Andrea Morricone's charity tribute concert in Hong Kong to father Ennio's work

The connection between the worlds of classical concert music and film scores is well established - not surprisingly given the classical training of most noted composers for the screen.

Andrea Morricone, who has composed concert works for classical ensembles ranging from orchestras to trios, duos and solo instrumentalists and choirs, has film music in his blood. His father is Ennio Morricone, the composer of more than 500 scores for film and television, as well as concert works of his own.

In 1991, father and son jointly won a best film music Bafta award for their work on the soundtrack to Giuseppe Tornatore's (1988). Expect to hear some of those tracks in a new arrangement for piano, clarinet and orchestra at a concert on May 29 at the Academy for Performing Arts in support of several charities.

The featured soloist in the "Concert for Cause Gala - Timeless Masterpieces of Cinema Music" performance, which marks Morricone's Asia debut, is clarinettist Seunghee Lee. Local pianists Julie Kuok and Hui Ling will put in a guest appearance while the orchestra will be made up of professional musicians from across the city.

Lee is also the founder of the "Concert for Cause" series, which began four years ago with lower profile events in support of Hong Kong charities that are, as she puts it, "making a difference, one concert at a time".

A Hong Kong resident, the Korean-American musician has recorded three classical CDs; the most recent - , featuring piano and clarinet duets with pianist Evan Solomon - was independently released under her own label via CD Baby in 2014. It made number 2 on Hong Kong Records' classical and jazz music chart, and remained in the top 10 for more than 10 weeks.

The silver screen score tunes are something of a departure for Lee, whose recordings to date have drawn exclusively on the classical concert repertoire, although she says that the theme is one of her favourite pieces.