The Hong Kong Arts Festival reaches its 55th edition from 18 February to 19 March 2027, with about 45 programmes and more than 190 performances. It opens in the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, with Bruce Liu playing Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare.
The reason to fly is Bach. René Jacobs brings the St John Passion with B'Rock Orchestra and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie on 6 March. On 15 March the Thomanerchor and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig sing the St Matthew Passion, written for that same choir and first heard at St Thomas Church on Good Friday 1727. The same night, Ralph van Raat plays Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert at City Hall.
Advance booking runs until 20 November with discounts of up to 15%, and counter sales open through URBTIX on 3 December. The hall's 8,000-pipe Rieger organ gets its own recital on 20 March, and the atlas page covers the room.
