Loh Chan Hong

MALAYSIAN COMPOSERS: Loh Chan Hong

List of Compositions

Sejarah Melayu Suite (orchestra) - 1995/98
Toccata (first mvt from "3 KL Miniatures" - String Quartet) - 1997
Nusantara Dances for Harp and Wind Orchestra - 1995
Yellow River Concerto - transcription for Band commisioned by the S'pore
Wind Symphony 1994
Symphony for Winds Nr 1 (The Perpetuating Spirit, dedicated to Luk Hoi Yu) - 1993

Biography

Loh Chan Hong was born in 1966 and learnt music through the Singapore school band system of which he was an active participant (tuba and tenor saxophone). He was a student conductor in secondary school, and after graduation from University was part of the Singapore Wind Symphony which performed regularly and won some awards in the World Music Competition. (He originally adapted Sejarah Melayu (see above) for the wind orchestra, and conducted the rehearsal himself. The work is approximately 20 minutes long, moderately difficult though not too much so, entails a reasonably large orchestra and full percussion section.

Loh Chan Hong is essentially self taught, not having the luxury of a music education when young. In his own words, he composes because, as young Tchaikovsky supposedly put it, "I can't get rid of the music in my head otherwise". As a philosophy, he rejects experimentalism in favour of communicating with the public. He composes by the edict that the music must first please or excite himself. He despises the term "fusion of east and west", thinking it is more honest to say he writes symphonic art music using materials that he has grown up with, be it ethnic music or influences from Western composers like Tippet, Shostakovich or Britten. Therefore he does not aim to "mix" western and eastern instruments/music.

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MALAYSIAN COMPOSERS: Loh Chan Hong List of Compositions Sejarah Melayu Suite (orchestra) - 1995/98 Toccata (first mvt from "3 KL Miniatures" - String Quartet) - 1997 Nusantara Dances for Harp and Wind Orchestra - 1995 Yellow River Concerto - transcription for Band commisioned by the S'pore Wind Symphony 1994 Symphony for Winds Nr 1 (The Perpetuating Spirit, dedicated to Luk Hoi Yu) - 1993 Biography Loh Chan Hong was born in 1966 and learnt music through the Singapore school band system of which he was an active participant (tuba and tenor saxophone). He was a student conductor in secondary school, and after graduation from University was part of the Singapore Wind Symphony which performed regularly and won some awards in the World Music Competition. (He originally adapted Sejarah Melayu (see above) for the wind orchestra, and conducted the rehearsal himself. The work is approximately 20 minutes long, moderately difficult though not too much so, entails a reasonably large orchestra and full percussion section. Loh Chan Hong is essentially self taught, not having the luxury of a music education when young. In his own words, he composes because, as young Tchaikovsky supposedly put it, "I can't get rid of the music in my head otherwise". As a philosophy, he rejects experimentalism in favour of communicating with the public. He composes by the edict that the music must first please or excite himself. He despises the term "fusion of east and west", thinking it is more honest to say he writes symphonic art music using materials that he has grown up with, be it ethnic music or influences from Western composers like Tippet, Shostakovich or Britten. Therefore he does not aim to "mix" western and eastern instruments/music. OTHER MALAYSIAN COMPOSERS Musical Instrument Index \| MIDI Archive Original Malaysian SoundFonts \| SEARCH Musical Malaysia		Musical Context Music by Genre Music by Region Bibliography Author Credits SITE MAP Guestbook
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