The Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival 2025

From its modest beginning in 2018, the Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival has grown into the largest choral education project in Hong Kong, fostering a rich inter-school choral culture rooted in learning, appreciation, and collaboration. We are grateful to have served a record number of over 300 primary and secondary schools and nearly 30,000 teachers and students in HKICF2025. HKICF2025 included 50 sessions of Competition cum Masterclass, 3 sections of Mass School Choir Masterclass, 11 choral concerts, 10 workshops for teachers and conductors, our first-ever Choral Carnival Day at the Hong Kong Observation Wheel, as well as various school-based choral activities and development programmes, including the Hong Kong Inter-School Choir, providing students from diverse backgrounds with opportunities for choral learning and exchange.

HKICF2025 received the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme “Springboard Grant” as well as the Year Grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for the first time. Additionally, we extend our gratitude to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the Calvin Chan Foundation, the Lee Hysan Foundation, the Tung Foundation, and the Shaw Foundation for their generous support, as well as to each individual sponsor for their donations. 

Our collaborative partners in HKICF2025 grew tremendously, with support from institutions including the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong, Academy of Music of Hong Kong Baptist University, the TWGHs Kitty Woo Music and Art Development Centre, ABRSM, Mind HK, and Every Life is a Song. For the first time, we invited community choirs to participate in our concert, making HKICF2025 events even more diverse and vibrant.

HKICF would like to extend special thanks to the principals, teachers, students, parents, and community members from participating schools for their continued support and partnership with the festival, providing us with the opportunity to grow alongside school choirs. Through existing and new programmes, the festival hopes to bring more opportunities for primary and secondary school students to experience the joy of choral music, while also providing quality training programmes for teachers and conductors to learn and grow.