| Accompanist : Marie Agnes GIA . HUANG Yee-ming . WONG Kin-yu . Peter YUE Marie Agnes GIA started her piano lessons at an early age with Mrs Zimmerman and Professor Stephen Shao, followed with Professor Harry Ore, Ms Daisy Yung & Mrs Josephine Wong. She also took singing lessons with Mrs Cecilia Lam & Mrs Agnes Wong. She received the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music as a performer in both piano & singing. Marie had been a secondary school music teacher and had worked in the Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong, formerly known as the Education Department as an Inspector of Schools in the Music Section of the Advisory Inspectorate. In the 70s and 80s, she had been a piano accompanist for various choirs in Hong Kong such as the Hong Kong Oratorio Society, Wong Tai Sin Children’s Choir and Yuen Long Youth Choir. She has recently rejoined the Oratorio as piano accompanist. Huang Yee-ming was born in Taipei where she received intensive piano training at the Kwang Jen Music Academy since her early teens. She graduated from the Taiwan Fu-Jen University in 1987 with a major in piano performance and minor in flute performance. She went on to the Boston New England Conservatory in 1988 to pursue further performance training with Jacob Maxim, and received her Masters degree and Graduate Diploma, both in piano performance, in 1991 and 1992 respectively. Upon her return to Asia, Huang has devoted herself to the training of young pianists. She was on the faculty of her alma mater, Kwang Jen Music Academy from 1991 to 1996, and has since joined the faculty of the Hong Kong Chinese University School of Continuing Studies. Huang is currently the Assistant Principal of Keyboard with Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Accompanist to the Hong Kong Oratorio Society. Wong Kin-yu began piano lessons with Doris Chan and later studied the organ with Dr. Ingeline Nielsen. She was awarded the LRSM diplomas in piano teaching and organ performance. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained her Diploma in Education from the University of Hong Kong. She then took a two-year advanced course at the Royal Academy of Music, London where she studied organ with Douglas Hawkridge and piano accompaniment with Geoffrey Pratley. She was awarded the LRAM and ARCM diplomas and won two prizes in organ performance. In recent years, she has studied Baroque organ music with Ewald Kooiman in the Netherlands and French organ music with Andrņ Isoir in Paris. Wong has given many organ recitals and appears frequently as accompanist for soloists and choirs. She has been the organist of the Kowloon Methodist Church and the accompanist of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society for many years. At present, she is an organ teacher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Peter Yue graduated from the Royal Academy of Music London in 1975 where he studied the organ, piano, accompaniment and choral conducting. During his years at the Academy, he obtained the Professional certificate, the LRAM Diploma and was awarded the Frederick Keene Prize. Since his return to Hong Kong in 1978, Yue had been a staff member of the Music Office until 1996. He has been very active as accompanist to local artists and choirs in concerts. He has also given organ recitals at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and St. John's Cathedral of which he is now the organist. |