Kelvin Ngai

Conductor / Leader

Mr. Kelvin Ngai graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he received a Bachelor of Music (Hons.) Degree and Licentiate of Trinity College of London. Mr Ngai received the Bernard van Zudines Music Fund and the Peabody Scholarship to further his studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University in the United States and obtained his Master of Music Degree. He also joined the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in a performance at the Lincoln Center in New York. He frequently participates in numerous professional orchestra and Music Festivals, including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta etc.. He served as a guest trumpeter with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Hong Kong Sinfonietta which had a concert tour to France, Japan and China. Mr. Ngai conducted the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinu and studied the orchestral conducting with Don Schleicher, Kirk Trevor and Tomaš Netopil at International Conducting Institute in Kromeriz, Czech Republic. He has Cooperated with many well-known musicians including violinst Li Chuan Yun, pianist Shen Wenyu, Dr. Helen Cha, Colleen Lee, Beverly Leung, Carol Yu and pop singers Alan Tam etc.. Mr. Ngai currently serves as a faculty member of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, an Honorary Artists-in-Residence and Symphony Orchestra conductor in the Department of Cultural and CreativeArts of The Education Univeristy of Hong Kong. He is the founder and Music Director of the Psalm Wind Orchestra , the Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Professional Winds, Hong Kong Tak Ming Philharmonic Winds, Asian Youth Orchestra(Alumni). His conducting bands and orchestras have won over 60 Gold and Champion awards. Recently, he is granted the best conductor award, the Ko Bongsik Award, of the Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival in Korea.