Music

Loo Sze-wang is a sheng player of renown in Hong Kong and a winner of numerous awards. An active figure on the music scene as both a soloist and a chamber musician, he has appeared in the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Musicarama and on Radio Television Hong Kong. Loo has performed with different performing groups around the world, including the Song Company of Australia, St. Lawrence String Quartet of the United States, POING of Norway, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project of the Northwestern University of Chicago, Het Collectif of Brussels and the Macao Orchestra, covering Europe, the US, Asia and South America. He has also premiered several sheng concertos, the notable pieces being Miroir de Macao by Lam Bun-ching, and Hark the Phoenix Soaring High and ‘Twas the Thawing Wind by Chan Hing-yan. Loo was Artist-in-Residence of the Cornell University in New York. As Artist Associate of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta between 2012 and 2013, he went on tour with the orchestra to North America. His recent performances include the operas, The Heart of Coral and Ghost Love by Chan Hing-yan; the atmospheric music theatre shows, When Petals Fall in Serenity and Beyond the Senses by Law Wing-fai; The Anatomy of the Musician by Samson Young in Paris, France; and the new concerto Hark the Phoenix Solitaire Cry by Chan Hing-yan with the UniMi Orchestra in Milan, Italy under the baton of Yip Wing-sie in 2016. Loo is a founding member of the group Chinese Music Virtuosi, which was Ensemble-in-Residence of the Department of Music of The Chinese University of Hong Kong between 2011 and 2012.

Cao Jianguo Arr. Loo Sze-wang
Festival on Tianshan

Hu Tianquan, Su Anqing, Wang Weiran
Arr. Loo Sze-wang
Fishermen’s Song of the South Sea

Loo Sze-wang
Dazzle for Sheng and Clapper

Fan Shang-e, Gesang Daji
Arr. Loo Sze-wang
Daybreak on a Snowy Mountain in Spring

Lin Yi
Zen

Lai Chiao-shan
The Love Valley

Park Gyeonghun
Recollection

Loo Sze-wang
Only Sheng

Chen Yi-wei
MM (Tango)
Naoyuki Manabe

Trans. Loo Sze-wang
Sonata for Shō and 17 strings Koto (2nd movement)

Christopher Adler
Three Lai

Shao Chunliang
Keyed Sheng Rhapsody, Op. 1