Raymond Young Lap-moon is a veteran civil servant in the Hong Kong SAR Government, with experience in many Bureaux and Departments before his retirement in 2015. Between 2007 and 2014, he was Permanent Secretary for Development and Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs. An aficionado of the art of music and singing, Young began performing at fundraising concerts of charitable and non- government organisations while he was still in the civil service. Young is now engaged in various singing and civic activities, and dabbles in composing music and writing lyrics. In March 2015, he gave his first solo recital at the City Hall Concert Hall to raise funds for the charity Lifeline Express, with the renowned producer Chiu Tsang-hei as Musical Director, and C AllStar and Chelsia Chan as guest artists. The concert succeeded in raising over a million dollars.
Young is also an avid enthusiast of Cantonese Opera and traditional Chinese music, and highly commends the artistic achievements of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. His first collaboration with the HKCO was in 2012, when he sang The Toll of the Temple Bells at its fundraising concert, A Musical Soirée with the HKCO, and won critical acclaim. Young is honoured to be able to collaborate with the Orchestra on this occasion, and is delighted to be the duet partner of Ms Teresa Cheung, a singer of diva status, in singing some Cantopop classics.
Young’s diverse interest in music has built for him an eclectic repertoire that covers Western and Chinese pop songs of different eras, as well as Cantonese operatic songs. More recently, he has forayed into art songs sung in French, German and Italian.
