Saturday Night Jazz – 2025.03.22

The Rui Cunha Foundation presents this Saturday, March 22nd at 9:00 pm, the first Saturday Night Jazz of the year, a concert that will bring the “S.T.A.O. Hong Kong + MJPA” to the FRC Gallery stage to celebrate the reunion of long-time friends.

The artists from Hong Kong are back, this time with S.T.A.O band performing as a string quartet, which includes in its repertoire a variety of popular styles, such as swing, bebop, bossa nova, ballad and jazz waltz. In this configuration, guitarists Mark Leung (梁震宇), Moon Wong (黃松燕) and Brian Mok (莫皓喬), will join bassist Fish Yu (余乾正).

The four members of the band are not only performance partners, they are also mentors and students of each other, and friends of the local musicians, with whom they have been promoting over the years an interesting and positive musical exchange. Hong Kong-based guitarist and promoter Mark Leung is the founder of Olá School of Music, where he teaches performance studies and music education, the founder of Sound & Good Co., the founder and chairman of the Free Music Association (FMA), and also a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH).

Currently a guitar instructor with over 20 years of teaching experience, Mark Leung has served as a lecturer for the Associate Degree program at Hong Kong College of Technology, teaching “Introduction to Popular Music”. Throughout his career he has studied under renowned classical guitarist Chan Kwok Wah (陳國華), jazz guitarist Teddy Suen (孫立功), Portuguese jazz guitarists Nuno Ferreira (努諾·費雷拉) and Mário Delgado (馬里奧·迪爾加度), and Portuguese jazz bassist Zé Eduardo (澤·伊度亞度).

Master Zé Eduardo taught several jazz courses in Macau and Portugal, pursued and attended by these dedicated apprentices from the neighboring territory, together with the local group that would later form the Macau Jazz Promotion Association. Therefore, the MJPA musicians will also perform in the second part of this reuniting concert, led by chairman and guitarist Mars Lei (李兆康), playing popular jazz classics.

The Macau Jazz Promotion Association (MJPA), co-organizer of the event since 2014, is formed by jazz lovers who regularly play, teach, and explore the many styles of this musical genre, within a scope of multiple projects aimed at youth and others.

Admission is free.

Don’t miss it!

For Macau, Further and Higher!

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