李承謙 Sean Li
音樂總監及指揮
Music Director & Conductor
集指揮、創業家及音樂製作人於一身,李承謙為本地年青古典樂壇中的一位領導先驅,多年來積極籌辦及製作無數創意文化項目,為香港以至世界各地觀眾帶來嶄新的音樂體驗。
獲評為「能帶出音樂應有的表情及熱情」及能「達到節奏與力量的最大結合」之年輕指揮,李氏於2009年創辦香港節慶管弦樂團及節慶和聲(節樂),並兼任主席暨音樂總監。
身為節樂掌舵人及指揮,李氏曾與多位本地及國際知名藝術家合作,包括大提琴家王健、鋼琴家沈靖韜、張緯晴、聲樂家梁頌儀、連皓忻、梁路安及林俊等。為了普及古典音樂,李氏更有幸與本地流行歌手林子祥及喜劇教父詹瑞文合作,舉辦及執指了連場大獲好評的跨界音樂會及「交響棟篤笑」。
作為跨媒體創意先驅,李氏於 2013 年成功帶領超過 200 名節樂樂手及合唱團員於沙田新城市廣場為大眾呈獻貝多芬《快樂頌》選段,創下本港首個大型管弦合唱快閃的壯舉,並為其製作錄像,至今在 YouTube 吸引逾 180 萬人次點擊,觀眾遍佈全球。快閃錄像獲美國傳媒機構Moyers & Company廣泛報導,更被德國電視二台收錄於貝多芬的記錄片中。快閃錄像亦將於 2016 年底於巴黎愛樂音樂廳音樂博物館公映,作為《貝多芬之後》展覽的展品之一。2014年,李氏帶領節樂走遍香港海、陸、空,製作全球首部古典音樂串燒錄像《勁歌交響曲》,贏盡口碑。同年,由李氏指揮之柴可夫斯基《1812》序曲,更首次破天荒加入合唱團及現場鳴放禮炮效果,為本地觀眾帶來前所未有的視聽體驗,震懾大會堂音樂廳。
踏入第十個樂季,節樂從80 名樂手的管弦樂團,躍身成逾300 名樂手、合唱團員、以及由 30 名藝術行政人員管理的專業團隊,成為本港最大的青年合唱管弦樂團之一。節樂一直以來被受稱許,更經常與國際藝術家合作,包括鋼琴家李雲迪、大提琴家李垂誼及指揮辛奈斯基等。
BConductor, entrepreneur, and producer, Sean Li is one of the leading vanguards of the youth classical music scene in Hong Kong, credited for creating and producing a number of acclaimed cultural projects to audiences locally and worldwide.
Praised by critics as a conductor who “delivers expression and passion in music” and “creates maximum integration between rhythm and power”, Sean is best associated with his founding of the Hong Kong Festival Orchestra and Voices (HKFO) in 2009, an organisation he has since served as its Chairperson and Music Director.
At the helm of HKFO, Sean has worked as conductor with many distinguished artists locally and globally. These include cellist Jian Wang, prodigious pianists Aristo Sham and Rachel Cheung, vocalists Jovita Leung, Carol Lin, Christopher Leung and Albert Lim. As a firm believer in making classical music accessible, Sean has also directed a sold-out crossover concert with pop music icon George Lam, as well as created an acclaimed classical music stand-up comedy with leading comedian Jim Chim.
As a pioneer in promoting classical music via creative media in Hong Kong, Sean is the initiator, conductor and one of the producers behind HKFO’s universally acclaimed Beethoven “Ode to Joy” Flash Mob in Shatin New Town Plaza and the 2014 music video “The Young Person’s Guide to HKFO”. The former production has attracted over 1.8 million views on YouTube to critical acclaim, and was reviewed worldwide by Moyers & Company, as well as featured in a documentary produced by the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (Second German Television). The production was exhibited in late 2016 at the Musée de la musique at the heart of the Philharmonie de Paris under the “Après Beethoven” exhibition. In 2014, Sean further conducted one of the city’s first performances of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with choir and cannons, to highly positive reviews.
Under Sean’s ten years of work at HKFO, the organisation has grown from an 80-piece orchestra to one of the city’s largest operating youth orchestras and choirs, involving more than 300 choristers and orchestral players and an administrative team of 30 members of staff, collaborating frequently with international artists including cellist Trey Lee, pianist Yundi Li and conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
