Kwok Kin-ming

Kwok Kin-ming obtained the Master of Music degree from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Chinese orchestras conducting, under the tutelage of Prof. Yan Huichang. Kwok was the second runner-up and awarded Outstanding Young Conductor in the Hong Kong International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music first organised by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 2011.

As a conductor, Kwok has collaborated with many renowned orchestras, including Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Jilin Chinese Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra, Wuxi Chinese Orchestra, Feiyun Chinese Orchestra and the Chinese Orchestra of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Kwok led the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra for the tour to Taiwan in 2011. In 2016, he led the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra to tour in Shanghai and Shenyang, where the orchestra jointly performed with the Chinese Orchestra of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. In 2018, under Kwok’s baton, the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra presented a joint concert titled TOGETHER with Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra in the Lion City.

Kwok is currently Senior Music Officer of the Chinese Music Section of the Music Office, LCSD. Moreover, he is the conductor of the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra and Music Office Instructors’ Chinese Orchestra.