Commissions & Premières
Hui Tak-cheung, a composer born in Hong Kong, has a diverse portfolio that spans chamber and orchestral compositions, electronic and multi-disciplinary pieces, and sound installations. His collaborative approach often involves working with artists and scholars from various disciplines. Utilising immersive and spatial audio, physical model sound synthesis and other music technologies, he reconstructs soundscapes from both the present and the past. His work weaves tales and stories that resonate across different eras and regions, employing human voices, musical and specially made instruments, and loudspeakers.
Hui’s recent interdisciplinary projects include The Unknown Journey of Sound and I Saw You in the Void, featured at the C-LAB Sound Festival in 2022. His sound installation Diachronic Apparatuses was featured in the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. He was Music Director and Composer for There is Another Capital Beneath the Waves, showcased at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in 2023. He was Composer-In-Residence at the EstOvest Festival 2023 in Turin.
Hui has been recognised with the 38th Irino Prize, and has won numerous international competitions such as the Chaosflöte Commission Competition, Flex Ensemble Commission Competiton, Leibnizharmonien International Composition Competition, ACC International Composition Competition and Atlas Ensemble Composers’ Competition. His compositions have been showcased at various festivals, including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ManiFeste Festival, ISCM Taipei International New Music Festival and Goethe-Institut Asian Composers Showcase.
Hui studied at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, before earning his master’s degree in Composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and his Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University. He was awarded numerous grants and fellowships such as the Boston University Center for New Music Fellowship, Kahn Career Entry Award and Design Trust Seed Grant. In 2017-2018, he furthered his studies at IRCAM Cursus, supported by the Boston University Graduate Research Grant. He is currently a faculty member of the Hong Kong Metropolitan University School of Arts and Social Sciences.
Remains, for those Remain
for Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund
22 Feb 2025 WORLD PREMIÈRE