The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

Established by ordinance in 1984 with an autonomous governing council,
the academy offers professional education and training up to degree level
in performing and related arts. Disciplines offered include dance, drama,
music, theatre technical arts, and film and television.

The foremost of the year's highlights was the week-long Academy Music
Festival in June, providing unprecedented educational opportunities for
music students at the academy and throughout the education sector.
Internationally renowned conductor Sir Neville Marriner, the Academy of
St. Martin in the Fields, violinist Nigel Kennedy, cellist Julian Lloyd
Webber, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, pianist Peter Donohoe and many
distinguished musicians from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
participated in 20 public concerts, 26 master classes and 43 coaching
sessions.

In August, the academy hosted Dance On '97. It founded this annual
festival and conference in 1987 as the International Festival of Dance
Academies and it was based in Hong Kong until 1991. Since then, a
different country has been host each year.

Other highlights included the popular concerts in Government House, a
fund-raising performance by violinist Pinchas Zukerman, Mozart's Magic
Flute, and Martin Y Soler Una Cosa Rara. The latter opera was the
featured attraction of the Spanish Week at the Academy during
November.

Drama students and staff swept many of the sixth annual Hong Kong
Federation of Drama Societies' Awards, including Best Director, Best
Production and Best Music.

Dance, music and theatre technical arts students staged performances of
Chinese Music and Chinese Dance in London and Edinburgh during
October at the invitation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.

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