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Magdelena Tang
Hong Kong
Conductor, Researcher
The Sound 樂氣:
@thehksound
Magdelena Tang is a conductor and research based in Hong Kong. Tang is keen in socially engaged art projects and studies the stories of music in Hong Kong. Her projects, Avro Part – A Musical Evening (2017) and Empire Theatre and I: A Musical Monologue (2019) were performed at Edmund Maulouge Gallery and PMQ. Past collaborators include iDiscover and The Hong Kong Institute of Architectural Conservationists (HKICON). Tang graduated from Boston University with a Master of Music in Choral Conducting. Tang is now a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong with scholarships, focusing on musical activities in Hong Kong and their social implications.
Kessay Chan
Hong Kong
Videographer，Musician
Kessay Chan: www.kessayc.com
Wai Sing Music: www.waisingmusic.com
Kessay Chan is an active A cappella singer in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Music Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his major instrument is classical voice.“Wai Sing Documentary”was initiated in 2019 in order to discover the experience and growth for Tin Shui Wai young singers through A cappella training. 8 screening events were held after the completion of the documentary, including at Asia Society Hong Kong Center, CUHK, Tin Shui Wai Park and so on. More than 1,000 audience members participated in the screening events. Wai Sing Documentary updated its name to “Wai Sing Music” in 2020 and registered as a limited company. Wai Sing Music is now a social enterprise in Hong Kong in order to promote A cappella music through professional audio and video production and education programs. Wai Sing Music recently won the CUSE Fund to launch its “Train the Singer” community music education program.
Feng Xin
China
NGO worker
I’m Fish (Chinese Name: Feng Xin). I live in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Now I am working in an Environmental NGO. I learn piano and flute from an early age and love music very much. I find music is a powerful tool to awaken people , to connect with each other, and to express our understanding of life.
Lawrence Wong
Hong Kong
Social Worker, Lecturer
Lawrence Wong is currently working in Hong Kong College of Technology as a lecturer teaching in Higher Diploma in Social Work programme since 2015. He is teaching social work practice subjects and acted as a facilitator in fieldwork placement related workshops. Before, Lawrence has served as a social worker for years in services for elderly, families and patients with chronic illnesses. Lawrence is a music lover that has played piano since the age of eight and obtained ATCL (Recital) in Piano of London Trinity College of Music. Also, he has received vocal training for over 10 years. He is looking for how musical elements can be incorporated into social work practice and social work education. He is currently pursuing his study of Postgraduate Diploma in Music Therapy in HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education.
Kotaro Ishibashi
Japan
Arts Manager, a PhD student of Tokyo University of the Arts
Kotaro Ishibashi is a researcher, arts manager and improviser, and a Ph.D. student at Tokyo University of the Arts. He has been a program officer of a community music project “Makoto Nomura Senju Pun-filled Music Festival” in Tokyo since 2012, and managed a participatory concert by 1010 people in 2014 and some other workshops and concerts in collaboration with musicians, local people, children, people with disabilities, people in Southeast Asia, and so on. His main interest centered on community music in which diverse people are engaged, and how different values of them can coexist through an experimental and improvisational music practice.
Warren Warbrick
New Zealand
Performer
A member of the peak Māori musical instrument research group, Haumanu, for thirty years, Warren is a renowned maker of ngā taonga pūoro and one of approx. 100 living Māori artists of all artforms entitled to use the Toi Iho trademark. His work is held in public and private collections around the world, including the National Museum of Scotland. Warren is Tohunga Whakairo (expert carvers) for his iwi (tribe) and undertakes a range of cultural practice. In 2018, Warren represented New Zealand at the Medellín International Poetry Festival, Colombia. He has performed with the NZ String Quartet, Voices NZ Chamber Choir, and is a member of Toi Warbrick.
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Dr Phil Mullen
USA
Researcher, Educator
Phil Mullen is one of the world’s leading experts on musical inclusion and community music. Phil has worked for thirty-five years developing music with people who are socially excluded. He specializes in working with excluded children and young people at risk. He has run workshops and seminars in 27 countries across Europe, North and South America, Australia and Asia. He works with music organizations and schools around training and strategic development on inclusion. Phil has a PHD from Winchester University and has written a number of book chapters on musical inclusion including for the Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018).
Dr Graham Sattler
Hong Kong
Researcher, Educator
Graham Sattler began his career as an orchestral trombonist, became a singer specialising in opera and music theatre, and consolidated with a move into conducting and artistic direction prior to commencing research in the field of community music activity and musical inclusion. He holds a Diploma of Operatic Art and Music Theatre, a Master of Performance (Conducting), PhD in Music Education, and a Graduate Certificate in the Psychology of Risk. Graham is currently Executive Director of Mitchell Conservatorium (NSW) and casual academic with Central Queensland University. He designs and delivers professional learning courses for classroom and community music educators and as a performer is involved in the creation and performance of contemporary Australian Art Song in a variety of collaborative configurations.
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Samson Wong
Hong Kong
Researcher, Educator
Samson Kei Shun Wong is a practitioner, researcher and educator of artist engagement in communities. Samson's community/socially-engaged practice integrates his experience in music, theatre and the visual arts, enabling him to bring together artists of different media in participatory projects in Hong Kong, China and India. He has been the manager and now chairperson of Hong Kong community arts organization Art for All. He studied Arts Management and Music History & Culture at the University of Toronto, and received his PhD at the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University. He has taught community arts theory and practice at various tertiary institutions. Since the summer of 2020, he has founded and is heading the Hong Kong Community Arts Archive Catalogue Initiative.
AKI CHAN
Hong Kong
Social Worker
Chan Kai Pong, Aki (BSSc, RSW, HK, PTG, USA) Playback Theatre Graduate from Centre for Playback Theatre (USA), Registered Social Worker in Hong Kong, Founder and Director of Free Association Limited, CASH member, Founder of Band Union. Former Centre in charge of Applied Drama Centre and Community Creativity Learning Centre, BGCA, to promote integration between human services and arts. Recently, work with different schools, NGOs and Corporations, create community music with different groups of people, e.g. single parent, domestic violence survivor, children and family, elderly people and ethnic minority group. Producer of an album《In between ocean and river》, to promote conservation of Fishermen’s Ballads. Aki has been actively participated in the field as director, scriptwriter, actor, MC, narrator, puppeteer, composer, musician, arranger and producer, etc.
Duan Yu
Beijing
Soical Worker
Duan Yu, the lead creator, singer and guitarist of the Wildest Band, comes from Liaoning province. She once was a “Beijing Floater” who left her home and worked for this modern metropolis. Then she became a mother of a 6 years old girl who still drifting here and there. Duan yu once was the teacher of the Tongxin Experimental School in Beijing Picun Village and joined in New Worker Art Troupe. She participated in lots of public interest performances and took part in New Workers Spring Festival Gala 4 times. During this period, she created many songs about migrant workers, women, migrant children and left behind children. Besides that, she assisted Shenzhen Green Roses Women Worker Service Center, Beijing MulanHuakai Cultural Development Center and Suzhou Workmate’s Home to carry out artistic group activities. By holding music workshop for those participants, she created several fantastic songs with workmates through collective creation.
Sirasar Boonma (Mae)
Thailand
Social Entrepreneur
Sirasar Boonma (Mae), founder of Hear & Found, a Thailand based social enterprise that aims to erase the existence of discrimination, especially for the indigenous people. Because she traveled around Thailand for more than 3 years. She’s not only seeing the beauty sides but also the deep problem. It is about discrimination. This problem causes poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion. Thus, she wants to devote herself to solve this with her expertise. Before starting Hear & Found, in 2009, she graduated bachelor degree from the Faculty of Music at Silpakorn University, Thailand’s leading art university and completed a master degree level in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship program (Music Pathway) at Goldsmiths University of London in 2015. As a social entrepreneur, she aims to build public awareness through local music and creative communication in order to raise social equality.
Ryota HAMASHIMA
Japan
Master Student
Ryota HAMASHIMA is the director of the Yiddish Culture Research Association since 2020. His research is originally an attempt to summarize Klezmer music history, which is a part of " Yiddish Culture," and the meaning of their activities first in Japanese. He was received a Master's degree in musicology from Elisabeth University of Music, Hiroshima, Japan, in 2020.
Dr. Chieko MIBU
Japan
Researcher
Dr. Chieko MIBU is a professor and chair of the Music and Culture Department of Elisabeth University, Japan. Her main activities are in the research of applied musicology, cultural economics, and cultivation of human resources and community music.
Takumi Kakitsuka
Japan
Orchestra Manager
Takuma has worked in orchestra management over 12 years. After entering Japan Century Symphony Orchestra (JCSO) in 2008, he has experienced several sections in the orchestra such as customer relationship, Finance & General affairs, China concert tour in 2012 team, and learning programme. In 2014, he newly launched community programme in the orchestra with Japanese composer Nomura Makoto and has been sharing creative music experience and interactive musical relationship with the broadest possible audience. In some projects in its community, JSCO has cooperated both at home and abroad with several arts organisations and artists in multi-genres: Manchester Camerata, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, British Council (UK), i-dArt (Hong Kong) and Philharmonia Taiwan (Taiwan).
Stephanie CHAN
HongKong
PhD, Reashercher
Hoi Ying Stephanie, CHAN graduated from the Master of Arts in Music Education from the Institute of Education, University College London in 2018 with distinction and the Bachelor of Arts in Music with first class honours from the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017. Stephanie has a strong interest in sociology and psychology of music education research. During her studies, Stephanie has conducted researches about the formation of musical identities in formal music education in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her research findings were presented in several education and sociology conferences. Stephanie will start her PhD at the Institute of Education, University College London in January 2021. Her upcoming doctoral study will focus on the construction and co- construction of musical identities between primary school pupils and teachers. Other than research related work, Stephanie was majoring in piano and minoring in early keyboards during her undergraduate studies. She has been working as a private piano and music theory teacher. Stephanie is also a part-time primary school teacher in Hong Kong specialising in teaching SEN pupils.
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Alison Talmage
New Zealand
Doctoral Student, Researcher
Alison is a doctoral student at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research and School of Music. Alison has worked with people with diverse needs across the life span in schools, health care settings and the community, as a music therapist, teacher, and clinical supervisor. Her current doctoral research and professional practice brings a music therapy perspective to community singing for people with neurogenic communication difficulties. Alison’s research integrates action research methodology, with other approaches including arts-based research and objective measures. Originally from the UK, Alison has lived in New Zealand since 1998 and has dual citizenship. She coordinates the CBR Neurological Singing, Choirs and Voice Network, and edits the New Zealand Journal of Music Therapy.
Gigi Chi Ying LAM
Hong Kong
Musician, Educator, Researcher
Gigi Chi Ying LAM is a musician-educator whose portfolio includes performance, composition, teaching, organizational development, event management and research. She was an arts administrator and primary school music teacher before she started her doctoral study at Royal College of Music, London. Her primary research interest is around developing an understanding of community music practice in school music education, and the transferability of the practice to other professional domains, especially in NCS (non-Chinese speaking) language learning context.
Li Cheng Cheng
China
Educator
Li Cheng-cheng devoted to education in Tibetan areas. During her university life, she managed the voluntary teaching project and served as a voluntary teacher and principal for four consecutive years. Apart from teaching, she has spontaneously organized clothes donations to Tibet. From 2013 to 2016, she was honored as the Outstanding Volunteer of the Hong Kong Volunteer Alliance for four consecutive years. She founded a charitable organization ‘Wild Strawberry Charity.’ She received the Bronze award from the Hong Kong Volunteer Alliance. In 2018, she teamed up the students to Tibet again for the Tibetan Rap Program. During the journey, they visited several great Tibetan rappers who helped students to finish their musical works.
Selana Kong
Hong Kong
Educator
Life Coach Hacks: www.selanakonglifecoaching.com/blog
Selana currently lives and works in Hong Kong while her husband and son are in Wales. Selana is passionate about music, education and life coaching. She received her music education in Hong Kong, Canada, Australia and the UK. She has been a music specialist teacher at various international schools in Hong Kong and Beijing since 1998. Selana is a Clore Fellows on the Clore Leadership Programme 2014-15 through which she received training to become an accredited life coach and a registered member of the Association for Coaching in the UK. She enjoys writing life coach hacks to assist others in coaching themselves.
Wendy Brooks
New Zealand
Educator
Wendy has been a passionate music educator since completion of her undergraduate degree in music education in the mid 1980's (NSW State Conservatorium of Music). As well as running a successful piano teaching studio, Wendy taught in several primary and secondary schools in western Sydney as a music and creative arts specialist. She maintains a keen interest in teacher education, and continues to mentor trainee teachers, as well as general primary teachers through the National Music Teachers Mentoring Program.
Charulatha Mani
India
Researcher, Singer
Website: www.charulathamani.com
Dr Charulatha Mani is a singer /researcher woman of colour from Chennai, India, and is currently based in Brisbane, Queensland. Her work examines the role of music in complex socio-cultural contexts. Her fields of interest include aesthetics, critical race
theory, interpretivist philosophy, and decolonised ontologies. She performs, lectures, writes, and leads research initiatives involving marginalised communities. She is currently Centre Manager at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre,
Griffith University.