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Benjamin Yeo (b.1985) is a Singaporean composer-conductor who is internationally recognized for his original wind band works. 

Benjamin started writing and arranging music for wind bands and ensembles at the age of fifteen before learning under the tutelage of his principal teacher, Dr. Kelly Tang and through seminars with Dr. Zechariah Goh. His works have since been performed at both national and international platforms such as the locally-held Singapore Youth Festival Arts Presentation for Brass/Concert Bands, the Japan Band Clinic in Hamamatsu and the prestigious Midwest Clinic, an annual International Band and Orchestra Conference held in Chicago, Illinois. He has also been invited to serve as an adjudicator for events such as the Junior Band Festival in Singapore, the All Chinese Wind Band Competition in Taiwan and The Sichuan Wind Orchestra Competition in China. 

Most of Benjamin’s compositions have been published by well-known and long-lasting American publisher of band music, C. L. Barnhouse Company. Selected works have also been published by Carl Fischer Music (USA) as well as reputable European publishing houses including Beriato Music (Belgium) and Tierolff Muziekcentrale (The Netherlands). Since 2008, a number of Benjamin’s works have ranked in the Top 100 of over 800 titles in the American Band College/Band World Magazine/Western International Band Clinic Literature Lists. His music has also been recorded by renowned ensembles like The Washington Winds in the USA, the Royal Netherlands Army Band ‘Johan Willem Friso’, Rundfunk Blasorchester Leipzig, Royal Band of the Belgian Guides and The Royal Band of the Belgian Air Force in Europe. Most recently, his “Winds of Niagara” won the Dallas Wind Symphony Fanfare Competition and was premiered by the Dallas Winds on March 2017 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Benjamin is actively involved in the local band scene and has guest-performed for many tertiary and professional groups as well as guest-conducted various ensembles in Singapore. His experience in band directing has enabled him to work with students across a wide spectrum of educational institutions ranging from primary to tertiary levels. As a conductor, he has been under the mentorship of prominent professors in the field such as Dr. Mallory Thompson, Dr. Steven Davis and Dr. Shawn Vondran from the USA and Associate Professor Chan Tze Law from Singapore. 

A well sought-after composer-conductor, Benjamin largely writes commissioned works and remains an active clinician and conductor with both local and overseas invitations. He is a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS).

Nicholas Michael Smith studied music at Cambridge University. His composition teachers include Reginald Thompson and Robin Holloway. Smith writes music for a range of ensembles, including symphony orchestra, wind band, voices and solo instruments. His music has been performed and recorded by, among others, RTE Concert Orchestra (Ireland), Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Dunshan Symphonic Wind Orchestra and Peking Sinfonietta. Smith’s music has been described by Fanfare Magazine as “written with a deft hand”. Smith’s music is published by JC LINK.

Nicholas Smith’s pieces published by JC LINK:

罗慧山，广东省音乐协会会员，曾任职于广州市越秀区少年宫，是广州备受推崇的教育家、音乐教育活动家、伴奏家、现代音乐作曲家。

青年时期求学于广州音乐学院（今星海音乐学院前身）作曲系，师从原星海音乐学院院长蔡松琦教授学习和声，作曲，并修学作品分析、复调、配器。参加工作后至今一直从事音乐教学与音乐创作、指挥、演奏、培训等工作。多年来曾创作、改编大量的音乐作品，并多次获奖。

主要作品包括运用十二音技法创作的弦乐组曲《无极》（广东省第六届羊城音乐花会音乐作品评选专业组，管弦乐作品三等奖，2000年中法文化交流音乐作品的送选作品），交响诗《诗魂》（为旅法画家司徒立的绘画《玉华宫诗意图》而作），交响音画《复活》（为旅法画家司徒立的组画《悲剧、庄严、复活》而作），交响序曲《2000序曲》，管弦乐《边塞春晓》、《广州风情》等。

LUO Huishan’s pieces published by JC LINK:

LUO Zhongyun is the Music Director of the Guangzhou Lingnan Symphony Orchestra. He serves as Vice President of the Guangzhou Wind Band Association and Executive Director of the Guangdong String Instruments Society. He holds a master’s degree in music. LUO has appeared as guest conductor with the Washington State University Symphony Orchestra in the United States and the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra. He is currently the Music Director of the Guangzhou University Orchestra and the Guangzhou Youth Palace Symphony Orchestra, as well as conductor of the Guangzhou Wind Music Association Youth Ensemble. His compositions have won awards including the Best Work Award at the 7th Golden Bell Awards for Music. He has translated several foreign methods for wind band and string orchestra, including Foundations for Superior Performance (Chinese Version), String Basics: Steps to Success for String Orchestra (Chinese Version), and String Techniques for Superior Musical Performance (Chinese Version). LUO also has composed and published multiple works for orchestra, wind band, and musical theater, including Lychee Turns Red, Canton Folk Song Suite, Joyful Town, and Rainy Day Fantasy. He studied composition, conducting, and ensemble pedagogy under many renowned conductorsand educators such as Hu Bingxu, Hu De, Joseph Cheung, Dr. Brian Lamb; and Dr. Danh Pham.

LUO Zhongyun’s pieces published by JC LINK:

Li Chan, a native of Weifang, Shandong, graduated with a major in Composition from the Central Conservatory of Music and currently serves as a Composer with the Military Band of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Her works include the woodwind quintet Five Folk Impressions, the brass quintet Concert Suite, and two piano concertos. Her symphonic band compositions include The Expedition, The Moon at the Fortified Pass for Brass Quintet and Wind Band, and Little Hands Turn Cold (written in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre). She also composed Guangxi Folk Song – Impressions of the Li River for student wind band. In 2017, her work Folk Song of Midu won Third Prize at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) International Composition Contest. Her arrangement works include: a wind band arrangement of Nie Er’s Dance of the Golden Snake, as well as arrangements of Liuyang River, Youth Dance, The General’s Decree, In the Second Month, and Ode to the Red Plum Blossom. Her original marches include March of the Blue Expedition, Commander March, Glory March, and March on the Blade’s Edge. Her original marching band works include Snowy Peaks, Peach Blossom Spring, and Impressions of Bashu. Her original work A Tribute to Peace was used for China’s National Memorial Day Ceremony. In 2024, she composed Three Stanzas of the Plum-Blossom for symphonic band for WASBE. The piece was premiered in October 2024 by the University of St. Thomas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Matthew J. George.

LI Chan’s pieces published by JC LINK:

Simon YAU  started his piano lesson under Mdm. Tang Kin-fun, later with Ms. Cheung Ing and pianist Mr. Choi Sown-li. After his graduation from the Hong Kong Baptist College and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, majoring in composition (studied with Dr. Yip Wai-hong, Mr. Chen Chien-hua and Mr. Wong Yuk-yi) and Horn performance (studied with Mr. Wong Yat-chiu, principals from the HK Philharmonic Mr. Frank Portone and Ms. Cheryl Z. Hoard), Yau joined service to the Music Office as Horn instructor in 1981.  He also played for Maestro Alan Civil in his Horn master-class, and conducting master-classes with Ms. Yip Wing-sze and Mr. Samuel Wong.  Since then he conducted the Hong Kong Youth Symphony, Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and the Jazz Band until his early retirement from the government in late 2004.  In the 90’s he was also conductor of the APA junior orchestra, chorus master of the Belilios Public School choir.

In 1995, he was awarded a scholarship by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music UK to study in the Royal Academy of Music in London, with the retired Principal Horn of BBC Mr. Derek Taylor, pianist Mrs. Judith Burton and internationally renowned trumpeter Mr. John Wallace.  In 1986 and 2001, YAU was twice appointed as assistant conductor to the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic band in its tour concert to Japan and Jeju, Korea.  In 1989 he was sent as the only representative from the Music Office to the All-Japan Band Clinic in Nemu-no-sato; and participant to the International Horn Symposium held in Munich, Germany.

As a composer/arranger, Mr. YAU’s musical works have been widely commissioned or performed by groups like the Central Band of the Royal Air Force (UK), the Beijing Central Armed-Force Band, the Beijing Children’s Palace Wind Band (China), the Beijing Ba-I High School Band, Band of the Guangzhou Youth Palace, the concert band of the Monash University & Ivanhoe Grammar School Golden Orchestra (Melbourne, Australia), the Edina High School Band (USA), the faculty Wind Quintet of the Tennessee University of Technology , the Vanderbilt University Wind Symphony, Nashville, Tennessee (USA); the Taiwan Navy Band, the Taiwan Chung-Ching Military High School, the Taipei province Teachers’ Wind Orchestra, the Concert Band of the Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls’ High School, the Ipoh Symphonic Band of Malaysia, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, ‘Les Six’ Woodwind Sextet, the Hong Kong Symphonic Winds, the Symphonic Band of the Hong Kong University of Technology & Science, the Hong Kong City Brass, the Eastern Wind Ensemble, the Tom Lee Band, the Tom Lee NeoWinds Youth Symphonic Band, the Hong Kong Festival Wind Orchestra, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony, the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band, the Hong Kong Youth Marching band, the concert band and chorus of the Belilios Public School, Chinese Orchestra of the New-Asia College CUHK, the Hong Kong Yao-Yueh Chinese Orchestra and, the Music Office Instructors’ Orchestra, Wind Quintet & Brass Quintet and Chinese Plucked Strings Orchestra etc.

Simon YAU Yuen-hing’s Pieces published by JC LINK: