Hong Kong Sinfonietta

The Hong Kong Sinfonietta is a professional symphony orchestra based in Hong Kong. It was established in 1990 by a group of local music graduates. It has always aimed at promoting classical music to the public. The orchestra was reorganised 1999, with Tsung Yeh, an American conductor of Chinese descent, as the new music director. The music director during 2002 to 2020, Wing-sie Yip, joined the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in April 2002, and since then, the orchestra has widened its range of repertoire, hoping to increase the spectrum of classical music admirers. Yip became the music director emeritus in 2020, while Christoph Poppen, who served as the orchestra's principal guest conductor since 2015, has taken up the music directorship from 2023.