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The Society announced the results of ‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ on ‘CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ Facebook page. You are welcome to watch the video at: https://www.facebook.com/cashgoldensail/. Besides, there will be a special series of ‘Award Winners Highlight’ in December. Stay tuned to our Facebook page!
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‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ press conference was held on 19 October at The Mira Hong Kong. The Society revealed the finalists of ‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ and presented the ‘2021 CASH Golden Sail Most Performed Works Awards’. A special honour for the 20th anniversary of the Golden Sail Music Awards – ‘The 20th Golden Sail – Top Writer’ was also announced, in which the Society would like to specially recognise the lyricist Wyman Wong, whose works received the most nominations in this year’s Awards.
The results of ‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ will be announced online at the end of October. Please stay tuned to our website.
Click here for ‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ finalists list (in Chinese).
Click here for the ‘2021 CASH Golden Sail Most Performed Works Awards’ awards list (in Chinese).
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‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ press conference will be held on 19 October (Wed). The Society will reveal the finalists of ‘The 20th CASH Golden Sail Music Awards’ and present the ‘2021 CASH Golden Sail Most Performed Works Awards’. The press conference will commence at 3pm and it will be live broadcast through the official Facebook page of the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards. You are welcome to watch the live broadcast through the link below:
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The Society launched the ‘Music Copyright 101’ website in October 2022 which aims to enhance the music copyright knowledge of primary and secondary school students, allowing them to have a clearer concept about music copyright knowledge that are related to their daily life. The website consists of two sections — learning resources and game exercises. This allows students to learn systematically and at the same time consolidate their concepts through game exercises.
Various activities will be launched from time to time to encourage students to have more exposure on music copyright knowledge. The Society just launched the ‘Music Copyright Online Knowledge Competition’ in October: https://www.musiccopyright101.org.hk/competition. There will be different activities in the future. Stay tuned to the website: https://www.musiccopyright101.org.hk.
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CASH Director election was held at the 44th Annual General Meeting on 27 September 2022. There were one vacancy of Writer Director and two vacancies of Publisher Director in the Council. Election results were as follows:
Elected Writer Director
Mr Wai Kai Leung Tomy (R3)
Elected Publisher Directors
Ms Chow Siu Lai Gallery (L4) Representative of Warner Chappell Music, Hong Kong Limited
Mr Ho Chi Yan Jonathan (L2) Representative of Fujipacific Music (S.E. Asia) Limited
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Jay Fung, Phil Lam and Mischa Ip received Gold Award, Silver Award and Bronze Award respectively of the ‘CASH Singer-songwriter Award’ at the Hong Kong Gold Songs Award Presentation Ceremony.
Jay Fung
Phil Lam
Mischa Ip
Photos provided: Media Asia Music Ltd and Sony Music Entertainment (Hong Kong) Ltd
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Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund, the CASH Music Scholarship for Overseas Studies 2022/2023 has been awarded to Wong Chun Wai. He will pursue the Doctor of Music in Composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Wong has a versatile composition profile comprising chamber music, orchestral music, musicals and film scoring. His compositions were featured in various music festivals in Europe, the US and Asia, including the ISCM World Music Days, the International Rostrum of Composers, the ACL (Asian Composers League) Festival, etc., and published by PARMA Recordings, Ablaze Records of the US, Europa Musica Publishing of France, and many more. He has collaborated with the HK Phil, the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie of Germany, performers from the New York Philharmonic and soloists including Dong-Suk Kang. Recently he was commissioned a Double Concerto for violin and cello by Jaap van Zweden for his 60th birthday.
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Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund and presented by the CUHK, ‘The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Scholarships 2021/22’ have been awarded to the following students from the Department of Music.
Zheng Enzhe
Enzhe is currently a doctoral student studying composition under the supervision of Prof. Wendy Lee. His works have been performed in various music halls, including the opera Plum Blossoms commissioned by Opera on Tap OKC (US), Decadence for wind symphony premiered by UCO wind symphony (US), The Opposite for piano four hands premiered at the CUHK Bauhinia Concert 2021, and many more. He created four works for multimedia to encourage people during the period of COVID-19, which received coverage from the local media in Oklahoma, US.
Rosella Yum
Rosella is pursuing Bachelor of Arts in Music and is currently a final year student. She majors in composition and is studying with Prof. Chan Kai Young, Dr Lo Hau Man and Prof. Wendy Lee. Her interests lie in contemporary music, sound art, visual and performance art. She is currently working with a Hong Kong floral designer to explore the possibility of music-making and visual arts.
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Sponsored by the CASH Music Fund and presented by the HKAPA, the ‘CASH Composition Scholarship 2021/22’ has been awarded to the following student from the School of Music.
Leo is pursuing Bachelor of Music (Honours) Degree and studying composition and electronic music with Dr Yau Yuk Fung and Dr Joyce Tang. He was the awardee of the JK & Ingrid Lee Foundation Creative Project Fund and The Lions Music Charity Foundation Scholarships in 2021 and 2022 respectively. His recent works included Luminous Red Nova for orchestra, Seek for live electronics and tuba, Blasphemy for erhu, zhongruan, sheng, English horn, piano and double bass, Spider Web for string quartet, etc.
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本協會近日收到不少查詢，得悉某填詞、作曲及編曲比賽之宣傳資料中列明得獎單位將會成為本協會正式會員，並指得獎作品的出版權由本協會分配各方權利。為免引起公眾誤會，現特此澄清，本協會並未與任何比賽/活動作出相關安排，同時亦與上述比賽並未有任何連繫。該等比賽所有運作，包括其宣傳平台上所述之安排，一概與本協會無關。
本協會強調，如音樂創作人欲申請成為本協會會員，必須直接向本協會遞交申請，而申請須經季度會議審核，結果取決於會員事務委員會及理事會之決定，會藉並不接受任何個人或機構推薦。此外，本協會並不會處理非會員之音樂版權分配事宜。
香港作曲家及作詞家協會謹啟
二零二一年十月二十一日
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CASH, in collaboration with the Home Affairs Department — Eastern District Office, organises the talk ‘E-League Programme 2021-2022: Echo of the Musicians’ Journey’ and invites pop music producer Edward Chan, jazz guitarist Teriver Cheung and multi-talented musician Anna Lo to share their music journey with the participants. The event will be held on 11 Sep 2021 (Sat) at 2-4pm. It will be live broadcast through the Instagram and YouTube. You are welcome to watch the live broadcast through the links below:
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/edean_network/
YouTube
https://youtu.be/YBfNegImHVA
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Jay Fung, Panther Chan and Serrini received Gold Award, Silver Award and Bronze Award respectively of the ‘CASH Singer-songwriter Award’ at the 43rd Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award held by the RTHK. The award was co-presented by RTHK and CASH.
Jay Fung
Panther Chan
Serrini
Photo provided by: Radio Television Hong Kong
