About David Leung – Qualification

Academic Qualification (Acquired):

• Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (Music Theory) in 1988.
• Graduate of the United Academy of Music (Theory & Composition) in 1990.
• Licentiate of Trinity College of London (Compositional Techniques) in 2003.
• Bachelor of Music (First Honor) of HKAPA (Composition and Electronic Music) in 2003.
• Master of Philosophy of CUHK (Music Theory) in 2005.
• Master of Philosophy of HKU (Musicology) in 2007.
• Doctor of Philosophy (Musicology, candidate level)

 

Academic Study:

• PhD (Musicology) at HKU.Thesis Title: Programming a Chinese Face: A Historical Survey of Hong Kong Contemporary Music

 

Scholarship:

• Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong Scholarship 2001/2002.
• The Hong Kong Bank Foundation Hong Kong – Mainland Exchange Scholarship 2001/2002.
• Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies Dept. of HKAPA – Foreign Exchange Student Scholarship 2002.
• Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel – Peninsula Suite Scholarship 2002.

 

Award:

• New Generation Concert 2001 – Best Composition Commission Award.

 

Teaching Experiences:

• Teacher assistant of HKU (2007 onward)
• Teacher assistant of CUHK (2003-05)
• Teacher assistant of HKAPA (P/T 02-03, 06-07)
• Music theory tutor (Grade 5, 8 & AMusTCL and LMusTCL courses) of United Academy of Music (P/T, 1988-2000)
• Music theory tutor (Grade 5, 8 & AMusTCL and LMusTCL courses) of Spare Time Study Center (P/T, 89 onward)

 

Published Thesis And Articles:

• MPhil Thesis (HKU 2007):Memory, Aesthetics and Musical Quotation:Four Case Studies in 20th Century Music
• MPhil Thesis (CUHK 2005):Reframing the “Sea”:
  A Critical Study on Toru Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea
• Journal of Literature and Art Studies (July 2017):
  A Glimpse of Hong Kong “Chineseness”: Pre-existing Tunes as the Redemption of a Cultural Identity
• Journal of Literature and Art Studies (Jun 2018):
  Memory and Aesthetics: Study of Musical Quotations in Ives’s and Crumb’s Music

 

Conference Experience:

• THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA and EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MUSIC RESEARCH (CHIME) — The 19th Chime International Meeting: The New Face of Chinese Music (2015, Geneva)
  Paper title: Whose Face? China Hongkongese or Hong Kong Chinese: Reshaping the “Chineseness by Hearing the Quoted Tunes in Two Contemporary Hong Kong Compositions
• EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR CHINESE MUSIC RESEARCH (CHIME) —
  Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past (International Meeting 2009, Brussels)
  Paper title: The Aesthetic Concept of Wang Guowei and Hong Kong Contemporary Music
• BUHK — International Conference in Music Sino-Western Musical
  Relations/Intersections/Receptions/Representations: East Meets West (2009)
  Paper title: Wenren Aesthetics and Hong Kong Contemporary Music
• 2007 ISCM-ACL World Music Days Hong Kong — International Symposium on Composition in the Twenty-first Century: New Music and the Musical Canon
  Paper title: Musical Quotation and the Struggle for Canonicity
• CUHK — Postgraduate Music Symposium 2006
  Paper title: Unofficial Histories: Musical Borrowing and Collective Memory in Hong Kong
• HKU — Postgraduate Music Symposium 2005
  Paper title: Reframing the “Sea”: A Critical Study on Toru Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea

 

Memberships:

• The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH)
• Hong Kong Composers’ Guild

 

For details about David Leung’s biography and courses, please visit:

• About Davide Leung – biography
• Music theory study and courses