More than 400 young musicians from the Music Office’s band, orchestras and choirs will perform in the 2025 Music Office Annual Gala on February 23 at the Cultural Centre, the Leisure & Cultural Services Department announced today.

Musicians of the Music Office’s Youth Choir and Children’s Choir, Hong Kong Youth Strings, Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band will perform various music pieces.

Among the highlights are a touching and haunting adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5"; The World Takes on a New Look for Spring, selected from the modern Peking opera Taking Tiger Mountain by Stratagem; an adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27; and a wind ensemble piece, Crescent Moon Dance, composed for the Japanese animation Sound! Euphonium.

Tickets are available at URBTIX.