Tang Pui Ling, Pauline
Violin
Pauline Tang has performed and collaborated with acclaimed musicians from different countries of the world extensively as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout United States, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Macau, Hong Kong and China. She participated in music festivals including Aurora Music Festival, American Institute of Musical Studies Festival Orchestra, the International Academy of Music, Hot Springs Music Festival, Beverly Hill International Music Festival, Quartet Program and Kagoshima Cultural Exchange Program. Her recent solo performances At Night of the Opera and Heaven and Underworld with the Hong Kong Symphony and Hong Kong Wind Symphony respectively received appreciation from the audience. She worked before with the Hong Kong Symphony Youth Orchestra and the University Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 and Wieniawski’s Concerto No.2 respectively.
As one of the founders of Splendour Music established in 2015, Tang presents creative music with life messages through the production of multimedia concerts. Her recent production Sprout was co-organized with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) supported by the HKAPA Creative Collaboration Project Fund – crossing over classical and contemporary music with dance, drama, app interactive and video images. Tang was the Creative Music Director of the project and involved in creating the plot and music programme, co-ordinated and participated in rehearsals and performance as both performer and actress. The production team, over 70 people involved, consisted of faculty members, alumni and students from the School of Music, Drama, Dance, Film and TV, Theatre and Entertainment Arts and Chinese Opera. Other past productions included Hope in Lamentations, Traverse and Splendour.
Having extensive orchestral experience, Tang performed under the baton of Edo de Waart, Henry Shek, Gerrit Priessnitz from Vienna, Joseph Colaneri from Metropolitan Opera , NYC and Peter Bay from Austin Symphony Orchestra in USA. She has been the member of Hong Kong String Orchestra, New Philharmonia of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, Six Arts Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, Opera Hong Kong, Hong Kong Symphonia and the guest violinist of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) Symphony Orchestra etc. She will become the concertmaster of Global Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Mak Ka Lok.
She received her Master of Music degree in performance at James Madison University (JMU) and previously studied Advanced Diploma at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). She was awarded Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Scholarship, the Grantham Scholarships Fund and Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation of China during her performance studies. She also attended Masterclasses of renowned violinists Charles Castleman, Ilya Grubert, Masao Kawasaki, Helen Kwalwasser, Yuval Yaron, Alexander Kerr, Eugene Gratovich, Max Rabinovitj, Wanchi Huang, Amadi Azikiwe, Lorenz Gamma and Katie Wolfe. Tang previously obtained Master and Bachelor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where she held a concert and workshop at the HKUST Arts Festival.