Mormon children share music of faith and love in “Music Share Concert” with KinderU Suzuki Music Academy 

Over 150 children and parents joined together in the “Music Share Concert” on Saturday at the Kowloon Tong Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Co-organized by the Church’s Hong Kong Kowloon Stake Primary (children organization) and KinderU Suzuki Music Academy, the activity aimed to bring children together to share music and promote interests in instrumental studies.

In the opening remarks, Hong Kong Kowloon Stake’s Primary President, Tsang Choi Kin-Fan, introduced the audiences the purposes of the Church’s Primary organization.

“The purposes of Primary are to help children: First, feel Heavenly Father’s love for them; Second, learn and understand the gospel of Jesus Christ; Third, feel and recognize the influence of the Holy Ghost; And fourth, prepare to make and keep sacred covenants,” she said.

In the two-hour music program, a choir of 24 children from the Hong Kong Kowloon Stake Primary shared their faith and love for the gospel of Jesus Christ by singing Primary songs they learned in Sunday church meetings.

Music filled the whole chapel instantly when Primary children and students from the KinderU Suzuki Music Academy treated the audiences to some well-known folk and classical music on the piano, violin, viola, cello and handbells. The performances won much applause.

With more than six months of practice, parents and the Church’s Primary leaders found the activity beneficial to the children’s development. 

Murine Charoensiddhi, a mother of a six-year-old daughter who performed J.N. Hummel’s Ecossaise at the piano said, “The concert had motivated her [daughter] to practice more when she saw other children playing.”

“She practices about 30 minutes a day…By learning to play the piano, it has been helping my daughter calm herself and relax from school work,” she added.

Music plays an important role in children of the Mormon Church, where they have 20 minutes set aside for singing in church meeting every Sunday.

“Children can learn much in those 20 minutes [of singing time],” Tsang said. “And, ‘a child who sings is a happy child.’”