Solo Works
Chamber Works
Electronic/Multimedia Works
Computer Music
Orchestral/Large Scale Works

Solo Works


Same Prime Rhapsody for Bassoon
White Snake and Green Snake



Same Prime Rhapsody for Bassoon solo (1995)

Instrumentation : Bassoon
Duration : 6 mins
Performance Status:

23rd April 1995,
The Boston Conservatory Student Composer's Concert

21st April 1996,
The Boston Conservatory Student Composer's Concert

22nd November 1996,
The Boston Conservatory, Graduate recital by Yiu-kwan Tsang

Violin : Chung-hang Law, John - chung-hang.Law@yale.edu

           This piece is the second movement of the "Immortal Myths" that is a set of music for dance. The ideas all come from Chinese Myths. It is the only movement for a violin solo in the whole orchestral composition.
           White snake; Green snake are two famous spirits in Chinese legend. They were very best sisters. The music surrounds the idea about their lives and their close relationship. The music starts with a tragic melody by combining two pentatonic scales into an octatonic scale. The solo violin plays in the higher register in portamento, to imitate the sound of the Erhu (Chinese violin). In the middle section, the solo violin makes a conversation between white snake and green snake. Also, the composer adopts the intonation of the Chinese Opera in order to express the speech of the two snakes.

Chamber Works


Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Viola
Trifle
Tunnel
Dream in Summer
Song of Death
Myth I
Changing
Space
Quintet
Nocturne - Misty Moon
Konzert Fanfare


Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Viola (1990)

Instrument : Clarinet, Horn, Viola
Duration : 6 mins
Performance Status:

16th Jan 1991,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Student Composers' Concert

27th June 1991,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Summer Music Festival

22nd Jan 1992,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Young Composers' Concert

10th May 1992,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Open Day.

17th May 1992,
New Generation 92'

           The composer's inspiration of this piece is originated from a story which reflects in life become fiery chaotic and busy cities. So, they are dying for another place of concordance. However, it is fleeting; whenever you catch it, you lose it.
           Composer use the skills of rendering as a profile of the annoying sound of traffic and pasty pace. By adding electronic effect and Voice to MIDI interface to processing the sound of the instruments become electronic like, which depicts the crossing between the tunnel of two places.

3rd June 1992,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Young Composers' Concert

28th May 1993,
New Generation 93'

22nd Oct 1993,
Asian Composer's League (ACL) Music Festival in Korea

Piano : Peter Fan, Joanna Wong
Percussion: Choi Lap-dak, Jojo

           The composer acquires inspirations from his dream and formulated this piece. The piece reflects the composer's feelings towards Summer and the affinity of Summer to him.
           The sparking sunlight in Summer makes one feel energetic and excited. nonetheless, summer is also a season when wind and rain approach, which evoke depression and boredom. The composer makes use of some African rhythms in order to manifest the enjoyment of sunlight with glee. moreover, the style emphasizes on different timbers and sound effects to depict the wind and rain in summer.
           The piece is divided into four sections: The anticipation of summer; the whole nature under the radiance of the sun; the coming of the storm and the tranquillity after the storm.

3rd March 1993,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Student Composers' Concert

           It is a vocal composition. The poem originates from "Perhaps" which is an animate piece written by a modern poet Wen yi-duo. The poem exposes the mourning of the poet towards the death of his daughter. He cherished the illusion that she was not dead; she had entered the land of nod for tiredness.
           The composer feels the misery of Wen's losing a daughter. Therefore, he uses the bass pitch of bass clarinet to delineate the deep harassing ambience so as to concord with the voice. In the second part, the portray of the poem is in the format of speeches and they are accompanied with Harp which resembles the resonance of slice of dimple within the memory. The music in the middle part is hoisted to the highest point which shows the extreme mourning of Wen. The lost part uses speeches to utter the verse again. The high status of his daughter in the utmost of his heart and his love to her are completely shown.

2nd March 1993,
Young Professional Musicians Platform, Hong Kong

7th May1993,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Student Composers' Concert

Clarinet : Cho Kok-tin
Alto Flute : Tim Wilson
Alto Sax : Poon Po-choi
Piano : Joanna Wong

           This is a set of theme and variations. At the beginning, the saxophone which is accompanied by the piano plays a lyrical melody. With each succeeding variation the harmonic language becomes more and more dissonant, bringing the music to a highly intense ending.

5th July 1994,
Hong Kong Summer Music Festival

12th Oct 1994,
The Contemporary Music Festival of Hong Kong MUSICARAMA 94' (Commission Work)

           What in every composer's mind are just some simple and abstract elements, these elements from music. So, in this piece, the composer is trying to express simplicity and plainness in music. He makes full use of tradition majors and minors with variations, so that an unique style of harmony is heard with an impression that everything is back to natural and simple again.

22nd Nov. 1996,
The Boston Conservatory, Graduate recital by Yiu-kwan Tsang

Piano : Yun-ling Kuo
Violin I : Shu-fang Du - dufang@hotmail.com
Violin II : Yu-chih Chou
Viola : Hsiao-yun Chen
Cello : Yin-hsing Wang

22nd Nov. 1996,
The Boston Conservatory, Graduate recital by Yiu-kwan Tsang

Trumpet I : Douglas McKenna
Trumpet II : Andrew Sorg
French Horn : Daniel Werren
Tuba : Chi-sun Chan - Sun@OdieStudio.com
Violin : Yu-chih Chow

           Konzert fanfare is an opening fanfare for brass quintet, electronic and amplified violin. In the electronic music part, the composer incorporated C++ computer language, Wave Editor and Csound program to create the unique sounds. Csound is a audio procession system (a sound creator program) developed by Barry L. Vercoe at the Experimental Music Studio, Media Laboratory, M.I.T. Cambridge Massachusetts.

Electronic/Multimedia Works


Phone call my friend
Sonic Fantasia
Inside Music


Phone Call My Friend (1991)

Instrumentation : Tape (Musique Concrete)
Duration : 3'30"
Performance Status:

27th .May 1994,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Electronic Show Case I, 1994

1st July 1992,
Hong Kong Summer Music Festival

30th May 1994,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Electronic Show Case II, 1994

Computer Music


Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Computer
Humanism I
Humanism II
Flexile Key


Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Computer (1993)

Instrumentation : Flute, Clarinet, Live Computer
Duration : 7 mins
Performance Status:

7th May 1993,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Student Composers' Concert

24th June 1993,
Hong Kong Summer Music Festival

30th May 1994
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Electronic Show Case II, 1994

           This composer used MAX computer programming for Macintosh to design his own program to play music with acoustic instruments interactively.

11th April 1994,
The Hong Kong University

27th May 1994,
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Electronic Show Case I, 1994

           This piece tries to use the computers to perform music with "human character". After a detail analysis the composer wrote his original program to "teach" the computer to generate and play its musical gestures with expression in terms of articulations, dynamics, rhythmic interests and tempo.
           One of the characteristic of this piece is that it is a live computer muisc, not similar to the normal tape music. There will be slightly different in every performance of this music, but the musical form and structure pre-designed by the composer will remain the same.

22nd Nov. 1996,
The Boston Conservatory, Graduate recital by Yiu-kwan Tsang

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Piano : Dean Marcellana

           This piece uses the computer to perform music in "Human character". The composer wrote his original program using C++ computer language to "teach" the computer to generate and play its musical gestures in terms of articulations, dynamics, rhythmic interest, and tempo.
           The computer can decide its own performance at every moment to give certain freedom of articulations, dynamics, and pitches. However, these elements are controlled by fixing its form, muiscal gesture, phrasings, and pitch registers. In other works, the computer has it own "thinking". That is the idea of the humanization of the computer.

10th Dec. 1996,
The Boston Conservatory, Student Composers' Concert

Flute : Cynthia Pickett

           This is an interactive music for solo flute and computer. The composer used computer programming C++ to design his own program to generate and play music with the flutist interactively. During the performances, the computer listens to what the flutist plays and generate music corresponding to it. The reaction of the computer to the particular note played by the flutist may be: starting a new section of music; generate music to accompany flute; or change section in the performance. It is to point out that every note in the computer part is produced live contrasting to pre-record or sequencing music.

Orchestral/Large Scale Works


Concerto No.1 for Two Erhus
Overture - Pangu Turns into a Myriad of Things
First Scene - Nuwa Mends the Sky
Kleine
Third Scene - Cynthia, Flute Concerto


Concerto No.1 for Two Erhus (1993)

Instrumentation : two erhus and orchestra
Duration : 12 mins
Performance Status:

14th May 1994,
Asian Composers' League (ACL) Music Festival in Taipei

           This piece is the Overture of the "Immortal Myths" that is a set of music for dance. The ideas all come from Chinese Myths.

           This piece is the first movement of the "Immortal Myths" that is a set of music for dance. The ideas all come from Chinese Myths.

           This piece is the third movement of the "Immortal Myths" that is a set of music for dance. The ideas all come from Chinese Myths. It is a single movement concerto for flute. Dedicate to my Moon Goddess, Cynthia Pickett.
           Cynthia is one of the famous spirit in Chinese Legend. She is a Moon Goddess that escaped to Moon from earth.

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