Mayas
Chávez - Xochipilli
Ibarra - Sonfonía no. 2 "Las antesalas del sueño"
Murillo : La Llorona
Castro - Intermezzo from Atzimba
Rosas/Zhurbin - Sobre las olas (Over the waves) Waltzes
Galindo - Sones de Mariachi
November 5-6, 2022
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
Mark Russell Smith, conductor
Hannah Holman, Cello
Benjamin Coelho, bassoon
Ellington - The Three Black Kings
Bloch - Schelomo: Hebraic Rhapsody
Daugherty - Dead Elvis
J Strauss II - Emperor Waltz
Walton - Henry V Suite
October 24, 2022
Thomas Nelson High School
Ho-Yin Kwok, clinician
October 16, 2022
Mississippi Valley Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Curtis Streetman, bass
Tamara Dworetz, guest conductor
Gipps - Symphony no. 2 (Midwest premiere)
Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich) - Songs and Dances of Death
Stravinsky - Firebird Suite (1919 version)
October 14, 2022
Simon Kenton High School
Ho-Yin Kwok, clinician
October 8, 2022
The Cecilian Club, Richmond
Solo Violin Recital
October 7, 2022
University of Louisville Concerto Competition
Ho-Yin Kwok, Gabriel Lefkowitz, judges
September 28 - October 2, 2022
Eastern Kentucky University Musical Theatre
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Henry Heydinger, graduate conductor
School House Rock, the musical
September 26, 2022
Eastern Kentucky University Symphony Orchestra
Ho-Yin Kwok, conductor
Curtis Streetman, bass
Wagner - Prelude to Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Mussorgsky (orch. Shostakovich) - Songs and Dances of Death
Schubert - Symphony no. 8 "unfinished"
September 15, 2022
Eastern Kentucky University Opera Theater
A Little Nightmare Music
September 11, 2022
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras
Judge for CKYO's Concerto Competition
August 26 and 28, 2022
Foreys for Four, Amadeus LEX!
James Zabawa-Martinez, violin
Ho-Yin Kwok, violin
Jonathan Crosmer, viola
Jerram John, cello
Haydn - String Quartet op. 77, no. 1
Mozart - String Quartet no. 19, K. 465 "Dissonance"
Jeremy Crosmer - Andante's Inferno
R. Schumann - String Quartet op. 41, no. 3