日本語プロフィル

Español 

 

HueyChing CHONG (1986*) began her composition studies in August 2008 with Yii Kah Hoe. From 2010 to 2017, with the support of Monbukagakusho Scholarship Award, she continued her musical exploration under the tutelage of Prof. Keiko Harada. Besides that, she has also studied with Prof. Akira Nishimura, and Prof. Michio Kitazume. In 2017, she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts (Composition) from Tokyo College of Music. From 2020 to 2022, she continued to develop her compositional ideas and skills with the guidance of Alberto Posadas. 

 

Her music had been performed in many countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Spain, Germany, Netherland, Switzerland, and Lithuania. She has participated in multiple international masterclasses, including the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) 2016/17, Composers+ Summer Academy 2017, Atlas Lab 2016, DAAD International Exchange Creative Exposition, HfM Würzburg X Tokyo College of Music 2015, and many more. She has also collaborated with extraordinary musicians internationally including Iñaki Alberdi (Accordion), Ricardo Descalzo (Piano), Elena Casoli (Guitar), Wu Wei (Chinese Sheng),  Naoko Kikuchi (Japanese Koto), Atsushi Sugawara (Percussion), Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra (Taiwan), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and Duo Jeux d’Anches (Accordion Duo). In 2014, her composition RAW for 13 instrumentalists was awarded the 12th President Award of Tokyo College of Music. In 2017, introspection-intro for solo accordion was awarded the best solo composition at Composers+ Summer Academy. In 2018, she started to experiment with improvisation performances with Istanbul-based multidisciplinary group Klank.ist, and Malaysian improvisors including Yong Yandsen (Saxophonist). She was teaching as a senior lecturer, working with undergraduates and doctorate candidates at the University Malaysia Sabah (ASTiF, Music Department) from March 2021 to June 2022. She is currently residing in Brussels, Belgium and continue her artistic pursue in Europe.

 

In her works, energy is formed prior to sonority. This energy within her music refers to the musical stability and instability including details that can be sensed and physically felt inside oneself (for example, the changes of speed in physical breathing) when emotions are awoken within a human being. She explores the mystical point where physical and mental control during music performance cease to be. Her solo piece for accordion (Introspection) was precisely described by musicologist, Stefano Russomanno, as “La exploración de los límites del acordeón, donde el control del instrumento se hace menos firme, produce una intensidad cuya base se asienta, paradójicamente, en la inestabilidad, en la vulnerabilidad (Russomanno , S. Aula de (Re)estrenos 103: Compositores Sub-35 (VI). Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2018)”.

 

Education and Qualification

Doctor of Musical Arts (2014-2017)— composition major

Obtained DMA on 23rd October 2017

Tokyo College of Music (Tokyo, Japan)

supported by the Monbukagakusho Scholarship Award

 

Master’s Degree (2012-2014)— composition major

Tokyo College of Music (Tokyo, Japan)

supported by the Monbukagakusho Scholarship Award

 

Non-degree Student Course for Foreign Student (2010-2012)— composition major

TOHO Gakuen School of Music, College Music Department (Tokyo, Japan)

supported by the Monbukagakusho Scholarship Award

 

Bachelor’s Degree (2006-2009)— piano major

University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

  

Compositional Workshops (as participant)

1. Curs Internacional de Composició Institut francas-Barcelona Modern Project 4th Edition (Nov 2017, Jan 2018, May 2018) — Barcelona, Spain 
2. Novalis Music Festival (Aug 2017)— Zadar & Zagreb, Croatia 
3. Composers+ Summer Academy (Aug 2017)— Kaunas, Lithuania
4. International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) 2016/17 (Dec 2016, May 2017)— Frankfurt & Kassel, Germany
5. Atlas Lab 2016 (Aug-Sept 2016)— Amsterdam, Netherland
6. Experimental Thai Music Laboratory 2016, Burapha University (March 2016)— Chon Buri, Thailand
7. DAAD International Exchange Creative Exposition, HfM Würzburg X Tokyo College of Music 2015 (Nov-Dec 2015)— Tokyo, Japan and Würzburg, Germany
8. Ensemble Modern and Tokyo Wonder Site Academy 2011 (Feb 2011)—Tokyo, Japan
9. Manila Composers’ Lab 2009 (June 2009)— Manila, Philippines

Competitions and Music Festivals

1. Participated in Mostra Sonora in 2019, Music Festival in Sueca, Valencia, Spain
2. Awarded the best solo composition at Composers+ Summer Academy (2017)
3. Awarded the 12th President Award (composition competition 2014) of Tokyo College of Music, Japan
4. Finalist of the 11th President Award (composition competition 2013) of Tokyo College of Music, Japan
5. Finalist of the Young Composers in Southeast Asia Competition and Festival 2011 (supported by Goethe Institut), Indonesia 
6. Finalist of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space: International Composition Competition 2010, Melbourne, Australia
7. Invited to participate in Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival 2010, Indonesia
8. Invited to participate in Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival 2009, Indonesia 

Composition Master Class (as participant)

Nov 2017, Jan, May 2018: José Manuel López López (Spain)

Aug 2017: Márton Illés (Hungary) 

Aug 2017: Vito Žuraj (Slovenia) 

Dec 2013: Maurizio Pisati (Italy)

March 2011: Dieter Mack (Germany)

Oct 2010: Carlo Forlivesi (Italy)

March 2010: Dr. Tazul Tajuddin (Malaysia)

Nov 2008: Zachariah Goh (Singapore)

Oct 2008: Dr. Jonas Baes (Philippines) 

 

Selected Works Premieres

• May 2018 - ret(P)rospect for solo piano with Ricardo Descalzo at Institut Français Barcelona, Spain
• April 2018 - Introspection for solo Accordion with Iñaki Alberdi at Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Spain
• June 2017 - Abstract Energy Etude 1 for Dizi (Chinese Flutes) and Sheng (Chinese Mouth Organ) with Little Giant Chinese Orchestra at National Theatre Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 
• May 2017 - thoughts, reactions, and imaginable details for flute (bass flute), bass clarinet, Violoncello, Percussion, and Conductor with International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) at Konzertsaal des Instituts für Musik der Universität Kassel, Germany 
• Jan 2016 - FOCUS I-VI for 13-string Koto Solo with Naoko Kikuchi at Tokyo College of Music, Japan
• Nov 2015 - Bare-bones I for accordion duo with Nikola Kerkez and Marko Servalic (Duo Jeux d’Anches) at Tokyo College of Music, Japan
• Dec 2014 - BOND for Sheng (Chinese Mouth Organ), Daegeum (Korean Flute), and Percussion with Wu Wei, Hong Yoo, and Atsushi Sugahara at Tokyo College of Music, Japan
• Sept 2013 - RAW for 13 instrumentalists with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Score and Research Publications

1. Bare-bones I (2015) for accordion duo — to be published by EDITION AVANTUS, Germany
2. THE DISCOVERY OF BODY : A New Concept of Musical Notation in the Works of Kurtág, Ferneyhough, and Harada (Doctoral Thesis) — published by Tokyo College of Music
3. The implication behind György Kurtág’s dotted curve notation in Játékok - in relation to compositional concept and performance —published on 1st March 2016 at Bulletin of the Doctoral Programs, Tokyo College of Music, Vol. 1 No.2
4. The MPO Composers Forum: and its impact on the performance of contemporary western classical music by Malaysian composers in Kuala Lumpur — published on July 2009 by VDM Verlag, Germany