在公開演出之前，逸響潮樂演奏組將介紹他們的樂器並解釋潮州弦詩樂於潮州音樂文化中的重要性。此活動將由民族音樂學家呂梅絲博士 (Dr. Mercedes M. Dujunco) 主持。呂博士還將解釋音樂的內部運作，特別是旋律變奏的過程以及潮州調式系統，並由逸響潮樂演奏組演奏的簡短音樂例子進行說明。 正是各種旋律變奏法和不同調式的使用才賦予了潮汕地區的音樂獨特的風味（活動以英語進行，並設有普通話和英語問答環節）。
此活動免費並對公眾開放。
In advance of their performance, the Yi Xiang Chaozhou Music Ensemble, distinguished representatives of the Teochew xianshi (string poem) tradition from the Chaoshan region in eastern Guangdong, will introduce their instruments and explain the significance of the music within the Teochew subculture. The event will be moderated by ethnomusicologist Dr. Mercedes Dujunco. (In English, with Q&A in Mandarin and English.)
The event is free and open to the public.
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潮州弦詩 潮州文化主要分布在廣東東部，並擁有中國最為活躍的民間器樂合奏傳統之一。潮州人經常在音樂社相聚並演奏潮州弦詩樂作自娛。在世界各地擁有潮州人口的地方，往往可以找到潮州音樂社，而這些樂社大多是各商會、宗教團體和宗親會的一部分，讓音樂家們就彷如在故鄉一樣作定期合樂。民族音樂學家 Mercedes M. Dujunco(呂梅絲)博士（香港科技大學）在其對潮州弦詩樂進行的研究中指出，潮州人正是通過這些音樂社合演奏的弦詩樂去建立商業聯盟和網絡，並在與其他華人分支或外國人的商業競爭中，持續鞏固他們的潮州文化和地區的認同。
The Chaozhou Chinese (a.k.a. Teochew) subculture, located in the eastern part of Guangdong, has one of the most vibrant folk instrumental ensemble traditions in China. Teochew men meet regularly in music clubs devoted to the performance of the wind-and-string ensemble tradition known as Chaozhou xianshi for their self-entertainment. In places throughout the world with large Teochew populations, one often finds music clubs—part of voluntary trade, religious, and lineage associations—in which Teochew musicians regularly perform as they would in their hometown. In her research on Chaozhou xianshi music, ethnomusicologist Dr. Mercedes Dujunco (HKUST) asserts that it is through xianshi performed in these music clubs that Teochew forge business alliances and networks, as well as affirm their Chaozhou Chinese regional identity in the face of increased contact and competition for business with other Chinese subgroups or foreign peoples in the places they have migrated to.
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由七名老、中、青潮州音樂演家組成的逸響潮樂演奏組是潮汕地區最優秀的潮州弦詩樂手之一。他們多有家事傳承淵源，有著較為豐富的演奏實踐， 演奏組旨於能較為原湯原汁地保持潮州音樂的韻味，精心排練了潮州弦詩樂、潮州細樂和潮州箏樂若干有代表性的樂曲，希望能將潮汕地區的優秀傳統音樂文化遺產呈現獻給聽眾。
The seven members of the Yi Xiang Chaozhou Music Ensemble are some of the best musicians of Chaozhou xianshi music in the Chaoshan region. Made up of former professional, semi-professional, and non-professional musicians steeped in the Chaozhou regional folk music style, each player can perform on more than one instrument. Several of them have been officially recognized as inheritors and transmitters of Chaozhou xianshi as an intangible heritage at the national and regional level in mainland China. Their seamless ensemble playing has been honed through many years of performing Chaozhou xianshi together and with other Teochew from different music clubs all over the world.
呂梅絲博士 (Dr. Mercedes M. Dujunco) 目前擔任香港科技大學人文學部的高級講師，教授民族音樂學相關課程以及其他以民族音樂學觀點的音樂課程。她的研究範圍包括中國東南沿海地區的管和弦樂傳統，特別是廣東東部的潮州弦詩樂 、潮州華人在東南亞的散居地的音樂以及菲律賓的藝術和流行音樂。她曾發表關於中國流行音樂和關於東南亞潮州喪葬儀式和音樂的論文。她的文章《 Jiangnan sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area 》收錄在最近出版的《 Oxford Handbook of the Music of China and the Chinese Diaspora 》（牛津大學出版社，2023年）中。她目前正在撰寫一本關於情感勞動和菲律賓音樂家的專論 。
Mercedes M. Dujunco is currently Senior Lecturer in the Division of Humanities of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where she teaches ethnomusicology content courses as well as other music courses using an ethnomusicological perspective. Her research areas include the string-and-wind ensemble traditions of China’s southeast coastal regions, particularly that of the Chaoshan region in eastern Guangdong, called Chaozhou xianshi; the music of the Chaozhou (Teochew) diaspora in Southeast Asia; and art and popular music in the Philippines. She has published papers on Chinese popular music in mainland China and on the funeral ritual and music of Teochew in Southeast Asia. Her article on Jiangnan sizhu in the Greater Suzhou Area is included in the recently published Oxford Handbook of of the Music of China and the Chinese Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2023).