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Mr Anthony Adkins

Anthony Adkins was born in Northampton, England, and

educated in London where he resides. Winning

scholarships to the Royal Academy of Music and the

Royal College of Music, he accepted the latter, and

studied piano performance with Eric Harrison and

Bernard Roberts. He was a finalist in the Chappell Gold

Medal Competition.

After leaving the RCM, Anthony Adkins was awarded a London début recital

at the Wigmore Hall. This was received with such rare critical acclaim that

he was invited back immediately. He then won the Chopin Fellowship from

the Polish Government, working with Professor Jan Hoffmann at the

Academy of Music in Kraków. On completion of these studies, Hoffmann

wrote of Anthony Adkins– ‘a great artist’.

Anthony Adkins has played for innumerable important occasions and has

performed frequently at the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank in London.

He has toured the UK extensively and engagements abroad have included

Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and USA. In

2017/18 his engagements include venues in France, Germany, Poland, Sri

Lanka and the UK. He has recorded for BBC and Polish radio, German and

Sri Lankan television. He has played before, and teaches a member of the

Royal Family and has taught in schools, colleges, universities and privately,

for 47 years. This is Anthony Adkins’ sixth visit as adjudicator for the Hong

Kong Schools Music Festival.

His reviews from far and wide confirm the extent of his international

reputation:

‘A virtuoso technique at the service of a perceptive musical mind’ - The Daily

Telegraph/ UK

‘Command of tone and colour’ - The Times/ UK

‘A brilliant pianist’ - Sudkurier/ Germany

‘His playing was amazing’ - Sud Ouest/ France

‘A stellar performance’ (Grieg piano concerto) - The Daily Mirror/ Sri Lanka

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Ms Elise Bradley

This season marks Elise Bradley’s eleventh year as

Artistic Director of Canada’s 300-member Toronto

Children’s Chorus. A passionate musician,

award-winning conductor and educator, and

internationally respected adjudicator and clinician, Ms

Bradley served for many years as the Head of

Department, Music, at Westlake Girls’ High School in

Auckland, New Zealand.

Since arriving in Canada in 2007, she has been praised for her artistry and

deep commitment to children and the art of treble choral music. She has led

the Chamber Choir on eight international tours: Austria, Czech Republic and

Germany (2009), Brazil and Argentina (2011), Sweden (2012), South Africa

(2013), Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland (2015), Boston and

New York City (2016), Bahamas (2016) and Spain, to perform at the World

Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona (2017); and three Canadian tours:

Ottawa (2012), Montreal and Ottawa (2013), and Halifax (2014). In June

2018, her Chamber Choir will travel to Canada’s east coast to perform at

Choral Canada’s biennial national conference in Newfoundland.

Under Ms Bradley’s direction, the choir’s CD, Sounzscapes: From Our Lands,

was recently named ‘Outstanding Choral Recording’ by Choral Canada. She

has commissioned Canadian composers to write works to be premiered by the

Chorus and has prepared the children to perform as guests of the Toronto

Symphony, Opera Atelier, Bach Consort, Soundstreams Canada, and the

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. The Chorus is honoured to appear twice this

season with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Throughout her four-decade

teaching and conducting career, Ms Bradley has also received numerous

invitations to adjudicate and conduct choirs and present at conferences around

the world, most recently in the United States, Australia, Jordan, New Zealand,

Korea, China, Spain, and across Canada.

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Mr Sze-yau Chan

Born in Hong Kong, Sze-yau Chan studied with Miss Amelia

Chan and Professor Eleanor Wong at the Hong Kong

Academy for Performing Arts since the age of ten and

obtained his bachelor’s degree with first-class honours in

2006. He furthered his graduate studies at the Indiana

University Jacobs School of Music with the world-renowned

pianists Andre Watts and Menahem Pressler, and at the

Chicago College of Performing Arts with Solomon Mikowsky. He finished his

master’s degree and performer's diploma on full-tuition scholarship and

assistantship at both schools.

He is also winner of numerous prizes and scholarships, including the

“Instrumentalist of the year” at the Llangollen Music Eisteddfod in Wales, the

11th Hong Kong Asia Piano Open Competition and the Second TOYAMA Asian

Youth Music Competition. He had also been awarded the Hong Kong Jockey

Club Scholarship and the Bernard Van Zuiden Music Prize.

Mr Chan has performed in various cities in North America, Europe and China.

He took part in a number of concert series, including the Rudolph Ganz Hall and

Steinway Hall Concert Series in Chicago, Paris Salon Concert Series and the

Academy's Best Pianists Fund-Raising Concert at the Hong Kong City Hall.

Presently Mr Chan is teaching piano at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing

Arts and the Hong Kong Baptist University. He has also been sitting on

competition jury in Hong Kong and China, as well as giving lectures, talks and

masterclasses in various Asian cities.

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Prof Wing-wah Chan

Prof Chan is a composer, conductor and music educator.

He is currently Head of College of Humanities & Law at

the School of Professional and Continuing Education,

The University of Hong Kong (HKU SPACE), Chairman

of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong,

and Music Director of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society.

The Hong Kong Government appointed him Justice of the Peace in 2000.

He was invited to become a member of the Chinese Musicians Association in

2009.

His music compositions have included 8 symphonies, other orchestral and

chamber works, choral music, children songs, etc. Some are released on CD.

He received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award (1992) and his

biography is included in the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians

Online.

Prof Chan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, later

received Master and Doctor of Music degrees from the University of Toronto

on a British Commonwealth Scholarship. He had been Professor of Music

and Associate Dean of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Dr Stephanie Cheng

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Martin Bernheimer wrote

that Taiwanese-American pianist Stephanie Shih-yu

Cheng plays “eloquently and elegantly with passion and

introspection…sensitivity and a finely honed sense of

style.” Dr Cheng has performed at major music centers

across the world to critical acclaim, including Weill

Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Dame Myra

Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Opera City Hall of

Tokyo, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and National Concert Hall

of Taipei. She frequently appears in recitals with pianist Sara Davis

Buechner and has collaborated with conductor Leon Fleisher, and has been

featured on National Public Radio, WFMT in Chicago, Radio Video

Mediterraneo in Italy, Living & Travel Section of msnbc.com, and Nippon

Television in Japan.

Dr Cheng holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of

New York at Stony Brook. Her principal teachers were Ann Schein and

Gilbert Kalish. She was the recipient of Prix-Ville de Fontainebleau in

France, personally presented to her by Philippe Entremont. Dr Cheng was

on the faculties of the City University of New York and the Manhattan School

of Music Precollege before moving to Kuwait in 2012 to serve on the faculty

of the American University of Kuwait. In Kuwait, she became the first

person there to conduct a Piano Concerto from the piano, and she quickly

gained renown throughout the Middle East. In 2015, Dr Cheng joined the

faculty at the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver and serves

as Chair of the Keyboard Department.

Dr Stephanie Cheng is a Steinway Artist. Her latest collaborative CD, titled

License to Thrill, was released on the Summit label.

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Ms Woosol Cho

Canadian violist Woosol Cho is currently enrolled in the

Doctor of Musical Arts in Viola performance program at

the University of Toronto, Canada, under the direction of

Teng Li, principal violist of the Toronto Symphony

Orchestra. Prior to studying in Toronto, Miss Cho held

the position of Principal Viola of the Thunder Bay

Symphony Orchestra in Thunder Bay, Canada for two

seasons.

Ms Cho holds a master degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice

University, Houston, USA, where she was a full scholarship student. She was

the Teaching Assistant to her teacher James Dunham, violist of the Cleveland

String Quartet, and also taught as faculty member of the Preparatory Program.

Ms Cho now performs regularly with various ensembles, including the

Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and frequently as guest principal of

the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg, Canada.

Woosol is excited to be adjudicating for the Hong Kong Schools Music

Festival in 2018, following the footsteps of her dear teacher, Rennie Regehr,

who has adjudicated at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in the past.

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Mr Alex Chu

Alex Chu began formal training on the guitar at the age

of 14, studying jazz technique under Alex Cruz in Hong

Kong. Between 1974 and 1982, he received numerous

scholarships and obtained both his Bachelor of Arts

(Music) and Master of Music degrees from the Southern

Illinois University. These years also marked an

intensive period of classical guitar training for Mr Chu

whose teachers had included such well-known masters as Frank Bliven and

Joseph Brezniker.

In August 1979, Mr Chu returned briefly to give his debut recital at the City

Hall in Hong Kong. This was followed by a series of solo recitals at the City

Hall Theatre, following which he was invited to appear in a studio recital at

RTHK. In the spring of 1985, Mr Chu gave a recital at the Fringe Club and

briefly thereafter, he gave another solo recital for the Arabesque Guitar Series

presented by the Urban Council.

Since his return to Hong Kong in 1982, Mr Chu has devoted to teaching and

lecturing of the classical guitar. He has given a number of lectures for the

Music Office and has also made appearances on both the ATV and TVB on

various occasions.

Mr Chu was the adjunct lecturer in classical guitar at the Music department of

Baptist University, The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, The Music

Department of Chinese University of Hong Kong, guitar programme director

at the Hong Kong Music Institute.

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Mr Benjamin Costello

Benjamin is a freelance musical director, adjudicator,

singing coach and accompanist, working internationally.

He is also Artistic Director of Thames Concerts,

Founding Director of Kingston Chamber Singers, Chorus

Master for the Leith Hill Musical Festival combined

choirs’ concerts and Assistant Artistic Director of

Thames Philharmonic Choir.

Benjamin has been a musical director on numerous productions across the

U.K. and remains a guest conductor with various choirs. As an accompanist

he collaborates with countless singers and instrumentalists. He judges at

festivals internationally as a generalist music adjudicator member of the

British and International Federation of Festivals and the Schools Music

Association, with recent visits to adjudicate or perform in Southern Africa,

China, Sri Lanka, Italy, Poland and Ireland.

A specialist in musical theatre, with his work in that field embracing musical

direction, singing teaching, lecturing and dramaturgy, Benjamin has worked

for most of the major London performing arts colleges. He has also lectured

for universities including London, Surrey, Kingston and Portsmouth.

Countless of his former singing students enjoy successful careers in the West

End and beyond.

Born and based in London, Benjamin trained initially as a flautist, and

subsequently majored in piano, singing and conducting. His early career

included répétiteur work with the London Symphony Orchestra and other

London theatre and opera groups and he remains much sought-after as an

outstanding accompanist in musical theatre repertoire.

Benjamin is a long-standing member of the Court of the Royal Society of

Musicians, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians,

organising and chairing the Company’s annual musical direction scholarship.

Outside of music he is a keen motorcyclist.

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Mr Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz

Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz is a Filipino Concert Pianist

gifted with a rare versatility. Aside from his

critically-acclaimed solo and chamber music recitals, or

his concerts as a soloist with major orchestras worldwide,

Mr. Cruz was a prize winner in numerous international

piano competitions in Europe and the United States. A

former child prodigy, Mr Cruz began his piano studies

with his mother at age 3, performed at the Malacañan

Palace at age 5, and made his orchestral debut at age 10. He was granted full

scholarships at the Chetham’s School of Music in England, and at the

Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he was a pupil of the

legendary artist-teacher Solomon Mikowsky. As a mentor, Mr Cruz

produced prize-winning students at the University of the Philippines College

of Music where he taught for almost 20 years. He is often invited to give

masterclasses in prestigious music institutions and festivals, most recently in

Fondation Bell’Arte’s Paris International Summer Sessions at the

Conservatoire Maurice Ravel in Levallois-Perret, France. He has also been

invited as a Juror in competitions such as the 1st ASEAN International Chopin

Piano Competition in Kuala Lumpur and the Steinway Youth Piano

Competition, among many others. As an artistic director and concert

producer, Mr Cruz is one of the pioneers for the renaissance of Classical

Music awareness in the Philippines. He is a Co-Founder and the Artistic

Director of ANG MISYON – the largest El Sistema-inspired program in

Southeast Asia that provides free music education, orchestral performance

opportunities, and social values to the less privileged Filipino youth. In

1996, President Fidel Ramos conferred on Mr Cruz The Outstanding Young

Men Award for his contribution to the Arts.

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Mr Jonathan Darbourne

Jonathan Darbourne began his musical training as a

chorister at Southwark Cathedral in London, England.

As a treble he performed as a soloist with orchestras in

the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth, and Royal Albert Halls.

He also took the roles of First Boy in Mozart’s The Magic

Flute for the ENO (English National Opera), and Miles in

Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for which he received

high critical praise. Away from singing, he became

principal viola player in the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra, playing

regularly at the Barbican Hall and touring internationally.

Jonathan later studied Music and sang as a choral scholar at Magdalen

College, University of Oxford, under the direction of Bill Ives (a former

member of the King’s Singers) and went on to further vocal study at the

Schola Cantorum in Basle, Switzerland. Now living in London, Jonathan

sings with leading European ensembles such as the Dunedin Consort,

Concerto Copenhagen, Ex Cathedra Consort, The Binchois Consort, and the

choirs of St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. In 2012 with Ex

Cathedra he took part in the world premiere of Stockhausen’s opera Mittwoch

aus Licht, which was performed the next year as part of the BBC Proms. He

also gives solo recitals of 16th

and 17th

century music, most recently in the

Festival d’Orgue de Masevaux in France.

Working also as a composer and arranger of choral music, Jonathan’s pieces

have been broadcast on BBC radio and performed widely in London venues

such as the Cadogan Hall and St John’s, Smith Square. He also runs his own

male-voice a cappella group, performing original arrangements from all styles

of popular music.

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Mr James Davey

James is one of the UK's most distinguished and

respected choral directors, in demand for his work as a

conductor, choir trainer, adjudicator and fixer.

Formerly the chief choral advisor for the BBC's sheet

music archive, James has delivered projects for the BBC

Singers Education Department and regularly conducts

and prepares choirs for broadcasts on TV and radio, as well as providing

professional ensembles to the entertainment and advertising industries.

As well as leading the Halstead & District Choral Society, at the heart of his

busy schedule James is Musical Director for Chantage (winners of the Malta

International Choral Competition 2015 and the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year

Competition 2006) and the Chandos Chamber Choir, and he is a Choral

Conductor for the Royal College of Music Junior Department. He also

directs 4 Tunes, the award-winning staff choir at Channel 4 Television.

James is a tutor for the Association of British Choral Conductors and the

Association of Irish Choirs, offering guidance to conductors all over the UK,

and during the summer months he leads choirs for the Cranleigh Choral Week

and the Sherborne Summer School of Music.

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Mr Andrew Davies

British pianist Andrew Davies studied at the Royal

Academy of Music London, and is no stranger to Hong

Kong. He studied piano with Harry Isaacs, and

trombone with Sidney Langston, later continuing studies

in Paris with pianist Noel Lee who was a lifetime mentor.

His early career includes recording piano music for

educational films on music, and a broad spectrum of freelance brass playing –

from opera and ballet to symphony concerts, as well as early music ensembles

and work with choral societies.

He taught both instruments in various schools of music including Guildford,

Godalming and Chichester, whilst at the same time contracted to Worthing

Symphony orchestra under the Czech conductor Jan Cervenka.

Andrew examined internationally for the ABRSM over a period of many

years, and was an adjudicator for the BBC “Young Musician of the Year” in its

very early years, also adjudicating the first national music competition in

Singapore. In addition to regular teaching seminars in much of Asia since the

'80s, he formed a piano duo with the late David Branson, giving recitals and

broadcasts featuring works of John Field, Hummel, Spohr Vincent d'Indy, and

works by many neglected composers of quality. The recordings were later

released along with his solo recordings of Spanish piano music.

He also wrote and broadcast series of weekly music education programmes for

Singapore Radio and RTHK, and has continued to regularly adjudicate

competitions in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China. He was awarded

Hon LCM (London College of Music at Thames Valley University London)

and later the ARAM (Royal Academy of Music London) for his service to

music. In 2012 he was teaching for a piano academy in Indonesia, and

continues to guide former students in many parts of the world whist currently

residing in rural Bulgaria.

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Ms Christine Dix

Christine Dix studied piano and composition at the Royal

Academy of Music, winning the Frederick Westlake

Memorial prize for Piano performance.

Later she returned there to study singing on the Advanced

Opera Course. She has also studied 'English Song' and

'Early Music' with Sir Peter Pears at the Britten-Pears

School for Advance Musical study in Aldeburgh.

Christine has appeared as an Oratorio Soloist at venues such as, the Queen

Elizabeth Hall and Canterbury Cathedral and has an extensive repertoire

including both St John and St Matthew Passions and the Verdi requiem. In

1990 Christine joined English National Opera. Here her roles have included

‘Marcellina’ in Marriage of Figaro and' Mercedes” in Carmen.

Christine now teaches piano and singing in Norfolk. She is the Music

Director of the now highly successful Whinburgh Festival and conducted the

Iceni Choir for the first three years of the Festival.

Christine also plays the cello and is a member of both the Norfolk Symphony

Orchestra and the Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Ms Ee-ping

Ee-ping is one of the leading pioneers of Singapore’s new

generation of musicians. She trained initially as a pianist

at the Guildhall School of Music and subsequently studied

opera/ voice at the Royal Academy of Music. Whilst

there, she was awarded the highest accolade of the Dame

Eva Turner Scholarship.

She made her debut at the London’s South Bank singing the title role of

‘Mimi’ in Puccini’s La Boheme with the British Youth Opera. Since then she

has sung many operatic roles all over Europe and Asia with companies

including Mid-Wales Opera, London City Opera, IMG, London Handel

Festival, Buxton Festival Opera, Co-Opera Ireland, Grassington Festival, Les

Azuriales Festival and the Singapore Lyric Opera.

Other concert appearances include performances with the Warsaw

Philharmonic, Pablo Sarasate Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Orchestra,

Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra and UK

Chamber Academy Orchestra.

In Europe, she has been a prize-winner at many competitions including the

Julian Gayarre International Competition, Royal Overseas League Music

Competition and the National Mozart Competition.

Although Ee-ping has been residing in London since 1992, she was awarded

the 2001 prestigious Singapore Young Artist’s award. She maintains a close

bond with Singapore often returning home as a guest artist performing with

the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Lyric Opera. Most

recently, she was invited to sing in the opening of the 2013 Singapore Arts

Festival in the world premiere of Mark Chan’s operetta, Jadebird.

Ee-ping also dedicates her time to teaching and is a much sought after voice

and piano coach. She has taught at the Westminster Cathedral Choir School

for many years.

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Mr Peter Esswood

Peter Esswood’s musical career has been of a varied and

distinguished; singer, conductor, cellist, a member of the

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and

the BBC Symphony Orchestra and frequent guest of the

Philharmonia. As a member of the Ariosi String Quartet

he appeared on BBC Television in Top of the Pops,

Everyman and Horizon. In a solo capacity he has

recorded incidental music for BBC Television and Radio programmes

including Timewatch, The Artist’s Eye, Doctors To Be and The Sea.

His work with orchestras has received wide acclaim and includes: Conductor

in Residence for the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Symphony Orchestra,

Singapore in 2006 and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Junior

Department Symphony Orchestra 2007-2008. A Professor of Orchestral

Training at the Royal College of Music Junior Department until 1997 and

Head of Strings at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from

1972-2012.

Peter has adjudicated at many prestigious festivals including the Audi Junior

Musician, BBC Young Musician, Music for Youth, Hong Kong Schools Music

Festival (2013) and Pro Corda National Chamber Music Festival for Schools.

He is also a diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools

of Music and was Joint Artistic Director of the Lower Machen Festival until

2017.

His work as a performer and teacher has been recognized internationally

giving masterclasses and coaching in the UK and abroad including Shanghai,

Helsinki, Tampere, Weimar, Switzerland and Singapore.

Peter has been chair of the European String Teachers Association (ESTA) UK

Branch and member of the International Board of Directors. He continues to

pursue an active career giving concerts as Conductor of the Welsh Chamber

Players formed in 2012.

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Mr Luis Miguel González

Born in Venezuela he began his musical studies in his

native Caracas, becoming the first member ever of what

is known as El Sistema in his early teens. Soon

afterwards he was given a scholarship to study at the

famed Royal College of Music in London, U.K. Soon

after his graduation he returned to his country and

became principal violinist in several orchestras throughout the country, until

becoming concertmaster of the Orquesta Municipal de Caracas. At the same

time he led a very active career as a chamber musician with the Rios Reyna

String Quartet, with whom he embarked on several national and international

tours as well as summer courses with the famous Amadeus Quartet. Since

his arrival from England, Mr. Gonzalez has also been a devoted teacher and

has produced some outstanding violinists, some of whom have embarked on a

music career of their own and others studying at some of the most prestigious

music centers in the world. After leaving his orchestral career as an active

player, he took up conducting as his main activity, becoming guest conductor

with some Venezuelan orchestras until finally becoming Conductor in Chief

of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Aragua and his present conducting position with

Orquesta Filarmónica Nacional de Venezuela. He is also Violin Professor at

the Academia Latinoamericana de Violin.

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Mr Merlin Harrison

Merlin is a leading specialist in the performance of the

recorder and the baroque oboe and currently lives in

London, England. He studied the recorder with Pamela

Thorby and Robert Ehrlich at the Guildhall School of

Music and Drama in London and at the Hochschule für

Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany.

Merlin has worked with some of the world’s leading specialists in historical

performance including Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Egarr, Harry Bicket

and for many professional period ensembles including the English Concert,

The Hanover Band and the orchestras of English National Opera and English

Touring Opera. He has made a number of critically acclaimed recordings for

First Hand Records, Virgin Classics, Decca, Deux-Elles and Wigmore Live

labels. He also takes an active participation in the discovery and

performance of contemporary music as a member of the Flautadors Recorder

Quartet with whom he has been involved in a number of educational projects

with young people in schools and universities across the United Kingdom.

Merlin has performed at Europe’s most prestigious concert venues and

festivals, including the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Snape Maltings,

Edinburgh International Festival and CarFest South in the UK, Urbino Early

Music Festival in Italy, Europaïsches Musikfest Stuttgart in Germany and Les

Chants de la Dore in France. In 2006 he was invited to join the junior panel

of the European Recorder Festival in Feldkirch, Austria where he adjudicated

more than fifty young professionals in the competition for solo recorder.

This is Merlin’s third visit to the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival as an

adjudicator.

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Mr Graham F. Harvey

Graham F. Harvey was born in Suffolk, U.K. into a

family of trombonists. Aged 14, he joined the Royal

Marines Band Service where he enjoyed a distinguished

27 year career, qualifying as Bandmaster, and travelling

widely.

Since leaving the Band Service in 1990, he qualified as a music teacher, and

also became a music examiner for Trinity College London (1991). After

teaching brass privately at Kings School, Canterbury, he taught for several

years in the state sector. During that time, he became Director of Performing

Arts at St Edmunds school, Dover, and was awarded a Classic FM Certificate

of Merit in their “Music Teacher of the Year” competition. In 1998, he took

his Masters in Music, specialising in performance and conducting. He is

principal trombone with the Kent Concert Orchestra. He also conducts

regularly, having directed the Folkestone & Hythe Orchestra for 6 years, and

now directing the White Cliffs Symphonic Winds in Dover.

In 2010, Graham was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and also

named Champion of the Arts for the South East. In April 2013 he was

awarded a Diploma of Honour from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

He has adjudicated regularly at the National Youth Band Championships, the

Kent Young Musician competition, the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in

2014.

He has given musical workshops in the UK, and also abroad, most recently

Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India.

He has examined in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, West Indies,

Greece, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and India.

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Dr Wendy Hiscocks

Australian composer-pianist Wendy Hiscocks studied in

Sydney with the celebrated composer Peter Sculthorpe

before moving to London in Britain where she now

resides. Her music has been performed by major

international artists and ensembles such as Piers Lane and

Roy Howat (piano), Michael Collins (clarinet), Elizabeth

Connell (soprano), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Schubert

Ensemble and Jesus College Choir at a range of venues and festivals including

the Amadeus Festival (Geneva) and the Australian Chamber Music Festival

(Townsville) to London’s Purcell Room and the Kusatsu International

Summer Academy and Festival (Japan). As a pianist, she gives duet and duo

piano recitals with Roy Howat with whom she has recorded the music of

Chabrier. Wendy has recorded her own chamber music with the British

violinist Madeleine Mitchell and soprano Rachel Nicolls, and she

accompanies the singers Susan Bickley (mezzo) and Christopher Gillett

(tenor) in her latest release performing the songs of Arthur Benjamin and

Edgar Bainton. She is currently Chairman of the British Music Society and

has been active throughout her life championing Australian music; the first

biography of Arthur Benjamin is one of many projects in this latter area and

she is Artistic Director of CAM (Celebrating Australian Music), a yearly

celebration of Australian music in the heart of London launched in 2017.

Her music has been recently praised in International Piano as a “rare and

wonderful phenomenon: memorable contemporary piano music that is original

while maintaining a broad debt to traditional tonality…Hiscocks has

something worth communicating”. Wendy has taught piano privately over

many years and is an examiner for the ABRSM. This will be her second visit

to the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival.

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Dr Chi-ying Hung

Dr Hung is a native of Taiwan where she started formal

piano training at age four. From 1990 to 2000, she

studied with Solomon Mikowsky, Fiorella Canin, and

Donn-Alexandre Feder at the Manhattan School of Music

(MSM) where she received Elva Van Gelder Memorial

Scholarship, and “Best Performance of Bach” award.

As a competition winner, she has won MSM Chopin

Competition, the Great Neck Young Artists Chamber Music Competition, the

finalist of the New York Philharmonic Young Artist Competition, and

Associate Music Teachers League “Lucy Boyan Balakian Award”. As

concerto soloist, she performed with the MSM Summer Festival Orchestra

(Taiwan), the MSM Preparatory Division Symphony, the Manhattan

Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bloomingdale Chamber Orchestra. In addition,

she was invited to perform with the Queensborough Community Orchestra

and New Jersey Metropolitan Orchestra.

Dr Hung’s performances were given at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall,

Merkin Concert Hall, the Ethical Culture Society, Lehman College and Taipei

Theatre (New York), at the National Recital Hall in Taipei, 92nd Street Y,

Canary Islands, at the Vila-Seca Festival in Spain, at the Salle Vincent d’Indy

in Paris, at the Conservatories in Beijing, Tienjin, and Shanghai in China.

She was a guest of Robert Sherman on New York’s Classical Music Radio

Station WQXR-FM. She had adjudicated for Hong Kong Schools Music

Festival since 2006, and NAMCYA National Competition in the Philippines.

In 2015, Dr Hung performed Ravel Piano Concerto with Philippine

Philharmonic Orchestra for Ang Misyong fundraising concert with guest

speakers, Tricia Tunstall and Jamie Bernstein, in bringing awareness of

Philippine's Sistema. In June 2017, she will perform Mozart Piano Concerto

No. 23 with Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional in Havana, Cuba.

She received Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of

Music. Her graduate dissertation was A Guide to the Development of the

Western Music in Taiwan and the Piano Works by Selected Taiwanese

Composers. Since 2009, Dr Hung has resided in Manila with her family.

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Mr Bryan Husband

Bryan studied singing and piano accompaniment at the

Royal College of Music, London, and the Welsh College

of Music and Drama in Cardiff. Having performed for

some years in continental and UK opera houses, concert

halls, and music theatre, he now divides his time between

London and Worcester.

Having spent some years as Head of Singing at Guildford School of Acting,

he now teaches at Trinity Laban, London, runs a private teaching practice,

gives workshops and masterclasses ('belting' to audition techniques),

performs, adjudicates, examines for a music board, and also works as a ski

instructor! Performances include television and radio broadcasts, opera,

oratorio and recital.

In 2005, Bryan was selected as a BIFF (British and International Federation of

Festivals) Adjudicator. Adjudication has taken him all over the world,

including Hong Kong three times, Gibraltar, and Trinidad and Tobago, and all

around the UK. In 2012, Bryan was invited to become a music examiner: his

most recent examining work was in Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, and around

the UK. His hobbies include all theatre, gardening, skiing and walking.

Bryan is delighted to be at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival again,

having heard choral and vocal classes here four years ago.

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Ms Jacqueline Jove

Praised for her “sensitivity and thoughtful musicianship,”

Cuban-American violinist, Jacqueline Jove, leads a

versatile life as a performer and music educator. Since

her concerto debut at age 14, she has appeared as a guest

soloist for the German, Italian, and Israeli embassies and

continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician

in concert venues across the globe.

A passionate advocate for the arts, Ms Jove was selected by the Orchestra of

the Americas as a 2016-2017 Global Leader. In partnership with the

Fulbright Association, University of Oxford, and McGill University, she

travelled throughout the America as a guest teacher, performer, and consultant

and completed professional certification in musical leadership, teaching

artistry, and social entrepreneurship.

In demand as an educator, Ms Jove serves as the Director of Education for the

Sphinx Organization, whose mission is to transform lives through the power

of diversity in the arts. In this role, she oversees the Sphinx Performance

Academy, in partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music and Cleveland

Institute of Music as well as twelve in-school violin programs throughout Flint

at Detroit. She previously served on the violin faculty of the Lucy Moses

School at the Kaufman Music Center and the Chapin School in New York

City, and in past summers at Interlochen Center for the Arts. An experienced

Teaching Artist and clinician, she served for many years as a faculty mentor

for Harmony Program, an educational outreach program modeled on El

Sistema, and was instrumental in the development of the Harmony Program

All Stars, a mentorship program with the New York Philharmonic. Ms Jove

was selected to participate in Lincoln Center Education’s Summer Forum for

Teaching Artists and completed the Teacher Training Program at the School

for Strings in New York City.

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Mr Wing-chong Kam

Born in Hong Kong, Mr Wing-chong Kam is an active

pianist and music educator. Since his first public concert,

he has been performing in major cities on four continents.

Mr Kam was invited to perform numerous times in the

Government House for Governor Chris Patten. Under the

sponsorship of Chopin Society of Hong Kong, he has

appeared in many local and international festivals

including the 16th Chopin Autumn Festival, Carinthia Summer Festival,

International Holland Music Sessions, TCU / Cliburn Piano Institute and Aspen

Music Festival.

Apart from solo and chamber music concerts, Mr Kam has also collaborated

with world-renowned conductors and orchestras, including the Queensland

Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong

Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Academy Symphony

Orchestra, Hong Kong Medical Association Orchestra, Hong Kong

Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra, Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra and

Mormon Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, he made an Asian debut of

Eduard Schütt’s Paraphrase for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra with Hong

Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2012, he also performed Menotti’s Suite

with cellists Ray Wang and Letty Poon in Shanghai for Chinese debut.

Mr Kam has won many prizes and awards in the previous years. He got the

first prizes in the 4th Junior Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and

the 1997 Hong Kong International Piano Competition. He also received the

second prize in the 2003 CSMTA Young Artist Piano Competition in

Connecticut. Mr Kam was twice awarded the Elizabeth Parisot prize and his

piano trio group also won the Yale Chamber Music Competition, which led to a

performance in the finale concert of the Chamber Music Society Subscription

Series.

Mr Kam began his piano studies at the age of 5 and has studied with pianists

and pedagogues Professor Eleanor Wong and Professor Boris Berman. He was

awarded full scholarships from the Academy, Asian Cultural Council, Hong

Kong Jockey Club and Yale University for his studies. Mr Kam was awarded

the Honorary Fellowship by the Graduate House of the University of Hong

Kong. He was also named the Outstanding Piano Tutor and Outstanding

Music Educator by several institutions. He has served as an adjudicator for

piano competitions and gave lectures and masterclasses in Hong Kong, Macau,

China and the United States. Mr Kam currently teaches at The Hong Kong

Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Summer Music.

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Dr Lisa Kozenko

Critically acclaimed for her virtuosity and versatility,

oboist Lisa Kozenko has appeared as a concerto soloist

with the Nova Filarmonia of Portugal, National Orchestra

of New York, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico,

and the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. Concert

engagements include performances at the Phillips

Collection in Washington D.C., the Dame Myra Hess

Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the Frick Collection

in Pittsburgh, Da Camera Society in Houston, and at Carnegie Hall, Alice

Tully Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. She was a prize

winner of the 15th

Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition and

has recorded on the Digital Concerto, Albany, and Arabesque labels. She

has 12 solo oboe and chamber music commissions to her credit. Her solo

recording of Doubles by Judith Zaimont was named to Chamber Music

America’s Century List of recordings. She was awarded the Chamber

Music America Heidi Castleman Award for excellence in chamber music

teaching.

As a member of the Manhattan Wind Quintet, she was a finalist in the

Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Competition and prize

winner of the Coleman, Fischoff, Monterey, Yellow Springs, and Chamber

Music Chicago competitions. Lisa Kozenko has served as principal oboist of

the New York City Opera National Company and has performed with the New

York Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids

Symphony, and The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. She has served on the

faculties of Eastern Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival,

Oklahoma State University, Central Michigan University, Moravian College,

Music Conservatory of Westchester, and Lincoln Center Education.

Ms Kozenko was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Graduate

Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation, New York

Chamber Music Society, 1915-1937: A Contribution to Wind Chamber Music

and a Reflection of Concert Life in New York City in the Early 20th Century,

was funded in part by the prestigious Baisley Powell Elebash Research Fund.

Currently Dr Kozenko is Associate Professor of Performance Practice (Oboe)

at Ball State University and Assistant Professor of Oboe and Chamber Music

at Mannes School of Music at the New School College of the Performing

Arts.

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Dr Valentin Lanzrein

Baritone Valentin Lanzrein is an active performer, an

ardent voice pedagogue and a distinctive scholar. His

broad repertoire covers nine languages and all the

classical styles ranging from the Renaissance to the

avant-garde. He is internationally sought after as a

competition adjudicator, and he is an author with Oxford

University Press.

Lanzrein is the two-time recipient of the Kiefer Hablitzel Price in Music

awarded by the Association of Swiss Musicians (Switzerland) and has since

toured Europe, Asia, and the USA. His passion for the art song has led him

to appearances at the Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Aimez Vous

Brahms festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and in the

Wednesday at One series at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York.

Lanzrein is currently Associate Professor of Voice and Coordinator of the

Graduate Voice Performance Program at the Soochow University School of

Music in Suzhou, China. He also serves as voice teacher at the iSING!

Suzhou, International Young Artist Festival. Previously he has taught at the

DePauw University School of Music (USA) and the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). He is regularly on the artist faculty of the

Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival in Germany. Valentin

Lanzrein is an author along with Richard Cross of The Singer’s Guide to

German Diction, published by Oxford University Press.

Lanzrein holds degrees from the Konservatorium für Musik und Theater Bern

(Switzerland), an Artist Diploma from Oberlin College, bachelor’s and

master’s degrees from the Juilliard School (USA), and a Doctor of Musical

Arts degree from State University of New York in Stony Brook (USA).

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Dr Hedy Lee

Pianist Hedy Lee has been praised for her “combined

keyboard elegance with impressive technical dexterity

and lyrical expression”. Based in Los Angeles,

California, USA, she has enjoyed a successful

performing and teaching career as a classical pianist. She

has been a top prize winner in numerous local, national,

and international competitions, including the Los Angeles International Liszt

Competition, Music Teachers’ National Association Young Steinway

Competition, and Music Teachers’ Association of California Piano Solo and

Concerto Competition. Dr Lee is also an active participant and performer of

summer music festivals, most recently having attended the Seattle Piano

Institute, Tel-Hai Piano Masterclasses in Sde Boker, Israel, Festival e Accademia

Dino Ciani in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Dr Lee completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from

the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, under the tutelage of

Professor Bernadene Blaha, where she also minored in Music Education with

an emphasis on early childhood education, Jazz Studies, and Keyboard

Collaborative Arts.

Dr Lee is currently a piano professor at Chapman University and University of

La Verne, judging regularly in local Southern California competitions. She

also maintains a private teaching studio where her students have received top

prizes in numerous competitions. She was awarded by the City of

Huntington Beach Allied Arts Board for her excellence in teaching within her

community.

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Ms Ai-hooi Lim

Ai-hooi’s philosophy for choral music and teaching stems

from her view that a fulfilling musical journey is one that

is filled with sincerity, love and excellence. She uses

the creation of music as a platform to share and infuse her

values and beliefs in her singers, and inspires them to use

the beauty of music to craft experiences that touch the

hearts of the audience.

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Ai-hooi graduated from the Royal College of

Music, London with Majors in Piano and Voice. After moving to Singapore,

she took on the role as educator and conductor to local school choirs and has

since contributed greatly to developing the local choral scene through the

nurturing of younger choral conductors and choristers. Her Singapore school

choirs have clinched many top awards in both local and international

competitions over the past 20 years.

Apart from adjudicating and conducting workshops worldwide, Ai-hooi

established ONE Chamber Choir in 2009. Since its establishment, ONE has

presented unique experiences to its audiences through challenging

conventional choral performances and exploring new dimensions to choral

delivery under the artistic leadership and vision of Ai Hooi. Recently, the

choir achieved the 2nd

Prize of the Mixed Choirs category at the

15th

International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf 2017, as well as

the Special Prize of the Carl-Orff-Stiftung Diessan am Ammersee for the best

interpretation of a choral worked premiered at the competition for “The

Emigrant” by Wolfram Buchenberg.

Ai-hooi also co-founded Sourcewerkz PL to further her calling to teach, touch

and transform the larger choral community and its audience. To date,

Sourcewerkz has organised the Winter Choral Festival in Hong Kong since

2010 and Festival Coros de Verão in Lisbon since 2012. She also

conceptualised and directs the Singapore International Choral Festival.

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Mrs Delia Meehan

Delia Meehan studied oboe, violin and piano at The

Royal Academy of Music in London, United Kingdom.

On completion of her studies Delia continued at the

Royal Academy of Music teaching the oboe on the Junior

Exhibitioners Course. At this time she was also oboe

specialist at Reading University and The Royal Holloway

College (London University).

She is currently Senior Instrumental Tutor and Woodwind Coach of the

English Schools’ Orchestra, which has taken part in the International Festival

of Youth Orchestras in Banff, Canada, and a tour of Australia with the

Australian Youth Choir. The orchestra performs at major venues in the United

Kingdom.

Delia is an experienced adjudicator and in this role she visits many music

festivals in the United Kingdom and in the Far East, including Kota Kinabalu

(Sabah) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As an oboist Delia is involved in

orchestral playing, chamber music and in addition, has a private teaching

practice. As an experienced examiner for the ABRSM since 1988, Delia has

travelled worldwide, visiting Malaysia, Sabah, Singapore and Hong Kong, as

well as the United Kingdom.

For many years Delia taught full-time at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’

School, a large independent school in North London, where she was in charge

of the Preparatory School Music, directed ensembles and taught the oboe. A

highlight of her final year was a Gala Concert in the Barbican Concert Hall in

London. She has bestowed the honour of the Freedom of the City of London

for her services to music education, and was made a Freeman of the

Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

In her local community Delia is the Music Director and Conductor of the 100

strong Chipperfield Choral Society, (founded in 1947) which gives four

concerts. Delia is delighted to be returning to Hong Kong to adjudicate at

the 70th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival.

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Ms Maggie Morrison

Canadian musician Maggie Morrison is known for her

energy and lyricism at the piano. Maggie lives in

Toronto, Ontario (Canada) where she maintains an active

performance, teaching and adjudication schedule.

Currently, she is in her second year in the doctorate

program at the University of Toronto, where she is on full

scholarship. She is also a Collaborative Pianist at The

Royal Conservatory of Music.

Maggie values the student-teacher relationship and is grateful for the guidance

she has received since she was a young girl. Maggie has studied all over the

world, including programs in Italy at The Amalfi Coast Music Festival, in

France at Cecile Ousset's Piano Academy, in Banff and The Banff Centre

Piano Masterclasses, in New York City at the Juilliard School and at The

Cleveland Institute of Music where she graduated with her bachelor’s (2012)

and master’s degrees (2014).

In 2011, Maggie founded Exposure to the Arts, a not for profit program in her

hometown of Brantford, Ontario. Through this program, an instrument

donation initiative (Play it Forward) was developed, which collected and

redistributed instruments into homes that would otherwise not have them.

She also established a five-day non-competitive music festival, the Brantford

Canadian Showcase, held annually at the end of November for community

musicians to perform and receive feedback for their performances of Canadian

composers’ music.

Maggie continues to make her mark as a music festival adjudicator, critiquing

students at music festivals in Toronto, Peel, Oshawa-Whitby, Sault Ste. Marie

and St. John's. She maintains a private music studio in the heart of

downtown Toronto, where she teaches lessons and collaborates with other

musicians.

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Ms Poon Tak

Poon Tak studied piano with Wai-tsuen Ip and Sheila Lai

in Hong Kong. She was awarded the LRSM before

furthering her studies at the Royal Academy of Music

(RAM) in London, where she was under the tutelage of

Frederic Jackson and Max Pirani for piano, and Douglas

Hopkins for organ.

At the RAM, she was awarded the LRAM and ARCM, and won many prizes

and awards. She was a finalist in the Royal Over-seas League (ROSL)

Annual Music Competition. She also studied at the Royal School of Church

Music, and has obtained the LTCL in organ performance.

Since her return in Hong Kong, she has given recitals and has appeared as an

accompanist in concerts. She currently teaches piano at The Hong Kong

Academy for Performing Arts and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and

serves as the organist of the China Congregational Church.

In 1984, Poon Tak was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of

Music.

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Dr Lino Rivera

Born in the Philippines, Lino Rivera has performed as a

solo recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and

accompanist on three continents. He makes it his

mission to advocate and premiere contemporary works;

to explore and meet the artistic, creative, and technical

challenges of piano transcriptions; and to discover and

perform less known solo piano repertoire throughout the

ages. Lino is a celebrated performer for Composers, Inc. an organization

based in San Francisco that is dedicated to promoting works by contemporary

American composers.

Lino is a professor of music at the Performing Arts Department at Saint

Mary's College of California. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano

performance from the University of Santo Tomas, a Master of Music from the

University of Hawaii, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of

Maryland. Lino maintains active concert engagements.

Lino has collaborated with music historian Robert Greenberg on a concert

lecture series premiered at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California. In this

five-part series, Dr Greenberg lectures on Beethoven’s piano sonatas while

Lino performs musical examples, culminating in a solo recital given by Lino

including Beethoven’s Op.10, no.2; Op.57 (the “Appassionata”), and Op. 106

(the “Hammerklavier”).

Lino’s recent concerto performances with orchestras are: Liszt’s Piano Concerto

No. 1, with the California Youth Symphony Orchestra (2009); Brahms’ Piano

Concerto No. 2, with the Callifornia State University Sacramento Symphony

Orchestra (2010); Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, (2012) and, Beethoven’s

Piano Concerto No. 5, (2015) both with the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra at

the Dean Lesher Center for the Performing Arts in Walnut Creek, California.

As an active chamber musician, he performed (Autumn 2017) with Swiss

violinist and conductor Jan Dobrzelewski a program of French sonatas

(Debussy, Ravel, Franck), and works of contemporary composers in the San

Francisco Bay Area, California.

During the past year (2017), he has prepared a solo program that consists

solely of the genre of variations through various periods of musical styles,

from the Baroque to the Contemporary. He accepted the invitation to

perform this program at the Samsø Piano Festival in Toftebjerg, Denmark, and

at the Museumsaal Ü berlingen, Germany in the summer of 2018.

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Dr Jeremy Samolesky

Jeremy Samolesky, a native of Manitoba, Canada, serves

as Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Studies at

Auburn University. Known for his passion for both solo

and collaborative performances, Samolesky has appeared

in concert as a soloist and chamber pianist throughout

North America, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, China,

Malaysia, Singapore, Serbia, Colombia and Ecuador,

including a full recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., which was

broadcast nationally on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today”.

Dr Samolesky achieved the rare distinction of graduating with two doctoral

degrees from the Eastman School of Music in New York: a feat permitted just

once before in the school’s history. Recent appearances include lecturer and

soloist at the World Piano Conference in Serbia (2013), a performance tour of

music conservatories in Colombia and Ecuador (2014), Thailand and Malaysia

(2015), and Artist Faculty at the Orfeo Music Festival in Italy (2016, 2017).

Praised by critics as “brilliant,” “distinguished,” and “full of intensity and

drama,” Samolesky’s debut solo CD was released by Centaur Records in

2015. His subsequent CD, with clarinetist David Odom, Max Reger: The

Complete Works for Clarinet and Piano was released by Albany Records in

the fall of 2016. Samolesky was recently selected as the 1st Place winner of

the American Prize Competition in Piano Performance, Professional Division

(2016-2017).

As a teacher, Dr Samolesky’s students are frequent competition winners and

regularly receive prestigious scholarships and assistantships at renowned

graduate music programs throughout the United States. For his

achievements, he was awarded the 2012 “Excellence in Teaching” award from

Auburn University. Samolesky currently serves on the executive board of

the Alabama Music Teachers’ Association and is sought after as an

adjudicator throughout the region.

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Mr Konstantin Soukhovetski

Konstantin Soukhovetski is rapidly earning a reputation as

a ‘young pianist who captivates’ with his ‘distinctive

lyricism’, ‘immaculate technique’ and ‘vigor…

refinement… and drama’.

Following the premiere of his transcription of R. Strauss’

Four Last Songs at L'Esprit du Piano Festival in Bordeaux,

France Konstantin has featured it on his South African Tour as well as many US

venues including NYC's Lyric Chamber Music Society, Nevada City's Music In

The Mountains, Sacramento's Crocker Museum and Pianofest In The Hamptons

where Konstantin is Artist In Residence for the past 8 years. In the recent

seasons Konstantin became known for creating his operatic transcriptions that

include La Boheme, Manon, La Traviata, Capriccio and Das Wunder Der Heliane.

This season Konstantin returns to New Orleans where he won First and Audience

Prizes a decade ago with one-night only solo performance featuring his own

transcriptions. He will also appear in New York presented by Eurasia Festival

and Lyric.

In 2019 Konstantin will return to South Africa with multi-city tour including

Johannesburg Philharmonic and Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra.

Highlights if his career include appearances with Westmoreland Symphony,

Virginia Symphony and the Long Island Chamber Players, the Manchester Music

Festival Orchestra and Asheville Symphony. His solo performances took him to

Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Swiss Chopin Society in Bern,

Switzerland and London's Wigmore Hall.

Following his 2006 William Petschek Debut Recital Award performance at Alice

Tully Hall, in New York’s Lincoln Center, The New York Times headlined its

review: ‘Romanticism so intense it warms up Philip Glass.’

Konstantin has worked with an array of distinguished conductors, among them:

Daniel Meyer, Gérard Korsten, James DePreist, Jahja Ling and François-Xavier

Roth.

Konstantin is an alumnus of The Juilliard School where he has earned his BM,

MM, and AD degrees with Jerome Lowenthal. Born in Moscow to a family of

artists he studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, under the auspices

of the Moscow State Conservatory, with Anatoly Ryabov. Konstantin resides in

New York.

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Miss Melanie Spanswick

Melanie Spanswick is a British pianist, author, teacher,

adjudicator, arranger, and composer. She studied at the

Royal College of Music in London where she won many

prizes and graduated with a master’s degree in

Performance Studies.

As an educator, Melanie has examined (for the ABRSM)

and adjudicated (for the British and International Federation of Festivals)

widely, and she frequently gives masterclasses, workshops and presentations

throughout the UK and abroad, most recently in Germany, the USA and the

Far East. She has held teaching posts at various institutions, regularly

tutoring courses at Jackdaws Music Education Trust, and presenting

workshops for EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association), and for the

Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy, held at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

As a pianist, she has performed and broadcast worldwide, and has given

recitals as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist at many music

festivals and major concert halls. Melanie has also made a solo recording at

Wigmore Hall (for Opera Omnia), and has performed for the Queen Mother

and Queen of Denmark.

Melanie recently selected the repertoire for the Faber Music Piano Anthology

(Faber Music) and her piano guidebook, So You Want To Play The Piano?

(Alfred Music) has received much acclaim. Play it again: PIANO (Schott

Music), a two-book piano course, was published during 2017, and she has

subsequently made several extensive tours to Southeast Asia following this

publication, including a presentation at the UCSI University Piano Pedagogy

conference in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

She is a regular contributor to Pianist magazine and Piano Professional

(EPTA), and her piano compositions have been featured on various syllabuses

and in publications around the world.

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Mr Robert Sund

Robert Sund sings, plays, arranges, composes and

conducts. His multifaceted gift has given him a

prominent position both on the Swedish and international

scene.

He was for many years’ artistic director and conductor of

the mixed university choir Allmänna Sången and the male choir Orphei

Drängar in Uppsala, where he also founded the female choir La Cappella, the

youth choir Musikskolans Kammarkör and the Robert Sund Chamber Choir.

As a singer he was a member of Orphei Drängar, the professional Eric Ericon

Chamber Choir and the legendary male song group Kvintetten Olsson.

For 17 years he has been teaching conducting and ensemble leadership at the

Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He is in great demand to lead courses

for both conductors and choirs in Scandinavia, Europe, the USA, Canada,

South America and Asia. He has been guest conducting choirs all over the

world from The World Youth Choir in South America and Japan and radio

choirs in Sweden, Denmark and Germany to national choirs in Cuba and

Argentine. He has served as a workshop leader at many international

festivals and he has been adjudicator in international competitions and

festivals around the globe. He also has guest conducted most of the top

Swedish symphony orchestras (Stockholm, Göteborg, Norrköping) and since

some years back he plays piano in a jazz trio.

All his life Robert Sund has been writing music, both compositions and

arrangements, above all choral music. Many of his songs have been

published in Sweden, England and Germany and his music has been spread all

over the world.

Robert Sund was named Conductor of the Year by the Association of Swedish

conductor masters in 1993.

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Dr Joyce Tang

Joyce Tang’s works have been described by Ablaze

Records as “incisive and brilliant…a fresh compositional

voice,” and have been premiered and performed

worldwide. Her works span orchestral, chamber, solo,

vocal, choral, electro-acoustic, and theatrical genres,

many of which have been jury-selected and featured in

major festivals and conferences.

Being one of the most active composers in Hong Kong, she has attracted

numerous commissions from musicians and performing groups, including

Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong New Music

Ensemble, pianist Mary Wu, sheng performer Loo Sze Wang, percussionist

Thierry Miroglio, etc.

Her orchestral work Clear Light (2015), premiered by the Hong Kong

Sinfonietta at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March 2015, received its

European premieres on tour by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Geneva, Zürich

and Fribourg in October 2015. Her string quartet Lineae (2014) for dancers

won the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble 2015 Call For Scores award. Her recent

works include Illuminance II (2012/17) for Thierry Miroglio for his

performance with Orquesta Filarmónica de Mendoza, Argentina,

(Im)pulses (2017) for dancer and percussion quartet, Remembrance of the

Stonewall Trees (2017) for sheng featured at the Canberra International Music

Festival in May 2017, In Time of Daffodils (2016) for choirs and orchestra,

The Bacewicz Obsession (2016) for Szymanowski Quartet, and a series of

nine chamber pieces with soundscapes City Impressions (2016) collaborating

with photographer David Clarke and Western District Music Ensemble.

Tang’s works were published on several CDs, including the "Fleeting Realms"

on Navona Records, "Orchestral Masters Series Vol. 1" and "Millennial

Masters Series Vol. 2" on Ablaze Records, and "ICMC CD" on October

Music.

Joyce Tang was awarded an Asian Cultural Council fellowship in 2017. She

is currently teaching at The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong

Academy for Performing Arts.

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Mr Ban-sheng Toh

Starting out essentially as a self-taught musician, former

Physics teacher Ban-sheng Toh completed two master’s

degrees in Choral Conducting and Voice from the USA

with the support of a National Arts Council Bursary.

Mr Toh has since come to be recognised as an eminent

conductor and music educator with an illustrious track

record, having garnered more than 70 gold awards at

international and national competitions.

An active member in the international choral scene, Mr Toh is a highly sought

after guest-conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. He has also written for the

International Choral Bulletin and had his music published in the United States.

His choirs have won numerous Grand Prix, Category Champions and Special

Jury Prizes in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany,

Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, and he has been honoured with Conductor’s

Prizes seven times. To date, he has brought his conducting work to many

major cities such as London, Paris and Vienna.

At home in Singapore, Mr Toh’s choirs have twice won the highest national

accolade of Best Choir of the Year Award. He has also served as a Music

Specialist with the Ministry of Education. Among many other notable

appointments, he conducted the 800-strong National Day Parade Combined

Choir in 1999 at the national stadium on live telecast. In recognition of his

artistic achievements and contributions in the Singapore music arena, Toh was

conferred the Young Artist Award in 2006 by the National Arts Council.

He is currently the director of five award-winning choirs in Singapore schools

and junior colleges, in addition to directing the Raffles Singers and Amoris

Singers. Since 2014, he has been serving as the Artistic Director of

International Choral Festival Orientale Concentus held in Singapore.

Mr Toh is married with a daughter. His self-titled biography, “The

Accidental Conductor”, was published in 2010. The Choral Series under his

name with Earthsongs Music Publication (USA) was launched in 2012.

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Dr Andrew Veit

Dr Andrew Veit is professional percussionist and

composer living in Chicago, IL in the United States of

America. There he established and manages his own

private percussion studio that instructs over thirty

students per week. While teaching full time, Dr Veit is

also a member of two professional percussion quartets

and appears as a guest soloist with several collegiate ensembles.

In early 2017 Dr Veit assisted in founding the Heartland Marimba Quartet,

North America’s premier marimba quartet, with his close friend, Matthew

Coley. Together Matthew and Dr Veit direct the HMQ’s parent

organization, Heartland Marimba; a non-profit organization dedicated to

spreading awareness of the marimba to communities in the Mid-Western

region of the United States. Dr Veit also performs with Matthew as

members of Clocks in Motion, a percussion quartet based in Madison, WI,

USA. Most recently they produced the “Clock Shop,” the only percussive

composer in residence program. The goal of the project is to allow a single

composer ample opportunity to compose for and master the percussion quartet

genre much like Beethoven or Haydn did for the string quartet.

Dr Veit holds a doctoral degree in percussion performance and pedagogy from

the University of Iowa. There he served as the caption head of the Hawkeye

Drumline and helped the group regain its position as one of the leading BIG

TEN marching ensembles. He also attained his master’s degree in

percussion performance and bachelor’s degree in music education from Texas

A&M University – Commerce and the University of Delaware respectfully.

Dr Veit is a member of the Percussive Arts Society Marching Committee.

He is a proud supporter of Innovative Percussion Sticks and Mallets, Marimba

One marimbas, and Beetle Percussion accessories.

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Prof Malcolm Weale, JP

Malcolm Weale was born in London and educated in

Hertfordshire. His professional introduction to the

world of classical music began when he entered the

Royal Academy of Music in London to study the

pianoforte and trumpet, obtaining the GRSM (London),

as well as the LRAM, ARCM and LGSM diplomas.

Having made his debut as an orchestral player with the London Symphony

Orchestra at the age of twenty-one he became the youngest player to have

played with this world-famous orchestra. He was appointed principal

trumpet with the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra and later secured a similar position

with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Working with all London

Orchestras, he records and appears on television frequently working with such

artists as Fou Ts’ong, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Claudio Abbado, Leonard

Bernstein, Sir Simon Rattle, as well as the late Sir William Walton and Emil

Gilels. In addition, he recorded the Manfredini Double Trumpet Concerto.

From his appointment to the London University as examiner, Malcolm went

on to become Professor of Music with the Ministry of Defence. His

appearance in several publications including International Who’s Who,

Instruments of the Orchestra, Challenging Brass and Premiership Delights

have ensured that he remains a leading authority in the world of classical

music.

Recent engagements include the masterclasses at the Royal Northern College

of Music, the release of Haydn’s Concerto for two trumpets and organ, with

Marie-Claire Alain (Erato), and his conducting debuts at the Royal Festival

Hall and Royal Albert Hall, London, as well as a busy schedule adjudicating at

major festivals.

As a soloist, he has appeared in France, Germany, Holland, Luxembourg,

Norway, Malaysia, Canada, the United States and the Far East. He has

recently been made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Fellow

of the Royal Society of the Arts.

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Dr Alina Windell

Dr Alina Windell teaches flute at Auburn University and

is an Artist in Residence and faculty member of the Orfeo

International Music Festival in Italy. She was a prize

winner in the 2017-2018 American Prize Instrumental

Soloist Competition, and as winner of the 2016 National

Flute Association (NFA) Convention Performers

Competition, appeared at the NFA Convention in San

Diego. She has also performed at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Festival in

Washington D.C., the Houston Flute Club Flute Fest, the Colorado Flute

Association Flute Fair, the International Double Reed Society Conference, and

the Hawaii University International Conference of Arts and Humanities.

Dr Windell performs with the LaGrange and Columbus Symphony Orchestras,

and has also played with the Springer Opera House Orchestra, the Albany

Symphony, South Florida Symphony, the Lynn Philharmonia, the

Bloomington Camerata Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute Festival

Orchestra, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival Orchestra of Lucca in Italy,

and in concerts at the Duxbury Music Festival, as well as freelancing in New

York City. An avid chamber musician and advocate of new music, she

recorded the music of Carter Pann for the Naxos record label and recorded the

music of David Gillingham with percussionist Doug Rosenor for Centaur

Records. She has recently formed the Duo Flautas Frescas with Julia

Barnett, to discover, commission, and perform music for two flutes and piano.

Duo Flautas Frescas’ first commission is from composer and flutist Valerie

Coleman, to be premiered at the 2018 National Flute Association Convention

in Orlando.

She completed her undergraduate studies at Indiana University, her master’s

degree with renowned flutist and pedagogue Carol Wincenc at Stony Brook

University, and doctoral degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder,

studying with Christina Jennings.

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Dr Lucas Wong

Canadian pianist Dr Lucas Wong is equally at home as a

soloist, chamber musician, vocal coach, and conductor.

He has been called by Fanfare Magazine for his

“masterful, pleasure-giving performances”, and the

“prestige and variety of his accomplishments and

credits…prodigious enough to constitute the careers of a

least two or three people.”

Dr Wong has performed in many prestigious international venues, including

Carnegie Hall, CBC Vancouver, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity,

Seoul’s Sejong Center, and the University of Hong Kong Grand Hall. On tour,

he has played rarely performed pieces, such as Liszt-Berlioz's Symphonie

Fantastique and George Crumb's Makrokosmos. His essay “Humour in Late

Debussy” was published in The Musical Times. He gave a lecture on

Debussy at the Juilliard School.

Dr Wong is a versatile partner for both instrumentalists and vocalists. As a

chamber musician, he has performed with world-renowned artists such as

Joseph Alessi, Soovin Kim, Susanne Mentzer, Frank Morelli, David Shifrin,

and Fei Song. Lucas has been on the roster of the New York City Opera,

SongFest, OPERA America, the Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Hugo

Kauder Society. He has been the official accompanist for auditions in the

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Music Academy of the

West, and iSING! Suzhou, International Young Artist Festival.

Lucas Wong is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.Mus.) and

Yale School of Music (M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A.). He earned his ARCT

Teacher’s diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, for

which he received a Gold Medal, the conservatory’s highest honor. In 2018,

Dr Wong will teach in the University of Florida International Piano Festival,

SongFest, and Maccagno Piano Days Festival.

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Ms Sophia Woo

Sophia Woo is a percussionist with the Hong Kong

Philharmonic Orchestra (HKPO) as well as a percussion

instructor at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing

Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese

University of Hong Kong.

Sophia is very enthusiastic about the music education in

Hong Kong. She has been invited to give masterclasses

and workshops presented by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since

2004 and she was invited to be a juror of the Hong Kong Young Musician of

the Year 2008 and 2010.

Apart from performing in the concert hall, Sophia gives a lot of ensemble

visits to the primary schools, secondary schools, special needs schools and

universities in Hong Kong under the Young Audience Scheme by the HKPO.

As a volunteer, Sophia also hosted a drum circle class as a music therapy for

the Beacon Hill School in 2011 and 2012.

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Mr Raymond Young

Hailed by the press as a pianist with ‘imagination and

romance in his poetry’, ‘exquisite tone, interpretative

insights and deep communicative powers’, Raymond Young

won the First-prize Medal (Two Piano section) and the

Silver Medal (Piano Duet section) at The International Piano

Competition in Rome, Italy; and was honoured at the

Braunschweig Classix Festival in Germany with the

‘Förderpreis’.

The first Bösendorfer artist from Hong Kong, his numerous circuit concerts and

performances spread throughout Austria, England, Germany, Italy, Russia,

Canada, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout China over the

years have won him great acclaim from critics and audiences for his refined

musicianship and artistry.

Apart from his busy schedule as a performer, he is also highly in demand as a

piano pedagogue. He has been appointed as a Guest Professor of The Hainan

University and Sichuan University of Culture and Arts, and on the piano faculty

of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University,

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong and The

Education University of Hong Kong (formerly The Hong Kong Institute of

Education). Recognized as one of the most respected educators, many of his

students have furthered their musical studies at leading music schools in Europe,

United States and Australia, and have won awards in numerous competitions.

As the first pianist from Hong Kong to be awarded the highest scholarship by the

Austrian Government, Mr Young graduated with Double Master of Arts degrees

in performance and vocal accompaniment, and a Diploma in piano pedagogy

from the prestigious University for Music and Performing Arts (MDW) in Vienna,

his true home of the heart where he lived for over a decade under the refining

influence of that greatest of musical cities. Besides piano studies, he also

majored in music theory and opera coaching. On account of his achievements

and numerous recommendations, he was also granted the Austrian citizenship.

He has benefited from such masters as Joseph Banowetz (a student of Clara

Schumann’s disciple); Paul Badura-Skoda (an authority of the Classical Viennese

style); Walter Fleischmann (a fifth generation student of Beethoven and third

generation student of Franz Liszt); David Lutz and Norman Shetler. He is a

Fellow of the Trinity College, and an Associate of the Royal College of Music, in

London.

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As one of Hong Kong’s most versatile and renowned pianists, Young performs

concerts extensively as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, and chamber musician,

collaborates with singers and instrumentalists, records for radio broadcasts,

conducts masterclasses and lectures around the world. Being a sought-after

adjudicator, he has been invited to serve as the Chairman of Trial Jury in China

for the Hong Kong International Piano Open Competition, and Head Juror for

The Hong Kong Students Open Music Competition, and has been on the judge

panel at many major competitions in the region, including the Asian Youth Music

Competition, The Steinway and Sons International Youth Piano Competition,

Hong Kong Asia Open Piano Competition, Hong Kong International Music

Competition for Young Pianists, Hong Kong’s Young Musician of the Year, Hong

Kong Schools Music Festival, Guangzhou Piano Open Competition, Macao-Asia

Open Piano Competition and the Macao Young Musicians Competition amongst

others. Mr Young is a standing member appointed as an examiner for the

Yamaha Music Foundation, and is the founding member of the piano quartet

‘Piano Extravaganza’, consisting of four pianists. He is a committee member of

Hong Kong International Musician Association, Hong Kong Music Tutors Union

and Hong Kong Piano Music Association.

‘The transparency of the phrasing, tone clarity, and the seductive cantabile in

Young's performance were appreciable. The impeccable technique and

interpretative style demonstrated by this soloist, is proof of how truly valuable

this pianist is. He played with such taste, much lyricism, and the palette of

timbres was highlighted with passion, along with wide and rich nuances.’- La

Provincia / Italy

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Mrs Iona Zuiderwijk

Iona was born in Liverpool, UK but has also lived in

Australia. She started the piano aged 6 and the violin at

8 years old. She later became a pupil at Chethams

School of Music in Manchester and at Wells Cathedral

School before going to the Royal Academy of Music in

London to study violin and harpsichord.

After a few years of orchestral playing Iona was introduced to the world of

teaching by Sheila Nelson, who offered training in how to teach good

techniques to young children in groups. During her career Iona became

Head of Strings at several schools as well as Head of Junior music, using

Kodaly and Eurythmics in her teaching.

But she also had a break from full time music and qualified as a social worker,

working with foster children and young offenders. She returned to the life in

music, studying violin again with Howard Davis.

Iona works as an examiner for Trinity College and offers workshops for

primary music teachers as well as violin teachers.

This is her first visit to Hong Kong.

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刁志君先生

畢業於四川音樂學院，師從著名指揮家徐瑞祺、

陶文華，現就讀於上海音樂學院指揮系攻讀合唱

指揮碩士學位，師從王燕副教授。中國合唱協會

理事、廣東省音樂家協會會員、廣東省合唱協會

常務理事、廣州市音樂家協會理事、廣州市合唱

協會常務理事。曾獲“第八屆勃拉姆斯國際合唱節唯一優秀指揮

獎”、“廣東省優秀音樂家”、“廣東省南粵優秀教師”、“廣東省十大

青少年社會教育名師”、“羊城優秀音樂家”、“廣州市優秀青年指揮

家”、“廣州市優秀教師”等多項殊榮，入選“廣州市首批藝術名家”

專家資源資訊庫。指導、指揮多個合唱團在世界合唱比賽、世界青

少年合唱錦標賽，以及全國、省、市中小學合唱比賽中屢獲佳績。

在第十屆中國國際合唱比賽、中國星海國際合唱錦標賽、第八屆勃

拉姆斯國際合唱比賽以及第五屆全國少年兒童合唱節中摘得冠

軍、鉑金獎、金獎；第十屆中國藝術節合唱比賽捧得最高政府獎項

“群星獎”；2017黃龍音樂季國際合唱藝術周優秀指揮獎。

目前擔任廣州小海燕合唱團及廣州市衛計委合唱團常任指揮，在他

的培養下，合唱隊員們具備了扎實的基本功、良好的音準、多變的

音色和豐富的表現力，演唱了大量中外不同風格的歌曲，多次參加

國內外重大比賽及各種大型演出成績斐然，曾多次舉辦合唱專場音

樂會，出版了兩張童聲合唱專輯《海燕印象·聲》，廣受好評。

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王素珊博士

王素珊博士是著名的音樂家，她在美國德薩斯

州大學考獲音樂（聲樂主修）學士，碩士和博

士學位。留學英，意，美，她也是持有瑞士達

克羅士音樂律動教學法的合格證書的老師。曾

擔任新加坡歌劇團的藝術總監兼成人及兒童團

合唱，華文報合唱團，新加坡理工大學，新加坡國大校友協會等的

合唱團指揮。她是新加坡國家劇場少兒合唱團的創始人及指揮。目

前也是新加坡詞曲版權協會所贊助的青年美聲培訓獎學金主導師

及新加坡藝理會委任的藝術家資深培訓師（Artist Mentor）、國大

楊秀桃音樂院聲樂系、拉薩藝術學院音樂系及新躍大學音樂教育系

的主要講師。

在過去二十幾年來，她在亞洲所受委過的評審工作及大師班不計其

數。當中包括新加坡青年節，亞洲聲樂大比賽，亞洲藝術節，新加

坡國際華文合唱節，新加坡國際合唱節，新加坡國際聲樂大比賽，

香港學校音樂節，馬來西亞，臺灣，韓國和中國各地所舉辦的國際

音樂及合唱節比賽。

在全情投入音樂教育之前，她曾經多次以女高音獨唱家的身份受邀

與新加坡交響樂團，新加坡華樂團，新加坡歌劇院及新加坡巴蕾舞

團合作演出大作品及海外“新加坡節”的重點音樂會官委獨唱員。她

所贏得的多項聲樂獎項中包括 1998 年在義大利國際唐尼彩帝歌劇

大比賽－歌劇 “愛情的靈藥”的最佳女高音獎。2013年，新加坡詞

曲版權協會特別頒發了該年度的音樂卓越成就大獎給王博士，以肯

定她在新加坡及亞洲音樂文化界所做出的貢獻。

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王榮女士

青年古箏演奏家，國防大學軍事文化學院（原

解放軍藝術學院）古箏專業教員，出生於音樂

世家。自幼隨母親（武漢音樂學院吳青教授）

學習古箏。1988 年考入中國音樂學院附中，

1994 年升入本院國樂系本科。曾先後師從于

王勇、李汴、林玲、邱大成教授。2006至 2008年，就讀於北京大

學藝術系研究生班。

王榮的演奏技巧嫻熟而瀟灑，音色渾厚而明亮，傳統功底扎實，音

樂情感表達細膩，意境高遠。在教學中勤於鑽研，治學嚴謹，注重

示範，因材施教。多次參加專業賽事評委並在全國開辦教學講座及

培訓。

在學術探究、學術見解與研究成果中，既有前瞻性的理性梳理，如：

專著《古箏藝術指導》、論文《對後現代古箏藝術的美學價值的思

考》、論文《當代古箏模式化教學利弊之我見》等，又有普及與提

高的知識滲透，如：專著《古箏常識 100 個問與答》、以及編寫的

《古箏彈奏鄧麗君》（錄製配套 CD）。多年來，隨中國人民解放軍

紅星民族樂團、中國僑聯、中國青聯、中國青年代表團出訪瑞士、

奧地利、德國、法國、義大利、荷蘭、越南、澳大利亞等多個國家

的演出交流近百場。並用幾近失傳的樂器－沛築，為比利時王妃演

奏《關山月》以及為澳大利亞育文武女子學院示範演奏的《漁舟唱

晚》均得到多家媒體的報導與業內人士的好評。參與的軍委、國防

部、學院以及為國內外軍事元首的外事演出等活動數百場。

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阮兆輝先生

阮氏為資深粵劇表演藝術家，自幼踏上粵劇舞台。啟蒙老

師為粵劇名宿新丁香耀，後拜名伶麥炳榮門下，又隨袁小

田學習北派，從劉兆榮、黃滔、林兆鎏學唱，更精研廣東

說唱之南音。

1991 年榮獲『香港藝術家』年獎之『歌唱家年獎』，1992

年獲頒授 BH榮譽獎章，同年更應邀前赴倫敦，為英女皇作御前演出，2003

年再獲香港藝術發展局頒發『藝術成就獎』，2012 年香港教育大學頒授榮

譽院士，2014年獲香港特別行政區政府頒授銅紫荊星章，表揚阮氏對粵劇

承傳貢獻良多，2016 年獲香港藝術發展局頒發『傑出藝術貢獻獎』。著作

方面，阮氏親自執筆撰寫的自傳「阮兆輝棄學學戲 弟子不為為子弟」，榮

獲「2016年香港金閱獎（最佳文史哲書）」及 2017「香港出版雙年獎」「藝

術及設計」類別的「出版獎」。2017年著作「生生不息薪火傳──粵劇生行

基礎知識」獲「2017年香港金閱獎（生活百科）」。

1998年與「國寶」裴艷玲合作演京劇，將他對粵劇以外的戲曲才華發揮得

淋漓盡致。2013年以「血汗氍毹六十年」作為從藝六十年的主題，上演連

場好戲。演而優則編，近年評價甚高的《呂蒙正評雪辨蹤》、《文姬歸漢》、

《大鬧廣昌隆》、《呆佬拜壽》、《瀟湘夜雨臨江驛》等劇，均是由阮氏執筆

編寫及改編。阮氏一直致力推廣傳統戲曲，早於 1993年創立『粵劇之家』，

製作不少具藝術性的大型名劇，如《趙氏孤兒》、《十五貫》、《玉皇登殿》、

《醉斬二王》等。近年，阮氏致力於粵劇教育及承傳工作，經常在各大學

及中學演講、主持學術講座、參與學術研討會及工作坊、教授戲曲及開辦

粵劇編劇課程，把戲曲知識推廣至各學校。於 2012年起應香港八和會館邀

請，擔任油麻地戲院場地伙伴計劃「粵劇新秀演出系列」的藝術總監至今。

阮氏於 2013年數度前往江西探究粵劇「西皮」名稱的謬誤，翌年匯報研究

成果，為粵劇裏的「西皮」錯誤名稱正名為「四平」。2015 年與港、臺兩

地學者聯手策劃「粵劇生行身段要訣：電腦化自動評估與學習系統發展計

劃」，首次把 3D肢體感應技術應用到傳統粵劇身段教學中，透過科技為粵

劇的傳承及教學帶來革命性及突破性的發展。

2014 年及 2015 年帶領多位專業精英分別到英國愛丁堡及荷蘭、比利時和

意大利，演出舞台劇《戲裡戲外看戲班》。亦於 2016 年北京國際青年藝術

節及 2017年韓國首爾表演藝術博覽會演出此劇，把香港本土粵劇藝術呈獻

給海外的觀眾。

阮氏現為香港八和會館副主席、香港作曲家及作詞家協會會員及香港康樂

及文化事務署博物館專家顧問（粵劇）。

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周金惠玲女士

香港中文大學教育碩士，1980 年畢業於柏立基

教育學院，主修音樂。1987至 2000年擔任香港

兒童合唱團合唱導師暨初級組音樂主任，對兒童

合唱訓練及演出具豐富經驗，現為教會兒童及成

人詩班指揮，曾擔任聖公會聖三一座堂兒童合唱

團副團長。於 2004至 2015年擔任農圃道官立小學校長，積極推

動音樂教育，每年均為學生舉辦大型音樂會。於 2011年應香港教

育局邀請，在第一屆「深港校長論壇」以「學生的全人發展」為

題，擔任首位主講嘉賓，與深圳及香港校長分享推動藝術暨音樂

教育的經驗。

金女士亦曾擔任教育局升中委員會委員、擬任校長培訓委員會委

員、教育基金委員會委員及官立小學校長協會主席，並擔任「行

政長官卓越教學獎」工作小組成員及藝術範疇評審委員等。多次

前往美國、德國、北京、上海、新加坡及台灣等地進修及考察。

於 2005年獲教育統籌局頒發「嘉獎信」，2006年獲公務員事務局

頒發「嘉許狀」，2015年獲頒「行政長官公共服務獎狀」。

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桂乃舜先生

桂乃舜是新加坡合唱界的領軍人物，畢業自英國

倫敦皇家音樂學院的高級合唱指揮研究班，他也

是倫敦音樂學院的院士。他所指揮的合唱團多次

獲得世界級最重要的冠軍大獎，雙手揮出超過二

百多項國際金獎，個人也多次獲得來自德國，義

大利，奧地利及捷克的最佳指揮獎。

為表彰他在新加坡合唱領域的傑出成就，桂乃舜在 1993 年被授予

“國家青年服務獎”。他在 1999 年被日本工商協會授予“文化獎”以

及在 2001年被 Rotary Club 授予新加坡“藝術大使”的榮譽。在 2011

年，COMPASS Singapore 也授予“榮譽獎”來表揚桂乃舜多年為國

家合唱藝術的付出。

桂乃舜是“歌之旅”、“亞洲歡唱”、“印尼萬鴉老合唱城市”等多項著

名國際合唱節系列的藝術總監，也是指標性的“新加坡合唱節”創始

人兼藝術總監。他擔任國家藝術理事會的合唱顧問和音樂鑒賞評估

官員，人民協會藝術顧問，新加坡合唱協會顧問以及音樂家協會副

會長。

近年來桂指揮致力於培養本地合唱人才，在他的努力耕耘下接近四

成的新加坡合唱指揮是出自他的培訓與教導，他也經常受邀到世界

各地擔任合唱評委及主辦合唱講座大師班，足跡遍佈歐、美、亞、

澳四大洲。

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崔山島先生

旅美竹笛演奏員。1987年畢業於中國音樂學院器

樂系，師從蔣志超教授。同年進入中國廣播民族

樂團，任笛子聲部首席，同時兼任北京現代音樂

學院爵士系大專部教師。

隨中國廣播民族樂團出訪美、德、瑞士、奧地利、日本、臺灣等多

個國家和地區。在林肯中心、甘迺迪中心、金色大廳、柏林音樂廳

等著名音樂場所演出音樂會。多年兼任澳門中樂團笛子首席。並錄

製大量唱片等音樂製品。

演奏風格細膩，在藝術實踐中廣泛汲取古典音樂、現代音樂、爵士

樂等各音樂種類中的有益因素，博釆眾長，兼收並蓄，形成了自己

獨特的演奏風格。

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張鎭田先生

著名揚琴演奏家、教育家張鎭田先生，自幼進入

中央音樂學院學習揚琴專業，師從揚琴教育專家

鄭寶恆先生。後留校，即從 1965年開始在北京中

央音樂學院及中國音樂學院教授揚琴專業。任教

期間，張鎭田先生為中國和世界的舞臺培養了很

多優秀的專業人才，如：現任中國音樂學院揚琴專業教授李玲玲、

中國廣播文工國團長的張高翔、“女子十二樂坊”的青年揚琴演奏家

馬菁菁、中國中央民族樂國青年演奏家趙霞；還有許多旅居海外的

出類拔萃的揚琴演奏家，如加拿大的徐平心、美國的李立群、日本

的張林等；張鎮田先生本人也曾多次作為揚琴專業的優秀者，與二

胡、古箏等各專業的高手，隨同由國家選派組成的國家藝術團出訪

美國、西德、法國、義大利、摩洛哥及非洲等國家演奏及教學。1982

年為著名二胡演奏家王國潼先生揚琴伴奏錄製了“劉天華二胡名曲

十首”音樂作品。在 1986 年張鎭田先生應約人民音樂出版社編著出

版了首本揚琴專業教學書“揚琴演奏法與技巧練習”（各有簡譜版和

五線譜版）在眾多院校和專專業團體沿用至今。1987 年曾與著名揚

琴演奏家魏鐵柱共同錄製了“揚琴獨奏曲”。

1988 年張鎭田先生為國家特殊人才移居美國，繼續從事他熱愛的

中國揚琴教育。在美國他錄製了“揚琴獨奏專集”，演奏中充分表

現了他功夫扎實，技術嫻熟，發音純淨和熱情奔放的獨特風格。

他創辦了“波士頓中國揚琴樂國”及“波士頓青少年鼓樂團”，培養

了眾多青少年，特別是很多華裔後代，通過學習揚琴音樂不但增

強了語言能力也對中國音樂文化有了更切身的瞭解和薫陶，從而

帶著中國的元素走向了美國各階層和領域。近期一位表現尤為突

出的同學，在全州市青少年音樂競賽中獲得第一名金獎，並得以

受到美國現任總統特朗普(Donald J. Trump)的接見表彰。張鎭田先

生直至現在仍舊活躍在各個學校和教學圑體，他和他帶領的學生

在美國的主流社會和不同社區的文化活動中舉辦了數以百場的表

演。他以他五十餘年豐富的教學經驗和資歷致力於揚琴教育，致

力於把中國的文化兿術推向世界舞臺作出了不懈的努力和貢獻。

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陳汪志堅女士

汪志堅女士幼年時，雙親已發現她的音樂天賦，

並安排她學習鋼琴演奏。至中學時期，她獲教會

聖樂前輩賞識，開始參與事奉，電風琴演奏啟蒙

導師為已故李守政法政牧師，及現居加拿大多倫

多之李超原博士。

汪女士長於教會崇拜司琴和合唱指揮，於 1986 年修讀英國皇家聖

樂學院密集課程，進修聖樂伴奏和兒童合唱指揮，導師包括 David

Willcocks 爵士。她多次帶領幼稚園唱遊組，參加校際音樂節比賽，

奪得冠軍獎項。她亦為極為家長與學生欣賞之鋼琴教師，桃李滿

門，學生於英國皇家音樂學院鋼琴考試中屢獲佳績。汪女士深諳持

續進修的需要，在繁忙的教學日程之外，仍抽空修讀香港大學持續

及專業學院之「鋼琴教師教學文憑」課程，以提升其教學成效。

1990年代，聖三一座堂籌辦聖三一兒童合唱團，汪女士積極參與

籌組工作。該合唱團成立後，汪女士獲邀為義務執行幹事，在顧問

陳晃相先生指導及眾同工協助下，合唱團迅速發展，旋即成為大受

家長讚賞之兒童合唱團。

汪女士為資深教會司琴和指揮，擔任聖三一座堂司琴代表和詩班之

餘，經常獲邀到香港和加拿大多間教會，主持司琴及詩班指揮講

座，並擔任特別崇拜客席司琴。這些教會包括，香港聖約翰座堂、

香港聖三一座堂、多倫多以馬內利堂、溫哥華以馬內利堂和牧愛堂。

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曾君莉女士

早年就讀於香港中文大學音樂系，主修鋼琴，師

承紀大偉教授，一級榮譽畢業，旋即獲德國政府

文化交流獎學金 DAAD 到慕尼黑國立音樂學院

攻讀鋼琴演奏。及後亦獲美浸信會獎學金，到美

國普林斯頓威斯敏斯特合唱音樂學院Westminster

Choir College 修讀，追隨路德宗音樂學者 Dr

Robin Leaver與合唱指揮巨匠 Dr Joseph Flummerfelt，以雙主修教

會音樂與合唱指揮碩士榮譽畢業。回港即任教於建道神學院聖樂

系，活躍於教會音樂教育，亦擔任衛理兒童合唱團總監多年，也曾

兼任中文大學音樂系合唱指揮導師，及基督教文藝出版社音樂部編

輯，參與出版詩集《中學生頌讚》、《新普天頌讚》等。現為播道神

學院詩班指揮及教會風琴師。

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黃慧英博士

黃慧英博士曾任香港演藝學院導師、香港童聲合

唱協會創會董事及國際音樂教育協會(ISME)學校

及教師教育委員會委員。現為香港教育大學文化

與創意藝術學系教學助理教授、香港教育局課程

發展議會藝術教育委員、香港音樂教育家協會董

事、香港藝術發展局審批員、香港中華聖樂團指揮、香港教育大學

合唱團及桃李之聲音樂總監。黃氏經常帶領合唱團到國內及海外作

交流演出。2016 年應邀帶領香港教育大學合唱團前往英國蘇格蘭

出席國際音樂教育協會世界會議，於格拉斯哥皇家音樂廳演出，廣

獲好評。除擔任教學工作外，以主編作者出版《歌樂流方－黃自音

樂賞析與教學專集》。獲大學教育資助委員會資助，出版《教學光

碟－互動姿體動作於合唱教學之應用》。近年以《孫子兵法與合唱

領導》及《創意樂動－合唱協作策略》為題出版學術文章。黃氏為

雨果出版的《踏雪尋梅－黃自歌曲精選》及《唐詩合唱》音樂光碟

的主要策劃及指揮。黃博士畢業於香港演藝學院，主修聲樂及合唱

指揮，其後獲英國雪菲爾德大學頒發音樂碩士及哲學博士學位。

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楊軍教授

現任中國東方演藝集團音樂中心（原東方歌舞團）

二胡演奏員，是國家一級演奏員，中國音樂家協

會會員，中國民族管弦協會會員，中國音樂學院

特邀二胡研究生畢業音樂會評委。

楊教授 13 歲考入中央音樂學院附中、學習二胡。後考入中央音樂

學院大學器樂系二胡專業學習，在校期間系統的學習了和聲、複

調、曲式分析各種形式的音樂，為音樂事業發展打下了良好的基

礎，經過多年的學習實踐演出，對音樂的理解有了新的理解與感受。

1983 年畢業考入中央歌舞團民樂團，任樂團副首席至今。工作以

來，參加人民大會堂的外事、國家重大活動演出，同時輔導校外中、

小學校，為民族音樂事業做出了努力。

參加過各種類型風格的音樂會演出，合奏、獨奏、伴奏，使音樂修

養的提升，有著基本的基礎概念及感受，楊教授 30 多年在國內外

的演出活動過程中，深刻領悟到音樂是人們生活過程中離不開的思

想境界和嚮往追求高的體現，特別是民族音樂的發展，提倡用新的

思維及演奏手法，創新而豐富的體驗，去感受音樂會真正帶來的深

刻印象。

楊教授到過國外很多國家演出，包括美國、日本和歐洲；1991年 9

月奧地利的維也納華僑協會成立之時，他代表國家出訪演奏二胡獨

奏。他在國內的演出走遍全國各大城市，有上千場次之多，作為一

個音樂人生，楊教授希望把真善美的音樂發展傳承下去。

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雷雯霞女士

雷雯霞是肇慶市端州海韻童聲合唱團團長及指

揮，肇慶市童聲合唱團團長及指揮，江門市童聲

合唱團常任指揮。中國合唱協理事，中國童聲合

唱委員會委員，廣東省合唱協會常務理事，廣東

省聲樂藝術研究會理事。從事童聲合唱工作二十

多年，先後師從中國著名指揮家吳靈芬、孟大鵬、桑葉松等學習合

唱指揮。

十多年來，指揮肇慶市端州海韻童聲合唱團多次獲得國內外重大合

唱比賽獎項；舉辦多場合唱專場音樂會。錄製和出版了《蔚藍的旋

律》和《只有和聲》童聲合唱專輯，2017 年新專輯《藍色月光光》

即將發行。2013年 11月獲得了由中國合唱協會表彰的全國百名優

秀合唱團團長的榮譽稱號，在國內國際多次合唱比賽上獲得優秀指

揮獎。

2015 年 1 月受聘，負責組建江門市童聲合唱團，擔任常任指揮，

兩年來指揮該團獲得了一次國際金獎和四次全國比賽的金獎。2017

年 4月出版發行了該團首張合唱專輯《美麗的遠航》。

長期受聘於肇慶廣州中山等地合唱團，輔導的團隊分別獲得廣東省

學校合唱節和全省中小學生藝術展演一等獎，以及多次獲得廣州市

學校合唱節一等獎。

2011 年被廣東省委宣傳部評爲基層優秀文藝骨幹。2016 年被評爲

肇慶市西江文化名人。

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蔣慧民先生

蔣慧民先生 1977 年畢業於香港中文大學崇基學

院音樂系，獲榮譽文學士；為活躍的合唱音樂工

作者，歷任多個合唱團的指揮；1994 - 2017年任

香港科技大學學生會合唱團指揮 / 音樂總監，現

為合一堂馬鞍山堂詩班、鞍山少年歌詠團、雅謌

合唱團、聖樂促進會詩班及講座詩班、並中華基督會教聖頌團指

揮。蔣氏曾帶領其合唱團到澳門、菲律賓、中國、新加坡及台灣作

交流演出。他致力推廣聖樂及中國合唱音樂，指揮的曲目廣泛，包

括文藝復興、巴洛克的彌撒曲、經文曲及神曲等西方經典到中國民

族及現代風格的合唱作品, 並策劃多個教育性或原創性合唱音樂

會及聖樂音樂會。

蔣氏曾任香港中樂團首演及重演陳能濟合唱交響曲《兵車行》及金

湘《詩經五首》的聯合合唱團作合唱指導，香港中文大學音樂系及

建道神學院聖樂系兼讀課程講師，分別教授「中國合唱曲目概覽」

及「合唱法研究」，為多個聖樂營（包括香港、國內及海外）的指

揮或講員，現於香港音樂專科學校教授「聖樂概論」。退休前曾任

基督教文藝出版社音樂編輯 22年，為《香港聲樂作品集》、中國童

聲合唱曲集《黃土地上的朝霞》及《普天頌讚》新修訂版的執行編

輯，《聖頌選集》及《華人聖頌集》的主編。

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鍾皓先生

低男中音，畢業於東京藝術大學。2007年在東京

藝術大學創立 120 周年公演《波西米亞人》中成

功飾演了哲學家“科林”，被業內讚譽為“走到哪裡

都拿得出手的珍貴男低音”。

2008 年，前國家主席胡錦濤同志出訪日本期間，作為旅日華人代

表在日本首相官邸為兩國元首獻歌。

2012年，在東京“二期會”創立六十周年的紀念公演《納布科》中成

功飾演了“大祭司”一角，得到愛樂媒體的空前讚譽及關注。之後數

年，先後在《唐·卡洛》、《馬克白》及《弄臣》中出演了重要角色。

2017年元旦，“第六十回 NHK新年音樂會”上演唱，現場直播、影

響空前。

從 2012年起，每週在富士電視台的欄目“Recipe．en”中，作為嘉賓

出演。

迄今為止，在歌劇《托斯卡》、《圖蘭朵》、《茶花女》、《奧泰

羅》、《唐璜》、《阿依達》、《灰姑娘》、《卡門》、《魔笛》、

《女人心》等歌劇作品中，成功塑造了國王、老父親、軍官、盲人、

刺客、哲學家、十惡不赦的壞蛋等，令觀眾留下深刻印象的重要角

色。並演唱貝多芬第九交響曲《歡樂頌》、《威爾第安魂曲》、《莫

札特安魂曲》、《森林之歌》、《德意志安魂曲》、《千人交響曲》

等等大量的宗教題材音樂及藝術歌曲。共同合作過的世界著名指揮

有 Gabriele Ferro、Andrea Battistoni等；共同合作過的著名導演有

Andreas Homoki、Peter Konwitschny、Daniele Abbado等。