“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

Chiu Kwok-leung is a member of the Folk Wind Music Research Society under the Chinese Musicians’ Association. Chiu has been conducting in-depth research into many facets of Chinese culture for more than twenty years, and has garnered deep insight into The Book of Changes, yin and yang, the Five Elements, Chinese etymology and ancient Chinese ceramics. His research also covers acoustic, psychology, music for tranquility of mind, music therapy etc..

Chiu was invited by RTHK to talk about ‘music for the tranquility of mind’ in July 2001. In 2003, he started ‘Chiu Kwok-leung’s World of Culture’ to promote the effective functions of ‘music for the tranquility of mind’ and ‘music therapy’. Over the years, he has been invited by many organizations in Hong Kong and in China to give talks and demonstrations on the topic of ‘music for the tranquility of mind’. They were all resounding successes. Chiu has been featured by China’s CCTV and Xiamen Daily and received high acclaim.

Currently a veteran dizi musician of HKCO. Tam is a well-known dongxiao and dizi artiste and a dongxiao maker. He learned to play dizi and xiao at a young age and was trained in the Lingnan school. His technique on the dongxiao is an assimilation of the traditional and the modern, thus forming a style that is uniquely his own.

Over the years, Tam has made tremendous contribution to the art of dongxiao through performing, instrument-making. In 1987, he invented the alto dongxiao and the fixed-pitch dongxiao series. In 1993, he created the biggest dongxiao in the history of Chinese music.

Tam has written more than thirty compositions in recent years. His CD albums include Clouds and the Haze, Bamboo Zen, Elegant Pieces of Dongxiao and A Mystical Soundscape. Tam is also a writer, with columns in many newspapers in Hong Kong. His publications include Techniques of the Dizi and two anthologies of prose, As Leaves Fall between Heaven and Earth and Hong Kong Stories.