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Tony Ka Tung LEUNG

Composer

Origin Born 1963 in Hong Kong. Living in Canada since 1970. Discovery of music My early music training was in Chinese instrumental music. My first instrument was the erhu. Education 2007 - Young Composers Programme, National Arts Centre 2007 - Conductors Guild Conductor Training Workshop 2006 - Arraymusic Young Composers' Workshop 2004 - Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra National Emerging Composers' Workshop 1989 - 1992 Private lessons in theory and composition with University of Toronto Professor Chan Ka Nin Conducting specialty Chinese music Contemporary art music

Positions held

• 2006 - 2008 Cellist with York Symphony Orchestra
• 2004 - 2005 Conductor of Toronto Chinese Orchestra
• 2003 - 2004 Composer-in-residence with the Peoples Christian Academy

Ensembles conducted

• RHCCC chamber ensemble
• Toronto Chinese Orchestra
• Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble
• Yellow River Music Ensemble
• York University Chinese Music Ensemble

Awards/Commissions/Grants

• 2007 - Sound Travels residency, New Adventures in Sound Art
• 2006 - Canada Council for the Arts travel grant to attend premiere in Regina
• 2006 - Arraymusic Young Composers' Workshop
• 2006 - Canada Council for the Arts travel grant to attend Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble workshop
• 2004 - Toronto Arts Council Music Creators and Composers Program
• 2003 - Toronto Arts Council Music Creators and Composers Program
• 2003 - Canada Council for the Arts travel grant to attend ALEA III International Composition Competition finalist concert
• 2003 - Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble commission
• 2002 - Canada Council for the Arts travel grant to attend New Music North Festival
• 2001 - Toronto Arts Council Music Creators and Composers Program
• 1996 - first prize in the Peel Music Festival for composition
• 1991 - 2 first prizes in the Kawanis Music Festival for composition

Discography

In the beginning appears on Masterworks of the New Era, Vol. 9, Kiev Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, conductor
produced by ERMMedia

Seven Trumpets of the Seven Angels appears on Luxembourg Sinfonietta, Marcel Wengler, conductor, Editions LGNM No. 401

When light first shone appears on Presence III, produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community

Affiliations

• CMC (Canadian Music Centre)
• CFAMC (Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers)
• CLC (Canadian League of Composers)
• SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers of Canada)