“Meticulous execution with a charming stage presence”
The Straits Times, Singapore

“The group’s charismatic conductor, Yan Huichang, directed the afternoon with sophisticated elan.”
Bruce Hodges, MusicWeb International

Law Wing-fai, described as the "most inspired composer in Hong Kong" by the South China Morning Post music critic Harry Rolnick, has a long list of honours over the past twenty years that recognizes his position as a leading composer. From as early as 1982, his major awards include Irino Memorial Award presented at the Asian Composers' Conference and Festival, the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Score, 'Composer of the Year' by the Hong Kong Artists' Guild, etc.

He was a multiple winner of the CASH Golden Sail Music Award between 2001 and 2006, with his opera Dreaming Plum Blossoms Away, his music for pipa and orchestra, Flowing Fancies, music for plucked strings, Feng Liu and music for pipa and orchestra A Thousand Sweeps. In 2005, he won the Best Original Music Award for his score for the drama production Peach Blossom Fan.

Law has a diversified repertoire that spans serious and commercial music. He is currently Composer-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he has been Head of Composition for many years and a faculty member since 1984. He is currently Artistic Director to the Wuji Ensemble.

Wong Chi-ching entered the China Broadcast Chinese Orchestra in 1976 and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 1987 where she is currently the Section Leader of Plucked-strings and Pipa Principal. Wong is a keen supporter of modern music, and has given premieres of works for solo pipa at international music festivals, the ISCM World Music Days, and with various dance companies.

Some of her notable appearances include performing When Mountains Roar for Chinese-Western orchestra with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in 1997, followed by a collaboration with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta at Saint-Riquier Festival in France in 2001. In 2002, she performed Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra by Tan Dun at the New Vision Arts Festival in Hong Kong, under the baton of the composer himself. In September 2003, she went to Japan to perform A Thousand Sweeps with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. It was followed by repeat performances of Law Wing-fai's pipa concerto, Flowing Fancies, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, she was part of the Hong Kong delegation to Canada to perform in the Chinese New Music Festival.

The highly unusual ensemble of Chinese plucked string instruments – the Wuji Ensemble – was founded in January 2003, with the aim to extend the possibilities of these instruments to new boundaries and to promote Chinese culture and contemporary art.

Members of the ensemble are students and graduates of local tertiary institutions, and apart from weekly rehearsals, they also study calligraphy, meditation, Peking opera and Chinese literature and fine art.

Wuji performs regularly at various important events and venues including the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the City Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum and Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition Centre, as well as at universities in Hong Kong.