![]() ![]() To view the LJKOA 2002-2014: A Photographic Retrospective, click here Yi’s story focused on Kathy’s teaching work in general and in particular of a young British man to first performance level in the Dan role. The video titled ‘ I Teach Chinese Opera in the UK_Links to Chinese Opera’ by a University of Sussex MA Film graduate, S Yi, was among the 15 Third Prize winners. ![]() The China People’s Daily ‘ My China’-themed Global Short Video Contest saw over 430,000 entries from over 60 countries. In September 2019, Kathy’s Jingju and Kunqu Opera teaching in the UK was the subject of an award-winning video. She teaches Peking opera and Kunqu opera in London to all ages and ethnicities. She regularly translates opera libretto into English to enhance audience and learner understanding. ![]() In 2010, she was awarded Honorary Member of The 48 Group Club “Ice-Breakers” for her contribution towards East-West understanding. ![]() She has also appeared in Malta, Northern Ireland and at the 2006 Venice Biennale China Special Programme Crisis. She has given numerous Peking opera and Kunqu opera lecture-demonstrations, workshops and performances UK-wide in museums, theatres, community halls and schools. Kathy was Vice-principal and Head of Senior English of a secondary school, and Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council before settling in the UK in 1997. In 2008, supported by an Arts Council England (London) grant, she studied with top Kunqu Opera actor, Liang Guyin 梁谷音老师 in Shanghai. She was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship in 2004 and took intensive lessons with Kunqu Opera doyenne Wang Fengmei 王奉梅老师 in Hangzhou in 2005. Kathy was the Founding Chair and voluntary Chief Executive of the London Jing Kun Opera Association. She also learnt Kunqu opera movements for five years with former Shanghai Kunqu Opera actor Ms Le Yiping 乐漪萍老师. Kathy learnt Jingju opera singing for nine years in Hong Kong with the late Mr Bao Youdie 包幼蝶老师, a specialist in the Mei Lanfang 梅兰芳style. She is known for her work UK-wide with the former London Jing Kun Opera Association (2002-2014). Kathy Hall 李惠馨 (Churchill Fellow 2004) is an experienced arts administrator, promoter, presenter, teacher and practitioner of Jingju (京剧Peking Opera) and Kunqu Opera (昆曲) in London. ![]()
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