Playground by Ng Cheuk-yin

Ng Cheuk-yin

Composer and Music Director

Ng Cheuk-yin is a composer music director, sheng perfomer and a cappella artist.

Ng is the artistic director of Yat Po Singers, Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s first Artist Associate and music director of the fusion band SIU2. After receiving a post-graduate degree from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he went on to study Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo and Jazz Music at Codarts in the Netherlands
In 2012, Ng received Award for Best Artist from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2009 and 2013, Ng received the Best Serious Composition in CASH Golden Sail Music Awards by the theatrical choral concert ‘Rock Hard’ and double Sheng concerto Before the City Collapses respectively. And his choral work Singing Voices of the world was awarded twice the CASH Golden Sail Most Performed Works Award 2014 & 2019 (Serious Music).

Ng’s major orchestral works include the Sheng concerto for Chinese orchestra The Seventh Month, drumset concerto Fly, Chinese orchestral work Tang Resonating and Chinese percussion concerto White etc.

Other compositions by Ng include music for dance drama L’Amour immortel, Lady White of West Snake and Di Zi Gui etc; music for the concert ‘Herbal, Vocal or Motional’, a crossover collaboration between Yat Po Singers and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra; and Yat Po Singers’ productions Requiem HK, Pica Pica Choose, This Victoria Has No Secret, and Sing Sang Sung etc. Other genre types include the film score for the McDull movie, Pork of Music; choral works Before We Grow Up, Voices of the World, Music of Love and Ears in Heaven etc; and pop songs Under the Cherry Blossom Tree and The Way We Grew by Hins Cheung and Can’t Get Happy by Eason Chan.

Wilson Ng

Conductor

Born in Hong Kong, Wilson Ng took his first flute lessons at the age of 11. He studied flute in Paris and Lausanne and performed as a guest solo flautist with the Lyon National Opera Ballet before studying conducting. He later continued his conducting studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and was chosen for the conducting academies at the Pacific Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. He was also selected to join the masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, David Zinman and Roger Norrington. He has been a prizewinner at the Mahler Competition in Bamberg, the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition in Frankfurt, the Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Paris and the James Conlon Conductor Prize at the Aspen Music Festival. Ng was appointed associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 28, making his debut at the Seoul Arts Center Orchestra Festival in 2019. He has also performed as guest conductor with numerous other orchestras in Korea and around the world.
In 2013, Wilson Ng performed a flute and piano recital with KaJeng Wong at the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival. Ng founded the Gustav Mahler Orchestra in 2014, based in Hong Kong. Of which he is artistic director. For his contributions to the Development of arts and culture, he received a Certificate of Commendation from the Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs in 2017 and he receives a Yong Artist Award from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2018

True Colours Symphony

Founded by PMA Music Foundation, True Colors Symphony aims at nurturing the musical talent of the differently-abled and providing them with various platforms to shine. Being the largest all-inclusive orchestra in Hong Kong, we encourage interactions between people of different backgrounds. Our members include children, teenagers, adults, senior citizens, ethnic minorities, the visually-impaired, hearing-impaired, physically-impaired, students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other special educational needs. Advocating “Be True, Be Colors”, we support inclusion, celebrate differences, demonstrate abilities and excellence we can achieve together. Renowned musicians we are collaborating with include Adrian Anantawan (Canada), the one-handed violinist and Dame Evelyn Glennie (Scotland), the world-class percussion soloist with hearing loss.

Patrick Lui Pak-hay

Band Leader and Piano

Patrick Lui is an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. A graduate of Boston’s Berklee College of Music, he has performed at concerts and festivals around the world in North America, Europe and Asia.

Lui has also composed for film, television and theatre. He is a frequent collaborator with the pop group RubberBand, and their works together have received wide acclaim. Lui also performs his compositions with his own big band as well as others abroad. His debut big band album, Sonder, was released by Sony in 2020. It was recorded in New York City and mixed and mastered by two-time Grammy award winner Mike Marciano.

Jezrael Lucero

Keyboard

Perfect pitch is just one of the many remarkable things about Jezrael Lucero. According to his dad – who passed away in 2003 – the musician was singing Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night at the age of 13 months; he was playing classical concertos on the piano at two; and he’s been gigging at hotels and appearing on TV shows since he was four. As well as being a tremendously gifted jazz pianist, whose fingers can prance like praying mantises or scramble like frenzied locusts on a keyboard, he’s a singer, arranger, drummer, bass-player, and guitarist; One more thing – he has been utterly blind since his premature birth on May 1, 1985.

“Growing up is another thing Lucero has done exceedingly well. He plays more like a 45 year old person, maturity wise,” says friend and mentor Skip Moy, a respected sound engineer and musician. “He also carries a certain charisma when he gets on a bandstand. I’ve worked with some fairly heavy duty artists, globally, and those guys have that charisma you can carry. Stevie Wonder has it, Ray Charles has it… This kid has it.”

Chan Kin-long

Video Director

Chan Kin-long graduated from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

Kin-long’s talent was discovered by director Fruit Chan in 2013 and he entered the profession by starring in the action-thriller film “The Midnight After”. Kin-long’s wrote, directed and performed his short film “I Can‘t Live Without A Dream”, with which he won Best Actor in The Sapporo International Short Film Festival 2014.

“Hand-Rolled Cigarette”, his first directed feature film, was one of the winning entries of “the 4th First Feature Film Initiative (FFFI)” and received seven nominations at the 57th Golden Horse Awards, including the Best New Director award. “Hand-rolled Cigarettes” was also selected as the opening film of the 2020 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the closing film of the 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.