National Class One Conductor. As a conductor who has worked with all professional Chinese orchestras in Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, Yan has won the acclaim of the music circles in China and abroad for his artistic and conducting talents.
 

Under his baton, and in collaboration with the famous composer Zhao Jiping, the Symphony Orchestra section of the China National Symphony Orchestra made the soundtrack recordings for such award-winning films as Raise the Red Lantern, Ballad of the Yellow River, and Five Girls and a Rope.
 

Yan was awarded the “Cultural Medallion (Music)” by the National Arts Council of Singapore in September 2001. His achievements were simultaneously documented in The Famous Figures of the Contemporary Arts Circles in China. In 2000, he was a member of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation, and an Examiner and Arts Advisor of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for Grants. Since 2004, he has been a Visiting Professor in many music conservatories. Yan was awarded a Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the Chief Executive of HKSAR in 2004 in recognition of his remarkable achievements in Chinese music as well as his efforts in promoting Chinese music.

Jatinder Singh Bedi hails from a family of musicians. Born the youngest son of the late Gandharwa Award Winner Raagi Amrik Singh Bedi of Gwalior Gharana, he was initiated into Tabla training at the tender age of four by his father. In later years, he had the rare opportunity to study under the guidance of many traditional Indian Music maestros. He also acquired his paper qualifications from the Central Sangeet School of Delhi which is affiliated to the Sangeet Samiti of Allahabad.
 

In India, Jatinder has been a regular artist with the All India Doordarshin Radio and Television. To date, he has performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark, India and the USA, in arts festivals and international music festivals at international venues.

Formerly called “Gung Gung”, recognized as a representative and the most active performing group in Korea, it has been invited to appear in many prestigious festivals, such as the Korea-Japan Intercultural Festival and Jeonju Sori Festival. It has also participated in film productions, and has been working as the music-directing group for various dance-theatre performances and stage productions.
 

The leader of wHOOL is Yun Sang Choi, an emerging Korean composer. Other member of the group, Jun Il Choi, is a well-known Korean-Japanese percussion player, and Jonghun Jo, also a member of the group, was named “Important Intangible Cultural Properties No.21” by the Korean government.

The Four Gig Heads is formed by four local percussionists – Ah Tung、Ho Yi-on、Angus Fu and Luk Kin-bun, with the aim of promoting percussion music of both east and west genres. The members also compose and arrange percussion music themselves to expand new dimensions for music as well as create a unique music culture for Hong Kong.
 

The group has a versatile repertoire. It ranges from gong and drum music in Chinese Peking Opera to the gong and drum music of the eastern part of Zhejiang, American Country Music, gamelan music of Bali, and the daliuzi of the Tujia ethnic minority group in the western part of Hunan.