Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Hanniel Chung Hei Wong (b. 2005) is a composer, violinist and medical student from Hong Kong. He is studying for a Master of Arts in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Concurrently, he is a third-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery student at the University of Hong Kong, taking the composition masters as his intercalated studies within the Enrichment Year programme of the medical degree. A violinist since his youth, he majored first in Violin, then with Composition in the Junior Music Programme at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts since he was 5. In 2019, he attained LTCL in Violin Recital; and with his string quartet The Crossroad, he was awarded third in the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild New Generation 2019 at the age of 14. Following a hiatus from musical pursuits during his time in the later years of secondary school and in medical school, he resumed composing in Scotland, studying primarily with David Fennessy, while also being tutored by Sir James Macmillan and Stuart MacRae. A member of the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, he has been awarded in both local and international competitions, and his works have been performed by acclaimed chamber ensembles such as Cong Quartet and Hebrides Ensemble. Throughout his studies in Hong Kong and Glasgow, he has explored different stylistic approaches to compositions, blending expressionism, impressionism and polytonality, and a recent focus on spectralism. His largest work yet, A Berlin Soundscape, combined modernist approaches in orchestration with the spectral analysis of inharmonic overtones of large church bells.