Tutors
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Albert LIM
Lim obtained his Postgraduate Diploma and Certificate in Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music after completing his Bachelor of Music (Honors) degree at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Lim is passionate about opera and has participated in a number of productions and performances. He has played Barone in La Traviata, Dancairo in Carmen and Guglielmo in Le Villi. Lim has been a guest soloist in concerts and operas and has worked with many local choirs and orchestras. He was invited by the Shanghai Opera House to perform the role of Dancairo in Carmen under the baton of Michel Plasson.
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Dominic LAM
Lam is an alumnus of HKCC and holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting at Westminster Choir College, the USA. As a conductor and pianist of HKCC, he has toured to Portugal, Estonia, Finland and Australia with the group. Lam prepared HKCC for renowned conductor Lan Shui in contemporary opera production Madame White Snake written by Pulitzer Prize winner Zhou Long, as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2019. He also led HKCC to perform in ReNew Vision's production of Aria in 2020. He is concurrently the Music Director of SingFest HK and was a part-time lecturer of the Hong Kong Baptist University, conducted the Hong Kong Baptist University Choir. He also collaborated with Paul Phoenix, the Grammy Award-winning tenor, in leading the International Boswil Choral Summer Academy in 2018 and 2019.
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LIN Ching
Lin was educated at the Music Department of Chinese University of Hong Kong and studied piano performance with Prof David Gwilt. After graduation, she was awarded a scholarship to pursue a Music Master's Degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK. Lin had been participated an early childhood course offered by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and had obtained the ABRSM Grade 8 singing certificate. Lin has taught piano performance, piano pedagogy, music theory and aural training in several music institutions such as HKAPA. She performed with HKCC in Hungary, Austria, Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK, Japan, Korea and mainland China in the past few years. Lin also keen on composing music. The world premiere performance of her choral pieces had been performed in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in the past two years.
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Rebecca LAM
Graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University, Lam was awarded BA (1st Hon) in Music, BSc (1st Hon) in Applied Biology and M.Phil. During her studies, she obtained ATCL in Singing and ATCL in Piano from Trinity College London under the tutelage of Ms Chan Siu-kwan and Miss Grace Lau. She also obtained Grade 8 in Flute from ABRSM. Lam has been the choral instructor of HKCC since 2000, she has also served as Music Teacher at Holy Family Canossian College since 2010, conducting two school choirs and had achieved outstanding results. Recent achievements include Category Winner (Youth Equal Voices) of Orientale Concentus VII, July 2014 in Singapore, and The Best Girls' Choir and The Most Outstanding Secondary School Choir of the Year (Division 2) in the 67th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in 2015.
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Candy CHIK
Chik was invited to be the assistant chorus master of Opera Hong Kong (OHK) for numbers of opera productions since 2018. She has also performed with OHK in around 20 operas, including The Magic Flute in which she sang the role of the Second Spirit in Fuzhou's and Hong Kong's performances. Chik had been an instructor at the HKU SPACE, voice coach at the CU Chorus, and conductor at the OHK Children Chorus. She had performed as an accompanist in 18 countries with the Yip's Children's Choir. She graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Voice) with Brian Montgomery after the BA (Music) as a piano major, and an M.Phil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which awarded her a scholarship to study Jazz at McGill University. She has been furthering her study overseas and locally in choral conducting, voice and acting.
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Peggie CHAN
Chan graduated from the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with piano as her performance major. She was a recipient of the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship. Later, she was awarded a Master's degree in Music and Music Education from Columbia University. During her studies there, she was appointed to participate in the Master's program "Vocal Literature and Interpretation” and served as its rehearsal and concert pianist. Apart from studying, she also worked as a kindergarten teacher in New York City. Chan had also been the pianist for the Master's course "Practical Studies in Musicianship and Conducting (Choral)" at CUHK.
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Ernest HUI
An alumnus of HKCC, Hui graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Master’s degree in Music (Composition). He is a local composer and choral conductor and was the music director for the Macao Cultural Centre Children’s Choir, and the acapella coach and arranger for Vocal Asia and VAF for Kids. Hui’s current productions include Missing Our Echoes as the music director; Assemblages as the chorus master; King of Singers as the actor Keyman. His music has been performed across the globe and with his arrangement of Amazing Grace, he won the sacred choral music category in the 2020 SMP Press Composition Competition. His latest work, St John’s Mass (in Cantonese), was commissioned in celebration of the 170th Anniversary of St John’s Cathedral and was highly acclaimed.
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Apollo WONG
Bass-baritone and conductor, Wong won first places in Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition and the Pasadena Opera Guild Vocal Scholarship. He sang in the Hong Kong Arts Festival's world premiere productions of Chan Hing-yan's Heart of Coral (Lu Xun), Datong (Kang You Wei). Being an active conductor, Wong is currently Music Director of The Learners Chorus and The Learners Orchestra, Chorus Master of Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus, conductor of the Senior Choirs at St. Paul's Co-educational College. He has conducted the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and also worked as Music Director of the Hong Kong Youth Choir and Opera Hong Kong Children's Chorus. He has been principal musical advisor of HKCC musical Magical Beanland.