2022-23
GalaMusica.Schools Chamber Compositions 2023
2023-03-29

SIU Pak Tung from F.6B, our former Music Head and a Senior Secondary Music student, was awarded an Outstanding Composition Award at the GalaMusica . Schools Chamber Compositions 2023 presented by the Education Bureau (EDB), co-organized by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild (HKCG) and sponsored by the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), with his fusion chamber work, Dance of a Spotted Dove, written for erhu, viola, piano and percussion.


The Concert of Premiere of Outstanding Compositions was held at the Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre on 10 February 2023 where professional musicians gave the first performance of the students' outstanding compositions. The video performance of the work premiere can be watched at:

https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/tc/curriculum-development/kla/arts-edu/students-activities/gala-musica/scc/2023/DanceOfDove.mp4

 

Among the eight student composers, Pak Tung was one of the only three awardees to be invited for the Selection Interview to the Hong Kong Composers' Guild Mentorship Scheme 2023-24, where the selected student(s) would compose a new musical work to be premiered in the GalaMusica in the following year under the guidance from an experienced composer with full scholarship.

 

Good news: Pak Tung has been selected as an awardee to receive the scholarship. In the upcoming months, he would be offered lessons with a professional composer mentor for a composition, which would be premiered by the Music Office's youth orchestra at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall in January 2024.