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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.
Dr. Rujing Stacy HUANG
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.
2022
Dr. Youn KIM
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.
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO stages the tech-cantata The Longest Days and the Shortest Days at Lisbon's Gulbenkian Auditorium.
Angus LEE (PhD composition & Assistant Lecturer)
Angus Lee, 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.
Professor Daniel CHUA
Elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO, Dr. Deborah WAUGH
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".
Professor Daniel CHUA
Jing WANG (PhD Composition)
Record of the Little Rock Pond (2021)-for percussion quartet, repeated by the HKPhil percussion section at HKPhil@Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District.
Jing WANG (PhD Composition)
Yan (2016) - for shell-horn, repeated at AngelicA, Festival Internazionale di Musica, Italy.
2021
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
SSS (Sound/Stage/Screen), a new journal founded and co-edited by Giorgio Biancorosso, launches today.
Professor Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
Professor Giorgio Biancorosso joins international panel to discuss the ​release of the 4K restorations and director's cut of Wong Kar Wai’s films..
Jing WANG (PhD Composition)
The Flow ​won the first prize at Toolbox International Creative Academy 2021 (HK).
Yan (2016)- for shell-horn, repeated at Mediapark, Cologne, a programme of Bienale Koper Festival.
2020
Dr. YANG Yuanzheng
Dr. Yang Yuanzheng's Dragon's Roar is released. The book researches on the seven important qin zithers featured in the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
2019
Professor Daniel CHUA
Conferred Chair Professor
Dr. YANG Yuanzheng
Awarded the Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship 2019/20 to undertake 10 months of independent research at Harvard University.
YEUNG Ching Ho Grammy (fourth year, BA Music Major)
2018
Professor CHAN Hing-yan
Professor Daniel CHUA
Elected Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society
HO Fei Wan (fourth year, BA Music Major)
Awarded a scholarship from the Hong Kong Scholarship For Excellence Scheme to pursue a Master of Music degree in composition at Royal College of Music, London
Dr. YANG Yuanzheng
Professor Daniel CHUA
Awarded Research Output Prize 2017/18, Faculty of Arts, HKU
2017
Professor Daniel CHUA
LI Ka Chi Edwin (fourth year, BA Music Major)
Awarded Graduate Fellowship (2017-2022), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
CHAN Hei Tung (MPhil Musicology)
Awarded Dean's Distinguished Fellowship 2017-2019 and Gluck Fellowship 2017/18, University of California, Riverside
Dr. Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
Awarded Research Output Prize 2016/17, Faculty of Arts, HKU
CHEN Chih Ting Timmy  (PhD Musicology)
Professor Daniel CHUA
Elected as President, International Musicological Society for a term of five years
Professor CHAN Hing-yan
2016
Dr. YANG Yuanzheng
Awarded the Rulan Chao Pian Prize, Association for Chinese Music Research, USA
TAI Ming Wai Amy (fourth year, BA Music Major)
TAI Ming Wai Amy (fourth year, BA Music Major)
Named Highly Commended Entrant, The Undergraduate Awards 2016
LI Ka Chi Edwin (third year, BA Music Major)
Named Highly Commended Entrant, The Undergraduate Awards 2016
Professor CHAN Hing-yan
WAN Morton Teng (MPhil Musicology)
2015
FUNG Dic Lun Gordon (PhD Composition)
Awarded First Prize, Composition Award, Singapore International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition 2015, Singapore Chinese Orchestra
Professor CHAN Hing-yan
2014
FUNG Dic Lun Gordon (PhD Composition)
Awarded Second Prize, AGBU Sayat Nova International Composition Competition
FUNG Dic Lun Gordon (PhD Composition)
Received Honorable Mention, Fifth Atlas Academy (Conservatory of Amsterdam), Atlas Ensemble, Amsterdam
Dr. CHAN Hing-yan
Awarded Best Artist Award (Music), Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
2013
FUNG Dic Lun Gordon (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Fourth Prize, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra/Luxembourg Sinfonietta International Composition Competition
CHOW Man Ying (MPhil Musicology)
Awarded Frank E. Taplin, Class of 1937 Fellowship in Music, Princeton University
2012
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Hong Kong Jockey Club Music Scholarship, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Second Prize, Sofia International Composition Competition, Bulgaria
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Second Prize, Sofia International Composition Competition, Bulgaria
2011
LAW Ho Chak (MPhil Musicology)
Awarded Doctoral Fellowship 2011-2016 (Center for Chinese Studies), and Graduate Fellowship 2011/12 (School of Music, Theatre & Dance), University of Michigan
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded First Place (Student Division), Migratory Journeys International Composition Competition 2010/11, The Chinese Fine Arts Society, Chicago
FUNG Dic Lun Gordon (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Third Prize, Italy Percussive Art Society Composition Competition
2010
Dr. Giorgio BIANCOROSSO
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Third Prize (Junior Category) and Special Prize for Best Chamber Music, International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition, Prague
LO Ting Cheung Daniel (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Third Prize, New Generation 2010, Hong Kong Composers Guild
2009
LEUNG Chi Hin Michael (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Second Prize, New Generation 2009, Hong Kong Composers Guild
NG King Pan (PhD Composition)
Admitted to MODART young composer forum, The Song Company/Australian Music Centre
YANG Yuanzheng (PhD Musicology)
2008
Dr. Youn KIM
Awarded Outstanding Book Award (Basic Sciences), Republic of Korea
Dr. CHAN Hing-yan
Commendation for “Persons with Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Arts and Culture,” Secretary of Home Affairs’ Commendation Scheme, HK
Dr. CHAN Hing-yan
Awarded Best Original Music, Hong Kong Dance Awards 2008, Hong Kong Dance Alliance
2007
Dr. Joshua CHAN
Commendation for “Persons with Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Arts and Culture,” Secretary of Home Affairs’ Commendation Scheme, HK
Dr. Joshua CHAN
Elected as Chairman, Asian Composers League for a term of five years
2006
YANG Yuanzheng (MPhil Musicology)
Awarded Ford Foundation Fellowship 2006/07, Asian Cultural Council, New York
YANG Yuanzheng (MPhil Musicology)
YANG Yuanzheng (MPhil Musicology)
2005
CHAN Sze Rok (MPhil Composition)
Awarded First Prize, International Music Competition, Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest, Romania
YOUNG Kar Fai Samson (MPhil Composition)
Awarded Naumburg Prize and Graduate Fellowship 2005-2009, Princeton University, USA
CHAN Sze Rok (MPhil Composition)
Received Viva Sinfonietta Commission, Hong Kong Sinfonietta
YOUNG Kar Fai Samson (MPhil Composition)
Received Viva Sinfonietta Commission, Hong Kong Sinfonietta
CHAN Sze Rok (MPhil Composition)
Awarded First Prize, New Generation 2005, Hong Kong Composers Guild
2004
YOUNG Kar Fai Samson (MPhil Composition)
Admitted to MODART young composer forum, The Song Company/Australian Music Centre
Professor Daniel CHUA
Awarded Dent Medal, UK