Jay Fung, Phil Lam and Mischa Ip received Gold Award, Silver Award and Bronze Award respectively of the ‘CASH Singer-songwriter Award’ at the Hong Kong Gold Songs Award Presentation Ceremony.

Jay Fung

Phil Lam

Mischa Ip

 
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Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund, the CASH Music Scholarship for Overseas Studies 2022/2023 has been awarded to Wong Chun Wai. He will pursue the Doctor of Music in Composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Wong has a versatile composition profile comprising chamber music, orchestral music, musicals and film scoring. His compositions were featured in various music festivals in Europe, the US and Asia, including the ISCM World Music Days, the International Rostrum of Composers, the ACL (Asian Composers League) Festival, etc., and published by PARMA Recordings, Ablaze Records of the US, Europa Musica Publishing of France, and many more. He has collaborated with the HK Phil, the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie of Germany, performers from the New York Philharmonic and soloists including Dong-Suk Kang. Recently he was commissioned a Double Concerto for violin and cello by Jaap van Zweden for his 60th birthday.

Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund and presented by the CUHK, ‘The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Scholarships 2021/22’ have been awarded to the following students from the Department of Music.

Zheng Enzhe

Enzhe is currently a doctoral student studying composition under the supervision of Prof. Wendy Lee. His works have been performed in various music halls, including the opera Plum Blossoms commissioned by Opera on Tap OKC (US), Decadence for wind symphony premiered by UCO wind symphony (US), The Opposite for piano four hands premiered at the CUHK Bauhinia Concert 2021, and many more. He created four works for multimedia to encourage people during the period of COVID-19, which received coverage from the local media in Oklahoma, US.

Rosella Yum

Rosella is pursuing Bachelor of Arts in Music and is currently a final year student. She majors in composition and is studying with Prof. Chan Kai Young, Dr Lo Hau Man and Prof. Wendy Lee. Her interests lie in contemporary music, sound art, visual and performance art. She is currently working with a Hong Kong floral designer to explore the possibility of music-making and visual arts.

Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund and presented by the HKAPA, the ‘CASH Composition Scholarship 2021/22’ has been awarded to the following student from the School of Music.

Leo is pursuing Bachelor of Music (Honours) Degree and studying composition and electronic music with Dr Yau Yuk Fung and Dr Joyce Tang. He was the awardee of the JK & Ingrid Lee Foundation Creative Project Fund and The Lions Music Charity Foundation Scholarships in 2021 and 2022 respectively. His recent works included Luminous Red Nova for orchestra, Seek for live electronics and tuba, Blasphemy for erhu, zhongruan, sheng, English horn, piano and double bass, Spider Web for string quartet, etc.

Jay Fung, Panther Chan and Serrini received Gold Award, Silver Award and Bronze Award respectively of the ‘CASH Singer-songwriter Award’ at the 43rd Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award held by the RTHK. The award was co-presented by RTHK and CASH.

Jay Fung

Panther Chan

Serrini

Photo provided by: Radio Television Hong Kong