Joyce Wai-chung Tang

Joyce Tang’s works have been described by Ablaze Records as “incisive and brilliant … a fresh compositional voice,” and have been premiered and performed worldwide. Her works span orchestral, chamber, solo, vocal, choral, electro-acoustic, and theatrical genres.

She has attracted numerous commissions from performing groups including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Trio Morisot, Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation, Hong Kong Composers’ Guild, Hong Kong Bach Choir, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, Contemporary Musiking, Shakespeare4All Hong Kong, and AFTEC. She was also a featured composer in the 2010 Hell Hot! New Music Festival in Hong Kong, and the 2012 Manhattan-Hong Kong Music Festival. Her string quartet Lineae (2014) won the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble 2015 Call For Scores award. Her recent commissioned orchestral work Clear Light (2015), premiered by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta at the Hong Kong Arts Festival in March 2015, received its European premieres on tour by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Geneva, Zürich and Fribourg in October 2015.

Her works are also featured on several CDs, including the Orchestral Masters Series Vol. 1 and Millennial Masters Series Vol. 2 on Ablaze Records, and ICMC CD on October Music.​

Joyce Tang received her master’s degrees in both composition and electro-acoustic music at Hong Kong Baptist University. She also received a PhD in musicology at The University of Hong Kong. She is currently teaching at The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.​