The Hong Kong Women's Choir

With sold out concerts titled “Beautiful December” at Helena May (December 9th) and St John’s Cathedral, the Hong Kong Women’s Choir raised money for HOLF (Home of Loving Faithfulness), an organization which provides life-long holistic care for abandoned people in a home-like setting.  More information about the organization can be found at: www.holf.org.hk.

Grace Notes also host an a capella concert at Club Lusitano on December 17th and sang at private functions to raise more money for HOLF.

The event at St John’s Cathedral also saw our collaboration with the Hong Kong Youth Bell Ringers Group for one of the pieces we performed: “Throw Open Your Shutters”.  The bellringers also did three pieces on their own and were very well received by the audience.

Academy for Performing Arts Drama Theatre (December 15th 2009) & HK  Cultural Centre Studio Theatre (December 21st 2009) in aid of Youth OutReach and Dog Rescue.

At the ‘Christmas in the City’ concerts, we sang over 20 songs.  Genres included traditional ones like Angels Carols and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, gospel songs like Oh Happy Day, festive songs like White Christmas and so on.  On December 15th at the APA (Academy for Performing Arts), we also partnered with the KGV School senior choir and orchestra, bringing more variety to the concert.

The Christmas concerts raised funds for two charities in Hong Kong: Youth OutReach and Dog Rescue.  At the concerts, these charities were also able to set up promotion counters to publicize their work.

Supporting Karen Kids

On November 30th, we were invited to sing with a soprano from Germany in a concert at St John’s Cathedral organized by Karen Kids.  We were also joined by the primary school choir from the German Swiss International School.

Nova, the accompanied choir and Grace Notes, the a capella group, together held concerts titled “Listen to the Music” in Helena May (Garden Road) and Union Church (Kennedy Road) in May.  Grace Notes separately held a concert titled “Hong Kong State of Mind” at Club Lusitano.  These are fundraisers for Christian Action Services, Chung King Mansion.

Two successful concerts : Union Church, Kennedy Road   and the Ballroom of The Aberdeen Marina Club,  Aberdeen,  raised our Christmas  fundraising to a record high and $196.000 was raised.  Funds donated went towards St Stephens Society,  represented at our evening by  Jackie Pullinger and two  Doctor guests from The Hong Kong Liver Transplant Patients  Association. .

The ballroom looked fabulous, and  the food was wonderful

Here are some of our photos:

Happy Birthday Wendy!

The Mezzo Section

Grace Notes

This year we were once again joined by our friends David Campbell on drums and Adrian Tilley on Bass.

Accompanied on Piano by Sandra , Tricia and Julia, our songs are sung three or four part harmony, and included a duet by Jennifer and Ronald.   Grace Notes produced a complementary programme with accompanied ensembles as well as a cappella pieces.

Lucky Draw and Silent Auction was held, and  Junk Mail came to entertain with 60’s rock, and dancing until midnight.

Funds presented to HKSPC exceeded our expectations over $170,000 for the evening. A great evening for us all.

BUY OUR ‘SWINGTIME CD!!!!

The Hong Kong Women’s Choir presented a 30s-60s  FAVOURITES ….  ‘SWINGTIME’  ……for Spring 2006.

Nostalgic songs such as Girl from Ipanema, Sing Sing Sing,  Embraceable You,  Fly Me to The Moon, Misty,  Stand by Me, Cheek to Cheek,  Putting on the Ritz,  Stormy Weather.

This also featured HKIS The Upper Primary School Choir with proceeds to the Samaritans, held for the first time at Hong Kong City Hall Theatre in May 2006.   We would like to thank Hong Kong International School for helping with our fundraising efforts, they also contributed with sales of a CD they made (also for sale in our shop).

Also in May 2006, The Hong Kong Women’s Choir … NOVA and GRACE NOTES … presented ‘SWINGTIME’ at a dinner show at the CONRAD Hotel Ballroom, Hong Kong, in aid of The Childrens Cancer Foundation.  The event was a resounding success,  with a record donation to CCF.   A grand luckydraw  and auction  was also held with BIG NAME prizes , table prizes and  take home gifts.  We filled the Hall with 295 of our friends and relatives,  and were also honoured by the Consul General of Saudi Arabia .

Thanks to our friends Lisa Adams on Saxophone,  and the band, ‘JUNK MAIL’  joining Tricia Krieger on the keyboard and produced a wonderful accompaniment  for us.  They also continued on after the concert  to provide dancing music for those of us with energy to spare.

Nury Vittachi was also splendid as our MC and the audience was really great and supportive.  We  thank them all .

BUY OUR “SWINGTIME” CD. $100.00 each.

The Hong Kong Womens Choir has been  fortunate enough to be allowed to use the Grand ballroom of The Governors’ Residence, during the governorship of Mr Tung Chee Wah. This was a most generous gesture to all charity organisations prepared to make applications.  Each Spring we held our concert and invited representatives from the Charities to join in the musical evening .  We have been proud to have sung for Mrs Betty Tung on one unconnected occasion.

“That’s Entertainment” Concert at Government House May 2005 in support  of  ‘The Society for Community Organization’

“A Journey through Love” Concert at Government House in May 2004 in support of ‘Youth Outreach’

“Carnival of Music” Concert at Government House in May 2002 in support of ‘Against Child Abuse’