TSANG Lok-yan received her Master’s degree (MMus, Composition) with Distinction at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA), and Bachelor of Music in Education (Contemporary Music and Performance Pedagogy) from the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) in 2018. TSANG is also the certificate holder of distinction in LRSM and a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Limited (CASH).

Being enthusiastic in composing, TSANG’s works have been performed in Hong Kong, the United States and Costa Rica. TSANG won the third prize at the New Generation 2016, a competition hosted by the Hong Kong Composers' Guild (HKCG) and RTHK4.  Tsang has received her recent commissions from Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and Musicus Society. Her choral work, The Lord Will Send His Mercy, was published in The Hong Kong Children’s Choir 50th Anniversary Children’s Choral Songbook in 2018. Recently, TSANG was honored to be selected to take part in the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Composers Scheme 2019/20 presented by Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Maya Miro Johnson (b. 2001) is a composer, conductor, and interdisciplinary artist who blends a unique background in dance, violin performance, theater, film, concept art, literature, philosophy, and classical music into her praxis. A finalist in Beth Morrison Projects’ 2021 Next Generation competition and recipient of both Schuman and Surinach Prizes in the 2020 BMI Student Composer Awards (a historical first), Maya made her professional debut in 2019 with a commission from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and will make her European debut in Paris with Ensemble interContemporain in March 2022. Current projects include recordings with pianists Inna Faliks and HOCKET; works for Zeitgeist, loadbang, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, trombonist William Lang, and retuned piano artists B.K. Zervigon and J.T. Hassell; an installation with David Michalek and Norman Frisch; and an artist residency at the Sarasota Music Festival. Maya has studied at NYO-USA, Luna Composition Lab, BU Tanglewood Institute, Fresh Inc Festival, soundSCAPE Composer/Performer Exchange, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s Conducting Institute, and with Robert Spano at the Aspen Music Festival and School as one of their youngest conducting fellows ever. For the 21/22 school year, she holds the Tureck Bach Research Institute Fellowship at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying composition with Richard Danielpour, Nick DiBerardino, and Amy Beth Kirsten, and furthering her violin training under the guidance of Juliette Kang. With Sarrah Bushara, she forms the performance art duo ~ [pronounced two].

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