TUTORS
Richard Tsang Conductor |
Born in Hong Kong, Richard Tsang has been active as a composer, conductor, broadcaster and music administrator in Hong Kong and abroad. He is currently (since 2002) Presidentof the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), the first ever Asian composer to hold this prestigious position. He also holds other positions including the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and has served between 1990-1996 as the Vice-Chairman of the Asian Composers’ League (ACL). He founded the First Chinese Composers’ Festival in Hong Kong in 1986 and was the chief organizer of the 1988 & 2002 ISCM World Music Days Festivals in Hong Kong. He has received commissions from various local and international bodies including the Hong Kong Ballet, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, as well as the Stockholm Wind Symphony Orchestra, Japan Folklore Foundation and the Taipei Municipal Chinese Orchestra. In 1989, his Prelude for Orchestra, specially written for the inauguration of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston and in Hong Kong. His full-length ballet `The Emperor & the Nightingale’ premiered in 1997, was also brought to the audience of many European cities by the Hong Kong Ballet Co. in the summer of 2000. He was the founding Music Director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta from 1990-1993 and founded and served as Associate Music Director of the RTHK Singers in the 1990s. He has guest conducted many local and overseas groups including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Children’s Choir, the Taipei Municipal Chinese Orchestra and many contemporary music ensembles. Tsang was one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 1988, honoured with the Anglo-Hong Kong Trust Artist Award in the same year, the Hong Kong Artists’ Guild Composer of the Year Award in 1990 as well as the CASH Gold Sail Award for Best Serious Composition in 2002. |
