REVIEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE
“Jaw-dropping virtuosity [...] breath-taking performance”
NEWS
Pan Journal - July 2024
KAREN WONG has been selected as a Britten Pears Young Artist for 2024–25.
Published on 3rd June, 2024 by Jeremy Chan
"An extremely virtuosic player... she elegantly glided over technical runs without breaking a sweat, making the music scintillating and simultaneously refined. Constantly maintaining a beautiful tone, she produced such a well-rounded sound in the lower registers of the flute that it was a actually satisfying feeling which leaves one yearning for more."
NEWS
Pan Journal - November 2023
Lucy Driver and Karen Wong have won the flute positions at the Southbank Sinfonia for the 2023/24 season.
Live on 21 October, 2023
Bloomsbury Radio chat to Karen Wong (flute) & Lance Mok (piano) about an upcoming varied programme of contemporary music for flute and piano featuring works from underrepresented and contemporary composers. The wide range of music showcases the development in flute playing techniques, as well as highlighting themes of equality, inclusiveness and our relationship with the natural world.
英國 SOUTHBANK SINFONIA 香港新銳長笛演奏家— 汪嘉詠｜音樂家來訪日誌
「我非常享受Brannen帶給我厚實、有深度的聲音及創造各種音色的可能性。」
“ I love the depth of sound from my Brannen flute, and its flexibility in creating different colours! ” —長笛演奏家 汪嘉詠
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今年入選英國 Southbank Sinfonia 的香港新銳長笛演奏家— 汪嘉詠，近日來台參與台北大師星秀音樂節。她特地帶著自己的Brannen Brothers 15/85 手工焊孔銀笛到TRIO Music進行演出前的最後調整。
因疫情的緣故，嘉詠老師已有兩年的時間無法親自將樂器帶來調整，不過這段期間，老師仍非常頻繁地使用，讓樂器經歷了無數次的練習與演出。我們非常開心有機會為老師將這把樂器重新調整至最佳狀態！真誠祝福嘉詠老師能帶著心愛的樂器到世界各地，與大家分享Brannen Brothers 獨特且充滿深度的聲音。
Published on 13th July, 2023 by Simon Jenner
"Strong rounded tone is beautifully centred: a full, rich core of flute sonance with all the tessitura and reach you need. There’s a slightly aureate sound to her playing."
BUILDING A NEW GENERATION TOGETHER
Prize Winner of the 2022 TFF Piccolo Competition and 2022 Penthesilea Academy mock audition Ka Wing Karen Wong with TFF’s Artistic Director Beatriz Macías and Penthesilea Academy’s Artistic Director Karin Bonelli.
Published on 20th September, 2022 by Simon Jenner
"Indeed the full tones of the standard flute Wong plays again are striking for the full heft of its sonority. This isn’t simple sonance and harmony either, and it’s a tribute to Wong she can evoke the depth of this shortish piece."
BFS COMPETITIONS 2022 PRIZEWINNERS
Young Artist 1st Prize
Audience Vote 1st Prize
Published on 23rd June, 2022 by Simon Jenner
"Most of all there’s the sonance the sheer beauty of sound these three instruments make together, crafting an individual sound-world."
ENGLISH COMPOSERS PERFORMED IN HONG KONG
"Karen Wong, a postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama performed a recital of solo and chamber works written by English composers from the past 100 years in Hong Kong on 3 January 2022. The programme included works by Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Edwin York Bowen, Benjamin Britten, Gordon Jacob, Paul Reade and Ian Clarke."
MUSIC AT THE TOWER: BACH FOR GOOD
Posted on 27th August, 2021 by Andrew Benson-Wilson
"A later woodland chamber concert also feature Karen Wong playing the Allegro from Bach’s Flute Sonata in e. This elicited a delightful response from a young lady who had sat for some time entranced by music from Merula and Bach before getting up for a little dance. This is what music should be all about."
Published on 1st June, 2021 by Jeremy Chan
"Karen curated a wonderful and entertaining programme introducing new music as well as showing why classics deserve their positions in the canon. "