Composers
Commissions & Premières
Composer, music producer, sheng performer and a cappella artist Ng Cheuk-yin was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s first Artist Associate (2006-2008), and is the Music Director of fusion group SIU2 and co-Artistic Director of the a cappella theatre company Yat Po Singers. After receiving a degree in Composition from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he went on to study Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo and Jazz Music at Codarts in the Netherlands.
In 2012, Ng was named “Artist of the Year (Music)” at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. In 2022, 2013 and 2009, he received the “Best Serious Composition” award at the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards for the Chinese orchestral work Ji, Double Sheng Concerto Before the City Collapses and theatrical choral concert Rock Hard respectively. His choral work Singing Voices of the World received the “Most Performed Work (Serious Music)” award from CASH twice. At the 2018 Ultimate Song Chart Awards, he won the “Favourite Song” award for Hins Cheung’s Centenary Tree.
Ng’s major large-scale works commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta include Fly, Before the City Collapses, White etc. Works for Chinese orchestra include Tang-Resonating, Big Tree, The Seventh Month etc.
In 2011 and 2018, Ng released his a cappella albums Single Singers and Two Is Better Than One. He launched the “Yat Yat Yat Kids Song” NFT project in 2022, and the virtual singer group Twinkle in 2023.
An Array of Stars
for Drumset & Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund
23 March 2024 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Drumset: Senri Kawaguchi
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Fly LIVE!
for Drumset & Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta
23 March 2024
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Drumset: Senri Kawaguchi
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Before the City Collapses (2013)
for Two Shengs and Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund
17 March 2013 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Sheng: LOO Sze-wang, NG Cheuk-yin
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Fly (2007)
for Drumset, Electric Bass and Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund
16 March 2007 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: Jun KUNG | Bass Guitar: LIANG Chun-wai
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Up Among the Stars (2006)
for Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta
14 April 2006 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
White (2004)
for Chinese Percussion and Orchestra
Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund
29 April 2004 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Other Performances:
19 August 2010 ARGENTINIAN PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Teatro Coliseo de Buenos Aires
18 August 2010 URUGUAYAN PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Auditorio Nacional Adela Reta del Sodre, Montevideo
16 August 2010
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Sala São Paulo
15 August 2010 SOUTH AMERICAN PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
SESC – Itaquera, São Paulo
29 April 2010
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
23 February 2007
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: Edwin OUTWATER | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
16 June 2004
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Grand Theatre, Reims
15 June 2004 EUROPEAN PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie | Percussion: CHAU Chin-tung
Saint-Riquier Abbatiale, Picardie