The Hon Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor GBM GBS JP
Mr Henry H W Lai
Dr Carlye W L Tsui BBS MBE JP
He has received numerous awards including the First Prize in the International Double Reed Society Composition Contest, USA; the Yoshiro Irino Memorial Award from the Asian Composers League and several local awards. His works had been performed in over 30 countries. His biography is included in the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Online.
As a conductor, Prof. Chan is the Music Director of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society(established in 1956) since 1995 and has been leading this choir with regular concerts and occasional concert tours to perform oratorios and other sacred masterpieces. In 2017 he brought the choir and orchestra to perform his Symphony No.8 ‘This Boundless Land’ for organ, choir and orchestra in the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles with great success. In 2019 he brought the choir together with the Vancouver Oratorio Society to Toronto to premiere his Symphony No.9 ‘Universal Harmony. He had also conducted orchestras and ensembles in Japan, Korea, Macau and Mainland China. The Hong Kong Government appointed him Justice of the Peace in 2000. He was invited to become a Council member of the Chinese Musicians Association in 2009.