Welcome  to the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Founded in 1981, the Department of Music is part of the School of Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and is affiliated with The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. The Department is a happening place, providing a culturally enriching environment for immersive learning. We provide an integrated learning experience in music second to none in the region. Joining us will connect you with the wider world of musicology.

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News

24 FEB 2023
An extended interview with Mr. and Mrs. James Chen Chien-Hua, donors of one of HKU Music's endowed professorships, is now available online in the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s Oral History and Archives Project website.
23 FEB 2023
Dr. Rujing Stacy HUANG was elected Co-Chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Sound Studies Section for the 2022-2024 term. As a singer-songwriter, her debut single “Dear Days” — commissioned by NetEase Cloud Music as a regional exclusive — entered the DSP’s Official Top 30 Folk Song Chart and Top 100 Hong Kong Folk-Pop Chart in January 2023. She is also co-organizing the fourth edition of the AI Song Contest.
19 Sep 2022
Dr. Youn KIM’s monograph Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology is published a part of the SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music series. The book investigates the complex and multidisciplinary discursive space of the emerging field of music psychology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
15 Sep 2022
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO stages the tech-cantata The Longest Days and the Shortest Days at Lisbon's Gulbenkian Auditorium.
3, 8 & 11 Sep 2022
Angus Lee (PhD composition & Assistant Lecturer), Chasing Waterfalls (an artificial intelligence opera in 7 scenes), co-created with the Berlin-based sound artist collective kling klang klong and commissioned by phase7 performing.arts Berlin, premiered at Semperoper Dresden, Germany. The work will also tour to Hong Kong in November as part of Hong Kong New Vision Arts Festival 2022. Lee is leading the performances as conductor on both occasions.
25 JUL 2022
Professor Daniel CHUA elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
7 JUL 2022
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO, Dr. Deborah WAUGH, together with Mr. Thomas TSANG (Department of Architecture) were awarded the Architecture Faculty's 2022 Knowledge Exchange Awards for their project "The Soundtecture: Density as Intensity".
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HKU Chamber Singers 2022/23

Join the HKU Chamber Singers for credit or no credit to sing Faure's Requiem with the HKPhil in Nov 2022. Other highlights include a Christmas Concert with works by local composers and the premiere of a new work by Professor Chan Hing-yan at the Annual Concert. For further enquiries, please contact Caleb Woo at calebwoo@hotmail.com (see also UNDERGRADUATE > Course Offerings & Course Selection 2022/23 > Performance Courses > Performance Study, scroll down to "Ensembles").

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HKU Chamber Singer

Recent Publications by HKU Music Faculty

Upcoming Concerts

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov: The Complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano I
佛斯特與梅尼可夫：貝多芬小提琴奏鳴曲全集 I

Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU
31 MAR 2023 | FRI | 8:00PM ‍ MORE DETAILS‍

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Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov
Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov: The Complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano II
佛斯特與梅尼可夫：貝多芬小提琴奏鳴曲全集 II

Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU
1 APR 2023 | SAT | 8:00PM ‍ MORE DETAILS‍

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Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov
Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov: The Complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano III
佛斯特與梅尼可夫：貝多芬小提琴奏鳴曲全集 III

Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU
2 APR 2023 | SUN | 3:00PM ‍ MORE DETAILS‍

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Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov

Research Colloquia

APR
12
Edwin LI
Chinese Reception, Adorno’s Utopianism, and Postcolonial Re-translations of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
APR
17
Eugene BIRMAN and
Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
The Longest Days and the Shortest Days: A Dialogue on Art & Tech
MAY
03
Yvonne LIAO
‍Coloniality in the Music Archive: What Say, Shanghai?
APR
19
Martin O’DONNELL
‍The Ear Doesn’t Blink: Composing for Video Games