Law Wing-fai
Law Wing-fai ( Chinese 羅永暉 , Pinyin Luó Yǒnghuī ; born July 29, 1949 in Haikou ) is a Chinese composer .
Life
Law Wing-fai was born in the Chinese province of Hainan , but grew up in Macau and Hong Kong . He studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei at the National Taiwan Normal University ( Bachelor of Arts 1972) and with John Crawford at the University of California ( Master of Arts 1979).
After returning to Hong Kong, he worked for the film industry. He composed the score for 20 films.
In 1980 he became a lecturer in music theory and composition at Lingnan College. From 1984 to 1998 he was dean of the composition faculty at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts . In 1995 he studied computer music at Stanford University . Since 1998 he has been composer in residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Stephen Yip and Pang Chun-ting are among his students .
Awards
- 1981: ACL Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Prize
- 1987: Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Original Film Music
- 1992: Composer of the Year of the Hong Kong Artists' Guild
- 1995: Hutchinson Whampoa Fellowship of the Asian Cultural Center
- 2001: CASH Golden Sail Music Award
literature
- Barbara Mittler : New Music from Hong Kong and Taiwan . In: CHIME 9 (1996), pp. 4-44.
- Daniel Law: Hong Kong . In: Harrison Ryker (Ed.): New Music in the Orient: Essays on Composition in Asia since World War II . Frits Knuf Publishers, Buren 1991, pp. 225-248.
- Harrison Ryker: Law Wing-fai. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- WC Tsui (Ed.): Hong Kong Composers' Guild Directory . Hong Kong 1997, pp. 169-74.
Web links
- Law Wing-fai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography and discography of Law Wing-fai in Hong Kong Composers' Guild (English)
Law Wing-fai (1981) | Phoon Yew Tien (1983) | Cuong Nguyen (1984) | Tzyy-Sheng Lee (1986) | Chan Wing-wah (1988) | Tan Dun (1990) | Jeroen Speak (1992) | Lim Jie-sun (1993) | Wang Sue-ya (1994) | Jiradej Setabundhu (1996) | Jomar B. Ferreria (1997) | Yu-Hui Chang (1998) | Dody Satya Ekagustdiman / A. Fahmy Alatlas (1999) | Kumiko Omura (2000) | Sungji Hong (2002) | Sakiko Kosaka (2003) | Erel Paz (2004) | Narong Prangcharoen (2005) | Samuel Holloway (2007) | Tang Lok-yin (2007) | Kim Il-jin (2009) | Yen Ming-Hsiu (2011) | Shogo Takahashi (2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Law, Wing-fai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 羅永暉 (Chinese); Luó, Yǒnghuī (Pinyin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haikou |