Ada Lai

Ada Lai (chin .: 黎雅婷, * 1975 in Hong Kong ; as Lai Nga-ting ) is a Chinese composer and music theorist .

Life

Lai studied piano at Trinity College of Music in London. She obtained the LTCL diploma. In 1997 she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In 1998 the Master of Music in Composition with the topic A Portfolio of Music Compositions followed and in 2000 the Master of Philosophy in Music Theory with the topic The Issue of Time in Messiaen's Music . Her teachers include Chan Wing-wah , Victor Chan and Cheong Wai-ling . She received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 2004. with Brenton Broadstock and Linda Kouvaras with the work The Issue of Time in Quatrain II (1977) by Tōru Takemitsu .

Her works have been performed at the ISCM World Music Days 2002 in Hong Kong, at concerts of the International Alliance for Women in Music in Washington DC and at festivals of the Asian Composers League . Musicians like the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra , the Ensemble Contrasts, the Eastern Winds Ensemble and Next Mushroom Promotion performed their works.

In 2010 her work Vibrissae (UA Ensemble Sortisatio ) was presented to the Tribune internationale des compositeurs and was a finalist at the 2010 CASH Golden Sail Music Awards in the category Best Serious Composition.

She works as a lecturer at the CUHK. Lai is also the secretary of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild .

Awards and grants

• 1997: Faculty Award for Music at Chung Chi College, CUHK
• 1997: Bernard Van Zuiden Music Prize
• 1997: Yu-Luan Shih Award from Chung Chi College, CUHK
• 1997: CASH Scholarship
• 1997: Best of year at Chung Chi College, CUHK
• 1998: CASH Scholarship
• 2000: Second prize at the Millennium Music Competition
• 2000: Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship
• 2001: Melbourne Abroad Traveling Scholarship

Web links

• Biography and catalog raisonné of Ada Lai at the Hong Kong Composers' Guild (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, list of works ( Memento from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ International Rostrum of Composers 2010. Radio Television Hong Kong. ( MS Word ; 131 kB)
3. ↑ "2010 Golden Sail Music Awards" finalists announced  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.