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Yvonne 
Tong Siu Yin

Yvonne Tong Siu Yin is the only Dishui Nanyin performer in Hong Kong. Tong is good at singing lyrical songs, can play percussion and yangqin. She often sings in large and small halls and has participated in many Cantonese operatic song competitions. In her early years, she met Li Yin Jiao and asked her to teach Cantonese operatic songs. She was the champion of the “Asian Amateur Cantonese Operatic Songs Singing Contest”, the champion of Radio Television Hong Kong’s “Show Talent, Compete in Art, and Brightness Cantonese Operatic Competition”. She also won the “Music Achievement Award at International Music Festival for Rehabilitation” in 2007. 

香港唯一的地水南音師娘。唐小燕師娘擅長抒情歌曲,能奏擊樂及掦琴,經常在各大、小會堂演唱,曾參加多次粵曲比賽。早年結識李銀嬌師娘,向她請教粵曲曲藝。獲亞洲業餘粵曲歌唱大賽冠軍、香港電台「展才競藝顯光華粵曲比賽」冠軍,並於2007年獲國際復康音樂節音樂成就獎。

A few years ago, she began to study the Dishui Nanyin. She learned the songs from the previous recordings and practice the skills of singing. Also, she asked the famous Nanyin master of Hong Kong and Macao to benefit from Mr. Qu Jun Xiang. Tong Siu Yin is one of the few Dishui Nanyin performers in Hong Kong and performed the film “The Autumnal Equinox” (2008 Hong Kong Asian independent film festival〈world premiere〉), Collections of Chinese Opera Research Centre, Collection of the Hong Kong Baptist University Library. In 2007, Tong published her personal Dishui Nanyin record “Li Qing Zhao - Dishui Nanyin”. 

年前她開始鑽研地水南音,從潤心師娘的珍貴錄音,學習故人的絕唱藝術,並向港澳南音名家區均祥請益,決定繼續向地水南音邁進,保存廣東遺失音樂。唐小燕是香港僅存的地水南音師娘,演出電影《未央歌》(2008年香港亞洲獨立電影節世界首映,香港中文大學戲曲資料中心藏品、香港浸會大學圖書館藏品)。2007年,唐小燕出版個人地水南音唱片《李清照——地水南音》。

At the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010 "Lotus Pond Sings Nanyin" concert, she performed well on the same stage with Chen Li Ying, the third-generation descendant of Guangzhou flat melisma of Nanyin, and Wu Yong Mei, a Macao Chinese folk-art artist.

 

在香港藝術節2010的「蓮池雅詠唱南音」音樂會中,唐小燕與廣州平腔南音第三代傳人陳麗英,及澳門曲藝家吳詠梅同台演出,叫好叫座。

On October 4, 2013, she held her first solo concert "Little Yin South Music Rhythm Club". The Nan Lian Garden, Chi Xiang Hai Xuan was full of people, and there were many supporters, who established her status in Dishui Nanyin.

 

2013年10月4日,她開了第一次個人演唱會「小燕南音樂韻會知音」,南蓮園池香海軒座無虛席,捧場者眾,奠定了她的地水南音師娘地位。

In addition, Tong Siu Yin has participated in the "Street Concert Series" organized by the Hong Kong Arts Center and planned by musician Gong Zhi Cheng. She has worked in Sunbeam Theatre, Hong Kong Park Tea Ware Museum, Lockcha , Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong Central Library, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong Baptist University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Diocesan Boys' School, Kubrick Bookstore, Yau Ma Tei Theatre, Sha Tin Town Hall, Culture Club Gallery, Temple Street Banyan Tau Tin Hau Temple Front, Cattle Depot Artist Village, ToHome, Wanchai Hong Kong Story Museum (Blue House), Tai Kwun - Museum of Heritage and Art, The Mills, Twenty Alpha, Guangzhou Science City (Luogang District, Guangzhou), OCT Loft Creative Culture Park, and West Kowloon Cultural Center held the Di Shui Nan Yin concert.

此外,唐小燕多次參與香港藝術中心主辦,音樂人龔志成策劃的「街頭演唱會系列」。她曾於新光戲院、香港公園茶具文物館樂茶軒、香港大學馮平山博物館、三棟屋博物館、香港中央圖書館、西九文化區、香港浸會大學、香港中文大學、香港科技大學、男拔萃書院、Kubrick書店、油麻地劇院、沙田大會堂、Culture Club Gallery、廟街榕樹頭天后廟前、牛棚藝術村、土家故事館、灣仔香港故事館(藍屋)、大館-古蹟及藝術館、The Mills南豐紗廠、富德樓Twenty Alpha、廣州科學城(廣州市蘿崗區)、深圳華僑城創意文化園、西九龍文化中心舉辦地水南音演唱會。

 

"Cantonese Unvoiced Voice - Cantonese Literature Of Narrates Stories By Singing Songs" published by Guangdong, China Publishing Limited records Tong’s singing career and characteristics. On January 10, 2013, Tong was the main guest of Hong Kong Satellite TV International Media Group's "Tilt-Shift Life" special edition of Dishui Nanyin. Tong act as Dishui in the Hong Kong TVB TV drama " Momentary Lapse Of Reason" (2015).

 

中國廣東省出版集團的《粵韵清音—廣府說唱文學》記載唐小燕的演唱生涯和特色。2013年1月10日香港衛視《移軸人生》地水南音特輯唐小燕任主要嘉賓。唐小燕客串演出香港無綫電視公司電視劇《收規華》(2015),戲裏飾演地水南音師娘。

Beginning in April 2015, Tong started a class to teach apprentices about Dishui Nanyin to pass on this ancient music. In 2015, she won the "Cultural Conservation Award" of "The 3rd Spirit Of Hong Kong Awards" in the South China Morning Post.

2015年4月開始,唐小燕師娘開班授徒,教授地水南音,將這古老音樂承傳下去。2015年,南華早報的【The 3rd Spirit Of Hong Kong Awards】 唐小燕榮獲「文化保育獎」。

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