Kevin Ling
Graduated from Trinity College of Music (UK), Kevin Ling is one of the most active saxophonists in Hong Kong.
Kevin is an active musician in the Hong Kong. He is one of the founder members of the Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble, which tours regularly around the world to join many international saxophone events. He also established a local saxophone ensemble named the Holiday Sax, which provides a platform for young players and students to perform in public. Kevin works regularly with local composers and participated in the premiere of their works in many International saxophone events around the world. Apart from teaching and performance, Kevin also served as an adjudicator. He was invited by the Instituto Cultural do Governo da R.A.E. de Macau to be one of the adjudicators in the Macao Youth Musicians Competition.
Kevin is currently Assistant Music Officer of the Wind Section of the in Music Office, serving as saxophone instructor and manager/conductor of the Kowloon Youth Symphonic Band. He is also one of the freelance player of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and instrumental instructor of the Hong Kong Education University. |
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Palas Chan
Palas Chan started with learning the Euphonium in Music Office at her early age, and continued with trombone studies and graduated from the University of Hong Kong majoring in Music. In 2011, she was awarded the Centenary Music Teacher Travel Grant by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, to further her professional study in the Royal Northern College of Music. At college, she received trombone and ensemble lessons from many renowned trombonists including Simon Cowen, Adrian Morris and Chris Houlding. During her stay in England, she studied conducting with Denise Ham, the former conducting tutor of the Royal Academy of Music. Upon finishing her studies at college, she joined the Gordonstoun School in Elgin, Scotland, as the musician-in-residence, and worked closely with the Highland Youth Band and Orchestra.
Chan is the conductor of the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and has assisted in establishing the Music Office Youth Brass Band in 2013, which is the ever first youth brass band in Music Office, with the aim to offer wider ensemble training and performing opportunities for young brass players in Hong Kong. Both groups have actively participated in many local community concerts. In 2008, Chan led the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band to perform in Kagoshima, Japan, and in 2015, she also led the band to participate in the 24th Chiayi City International Band Festival. Their performances received critical acclaim from the audience.
Chan is currently the conductor of Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and the Music Office Youth Brass Band, the lower brass instruments instructor and the Music Officer of the Wind Section of the Music Office. |
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Au Wai-see
Au Wai-see graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in bassoon performance and under the tutelage of Kam Shui, former Principal Bassoonist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Au started her bassoon lessons at the Music Office under Lee Chi-wing at a young age. Au performed actively as a bassoon player with the Academy and other groups, such as Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the University of British Columbia Wind Symphony, amongst others. She was selected as the bassoonist in the Canton International Summer Music Academy China to receive symphony orchestral training with the former Principal Bassoonist of the Montreal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hoenich. She gave a graduated performance at the Guangzhou Xinghai Music Conservatory with critical acclaim.
Au is a committed musician who serves to train local young musicians, enhance their performing standard and promote wind music to the community. She led numerous ensemble groups to perform for various comminity programmes, such as “Revitalized Projects - Stone Houses Family Garden”, “Open Day of Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum”, “Claude Monet: The Spirit of Place” and “A Taste of Music at 4”. Performing in public, besides providing a platform for the young ages to enhance their performing standard, it is a good chance to promote wind music to the general public.
Au is currently Assistant Music Officer of the Wind Section of the Music Office, serving as the bassoon instructor, the conductor and manager of the Hong Kong Children's Symphonic Band. |
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Lee Sing-wan
Lee Sing-wan graduated from the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and earned a Master degree of Business Administration and a Master degree of Education (Music) respectively. Meanwhile, he attained a diploma in euphonium performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Lee had also received coaching from renowned euphonium soloists such as Dr. Brian Bowman, Shoichiro Hokazono, Adam Frey and Steven Mead.
Lee has extensive experiences in coaching lower brass instruments and symphonic bands. His students had won many prizes in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festivals. He also has several local and overseas performing experiences. In 2010, Lee led the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra to an ambassador visit to Shanghai with participation in the exchange programme with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra and performance for the Hong Kong Week of Shanghai Expo. In 2013, Lee also conducted the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band with great applaud in the Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival held in Jeju, Korea. He also led the Music Office Wind Ensemble to perform at the “Hong Kong Garden” of Qingdao International Horticultural Exposition in 2014.
Lee is currently conductor of Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and New Territories Youth Symphonic Band, lower brass instruments instructor and Music Officer of the Wind Section of the Music Office. |
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Dr. Joseph Kam
Dr. Joseph Kam, a violist, violinist and orchestral conductor, graduated from the University of Michigan, where he obtained his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. As a talented young musician, he received several awards and scholarships from the University of Michigan, including Graduate Merit Award, Humanities Award, Rackham Block Fellowship and School of Music Tuition Grant. During his tenure in the University of Michigan, he was appointed as the Graduate Student Instructor for teaching viola performance. He was also appointed as a viola faculty in the Interlochen Music Festival (Michigan, USA).
As an active conductor, Dr. Kam started his career as a conductor since his debut with Metropolitan Youth Orchestra in 2005. He has been the conductor of Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra (HKYSO) since 2007 and has made his debut with Lang Lang and HKYSO in 2010 at the UNICEF fund raising concert. He led the HKYSO to perform in Shanghai Expo 2010 and conducted the HKYSO and Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2015 EURASIA International Music Festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia with huge success. He made his debut to conduct the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra Players and performed in the auditorium of Adelphi University in Long Island, New York State in 2015 and conducted the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu during the summer from 2013 to 2015.
Dr. Kam is currently Music Officer of the String Section of the Music Office and a violin and viola faculty of the Music Department in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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Tsui Ying-fai
Tsui Ying-fai obtained his bachelor’s degree with first-class honour and master’s degree (Ethnomusicology – Chinese Music) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1987 and 1990 respectively and has studied ethnomusicology in the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Tsui has been active in the field of Chinese music as a conductor as well as a performer. He was the principal dizi player of the Macao Chinese Orchestra, the principal flautist of the Hong Kong Pan Asian Symphony Orchestra and the University Orchestra of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the conductor of several local school symphonic bands and orchestras. Tsui, as a music officer, led the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra to perform in Beijing and Xi’an (2000), Jiangsu (2007), Taiwan (2011), Shanghai and Shenyang (2016), and the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Plucked String Orchestra to perform in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in Scotland, UK in 2005. Besides his official conducting duties in the Music Office, Tsui also conducted in concerts of the Wah Sing Chinese Orchestra, Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble and the Hong Kong Youth Music Society Chinese Orchestra, etc.. In 2014, Tsui was invited to conduct in the Taipei Youth Chinese Orchestra Concert. In 2002, 2004 and 2010, he was invited to serve on the adjudicating panel of the National Chinese Orchestral Contest in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
As a music teacher and researcher, Tsui has worked as a tutor and research staff of the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a part-time lecturer of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the editor of The 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He published articles on Chinese instrumental music in publications by the former Hong Kong Provisional Urban Council and the Education and Manpower Bureau, and in music academic journals in the US and the well-known Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
Tsui is presently Senior Music Officer of the Chinese Music Section of the Music Office and conductor of the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra, the Music Office Instructors’ Chinese Orchestra and the Music Office Junior Chinese Orchestra. |
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