Charles Kwong

Charles Kwong is a Hong Kong-based composer whose creative output focuses on orchestral music, chamber compositions for musicians across various musical cultures, site-specific music and experimental transdisciplinary work. Experiential in nature, Kwong’s work explores notions of time and space as revealed by sounds and listening, the eclecticism of juxtaposed performance practices, site specificity, and the performativity of musical forms and genres. Kwong’s music has been performed in Asia and Europe. Recent collaborators include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Ensemble recherche and Lucerne Festival, among others.