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Yip Wing-sie | |
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| Born | (1960-10-05)5 October 1960 (age 64) |
| Nationality | Hong Konger |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Parent | Yip Wai-hong |
Yip Wing-sie (Chinese:葉詠詩;pinyin:ip wiŋ si; born 1960 inGuangzhou, China) is aHong Kong musician.
A highly respected and influential figure in Asia'sorchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie has been theMusic Director ofHong Kong Sinfonietta since 2002. Positions she has previously heldPrincipal Conductor and later Music Director ofGuangzhou Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor ofHong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Winner of the First Prize as well as "LYRE d’OR" in the 35thConcours International de Jeunes Chefs d’Orchestre de Besançon, France in 1985 and a prizewinner in the 8thTokyo International Conducting Competition in 1988, Yip is in great demand as a guest conductor in Asia. Orchestras she has conducted include the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China,China National Symphony Orchestra,Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,Seoul Philharmonic,Osaka Philharmonic,New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Mozart Players, the symphony orchestras ofSapporo, Yomiuri,Taiwan,Tasmania,Melbourne andQueensland as well as theAuckland Philharmonia ofNew Zealand. InEurope, Yip's engagements have included concerts with theOrchestre National du Capitol de Toulouse and the Chambre Orchestre de Besançon inFrance,Warsaw Philharmonic inPoland, Spain'sTenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Czech State Orchestra of Košice. She has also conducted at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Vienna Musikverein (Grossersaal),Beijing Music Festival, Fukuoka's Asian Month Festival in Japan,Hong Kong Arts Festival and Macao International Music Festival. Yip has collaborated with such renowned artists asAugustin Dumay,Fou Ts’ong,Shlomo Mintz,Anne-Sophie Mutter,Itzhak Perlman andPinchas Zukerman.Operas she has conducted includeGuo Wen-jin'sPoet Li Bai and the world première ofLa Peintre withTaiwan Philharmonic.
As Music Director of Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Yip has taken the orchestra on tour in recent years toSwitzerland,France,Italy,Poland,Lithuania,Canada, theUSA,Japan,Korea,Beijing,Shanghai, and inSouth America inArgentina,Brazil andUruguay.
Born inGuangzhou and brought up inHong Kong, Yip graduated from theRoyal College of Music inLondon andIndiana University atBloomington, USA, where she obtained hermaster's degree inviolin performance andconducting. As the winner of the Koussevitsky Scholarship and the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Award, Yip also attended the conducting seminar and fellowship programmes at theTanglewood Music Center. Her mentors included greatmaestros such asNorman Del Mar,Leonard Bernstein,Seiji Ozawa,Gustav Meier andDavid Atherton.
Accolades Yip has received internationally include "Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite" bestowed by theFrench Government (2015), "Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France, Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM), and she was also named theOng Teng Cheong Distinguished Visiting Professor at theYong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music,National University of Singapore. In Hong Kong, she was awarded "Hong Kong Women of Excellence in the Six Arts Award" by the Hong Kong Federation of Women and theBronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by theHong Kong Government, and was named University Artist at TheUniversity of Hong Kong.[1]
After the 2019/2020 season, Yip stepped down from the music director position at the Hong Kong Sinfonietta after 18 years at the helm.[2]
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