Richard Tsang
Richard Tsang holds a doctorate degree in composition from the University of York and has been active in Hong Kong as a composer, contemporary music promoter and broadcaster. He is currently (since 2002) President of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and holds other positions including the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Composers´ Guild and has served between 1990-1996 as the Vice-Chairman of the Asian Composers´ League (ACL). He founded the First Chinese Composers´ Festival in 1986 and was the chief organizer of the 1988 & 2002 ISCM World Music Days Festivals in Hong Kong. He has received commissions from various bodies including the Stockholm Wind Symphony Orchestra, Japan Folklore Foundation, the Taipei Municipal Chinese Orchestra as well as the Hong Kong Ballet, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. In 1989, his Prelude for Orchestra, specially written for the inauguration of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston and in Hong Kong. His full-length ballet “The Emperor & the Nightingale” premiered in 1997, was also brought to the audience of many European cities by the Hong Kong Ballet Co. in the summer of 2000.
Tsang currently spends his time between Hong Kong and England as a university teacher, consultant and freelance composer.
