SERENE YU

Classical Pianist

HO-HO-HO! Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2022  /  Serene Yu

It wouldn't really be Christmas without Christmas music! I hope you’ll love this festive musical treat which includes a few seasonal favourites:

  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

  • O Christmas Tree

  • O Come, All Ye Faithful

  • O Holy Night!

  • Silent Night (piano duet version arr. Jonathan Scott, performed by Greenies Piano Duo)

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categories / Recording, Recording project, Youtube
tags / Christmas carols, Christmas music, Christmas songs, Piano, Piano solo, Piano music, Solo piano, Greenies Piano Duo, Piano duet, 4 hands, Four hands, Video, Video-recording, Recording

PERCY BRIER Serenade for Viola and Piano

June 17, 2022  /  Serene Yu

In 2016, I developed an interest in creating score editions when I took a course called “Sources and Editions” at Queensland Conservatorium. At that time, I created a critical edition based on the manuscript of Serenade for Viola and Piano by Australian composer Percy Brier. I was glad that Peter Roennfeldt invited Timothy Tate and me to contribute our work to produce the final version for publication. After a long wait of six years, it’s finally published by Wirripang (available here)!

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categories / Blog, Publication
tags / Percy Brier, Queensland, Queenslander, Australian, Australian composer, Brisbane, Score editing, Queensland Conservatorium, Viola and Piano, Serenade, Chamber music, Scholarly edition, Critical edition, Wirripang, Publication

Upcoming Concert: The Romantic Piano

November 05, 2021  /  Serene Yu

YOU ARE INVITED!

A concert which features a fascinating string of Romantic music for piano (mostly solo), performing Romantic essentials, rarities, transcriptions, and more. Not to be missed!

Saturday, 18 December 2021, 20:30
Venue: Hong Kong City Hall - Recital Hall
(8/F, High Block, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong)

Tickets now available online and at all Urbtix outlets.

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categories / Performance, Live concert
tags / Liszt, Franck, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Concert, Live concert, Live, Live performance, Performance, Piano, Piano music, Solo, Piano solo, 4 hands, Four hands, Duet, Duo, Romantic, Romantic music, 19C, 19th century, Hong Kong, Recital, Franz Liszt, César Franck, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms

Upcoming Concert: An Evening in France

May 28, 2021  /  Serene Yu

YOU ARE INVITED!

An evening of French piano music with Greenies Piano Duo
Friday, 18 June 2021, 20:15
Venue: Hong Kong City Hall - Recital Hall
(8/F, High Block, 5 Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong)

Tickets now available online and at all Urbtix outlets.

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categories / Concert, Performance, Live concert
tags / Erik Satie, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Emmanuel Chabrier, Marche interalliées, La belle excentrique, Dolly Suite, Petite Suite, Cortège burlesque, Souvenirs de Munich, Hong Kong, Concert, Live performance, Live concert, Greenies Piano Duo, Op. 155, Op. 56, L. 65, Camille Saint-Saëns

Performing Again!

December 13, 2019  /  Serene Yu

The surgery for my finger was successful and I’m playing the piano again! It’s not fully healed yet and it still needs several more months to return to my level, but I’m already able to play some not-too-virtuosic pieces.

I feel so glad to be invited to participate in a student concert on New Year’s Eve 2019. I’ll perform two B-minor works: Brahms’s Rhapsody in B Minor, Op. 79 No. 1 and Franck’s Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18 (transcribed by Harold Bauer).

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tags / Concert, New Year's Eve, Brahms, Johannes Brahms, Rhapsody, B minor, Franck, César Franck, Prelude, Fugue, Variation, Op 18, Op 79, No 1, Hong Kong, December, 2019, Romantic music, Romantic, Piano, Transcription

Hong Kong Church Music Association Presents: 蒙福的建設 Fundraising Concert, December 3

November 11, 2018  /  Serene Yu

You are invited!

A fundraising concert at Ward Memorial Methodist Church with flutist Dr Cleo Leung and myself

Guest performers: Ms Clara Yip, Ms Symantha Leung, Mr Angus Ho

Monday, December 3rd, 19:30

Free admission, donations are welcome. The proceeds will go to Hong Kong Church Music Association

Address: 54 Waterloo Road, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

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tags / Performance, Hong Kong, Flute Concert, Church Music, Fundraising

Lunchtime Concert Series: Organ

September 09, 2018  /  Serene Yu

This Friday, Ms Christy Siu and I are presenting a short but extraordinary program of organ masterpieces:

- DE GRIGNY Veni Creator
- DURUFLÉ Variations from the Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du "Veni Creator", Op. 4
- STANFORD Postlude in D Minor, Op. 105 No. 6
[Find out more about this work here]

Date: 14 September 2018 (Friday)
Time: 13:15 - 13:45
Venue: North Point Alliance Church
[238 King's Road, Fortress Hill, Hong Kong]
* Free admission

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tags / Performance, Concert, Organ, Classical music, Hong Kong, September, North Point, Fortress Hill, 2018, Duruflé, de Grigny, Stanford, Charles Villiers Stanford, Nicolas de Grigny, Maurice Duruflé, Organ concert, Free concert, Friday, Lunchtime concert

Recital with Justin Lam @ Holy Trinity Cathedral

August 06, 2018  /  Serene Yu

On 8 September 2018, my friend and I will present an oboe & piano duo recital and we will perform three works:

J.S. BACH Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1020
SCHUMANN Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94
POULENC Oboe Sonata, FP 185

- 8 September 2018 (Saturday)
- 17:00 (approx. 1hr)
- Admission by donation
- Holy Trinity Cathedral [135 Ma Tau Chung Road, Kowloon City, Hong Kong]

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tags / Performance, Concert, Oboe, Piano, Duo, Classical music, Hong Kong, September, Kowloon City, 2018, Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Bach, Schumann, Poulenc