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Secretary: Lee Wai Shan Sandy

The music: Das 30 Tage Fax (2003) for orchestra by Lee Wai Shan

Performed in "Fete De La Musique-Academy Concerto Winners Concert"

Lee Wai Shan Sandy

As a musician graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts(HKAPA) and Hong Kong Baptist University(HKBU) for Bachelor and Master degree respectively, Lee composes various type of music including Western and Chinese orchestral music, chamber music, electronic music and multimedia. Her major composition teachers include Mr. Clarence Mak, Dr. Lo Hau Man, Mr. Law Wing Fai, Dr. Christopher Coleman and Dr. Christopher Keyes. She awarded the second-runner-up in Woodwind Quintet & Chamber Music Composition Competition 2001-02 by Eastern Winds Ensemble, a scholarship from the Hong Kong Bank for studying Chinese traditional composition with Guo Wen Jing and Tang Jian Ping in BeijingCentral Conservatory of Music, and a scholarship for the composition for the Peninsula Hotel in 2002. One of her Chinese music compositions, “Silver Strands” was selected to be performed in “Music from the Heart II” by the HKCO in 2003. In 2004, her orchestral work “Das 30 Tage Fax” was performed in “Fete de la Musique—Academy Concerto Winners Concert” and a multi-media work “Labyrinth” performed at HKAPA. After she participated in the International New Music Festival at Darmstadt, she was commissioned by Creator Of Music Performance Organization to have the chamber ensemble “Snow Flakes” performed. She is active in promoting contemporary music when she has been the secretary in the group Creator Of Music Performance Organization (COMPO) since 2004. In 2006, her multi-media work “Similar Space” with video was invited to perform in “Academy Alumni Electronic Music Concert” at HKAPA, “Musicarama 2006” by Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and Asian Composers League 2007 at New Zealand to have performance. In August 2007, this work is performed in Sonoimagenes Festival 2007 in Buenos Aires,Argentina.

Lee has been an experienced music educator for 11 years. In recent years, she helps promoting creative music workshops. In 2004, she taught in Young Friends Scheme of the Hong Kong Arts Festival “Creative Music Workshop I&II”. She is now involving in revising, planning and promoting music education of the 2006 new syllabus with a publisher in Hong Kong.In 2006-2007, She teaches HKCEE Centralized Scheme for Music Training by Education and Manpower Bureau and Creative Music Making of musical "Beauty and the Beast" by HK Ballet . In 2007, she taught the Music Creating courses for Music Office.

Major Compositions

Name of works	Instrumentation	Duration	Premiere year	Remarks
Light of Love	voice & piano	3'00	1997	Champion of Chapel Week Music Composition Competition
Lost	electronic music	3'00	1998	MIDI sequencing
Impromptu	piano solo	3'00	2000
String Quartet No.1	2 violins, 1 viola, 1cello	5'00	2000
Farewell	flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, basoon,	5'00	2001	2nd-Runner-up in Woodwind Quintet & Chamber Music Composition Competition by Eastern Winds Ensemble
Thunder Drizzle	flute, pipa, zheng	5'00	2001
Snowman Snowman	2 violin, 1 viola, 1cello	5'00	2001
Shan Shan	4 percussions	8'00	2002
Green 綠 6	xiao, bassoon, clarinet, cello	8'00	2002
Passant 01	brass quintet	8'00	2002
Riding Wave	flute, pipa, zheng, cello, chinese drum	3'00	2002	Composition for the Peninsula Hotel in 2002 Selected to be performed in APA's Open Day 2004. Selected to be performed Ceremony of 2004 Women's Conference at HKCEC.
Silver strands	zheng & 2 xiaos	10'00	2002	Selected to be performed in “Music from the Heart” by the HKCO. Broadcasted at RTHK Radio4
The Prophets	2 percussion	5'00	2003	Selected to be performed in APA's Lunch Time Concert
Metamorphosis	zheng & 6 western instruments	6'00	2003
Merry Go Round	zheng & computer music	4'00	2003
Das 30 Tage Fax	orchestra	5'00	2003	Performed in “Fete de la Musique—Academy Concerto Winners Concert”
Multimedia: Labyrinth	computer music, live instruments, dance, lighting and video.	30'00	2004
String Quartet No.3	2 violin, 1 viola, 1cello	5'00	2004
Lin Yi Shi Jun Tie	zheng solo	8'00	2004
From the Cloud	percussion & computer music	10'00	2004
Snowflakes	flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion	3'00	2004	Commissioned by COMPO for the Winter Concert 2004
1.68--for the Victims of the Tsunami	electronic music by Pure Data	3'00	2005
The Last 13 Day	piano & electronic music	5'00	2005
Han Shan	clarinet, violin, cello, piano	12'00	2006
Similar Space	electronic music & video	5'36	2006	Invited to perform in "Academy Alumni Electronic Music Concert" at HKAPA in 2006 Selected to be performed in Musicarama 2006 Selected to be performed in 26th Asian Composers League & Conference, 2007 Asian Pacific Festival at New Zealand. Selected to be performed in Sonoimagenes Festival 2007 in Buenos Aires,Argentina.
An Ancient Plum Blossom	zheng solo	13'30	2006
Modern Times	2 Violins, viola, cello	5'30	2006	COMPO commissioned for Minimal Music II, 2007 and Minimal and Harmonious 2007.