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Brian Chatpo Koo : Represented Artist

Random Audio Sample: The picture of Li-Po reciting poetry : for piano solo by Brian Chatpo Koo, from the CD Chamber works. Vol. 1


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Brian Chatpo Koo is a Sydney-based musician. He has worked as a violinist, cellist, and conductor in several professional symphony orchestras before settling down in Sydney in 1993.

He studied music at the University of Hong Kong (Bachelor of Arts in Music and Master of Philosophy in Music), and the University of Sydney (Doctor of Philosophy in Music) He was the first person in Australia to receive a Ph.D. degree in music composition. He also studied music at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, and obtained his Licentiate, and Fellowship Diplomas from Trinity College of Music London.

He has conducted many premieres of his own works, including both his operas. Other notable performances include those by Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra (Japan), Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Symphonic Winds, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Zelanian Ensemble (New Zealand), Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Kochi (Tokyo Japan), Taiwan National Ensemble, Hamburg New Music Ensemble (Germany), Darmstadt Ensemble (Germany), Accords Quartet (Toronto Canada).

As a composer, he has been commissioned by a variety of organizations, including the Hong Kong Composers' Guild, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and the Symphony Australia. His compositions have been performed and broadcasted over Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia.

He won the Hong Kong Young Musicians' Award in 1985 and the Himalaya Cup Award in the First International Competition for Piano Composition in Beijing in 1995.

As an academic member, he has worked as a tutor/teaching assistant for the Music Department at the University of Hong Kong, a senior faculty member of the Australian Institute of Music, (where he established curricula for the Bachelor's degree in Music Composition), and an external examiner for the University of Wollongong.

He is the Founding Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Contemporary Orchestra. Based in Sydney Australia and comprised of about 100 of Sydney's finest professional musicians, the SCO offers high-standard professional video recording concerts for contemporary orchestral music providing significant incentives for composers to pursue creative endeavors in new music and to enrich the music culture of our times.

Based in Sydney Australia and comprised of about 100 of Sydney's finest professional musicians, the SCO offers high-standard professional video recording concerts for contemporary orchestral music providing significant incentives for composers to pursue creative endeavors in new music and to enrich the music culture of our times.

Since 2013, the SCO has hosted 18 concerts - Music Contemporary 2013, 2014, 2015, Contemporary Piano Music 2014, Chamber Music 2014, and the Sydney New Music Festival 2016 which consists of six open rehearsals and 3 public concerts (Contemporary Piano Music 2016, Contemporary String Quartets 2016 and Contemporary Chamber Music 2016), Sydney International Composers Concerts 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2022, and has premiered almost 100 new works of composers from 50 countries and regions around the world.

More information Dr Brian Chatpo Koo https://www.koo.net.au/


Brian Chatpo Koo — current to November 2023

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Digital sheet music sample Jasmine flowers : Chinese folk song, for string orchestra and piano (2012) Composed for Sydney Youth Symphony Orchestra
Digital sheet music sample Symphonic overture : full orchestra (1997) Commissioned by Symphony Australia with funds provided by Australia Council. Performing Arts Board.
Mountain Sprits : Shanshen : chamber orchestra (1997) Hong Kong Composers Guild
Digital sheet music sample Mirage : full orchestra (1996) commissioned by the Hong Kong Composers’s Guild with financial assistance from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kon and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1996.