CHAN Chi Chun
Executive Director of Centre for Chinese Music Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
BMus (HKAPA); MPhil, PhD (CUHK)
About
Chan Chi-chun is currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Chinese Music Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow and teaches Chinese instrumental ensemble in the Department of Music at CUHK. He was part-time lecturer at the Lingnan University and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA). Chan graduated from HKAPA and CUHK and was awarded a doctoral degree in Ethnomusicology. His field of study were Guangdong Music culture as well as wind and percussion music in Hong Kong. He was invited by Chinese Opera Festival and various organisations to give lectures and was the host of two music programmes on Radio Television of Hong Kong, with close to a hundred episodes. He was formerly a freelance musician with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the Macao Chinese Orchestra. In recent years, he has forayed into accompaniment for naamyam, Kunqu excerpts and Cantonese Opera.