Vanessa-Mae -- "An Exclusive Dinner in Hong Kong on April 8, 2005"

Vanessa-Mae -- "An Exclusive Dinner in Hong Kong on April 8, 2005"

7:30 p.m., April 8, 2005 -- The Ballroom, The Inter-Continental Hong Kong, 18 Salisbury Road, Kowloon

HONG KONG, March 30 /Xinhua PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Kudos Limited is pleased to announce that Vanessa-Mae will bring her exciting 'Choreography 2005 Tour' to Hong Kong for one exclusive night on April 8, 2005 at the The Ballroom, The Inter-Continental Hong Kong, Kowloon.

This exclusive dinner performance with pre-show menu by Chef Laurant Andre of the world-renowned Alain Ducass restaurant 'SPOON,' is limited to just 54 tables. Do not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see Vanessa-Mae in this intimate & exclusive setting. Tickets are available on a per table basis (twelve guests per table) with Diamond, Platinum and Gold seating available. Individual tickets will be allocated onto table groups as received. Please contact Corporate Kudos on 2865 5225 for ticketing details or to request a booking form.

The Hong Kong performance will be presented by the title sponsor, Bel-Air and hosted by the official hotel sponsor, The InterContinental Hong Kong. Vanessa-Mae's transportation is sponsored by Maybach, the event's official car sponsor.

Vanessa-Mae's tour is in support of her critically-acclaimed new album Choreography released on Sony Classical. The beautiful young violinist was just in her mid-teens when she shattered the mold of the classical virtuoso with her first album The Violin Player, forging a new style that made her a multi-million-selling worldwide phenomenon and the breakthrough artist who defined the fusion of classical and pop that became known as crossover. The albums that followed have created worldwide sales that have topped 8 million units, earning over 40 platinum awards.

At the age of 25, Vanessa-Mae now makes her Sony Classical debut with Choreography, an original album celebrating dance rhythms from around the world. The music draws its inspiration from the pulses of dance cultures from the Argentinean tango, the Spanish bolero, the tribal dances of Africa, and the complex allure of Indian music. Original pieces have also been created by the Oscar-winning Vangelis, Bill Whelan of Riverdance, Indian film composer A.R. Rahman (the musical Bombay Dreams) and Tolga Kashif (The Queen Symphony), amongst others.

Vanessa-Mae has collaborated with Janet Jackson and Prince, performed on the soundtrack of Disney's Mulan, fiddled as she modeled a wedding dress at a Jean-Paul Gualtier fashion show, and reached out to the children of South African township Soweto as the first international artist to be invited to its music school. Her stunning presence adds to her appeal. People magazine voted Vanessa-Mae one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World," and FHM named her one of "The World's 100 Most Beautiful Women."

Born in Singapore in 1978, Vanessa-Mae moved to London with her family when she was four, began violin studies the following year, and made her professional debut at the 1988 Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the same year she made her concerto debut with London's Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her career was a prodigy's dream -- the youngest violinist to record Tchaikovsky and Beethoven's violin concertos, a world tour with the London Mozart Players, and three classical albums by the age of 13. It was her interest in new arrangements of favorite classical melodies that led her to seek more than the traditional violin repertoire could offer. The result -- The Violin Player -- and the string of successful discs that followed.

An explosive live performer, Vanessa-Mae has visited over 50 countries performing at spectacular venues including the Kremlin Palace (Moscow), the Acropolis (Athens) an outdoor pyrotechnic extravaganza (Dubai), and stadiums in Beijing and Shanghai.

Vanessa-Mae was the only foreign artist invited to perform at the pivotal Reunification of Hong Kong to China at midnight. She also opened the first- ever Classical Brit Awards, the MTV Asia Awards, and is passionately involved in charity work. Through close links with the Red Cross, she has visited the organization's field units in Kenya and Cambodia, participated in one of its TV ad campaigns, and given fund-raising performances.

DISCOGRAPHY

the violin player (1995) the classical album 1 (1996) storm (1997) china girl (the classical album 2) (1998) the original four seasons (1998) the classical collection - part 1 (2000) subject to change (2001) best of (2002) choreography (2005)

For further information or for photographs accompanying this release, please contact Janet Middlemiss on +852-9195-7829 or at janet@jemworldwide.com .

Source: Corporate Kudos Limited

CONTACT: Janet Middlemiss, +852-9195-7829, or, janet@jemworldwide.com

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