Keynote Speaker

Frederick Lau, Chinese Hong Kong University

Frederick LAU is an ethnomusicologist, flutist, and conductor whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures.  He has published widely on issues related to music and identity, nationalism, modernization, politics, globalization, diaspora, musical hybridity as well as Western avant-garde music. He is a professor of ethnomusicology, music department Chair and director of the Center of Chinese Music Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Keynote Speaker

Mingyeong Son, Seoul National University

Mingyeong Son, a 2022-2023 Fulbright scholar, served as postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and is currently a research professor at the Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University (SNU). She holds a Ph.D in Musicology from SNU with her dissertation “Western Composers’ Encounter with Korean Traditional Music: Compositional Aspects and Musical Aesthetics in the Global Era.” She holds a master in Musicology from Northwestern University. Her research interests lies in 20th and 21st-century global music, intercultural musical dialogues in Korean modernism, and Western composers’ reception of East Asian music and its aesthetic significance.

Guest Composer

Jia Guoping, Beijing Central Conservatory of Music

Dr. Jia Guoping is a professor of composition at the Beijing Central Conservatory of music in Beijing, China. Orginally from Shanxi province, he first studied jinhu performance and Jin Opera performance before studying composition at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music and subsequently in Germany with Helmut Lachenmann on a DAAD fellowship. His compositions have been commissioned and performed worldwide. He directs the CONTEMPO composition competition and summer festival held yearly in Beijing, China.