HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 12 August 2026 – Space Fantasy – an outer space musical spectacular for all the family – premieres in Hong Kong on 29 and 30 August 2026 at the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium. This exciting new production is created by award-winning playwright Leanne Nicholls with music by Luna Pan and Miles Brown. The show tells the story of an alien called Fluto who, after intercepting NASA’s Voyager 1, discovers the Voyager Golden Record. He embarks on a journey to planet Earth in search of Bach’s music and meets Astrid, who is preparing a Bach partita for her school competition. Their encounter leads to a fantastical spaceship ride to Europa, the fourth largest moon of Jupiter, where they perform in the Stars of the Cosmos show.

Space Fantasy promises to delight all ages with an exhilarating mix of live orchestral, theremin and electronic music performances, combined with theatre, song, dance, digital art and circus acts. Three performances will take place on Saturday 29 August 2026, 3:00pm and 7:30pm, and on Sunday 30 August 2026, 3:00pm. The show is performed in English and suitable for ages 3 and above. Tickets are priced at $600, $400, $250 and $120 and available at URBTIX. A 50% discount is applicable for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 and above, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients and people with disabilities and their accompanying minder.

CCOHK’s previous musical creations, including Bug Symphony and WILD (The Musical), have garnered international recognition at the YAMawards in Portugal (2017) and Belgium (2022), respectively. Space Fantasy marks CCOHK’s first appearance at Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium under the LCSD’s Venue Partnership Scheme. The project is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the HKSAR.

The Creatives
Space Fantasy is an original work based on a story by Leanne Nicholls with music by Luna Pan and Miles Brown, a leading performer/composer of the theremin. The performance is produced and directed by CCOHK’s Artistic Director Leanne Nicholls with physical theatre direction by Ines Hu from Vienna. The creatives also include Isaac Wong (set design), Billy Chan (lighting design), Twinny Cheng (costume design), Pattuvelil Prasannan Prasyam (digital video design), Kester Lee (sound design) and Margo Lau and Betty Wan (make-up design).

The Cast
Space Fantasy features a stellar cast of actors, singers, musicians, dancers and circus artists from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and Germany. Ten-year-old Adeline Wong, a triple-threat harpist-singer-actor from Hong Kong, performs the lead role of Astrid. She appears alongside Gabor Vosteen, a world-acclaimed recorder virtuoso and non-verbal comedian-actor-circus artist who is cast as the Alien Fluto. Other cast members include singer/actress Jessica Peralta (as Astrid’s Mother), actor Christopher Price (as Zerk, Host of the Stars of the Cosmos Show), theremin virtuoso Miles Brown (as Jupiter), mirror ball artist Valerie Murzak (as Neptune), singers Janees Wong (as Venus) and CHANKA (as Mercury) and hoop artist Grace Hoop (as Saturn). The cast also includes two exceptional artists from Japan – popping and animation dancer Kazuho Monster (as Earth’s Moon), a true master of the moonwalk and four arm juggler ON (as Uranus).

Theremin Demonstration by Miles Brown
Mon 31 AUG 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Philharmonic Club, 21/F Skyway Centre, 23 Queen’s Road West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Tickets: $100 per person. Walk-in accepted or register by email: info@ccohk.com

Space Fantasy features the theremin, an electronic instrument invented by the Russian scientist Léon Theremin in 1920. It is the only musical instrument in existence today that is played without physical contact. The player moves his/her hands around two protruding metal antennae. One antenna controls the frequency (or pitch), the other the amplitude (or volume), and both are motion sensitive. To form a musical line, the player moves his/her hands near the antennae and appears to find the notes from mid-air. The theremin’s eerie sound is often heard on movie soundtracks associated with aliens and science fiction themes. Famous examples include It Came from Outer Space (1953), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! (1996). Miles Brown, a leading performer of the theremin, studied with theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina, a direct relative of Theremin himself. He will give a demonstration on how this intriguing instrument works at the Philharmonic Club in Sheung Wan on 31 August 2026, 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Further Enquiries: 2864 2156.

Luna Pan composer
Luna Pan is an award-winning screen, advertising and game composer based in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Master of Arts in Orchestration for Film, Games and Television from the University of Chichester where leading industry composers mentored her. Her TV and feature films credits include The Block, Ice Road: Vengeance, My Eyes and Bluey. Luna Pan composed the soundtrack for the Sydney New Year’s Eve 2025 Fireworks Light Up Harbour Spectacular. Her orchestral compositions Evolution (recorded by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra) and The Masquerade (recorded by Smecky Music Studios Prague) received nominations at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2021 and 2022 respectively. In 2021 she won the Contemporary Female Composer Award and Best Orchestration Award at the GEMS Film Score Summer Programme in Spain. She is also the recipient of the APRA AMCOS Professional Development Award and was nominated for the Emerging Composer of The Year at the 2024 APRA AMCOS AGSC Screen Music Awards in Australia.

Miles Brown theremin/composer
Miles Brown is an Australian thereminist, composer and producer. Initially self-taught, he received an Australia Council grant to travel to Oxford to study with Lydia Kavina, the world’s leading classical thereminist and grandniece of the instrument’s inventor Leon Theremin. Since 2000 Miles has explored the theremin as a lead instrument in the electronic rock band The Night Terrors, releasing five albums and touring internationally with acts such as Hawkwind, Goblin, Serena-Maneesh, Melt-Banana and Black Mountain. He has released two acclaimed electronic solo albums and collaborates with harpist Mary Doumany as the microtonal experimental duo The Narcoleptor. In 2009 he performed at the “Without Touch” Theremin Festival in Lippstadt, Germany alongside theremin greats Lydia Kavina, Carolina Eyck and Barbara Buchholz. His other festival appearances include the Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals, Laneway, Big Day Out, Bracara Extreme Fest and Denovali Swingfest. Through numerous compositions and collaborations, Miles Brown has pushed the boundaries of the theremin in a wide range of genres including rock, gothic and film music. He has performed in concerts with Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Goblin, Marc Ribot, Black Mountain, Mick Harvey and Alexander Hacke and has recorded with Grace Cummings, Sankt Otten, Antoni Maiovvi, Cat Hope, Jess Ribeiro, Little Birdy and Black Lung. His soundtracks for film include Late Night with the Devil (2023), Nosferatu (2022) and Insomnolence (2016). TV credits include Spooky Files (2024), Art Works (2021), Dogstar (2011) and an advert campaign for Telstra (2025). Miles Brown is currently the Curator of Music at the City of Melbourne and runs the Australian record label Heavy Machinery Records.

Gabor Vosteen recorder/comedian
Gabor Vosteen tours the world as a recorder player and comedian. Following recorder studies at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, he attended the Circus School in Budapest to focus on clowning. Thereafter he undertook studies in physical theatre at the International School of Theatre LASSAAD in Brussels. His performances combining virtuoso recorder playing and visual non-verbal comedy have taken him to 24 countries including tours with Night of the Proms and Circus Roncalli. He has collaborated with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Constance Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and the Youth Symphony Orchestra Bremen, among others. He has also appeared as a guest artist at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the International Baroque Festival at Melk Abbey, the Bad Kissingen Recorder Festival, Jazz & the City Salzburg and the Musica Antiqua Festival in Bolzano. Gabor Vosteen is the recipient of numerous international awards including the Audience Prize at Tuttlinger Krähe, the Kleinkunstpreis Herborner Schlumpeweck, First Prize at the Gaukler und Kleinkunstpreis Koblenz and both the Audience Prize and Second Prize at the European Cabaret Competition Niederstätter surPrize in Bozen. Since winning the Best Small Ensemble Award at the YAMAwards in Denmark in 2019, he has enjoyed great success touring his solo programme The Fluteman Show. His credits for the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong include The Fluteman Show in 2022.

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City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong

City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong (CCOHK) holds a unique position as one of Asia’s leading chamber orchestras. Founded by oboist Leanne Nicholls in 1999, CCOHK has performed with many of the world’s most distinguished artists including Sir James Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Neville Marriner, Michala Petri, Sarah Chang, Julian Lloyd Webber, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alma Deutscher. CCOHK’s progressive programming has been internationally recognized with tour invitations to festivals in London, L’Aquila, Taipei, Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. Engagements in Hong Kong include Hong Kong Ballet, French May Arts Festival, RTHK’s Christmas Concerts in the Park and the World Harp Congress. CCOHK’s passion for building young audiences for music has inspired the creation of several newly curated and award-winning productions. Credits include Magnificent Mozart, The Star Bach, The Bonn Man, Haydn & The Prince, Bug Symphony, Shark Symphony and WILD (The Musical) – winner of the Public Choice Award at the YAMawards in Belgium 2022.