Chong Kee Yong
Chong Kee Yong
Kluang, JOHOR, MY
Classical / Contemporary / Electroacoustic
-
- Songs
|
Join the Mailing List |
Bio
Chong Kee Yong is one of the Malaysia's leading composers with a rare talent of fashioning a truly individual sound from modern experimental techniques, and Peter Eötvös describes as “imaginative and poetic”.
Chong's distinctive style has won him an unending series of awards and commissions.
About
Chong Kee Yong is one of the Malaysia's leading composer with a rare talent of fashioning a truly individual sound from modern experimental techniques, and composer Peter Eötvös describes as “imaginative and poetic” and composer Jonathan Harvey comment his music as “very inventive and artistically pure”. His style is highly experimental and innovative, yet deeply spiritual and lyrical in its own way. His musical language is enriched by his own Chinese and multicultural Malaysian heritage; for example there are traces of Beijing Opera and Gamelan in Monodrama (2004) and hints of kabuki and Asian funeral rituals in his symphonic work Tearless Moon (2006).
Born in Kluang in southern Malaysia where his parents were farmers, he completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Xian Conservatory (China) with Prof.Yu-Yan RAO and Prof. Da-Long ZHANG, and received his Master of Composition with Highest Honours at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels with Prof. Jan VAN LANDEGHEM and Prof. Daniel CAPELLETTI. He has also attended master classes by Brian Ferneyhough, Daan Manneke, Zoltan Janey, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, Henri Pousseur and Hanspeter Kyburz.
Chong's distinctive style has won him an unending series of awards and commissions. His list of prizes at various competitions is remarkable, for examplethe Prix Marcel Hastir by Belgium Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters & Fine-arts (1999, 2003), the 4th International Andrzej Panufnik Competition for Young Composers in Poland (2002), the Grand Prix at the 2nd Seoul International Competition for Composers (2003), the Max-Reger-Tage International Composition Competition in Germany (2004), the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra International Composers' Award (2004), 2nd Lepo Sumera International young composer prize (2006) Lutoslawski award (2006) and BMW award in the International Isang Yun Music Prize (2007). He receives numerous commissions and grants both in Europe and at home, and has also worked with distinguished musicians from Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, United State, Korea and Malaysia.
In 2006 Prof Peter Eötvös awarded Chong for a composer’s residency at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben Foundation, Germany. In 07, he awarded a visiting artist fellowship to live in New York for 6 months from the Asian Cultural Council (New York).
CHONG Kee Yong's Home Page:
Recommended
by Chong Kee Yong
Contests/Events
