陈永华
简介
<p> 作曲家及指挥家陈永华肆业于香港中文大学音乐系，后连续五年获英联邦奖学金于多伦多大学深造，获音乐硕士及博士荣衔。<br /> 陈氏音乐以现代化的风格演译中国传统文化，同时表现对生命的热诚，其作品包括六首交响曲及多首管弦乐及室乐创作。学生时期其四重奏《秋》已获「一九八一美国国际双簧协会作曲大赛」首奖。其管弦乐《飞渡》除获亚洲作曲家同盟颁授「一九八八入野义朗纪念奖」外，更于一九九三年获北京「中华民族文化促进会」选为「二十世纪华人音乐经典」之一，陈氏于一九九一年获香港艺术家联盟颁授「作曲家年奖」,一九九二年获颁「十大杰出青年奖」。<br /> 其作品的演奏者包括美国克诺斯四重奏、英国伦敦火焰剧团、瑞典鼓猛打乐团及世界各地的交响乐团包括中国、台湾、香港、日本、匈牙利、罗马尼亚、俄罗斯、波兰等地。其交响曲皆由雨果制作有限公司灌录。<br /> 陈永华的指挥经验由念大学开始，他已经常把西方重要作品(从巴勒斯汀拿到瑞特)作香港首演，同时亦提倡演出本地创作。陈氏于一九九五年开始任香港圣乐团音乐总监。<br /> 陈永华现为香港中文大学文学院副院长及音乐系系主任。在国际方面,他曾出任联合国国际现代音乐协会委员及亚洲作曲家同盟副主席。在香港则为香港管弦乐团首位驻团作曲家,亦曾获特区政府委任为前区域市政局议员及版权审裁处委员。他现在是香港艺术发展局艺术推广委员会主席、赛马会音乐及舞蹈基金会主席、香港作曲家联会主席、香港作曲家及作词家协会主席等。陈氏于二OOO年获特首委任为太平绅士。<br /> <p> CHAN Wing-wah 2 <p> Composer and conductor CHAN Wing-wah graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was then offered a British Commonwealth Scholarship for five years to further study at the University of Toronto where he received his Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees in composition.His compositions had included six symphonies and other chamber and orchestral works. His musical style presents a modern version of traditional Chinese culture showing an enthusiasm towards life. While as a student, his music had already won him a 1st prize in the 1981 International Double Reed Society Composition Contest, USA. He further won the 1988 Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize with his orchestral music TRANSIT which was later selected as one of the “20th Century Masterpieces by Chinese Composers” by the China Culture Promotion Society in Beijing in 1993. He had been presented the “1991 Composer of the Year” Award and the “1992 Ten Outstanding Young Persons” Award. His symphonies were recorded on compact discs by HUGO Productions. Performers of his music had included the Kronos Quartet, Fires of London, Kroumata Ensemble and performing groups of China, Taiwan, Japan, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Korea, among others. His conducting activities started in university days when he began to make HK premiere of several western masterpieces from Gregorian chant to Rutter in addition to local composers' works. He became Music Director of the HK Oratorio Society since 1995.Professor CHAN is now Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Chairman of the Music Department at the Chinese University of HK. On the international front, he had served as an Executive Committee member in the UNESCO International Society for Contemporary Music and as Vice-Chairman of the Asian Composers' League. Locally, he was the first Composer-in-Residence of the HK Philharmonic Orchestra, and is currently Chairman of the Arts Promotion Committee of the HK Arts Development Council, Chairman of Jockey Club Music & Dance Fund, and Chairman of both HK Composers’Guild and the Composers’& Authors' Society of HK. He had been appointed as a member of the Copyright Tribunal and a member of the former Regional Council. He was further appointed a Justice of the Peace by the HKSAR in 2000 <p>
