HKYCO Conductors
Tsui Ying-fai
Tsui is currently the Chief Music Officer of the Music Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and conductor of Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra. He obtained his bachelor's with first-class honor and master's degrees (Ethnomusicology – Chinese Music) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has studied ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Tsui has been active in the field of Chinese music as a conductor. Since 2000, he led the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra to perform in Beijing and Xi'an, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Shenyang, Taiwan, and Singapore; and the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Plucked String Orchestra to perform in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival in Scotland, UK. Besides his official conducting duties in the Music Office, Tsui also conducted in concerts of numerous local Chinese orchestras and was invited to conduct in the Taipei Youth Chinese Orchestra Concert in Taipei. He was also invited to serve on the adjudicating panels of the National Chinese Orchestral Contests in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the 2019 Singapore Youth Festival Chinese orchestras/ensembles presentation, and the 2020 38th Macao Young Musicians Competition; and to serve as one of the advisors for the 2022 40th Macao Young Musicians Competition.
Tsui has also worked as a tutor and research staff of the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has taught at the Music Department and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He published articles on Chinese instrumental music in publications, by the former Hong Kong Provisional Urban Council and the Education and Manpower Bureau, and in music academic journals in the US and the well-known Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.
Kwok Kin-ming
Kwok Kin-ming is currently the Senior Music Officer of the Chinese Music Section at the Music Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and conductor of the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra, Music Office Instructors' Chinese Orchestra, and Music Office Junior Chinese Orchestra.
Kwok graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts cum laude, and also holds a Master's degree in Chinese Music Conducting with the famous conductor, Yan Huichang as supervisor. He also attended master classes in conducting by Xia Feiyun, Chen Tscheng-Hsiung, Tsung Yeh, Zhang Guoyong, Henry Shek, Yip Wing-sie, and many others. He was the Second Runner-up and winner of the Outstanding Young Conductor in Hong Kong award in the first Hong Kong International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music held in 2011.
Kwok has been invited to conduct many orchestras, including the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Macao Chinese Orchestra, the Jilin Province Chinese Orchestra, the Shanghai Feiyun Chinese Orchestra, and the Academy Chinese Orchestra of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, etc.
