Ticket Registration (Gig 1 8 Nov 20:00 - 21:00 ─ Mike Orange x Vincy Chan)

Ticket Registration (Gig 2 18 Nov 16:00 - 17:00 ─ Teriver Cheung x Jan Curious)

Mike Orange
Mike Orange is the guitarist and keyboardist for Hong Kong experimental rock band "Chochukmo" and has launched his own music collective "Mike Orange & The Universe Travellers", in which he provides live instrumentals and assumes the roles of producer and arranger for various projects. He has also served as composer and music director for many theatrical works, including Lazy People are Always Busy, Lazy People Love Traveling and The Black and Blue of a Man (North-East Village Edition). In 2017, Orange was invited to compose and arrange the music for Hong Kong Ballet’s production of Carmen. Thereafter, he was shortlisted in the "Outstanding Music Composition and/or Sound Design" category at the 2018 Hong Kong Dance Awards. His experience also includes music curation for artistic events such as Freespace Fest and Freespace Happening.

Vincy Chan
Vincy Chan (them/them) is a non-binary trans multidisciplinary artist and advocate from Hong Kong. The singer-songwriter and keyboardist has performed at renowned venues in Hong Kong and the Twin Cities. They have shared the stage with at17 as a guest performer at the sold-out “Girls Girls Girls” concert in Queen Elizabeth stadium and with Anthony Wong Yiu Ming at the inaugural Pink Dot Hong Kong.

The grant recipient of Renaissance Foundation Hong Kong’s (RFHK) Talent Development Scheme released their debut EP Porcelain Soul (Universal Music Hong Kong) in 2015. They are currently participating in RFHK’s Ear Up Music program.

Chan is the vocalist of local sextet the prototyke lab. Their originals are eatured on West Kowloon Cultural District’s “Freespace Mixtape Vol. 1” released in fall 2017, and again on the second instalment of the Mixtape to be released this fall.

Teriver Cheung

Teriver Cheung is an internationally touring guitarist and composer. Originally born in Hong Kong, his early exposure to classical music has contributed to his future style of composing as well as playing.

In 2015, Cheung returned to Hong Kong and curated the “Hong Kong Episodes” concert as part of the 10th year anniversary Hong Kong World Cultures Festival, which featured himself as a performer as well as composer (along with composer Fung Lam) with a 16 piece chamber jazz ensemble. He also participated as part of the Kerong Chok’s “Eleven”, a chamber jazz concert by an eleven piece ensemble presented by Esplanade Mosaic Music Series.

Jan Curious

A multi-talented artist based in Hong Kong. He is well known as the frontman of an indie experimental rock band, Chochukmo. Known for his energetic live performances with the band’s unique style, they have been performing for various large-scale music festivals in different cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and London. Along with collaborating with mainstreams singers like Andy Hui, Nicholas Tse and Jan Lamb, he forms a new band, R.O.O.T with musicians from the classical and jazz fields, creating R&B and hip-hop flavoured songs to explore the possibilities of different music genres. The band did make a mind-blowing performances at Freespace Happening and K11. Jan has been also carrying out his individual projects recently, like singing a movie song “Let Us Be The One” for “Project Gutenberg” directed by Felix Chong Man-Keung.

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The “2018 Café De Coral Music Station X Hong Kong Arts Centre Open Music Series – Sync Together” is a series of exciting concerts, music workshops, public talks and Asia Exchange Tours, to promote local creative music, and nurture a new generation of musicians through an all-rounded music development programme. Curated by famous local musician Kung Chi Shing, the series is co-organised by the Café de Coral Fast Food Limited (Café de Coral) and the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC).

Starting in November, Mike Orange and Vincy Chan, Teriver Cheung and Jan Curious (the vocalist of Chochukmo) will hold two mini gigs to share their music with the public.