Lok Yin Tang

Lok-Yin TANG is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Composition, studying with Prof. Wing-wah Chan and Prof. Victor Chan at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she obtained a Masters in composition. She received her Bachelor of Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts under the tutelage of Wing-fai Law and Clarence Mak. Tang’s has received numerous composition awards. In 2006, her Sheng Concerto “Volcanicity” won the Young Composer Award at the Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s International Competition for Chinese Orchestral Composition. In 2007, the chamber ensemble piece “The Giving Tree II” was awarded frist prize at the Asian Pacific Festival Young Composer Composition Competition in New Zealand. In summer, “Convergence” brought her the Outstanding Prize of the “Palatino” piano composition competition in China. Tang also received the ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Prize in December 2007.In 2007, Tang received a Fulbright Scholarship be a visiting scholar at Columbia University, studying with Tristan Murail.