香港著名鋼琴及聲樂指導 - 鄺銘熙 Ming Kwong

鋼琴老師/聲樂指導鄺銘熙,FRSM FTCL,是皇家音樂學院院士(優異) 和英國倫敦聖三一學院院士。除了這兩個鋼琴獨奏院士, 鄺先生持有曼哈頓音樂學院鋼琴伴奏碩士(主修老師 Warren Jones)和新英格蘭音樂學院古典聲樂碩士。他獲頒全額獎學金於著名的西部音樂學院(Music Academy of the West)就讀。他還曾在倫敦國王學院修讀音樂學。 比賽方面,他在第12屆香港(亞洲)鋼琴公開賽中獲得高級即興組一等獎和高級巴赫組二等獎。他曾經在世界著名的卡內基音樂廳,林肯中心室樂協會和首都華盛頓的肯尼迪中心作鋼琴表演。 鄺先生經常被邀請作為比賽評判。他當過第六屆香港國際青年表演藝術節的總決賽評判,當中包括來自馬來西亞,泰國,香港和中國大陸的選手。除了在比賽中聽取年輕音樂家的表演外,鄺先生還熱衷於通過教授暑期課程來培養青年音樂人才。 2019年8月,他將會聯同大都會歌劇院女中音MaryAnn McCormick和星海音樂學院聲樂系糸主任楊岩教授在星海音樂學院舉辦的“核心音樂”暑期音樂課程中任教。 他的工作經驗包括擔任香港非凡美樂的助理指揮和合唱指導;第一屆香港國際歌劇比賽的官方伴奏者之一,當中的評審團成員包括Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 和 Sumi Jo;美國華盛頓國家歌劇院多明戈 - 卡里茨青年藝術家計劃和阿斯彭歌劇院的面試伴奏;在波特蘭歌劇院擔任全職聲樂指導;曼哈頓音樂學院本科歌劇課程音樂總監;在Glimmerglass Opera和Tanglewood音樂中心擔任助理聲樂指導(協助當時大都會歌劇院的音樂總監Maestro James Levine演出Don Giovanni);佛羅里達大歌劇院2008-2009樂季的助理聲樂指導;紐約大學Tisch戲劇學院,大都會歌劇院外展部和國家藝術基金會的伴奏。

Pianist/Coach Ming Kwong has extensive working experience both in Hong Kong and in the United States. In Hong Kong, he has worked as an assistant conductor and a chorus master for Musica Viva; a pianist/coach for Opera Hong Kong and more recently, as one of the official accompanists for the first international operatic singing competition of which the illustrious jury included Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. His past credits include being an audition pianist for the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and Aspen Opera Theater; a full-time vocal coach at Portland Opera for their production of “Postcard from Morocco”; the Music Director of the Undergraduate Opera Theater at Manhattan School of Music; an assistant coach position at Glimmerglass Opera and Tanglewood Music Center (assisting Maestro James Levine, the then music director of Metropolitan Opera, on Don Giovanni); an apprenticeship with Florida Grand Opera for their 2008-2009 season; a staff accompanist at NYU Tisch School of Drama, Metropolitan Opera Guild and the National Endowment of the Arts. He has been invited frequently to join summer programs such as the CoOPERAtive program in New Jersey and Opera on the Avalon in Newfoundland, Canada as a faculty coach. He is a Fellow of both the Trinity College London (FTCL) and the Royal Schools of Music (FRSM with distinction) in solo piano. World-renowned halls he has performed in include the Carnegie Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He was interviewed not only on the Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), but also on Joey Reynolds’s show in New York City as well. Ming Kwong holds a Master’s degree in Piano Accompanying from Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Warren Jones, and a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory. He attended the prestigious Music Academy of the West with full scholarship.